Austria cannot affort to participate in CERN anymore. We simply cannot spare the 17 million Euros per year to finance the probably most important and exciting experiment in physics right now because we need to relieve the tax burden on membership fees to, say, a homophobic organization whose leader proclaims that condoms will increase the spread of HIV. Or to an organization that maintains that using blood transfusions to treat an ill child is immoral. And those tax reliefs cost us 30 million Euros, so sorry, science – we can’t afford you anymore.
May 12, 2009
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More information (mostly german-only) including an online-petition at http://sos.teilchen.at
… and for those of us austrians more concerned about the religious aspect of this posting there’s another (online) campaign going on at http://www.laizismus.at/ (also only in german).
Comment by signof — May 13, 2009 @ 11:59 pm