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"SINCE the beginning of time, mankind has sought to fully understand the laws by which our universe works," it says on the website we're reading. This site hails the discovery of the Higgs Boson, which it insists on calling "the God Particle" despite our report that physicist Leon Lederman preferred "the goddam particle" (25 February 2012).
Then it brings us the news that parts of the CERN accelerator "exposed to the surge of energy which showed substantial evidence of having the God Particle" were sent to "the leading universities and research centers in the world".
And what did they allegedly find? That "the energy of the God Particle has some amazing effects on migraine prevention, on treating different kinds of skin conditions, up to a surprising improvement among those who [were] ailing from ...
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