It's cheating because instead of generating good search results, they look at someone else's search results and output those. It's not theft, it's not illegal, but it is kind of a shitty thing to do. Or, here's how the guy interviewed in TFA said it (pretty well if you ask me):

You expected a deeply philosophical movie from Inception? Based on what? It was hyped for its stunning special effects and action sequences and directed by the guy who had just done two Batman movies. Inception delivers unless you went into it with ridiculous expectations.

If you don't understand celebrity worship, you've basically missed a huge chunk of human history.

Anti-gold. New millennium, new gold.

Then there is a big difference between speculative fiction and science fiction. I know which one Fringe is, mostly because there's never been a speculative fiction TV show, so what's the big deal? If you will only tolerate speculative fiction then don't get all worked up when you don't like science fiction (hint: some of the science is fictitious).

That's a terrible analogy. Consider instead: There is a lottery to determine whether or not the human race lives or dies. We wouldn't be around to comprehend any losing draws, so we make the (flawed) conclusion that we were always bound to have won.

Yes. I can see the rebuttal now: "How can you say the universe is not fine-tuned for us? We're here, aren't we?"

Yes, typo on my part.

Helium-2, rare earths, and who says we necessarily need to send everything back to Earth?

Man can surely destroy man though.

Of course your explanation may differ from the one given, but (again) as you may have guessed, they aren't going to put forward "we messed up" as an explanation, so something considerably more complicated must be invoked.

My background is strictly biology, so a lot of the physics stuff goes over my head, but I can decipher the sciencey jargon well enough to read the paper. Anyway, here's what they saw:

bacterial DNA in tube 1 -> water tube surrounded by 7hz field -> tube 2 containing PCR ingredients minus template -> recovery of bacterial DNA sequence from tube 2

The explanation, as you may have guessed, is super complicated. It involves the hypothetical creation of so-called water nanostructures (water memory anyone?), but apparently the ~7hz field is important and recapitulated in the math somehow that's opaque to me.

So that's the paper for dummies, so to speak. If anyone can elaborate or correct in simple terms I'd be happy to read it; this is cool stuff.

Demand just skyrocketed - you all saw it!

The mortality rate for measles in otherwise healthy people in developed countries is 0.3% (yeah, I can Wikipedia too). This disregards several things: complications from measles in adults, the immunocompromised patient (measles has a 30% mortality rate in AIDS patients), and every single other disease we have vaccines for. Aggregate lifetime risk (not just mortality - see polio) from all of these diseases is far, far greater - and for a greater number of people - than any of the stated autism risk numbers. Moreover, the overwhelming body of evidence has shown that the stated autism risk numbers are, in fact, non-existent.

I have trouble seeing how this is any different from child abuse. But, let's say that parents are completely within their rights to withhold from their children one of the greatest medical achievements of the past century (and, legally, they are). What about someone else who has a kid who can't get the vaccine for one of a variety of reasons? They're dependent on everyone else immunizing their kids to stop the spread of disease. Here, have a car analogy: It's one thing to say that it's alright for people to drive with their eyes closed if it's only going to hurt them, but we know that there is a significant chance that they'll also hurt someone else. In this context, widespread refusal to vaccinate has significant repercussions for everyone else not just the parents who refuse to vaccinate.