New front in the war against science :

“An underground of ‘dissident’ scientists and self-described experts publish their theories in newsletters and on the Web, exchanging ideas in a great battle

against ‘the temple of relativity.’ According to these critics, relativity is not only wrong, it’s an affront to common sense, and Einstein was

a cheat.” A number of fundamentalist, paranoid, prejudicial and otherwise hysterical trends seemingly converge here, but is there a non-lunatic fringe as well? [Salon] On a related topic, a less-than-lukewarm review of Michael Paterniti’s Driving Mr. Albert, in which a journalist and a pathologist take off on a cross-country encounter with America, the universe and themselves, carrying the preeminent scientific brain of the 20th century in the trunk.