Philip,

Sometimes you're just flat out wrong.

While I can understand your position of 'all fear-mongerers and religious fanatics should just commit suicide', I do not agree with it. However, this time, the girl you refer to didn't actually commit suicide because she fell in any of those categories.

Had you actually read that BBC story you link to in some detail, you'd have found that:

• The girl was sixteen years old. While old enough to understand danger, it usually isn't old enough to understand the intricacies of science.
• She took her own life after watching a sensationalist TV channel that was spreading the lie that the LHC would cause the earth to crack up

Now I agree that ignorance to science is something that should be advocated against; but if the facts of science are misrepresented through a TV channel that is only interested in its own profits, are those who do believe their only source of information then to be blamed? If the only data you get are outright lies, is the world then indeed a better place because it got rid of one "mis"believer?

I think not.