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Speaker: Dr. Michelangelo Mangano, CERN, Switzerland
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Title: "The safety of the LHC: Black holes and all that"
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Abstract:

As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) approaches its first data taking, 
the future of fundamental research is being threatened by an 
extraordinary campaign of lies and misinformation, triggered by claims 
that the LHC could create new particles or forms of matter capable of 
destroying life on Earth. In this presentation, we review the 
overwhelming scientific evidence that such claims have no basis of 
truth, and discuss the lessons that the scientific community should 
draw from this dispute.
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