As everyone knows, only those who have studied at the finest fashion houses in Europe can comment on the Emperors New Clothes.

Too late. Bill Cosby owns it already.

Sounds like a WOPR of an idea.

It was a test to see if anyone would read the article.

I know we play union and cricket together, but that doesn't mean we need to include South Africa in this too.

Call me again in five years.

What if you cross the beams?

Outsourcing.

From from my own experience doing research at a synchrotron, I call tell you there is nothing "day to day" about it. We get roughly one week to do as much as humanly possible in an environment which drains you (16+ hour days under high fluorescent lighting with the incessant hum of vacuum pumps and machinery).

The scientific environment is electric. Things get done - ideas flourish and are crushed in minutes as a gaggle of intelligent scientists throw ideas around and call on their years of experience. Copious amounts of coffee are consumed and everyone stands there silent when the a-ha moment arrives and all the hard work comes together.

It might be hard for an outsider to appreciate this, and there is a chance this isn't the norm when it comes to the average synchrotron experience.

Nor does selective memory, confirmation bias, psychosomatic induced illness, willingness to belief, distaste for progress mean that they exist too.

It's called scapegoating. Its where you blame your problems on someone or something else. Perhaps one of the most troubling aspects of humanities ability to notice false patterns (ever since Martha moved into town there has been nothing but bad luck) and to not end up on the other end. The whole mythology of Christ, which our societies have emerged from, revolves around an elaborate scapegoating. Problems never get solved (unless its psychosomatic) and people are killed or run out of town due to these irrational beliefs.

Until something goes bad (flood, drought, poor tourism) and they need a scapegoat in the form of say a "witch" and run them out of town or kill them. This type of thinking is never good and can lead to "good people doing bad things" because they were too stupid to stop and think if what they are claiming is based on evidence or reason instead of superstition. So no, this type of religious thinking isn't "not that bad" and leads to so-called justifiable homicide from incorrect premises. (Witches should be killed, fortunately witches do not exist, etc)

Can you buy a gun from Amazon? They seem to sell everything else nowadays.

You will find out in a couple of quarters time when it wont matter anymore.

Capitalism.
You're doing it wrong!!!