Last nights Reith Lectureresulted in the blog world being awash with the usual informed and independent commentators chastising the scientific establishment for doubting the possibility of Drexlerian molecular manufacturing and speculating about anti Drexlerian conspiracies.
We have been around this loop so often that it may be worth adding a special function key to the computers of all the contributors to TNTlog which automatically inserts some standard text about how the world of science works differently from that of blind faith (i.e. the testing of theorems and assumptions and the process of peer review rather than blind faith, book burning and the execution of heretics).
For anyone who wants to listen to the lecture, or read a transcript before passing judgement, you can listen or download it here.