Rossputin.com: Rational Thinking About Our World

OK, it's probably not the most ridiculous science article ever, but it's in the top 10:

see "Mankind 'shortening the universe's life'" (UK Telegraph, 11/12/07)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/21/scicosmos121.xml&

As if the current global warming alarmism isn't silly enough in terms of the essentially egotistical arguments that humans are the cause of climactic change, now scientists are claiming that by doing research of space, astronomers may be hastening the universe's demise.

And as if reporters hadn't already demonstrated a reprehensible willingness to believe anything their told, as long as they don't understand it, the reporter in the above article actually calls the claims "damaging allegations", as if they have any chance of being true or any chance of being relevant.

It seems that scientists have far too much political agenda...in no small part because claiming that humans are destroying everything is a great way to get published and get grants. And reporters are far too willing to go along with that agenda, supporting people who won't be happy until we're all living in stone-age conditions again, free of the curse of capitalism and all the evils it brings like electricity, modern medicine, and the ability to travel more than 100 miles in less than a week, just to name three.