"And there should also be a public forum for input from the general public on cosmology and theoretical physics, especially where people outside of the power holders are yet stakeholders with no say. "

I can imagine it now, millions of people with their OWN opinion about what the cosmological model should be. That oughta give science a boost. Hey, I've got another idea. Let's have people vote on how to do open-heart surgery. What could be more comforting for a patient than knowing they were in the hands of the voters of the USA?

Furthermore, I think scientists should be strung up and beaten if they can't get past the speed of light. How dare they let nature tell them what they can and can't do? They're not pleasing the public. Finally, we need to do something about this poverty thing. Let's find out who's responsible for that and put them in a prison camp. I am an American, dammit, I demand satisfaction!

• I predict you will super-c after death - yaniru - November 22, 2002 - 15:20 UTC