Chambers wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/science/29collider.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&hp 

Excellent. :)

The trouble is, most people don't realise that when a scientist says 
something is unlikely, they could easily be talking about a 1 in 1e30 
chance or less. Basic honesty and innate pedantry forbids them from 
saying outright that something is impossible because they don't honestly 
know for absolute certainty. Of course, the slightest chance that a 
pico-blackhole with less mass than a proton could appear and start to 
eat the earth, however slowly or briefly, can very easily be used by the 
press to sell at least 1e30 papers...

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