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Letter: The end is nigh

Published 28 October 2000

From Brian Robinson

Hazel Muir’s news item on the possible dangers of creating strangelet
particles ignores one fundamental question which the scientists in hot pursuit
of Nobel prizes and pure knowledge do not answer: what right do they have to
risk, even in the most minuscule probability, my life? I object to them running
the risk, and believe that they are in breach of the law of human rights.

As the only purpose is an expansion of knowledge, not a way to feed the
starving millions, the whole exercise is purely a hobby. If they want a hobby
perhaps they should collect stamps, which does not endanger my life.

Brentwood, Essex

Issue no. 2262 published 28 October 2000

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