Scientists

There is a slim possibility that next Wednesday we will all be "blown to Kingdom Come" or, rather, sucked into a black hole.
What a black hole is, I don't know, except that it's big and horrible and fatal.
Scientists have created a gigantic mechanism that, next Wednesday, will be set to go off and prove certain things about the origin of the universe.
But there are other scientists who believe that this is going to be disastrous and that something is going to go wrong and black holes (whatever they are) are going to be formed and these black holes (why are they black?) are going to suck the earth down into them..... and so on and so forth.
The Times scientist believes that the work being done is esseential for the understanding of where the earth and all that is contained in it came from; the others - cranks apparently - think the experiment is unwise - to say the least.
I go with those doing the experiment. We can't let cranks have their say. Can we?
The trouble is that my experience of scientific experiments and scientific research makes me doubt the veracity of certain projects. I have known research being done to prove so and so but the work done does not prove it. So, wait for it, the results are cooked.
In short I am very sceptical about science altogether. As I am about the medical profession.
When Bernard Shaw wrote "The Doctor's Dilemma" he was verbally traduced and abused and insulted for suggesting that doctors had so many differing theories about illnesses that it was doubtful if anyone knew which was the right one.
Scientists are equally at logger heads about their ideas.
So, let's wait until next Wednesday to find out if we are going to live or die, shall we? If we live we can say "well done you wonderful scientists." If we get sucked down into that black thing then... well, I'm afraid, we won't be in a position to complain.