So, when all those people were getting pointlessly interviewed about the Eclipse a few weeks ago (as Randall recently sneered), we should actually have been super worried! NOW he tells us! Never mind that he doesn't know how to spell "archaeologist"...
The whole setup doesn't work here. What he means is that disasters having to do with pandemic viruses, supervolcanoes, or the sun are more serious than those having to do with archaeology, but if you see a researcher in any of these fields getting interviewed on the news these days it's more likely than not to be related to the shrieking-college-Maoist tantrum du jour.
The rankings are also stupid as such. Remember the 2008 stock market crash? I'll bet that ended up having a much bigger impact on your life than the 2009 flu pandemic and Comet Hale-Bopp combined (unless you were close to one of these people).
To be fair to Randall, archeologist is an acceptable alternate spelling, even if Firefox underlines it in red.
ReplyDeleteBeing fair to Randall is kind of the opposite of our mission here.
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