{"id":25301,"date":"2010-03-11T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/11\/more-wtf-bs-at-the-lhc\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:49:48","slug":"more-wtf-bs-at-the-lhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/more-wtf-bs-at-the-lhc\/","title":{"rendered":"More WTF BS at the LHC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/09\/the_truth_is_in_there.php\">I complained that the  people running the LHC did not have their act together <\/a>when it came to managing and disseminating information for the interested public.  I took a little flack for that (see comments) but I was right.  And I&#8217;m still right.  We (the interested public) were just recently given a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/our_objective_over_the_next_18.php\">very nice overview of the potential for the next several months of research.<\/a>  Then, today, we find out that the LHC is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/the-lhc-to-shut-down-again.html\">fundamentally busted and will be shut down for a significant rebuild. <\/a>  And part of that news is that this has been the plan for a long time.  But I guess they forgot.  Or something.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone explain to me what is going on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I complained that the people running the LHC did not have their act together when it came to managing and disseminating information for the interested public. I took a little flack for that (see comments) but I was right. And I&#8217;m still right. We (the interested public) were just recently given a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/more-wtf-bs-at-the-lhc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More WTF BS at the LHC?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6A5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}