SubJeff on 3/7/2012 at 16:53
You'd think that with all the information available to us now (in the 1st World at least) that a lot of idiocy would dissolve.
Think of the MMR vaccine freakout - something that still goes on because someone heard something from someone and that's all the evidence they need, or a lot of that amazing Christian fundamentalist intelligent design nonsense. I'm not talking about the more reasonable stuff, but the bonkers "bananas were designed for the human hand/mouth rubbish.
I'm talking about the rejection of medical and scientific advances by people who know someone who said it didn't work for their aunts dogs penpal. That kind of idiocy.
The kind of world where this happens: (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18692830)
What happened and when do we burn it all?
Jason Moyer on 3/7/2012 at 16:59
I have a theory that a person's intelligence is inversely proportional to the number of cell phones they've owned in their lifetime. This was actually a replacement for my previous theory relating to digital watch ownership.
In specific response to that article, we consider it perfectly rational to believe in certain myths. I can't find it more irrational to think that mermaids exist than to think that wandering tribes of shephards knew more about the way the universe works 30,000 years ago than I do now. Of course, it's ok to laugh at people who think mermaids are real. I wonder if the ancient civilizations had a stick up their ass about that sort of thing like we do now. "You need to respect that I believe the world is being carried on the back of an enormous god named Atlas."
Briareos H on 3/7/2012 at 17:03
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
I have a theory that a person's intelligence is inversely proportional to the number of cell phones they've owned in their lifetime
way to troll Effet Subjectif, Jason
Inline Image:
http://i.imgur.com/LH3HX.gifJason Moyer on 3/7/2012 at 17:05
Please don't hotlink their stuff, ok.
(Also my theory is just ripping off Douglas Adams)
Vivian on 3/7/2012 at 17:06
Discovery Channel Not Science, Says Important Researcher
Jason Moyer on 3/7/2012 at 17:11
Anti-science posing as science has, unfortunately, given legitimate science a bad name. It would help if people who should know better (i.e. the presumably educated people who filter information down to the hoi polloi) would be capable of making a distinction between the two.
henke on 3/7/2012 at 17:15
From the article:
Quote:
She said that at least two people had written to the agency asking about the creatures.
Relax SE, it's hardly a pandemic.
Jason Moyer on 3/7/2012 at 17:16
If I wrote them a letter claiming that the earth was created 30,000 years ago by an omnipresent old man who cares about which hole someone sticks their penis into would there be a news article about it?
Jason Moyer on 3/7/2012 at 17:20
I BELIEF MERMAIDS R 4 REAL N U NEED 2 RESPECT THAT
Vivian on 3/7/2012 at 17:22
At least two? What the fuck sort of number is that? Who needs to approximate the number two? No wonder Mermaid Science never gets funded.
