If you don't believe in evolution then by definition you cannot believe that bacteria can acquire resistance to antibiotics. This can and will lead to treatment decisions which are wrong.

You might be. I see a bell curve but no independent random variables and no limit. Hence, no central limit theorem.

Bed sizes are not measured in cm or inches. They are twin size, queen size, and king size. Those are the most ridiculous length units I have ever encountered. And no, two twins do not fit in one twin size bed. Also, getting a buzz cut, you tell the hairdresser you want a no. 1, 2 or 3 haircut. The hairdresser has no idea what that is in cm or inches.

If you turn up at a government office claiming to be me they will ask you for a valid ID. That can be a passport, drivers licence, a national ID card, an ID card issued by the postoffice, there are a few more possibilities. These are very hard to forge documents with holograms, stuff only visible in UV light, all sorts of security details. Let's say you steal my ID card. They will look at the picture on that card, then at you, then press a button under their desk. :) You have now committed a crime.

The card has my SSN on it. By showing this card I can prove that I am actually the real live person who, in their computer, is represented by that number. They can look me up in their system and take it from there.

The problem isn't with google for collecting social security numbers. The problem is that SSNs are so sensitive in the US. I live in Sweden and here social security numbers are a matter of public record and many companies collect these numbers from their customers for their databases. It's quite convenient and, if done right, not as privacy infringing as people seem to think. It's quite ridiculous to have, like the US, a system where you can impersonate someone by knowing their number.

I'm a scientist myself. It's quite clear from where I'm standing that to get good jobs, research grants, etc one needs plenty of published articles. Whether the conclusions of those are true or false is not something that hiring committees will delve into too much. If you are young and have a family to support, it can be tempting to take shortcuts.

Most of the "proofs" that you talk about are by crackpots who have published almost nothing before. This guy has 21 publications according to mathscinet, some of which are in relatively prestigious journals. So we should take this a bit more serious than the RH proof spam on the arXiv that the parent talks about. That said, it has happened before that a well respected mathematician has announced a proof for the RH that has turned out to be false (de Brange comes to mind). So the jury is still out on this one.