I'll grant you that often amateur science is, well, amateurish, but occasionally an amateur scientist strikes gold
Often professional science is amateurish, but occasionally a professional scientist strikes gold.
[Steve Jobs] told [Larry Page and Sergey Brin] something to the effect of, "You have so many products spanning several services: Search, GMail, YouTube, Maps etc. – why not unite them all under a fluid user experience to both you and your users’ benefit?"
Page and Brin, struck with this epiphany, thought to themselves: "My God, how come we and our 30,000 highly-qualified employees never thought of this before!? This man is truly a genius!"
The TSA employs about 60,000 people. The number one thing that voters care about in the US is jobs.
The TSA will not be curtailed anytime soon.
I went against my intuition and read TFA. The whole 4,200 words of it.
It's a complete fluff piece and doesn't contain any interesting new knowledge regarding human behavior or social networks, which you would expect from an "in depth" article about Facebook's data mining.
There are some tidbits regarding old stuff (4 degrees of freedoms between "friends"), obvious stuff (93% of friends met in real life), and a bunch of other vaguely presented stuff with questionable validity.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.