Indian Girl Kills Herself For No Reason

I'm resurrecting this bad boy with this horrific story out of India.

Everyone who matters has heard of the Large Hadron Collider and the fears some had that it would create strangelets and or microscopic black holes that would potentially destroy the world. Apparently the media in India have played up the doomsday scenarios and a 16 year old girl named Chayya got scared, didn't want to face the end of the world, and killed herself by drinking pesticide.

There is so much wrong with this story.

The right to freely communicate ideas is one that I hold damn near sacred but having a right to say anything you damn well please doesn't mean you should. With great power comes great responsibility--I learned that from Batman--and mass media outlets have great power. I realize that they are out to make a profit and there is nothing wrong with that but profiting from baseless fearmongering is despiccable.

When the girl was worried he father says he tried to distract her and tell her she shouldn't worry about such things. Bullshit, if you think the world is getting fucked up you should worry about it. What the father should have done is some research. Get on the goddamn internet and read about what the LHC is and what it does and what the theory about strangelets is and explain to your daughter what it is and what it does and that the fears are completely groundless.

I am just disgusted that the exploration of the universe gets turned into an agent of fear that kills people.