@thor @icedquinn
There a HUGE problem with science reporting currently. Scientists are VERY weary in dealing with the media, because every mainstream publication imaginable completely twists any small discovery and exaggerates the findings of a paper to extreme degrees. I can't even begin to describe some of the bullshit the press claims scientists have discovered, when the reality can be something as benign as wiping your bottom. And this does indeed contribute a lot to the public losing faith in science.

We can take Quinn's early reaction as an example. He found an article describing how some scientists made one of these speculations, and tried to make a model of a universe with varying speed of light, and they made it work mathematically. Quinn did exactly what the media usually does, and took this as evidence that the speed of light isn't a constant, when all that thought experiment proves is that you COULD have an universe with a varying speed of light, but that doesn't mean it's our universe.