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Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested for Al Qaeda Links

By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE October 9, 2009.

Print: The Daily Mail

A physicist at the lab that houses the Swiss Large Hadron Collider, built to replicate the conditions of the ‘Big Bang’, has been arrested on suspicion of terror links.  Suspects are innocent until proven guilty, but if the police are correct, here’s another example of Sam Harris’s worry about people who are intelligent enough to be nuclear physicists, but still believe in 42 virgins in the afterlife.