From the Tele­graph, about the Large Had­ron Col­lider (emphasis mine, for the good bit):

Such is the angst that the Amer­ican Nobel prize win­ning phys­i­cist Frank Wil­czek of the Mas­sachu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­no­logy has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester Uni­ver­sity, adding: “Any­one who thinks the LHC will des­troy the world is a twat.”

’nuff said.