Approximately one hour after Justin Carter posted a sarcastic comment on a Facebook thread, his life began to unravel.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. - Carl Sagan
Just one more example of a world fearful of its own shadow. I shake my head when I see how up-in-arms people get about some guy's stupid (yet unharmful) action; yet, they completely ignore out-of-control, harmful government actions.