It's Not Gravity, it's "Intelligent Falling"

[major_clanger]

You know the scariest thing about this story from The Onion?

It's so completely believeable. If it had been on CNN, I'd have fallen* for it hook, line and sinker.

I might bet actual money that someone will be seriously advocating this before the year is out.

Simon

*EDIT: Oh dear, it's embarrassing when you spot your inadvertent dismal puns an hour or so after making them.

Comments

[missfairchild.livejournal.com]

I love the way they've used a photo of Sir John Sulston to illustrate it.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

The big gimme is that the photo of "Rev Gabriel Burnett" is, in fact, of a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist. :-)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Lovely. Very tempted to stick it on the wall at work (a church school)

[numbat.livejournal.com]

The whole tone of the article is sufficiently smug as to feel totally believable to me.