We'll give you answers for the questions you never had, or British science is so British

I can't say for the rest of the world, but in Russia the words "British scientists" makes most people laugh in anticipation of some stupid piece of "research". They would work on the perfect way to eat toast, for Cthulhu's sake! Because seriously, Nobody in this world have ever had a jam sandwich! But that sandwich was but a small demonstration of capabilities of British science! Now they're on to something really big...



According tio this article, one of the Britain's finest have found at last the day of the week on which Christ and apostles had their Last Supper. Of course he "proved" that everyone else was wrong... only it looks like the research is quite useless. Will the knowledge that the Last Supper have occurred on Wednesday help people understand the message of Gospels better? Well, seeing that humanity excelled in not giving a crap about that message for a long time, I seriously doubt that.
But what makes me angry is not the fact that that man have done that research. He's supposed to be a scientist, after all. Doing research is what he's paid for. But when everybody and their uncle start reporting his hypothesis as news – well, that's where I draw a line. If he needs to publish his research (he does), he can send the article to some scientific journal (I suspect that there are more Bible studies publications than articles about physics, but that's beyond the scope of this post), but when they try to pass it off as news – well, enough is enough. People should stop living in Middle Ages when all the answer you needed were in one ancient book. The world has changed and we must move on and leave that question of what did Judas eat at Last Supper wait. Oh, and he ate some cheese, in case you must know it.