If your granny leaves dead light bulbs in the socket so the electricity doesn't leak out, who's really harmed? Johannes believes something along the lines of thinking you could overflow Lake Tahoe by peeing in it. Now how many people actually believe that?

Is any government or industrial policy currently going to be affected by the idea that our atmosphere is being pooted off into space by background radiation?

I'm more worried by the pseudoscience or just plain bad science that becomes widespread, and could affect all of us. Creationism. Organic foods. Nuclear phobias. Plain old scientific ignorance. Global warming.* If I start hearing Greenpeace pick this "radiation in the atmosphere" idea up, then you'll have a problem.

Pick the hill you want to die on. When something comes up like this, or one of Lindy's gems, if you want, post a neat and accurate refutation (it usually isn't hard) and leave that there for the rest of us.

No matter how many times you respond with retorts, until the thread goes off the right side of the screen and into the next room, you aren't going to change the mind of someone fixed on something like this, and it uses up the mental equivalent of your Precious Bodily Fluids.

I will fully admit that I haven't followed these guidelines consistently either, but that doesn't mean they're bad guidelines.

*Just kidding.