A view of subatomic neutrino tracks showing electrons and muons caught in a nano second. Photograph: Corbis
Threats to eat one's boxer shorts on live television if one is proved wrong should not be made lightly by scientists, however confident they might be in their pronouncements. Not because of the health risks, the potential for public humiliation, or because it somehow trivialises the scientific process, but because it leads the public to think that science is about vested interest or a closed-minded reluctance to embrace new discoveries.
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