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Scientific unprogress...

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Yes, the vaccines are... Are you feeding that baby unpasteurized milk?!? What the fuck, guys?
- No we're feeding the baby unpasteurized goats.
  
  With or without added helium?
- Tbf, breastmilk isn't normally pasteurized
  EDIT: If you can't figure out that this comment is humour, you seriously need to go outside and touch grass
  
  And it’s immediately consumed usually, or is frozen and its composition differs from cows milk and is designed for human consumption.
  Don’t know why you brought that up, unless it’s to point out how stupid people are thinking unpasteurized cows milk is drinkable because human milk doesn’t need to be.
  
  It typically is pasteurized if it comes from a woman other than the baby's own mother. If it is donated milk, for example.
  
  I lol’d.
  
  Poe's law, my dude. There are definitely dipshits who make the argument that milk doesn't need to be pasteurized because breast milk isn't pasteurized.
  
  A joke doesn't work when it's indistinguishable from the stuff that people actually say
  You are on a written medium, where there is no tone, body language, or otherwise wider context. What do you expect to happen? People can't read your mind
  
  Grass is not pasteurized.

Internet was a mistake. It gave all the anti science people and crackpots a platform for their ideas.
- Making it easy was the mistake, the internet was great when knowing what tcp/ip actually is was a barrier to entry.
  Gatekeeping isn't a dirty word.
  
  This also exposed just how many stupid people are out there. We all assumed that making infinite knowledge available would be the rising tide which lifts all boats; instead, the rising tide is a tsunami of idiocy and willful ignorance.
  
  Can we please just make network that has a higher barrier to entry than spending 1000 dollars on an iPhone but through a 4 year loans?
  And before some c suite fuck head reads this, I don't mean cost more money. I mean cost just a tiny bit more intellectually.
  
  I mean, a lotta fucking Nazis knew what TCP/IP was back in the 80s, too.
  
  this would would only help our sanity, the stupid people would still be stupid, just not as loudly
  
  In this regard, I absolutely have come to agree.
  I always say: "The Internet should be for anyone! But it shouldn't have been for everyone ."
- the internet isn’t to be blamed. capitalism is. capitalists have weaponized the internet against the population and created these people because when people are uninformed they’re easier to exploit and manipulate
  the internet is an incredible tool. it’s controlled by the worst pieces of shit satan could have ever imagined tho
  
  Right I understand and sympathize with OP’s point, but there’s probably zero chance I’d be a commie without the internet.
- Tbf, the same was said about the printing press back then
  
  Only a rich crackpot could distribute pamphlets claiming colloidal silver cures cancer, and then they'd still only reach people in walking distance.
  Now, any moron can reach literally the entire world at no cost or effort.
  
  Carving symbols on stone tablets was a mistake
- Its not anti science to not blindly trust science. Its actual science to try and verify observations. Sure, most people dont have those skills to properly know what they are observing, but I think its good if people try to learn.
  I learned tons of stuff about the common pitfalls about measuring the curvature of the earth by looking at flat earth arguments and seeing what science says about them.
  Today you can throw those arguments into chat gpt and get a decent summary of how anything actual works.
  Using lasers to track earth curvature across a big lake for example, absolutely fascinating to see why it doesnt work as you may expect.
  
  Using lasers to track earth curvature across a big lake for example, absolutely fascinating to see why it doesnt work as you may expect.
  Why would it not work as I expect? I'm expecting some beam decoherence, and possible deflecting due to temperature differences over a cold lake.
  
  My brother is a crank because ChatGPT enables him.
- I’m still convinced flat earthers are an internet hoax/troll.
  
  I've seen a super genius flying with a bubble level.

Also scientists today: Vaccines do not cause autism and actually work.
- That was last year.
  Now it's.... Tylenol?
  
  I mean if it gets physicians to stop overprescrecribing medicines with it
- Yeah but it was 90s scientist who said vaccines caused autism though. Which just invalidates the point this tweet was trying to make.
  
  It was one "scientist" who by all accounts was a massive fraud and anyone with any semblance of smarts recognised that almost immediately. That the world is full of idiots is the problem.
  
  One single comment by one shitty doctor in a magazine. He didn't even say that. He basically said 'some parent thought that maybe their child started to exhibit autism-like symptoms shortly after receiving a vaccine'.
  I am not fucking kidding you. That was it! No study, no control groups, no sample size. Nothing. Just one stray comment that is shorter than this one I am writing now and it is the foundation of their entire theory.

Sorry but due to new government policy it is illegal to study or even acknowledge weather
- You mentioned diverse weather conditions in your grant application, and we can't have that.
  
  THIS ISNT EVEN AN EXAGGERATION.
  We are so fucking cooked.
- weather leads to climate, climate leads to fear...
  Fear... leads to sOcIaLiSm!

Scientists once again remind you to not swim in shit.
- What is this picture
- The CDC told me it was ok. Polio is good for you because it prevents autism.
  
  Polio is good for you because it prevents autism.
  I guess that is technically true. Can't have any autistic children if youre dead.

Wrong. Flat Earthers do think the Earth is round.
The rest of us think it's spherical.
- Latest and greatest flat earth is that Antarctica is a wall that encircles us all. Well, it encircles the land that us normies are allowed to know about. Beyond the Antarctic wall lies a vastness of land that us normies are kept unaware of. I am not sure why. It was something to do with the riches of the secret land. Also, no one knows how far the land stretches. So the earth is flat but we don't know how far it goes so we don't know what the shape is really.
  Just to be perfectly clear: I am not a flat earther and I don't believe any of the above. It's a load of (very entertaining) nonsense. Keep the documentaries coming please!
  
  I have also heard the story, that the earth is in fact a sphere, but the rest of it is covered in ice also known as the antarctica
- Oblong spheroid to be pedantic.
  
  I have an oblong hemorrhoid
- I work with someone who believes the flat earth bullshit. Our company makes pharmaceutical actives, pretty much everyone there has degrees in science. Yet one guy persists with "the earth is flat". I'm incredulous over the willful ignorance toward reality.
  
  How wonderful would it be if he was messing with you the whole time.

am I old or does nobody remember the name Dolly?
- I seem to recall something about her working 9 to 5 and having an arch-nemesis called Jolene.
  EDIT: Wait! Wait! I remembered! There was a sheep called Dolly who was a workaholic who had herself cloned to spend more time with her partner!
  EDIT 2: Ok, I just did a web search. I was way off.
- Of course we remember Dolly! She was stuffed and is on display in the National Museum of Scotland.

I feel bad for field researchers that have to do studies on critically endangered species
Imagine trying for days to find a specimen and then end up having to reclassify it as extinct

Nice Try NASA, we all know the truth that Earth is a Donut. This is why cops think they own the planet.
Checkmate, FBI!
- https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/59b109574cb45
  ...The polar crust is very thin compared to the rest of the world and experiences much more volcanism and geothermal activity. Tectonic plates drifting hubward would shrink in size, usually becoming islands, and grow heading rimward due to the differences between the inner and outer radii. Plates moving rimward would rift and plates moving vice-versa would fold, resulting in mountainous landscapes in the hub. Because of the rapid rotation the surface gravity on the Torus is non-uniform, with the polar regions being 1.1 g, the rim 0.7 g, and the hub 0.8 g, so that the mountains are higher (on average) than those on Earth.
  The iconic shape of the Torus is achieved through its ultra-fast rotational speed, which allows the centrifugal force to balance with its gravity. The high rotation deforms the body of the world, making it oval-shaped with a sharper edge in the hub along with making it oblate. The rotation also causes fast winds in many latitudes, ringed zonal climates, and a weak distribution of heat from the large inner radius, which leads to dramatic changes in temperature in different regions. An intense Coriolis effect is prevalent on The Torus that spawns frequent, but small cyclone and storm systems usually near the poles. The regions with lower gravity would experience higher cloud height and vice-versa for regions with higher gravity.
  The days are very brief, only lasting 3.5 hours, and at the rim they resemble the days on Old Earth, but much shorter. However, due to The Torus's tilt, the poles experience extended periods of day or night for the summer and winter months. The fast rotation results in the home star already rising past the atmosphere on the other side of the Torus that produces a Fall dusk and Spring sunrise showing off very short-lived, vibrant colors. The nights on the hub could be as light as a cloudy day from the reflection of light from the other side of the hub. The hub would also be fairly temperate with Fall and Spring shrouding parts of it in dark during the winter and summer months.
  
  So this is a Wiki-style fiction set far in the future, with pan-galactic civilizations and super-AIs, made by people with vast knowledge in tech and science, keeping things feasible.
  Intriguing.

Narrator: it was not the last time.

It took republicans a while to full dismantle everything. Their almost done now so, yay?
- I want to help them build that wall, so we can keep them inside, and watch what happens when a government does everything opposite of good.

pretending that generation didn't hobble science for anti-intellectual cultists is just bullshit
what happened to stem cell research in the USA exactly?
- Wasn't it bush that shut it of to get fanatic religious votes?
  
  that it was, Valmod
  Lo, I remember mine father watching him announce it on cable news while I wisely played Tekken on ps1 instead
  it sucked, my dad explained all the medical research that was going to be impacted
  i mained Jack as was the style of the time
- sad Jesus noises
- We lost about a decade of research because of that bullshit. At least.

Scientists of tomorrow: Colloidal silver cures all disease unless you are possessed by demons or a witch.
If witch, please turn your self into authorities for immediate incineration.
If demons, please report to your nearest wellness camp for rehabilitation.

Second part should be "And climatechange is real."
- Third part should be, "We pasteurize milk for a good fucking reason."

For the last time?! These "modern scientists" are sure not history researchers then!
- "for the last time...so far"

Free speech is a double edged sword

"Science" is so full of grifters and bullshit that I'm not surprised flat-earthism is flourishing.
"Scientists", media, politicians, etc... today: I've created an artificial intelligence!!!
"Scientists", media, politicians, etc... today: We found a bacteria (or whatever the fuck) that might solve ~~global warming~~ some climate issues that maybe don't exist!!!
Actual scientists: The planet is literally being destroyed. Primarily by cars.
People: I don't know what to believe.
- Yeah there’s a problem with how science is portrayed to the general population. Most science is ”boring”. People want to hear about aliens, time travel and parallel universes.
  Graphs showing that we should cut down our meat consumption is boring.
  Stories about how a secret world state (possibly extradimensional lizards) is hiding a big ice wall from us is exciting.
  
  And robots. Why are there so few news and stories about robots 😥

Spelling out each decimal of bitcoin instead of using standard notation like everywhere else ...

is that what your satanic sheep told you?

Or you could say Scientific CONgress...
...

Some of the most high profile science news of this past decade have been in cloning and martian robotics

Earth is not round it's imperfect circle
- Circle is on a 2d plane, while sphere would be 3d

mrrrreow

Actually the physics model to use is typically the simplest one that works, i.e. that gets the job done.
When your job is to drive a truck to the nearest city, the curvature of the Earth is negligible and it's simpler to assume that the earth is flat, so that is the model that you should use.
As such, yeah, for 99% of use cases, the earth is flat.
- Did you just "UHM ACKtually the earth IS flat!"
- If your truck is equipped with GPS then the Earth had better be round in your physics model.
- How does a flat earth model simplify logistics?

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