I feel threatened.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/11/scientists-brace-for-media-storm.html

I'm reminded of one of those movies where the scientists unwittingly create a virus no one can treat and bring about the apocalypse.

I want to see the movie where people bitch about a controvertial study, then everyone dies from causes that could have been prevented, had the scientists been allowed to do the damn research &, consequently, know what to look for & how to fix it.

Fair point. Even so, I can see why a lot of people are unhappy about it.

Because everything our modern culture knows, which is to say doesn't know, about science comes from movies & Creationism.

You two have set your standards far too high.

The weak minded always feel threatened by the brave and bold.

Calm down, Ozymandias.

It was more of an Ayn Rand declaration, but I guess that fits too.

If you wanted to be like Ayn Rand it'd need more objectivism. Or perhaps something regarding the poor being threatened by the wealthy.

And then you dynamite something you spent your whole life creating because...why did that guy do that in the Fountainhead again?

Also, rape is good.

I was more concerned with Atlas Shrugged than the Fountainhead.

You know, if Atlas shrugged, nothing would actually happen. He holds up the sky, not the earth.

True enough, but you wouldn't want the sky falling down on us either.

He's literally given it to someone else to hold, I don't think a little shrug would cause it to catastrophically fail.

What if it was a big shrug?

Nope.

I'm talking about a REALLY big shrug.

If it can make the sky fall I don't think it'd be called a shrug.

I'm talking about a REALLY, REALLY big shrug.

At a certain point it ceases to be a shrug & becomes something more akin to a seizure.

Nope, just a REALLY, REALLY, REALLY big shrug.

That's a seizure. You should get tested.

Are you implying that I'm Atlas, or that I'm holding up the sky?

I'm implying that your idea of what a shrug is is well outside of normal parameters, indicating that you probably have epilepsy.

I fail to see how you draw the line from "He doesn't understand shrugs" to "He must have a disorder that causes frequent seizures." I also don't know how one can confuse a shrug, no matter how impractically big, with a seizure, as one involves one fluid motion with the shoulders, while the other is oftentimes a full body action involving many short, and violent muscle spasms.

Also, "How to drop something with a shrug:"

Shrug shoulders, dip head downward, lean forward and allow object carried on shoulders to slide off.

It is here that, like you, I add 2 and 2 and get 6, and make the baseless claim that you must be stupid if you didn't realize that.