Humor Science Pseudo-Science Conflicts and their effects on us...

[Jarvitä]

And now, predictably, this turns into a hate-of-religion discussion.

How frustratingly annoying, that instead of defending against pseudo-science (read: presenting something as science, while having no scientific background to it), we have to instead focus hate on people's personal beliefs, in one of the biggest cases of hypocrisy around.

When said personal beliefs are prevalent enough to influence scientific studies and attempts to teach science, there's every reason to treat them as a danger to rational thought.

Popular pseudo-scientists seem content to sell their homeopathic sleeping pills, horoscopes and DIY dowsing kits to morons. religious pseudo-scientists are on a holy mission to replace all of actual science with fake models that confirm their moronic world views.

And no, I don't particularly care when a moron gets offended by being called a moron. If your views are moronic, kindly keep them to yourself if you don't want them laughed at.

 

[T.Neo]

Are you calling me a moron? I assure you I am no moron, no pseudo-scientist, and no religious overzealout. Trust me; I hate those kinds of people too. Not much more or much less than I hate those that wish to go flaming and screaming at religion, or whatever else opposes their views. Same sort of thing, different flavour.

Just because there are morons in the world, and uneducated people, does not mean that every single religious person who is alive and who has ever existed, is a science-hating moron. I don't know where that idea comes from, but it is infuriatingly stupid.

 

[PeterRoss]

(back from religion to pseudo-science)

Seems like in post-soviet Russia pseudo-science laugh on you.
There is some guy here named Victor Petrick who almost managed to get a government grant of ~11 billion dollars for his 'water-clearing nano-filters' named after Emercom minister. Apart of that grant Petrick have won some others, for some millions of dollars, for equally-stupid 'inventions'.
He was supported by the Speaker of the lower house of parliament. Funny thing here is that he was supported by Russian Academy of Sciences too, he lost this support because of RAS inside intrigues only. There was like a moment of truth when the RAS committee have recognized his inventions as a charlatanism, but that was really close. I wonder how many such Petricks are walking around.

P.S. He's now suing academics and some mass-media which was covering this story for lost profit.

 

[Mister Mxyzptlk]

What I like to ask proponents of "intelligent design" is: Ok so you ascribe to a cosmogony and spiritual world view that is 2000+ years old at least, why don't you ascribe to a economic, medical, and technological world view that is 2000+ years old also?

 

[fsci123]

Ive recently was working on an essay for my school about lunar colonization... On the 5th page of Google i discovered a hoard of evil...

http://www.google.com/#q=nasa+lunar...=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=f7cbc9f461f532f7

I then found a YouTube page about how nasa is bombing an alien base on the moon and that they are trying to cover up proof of an alien base... The comments also point out that pyramids were also created by aliens...

if you look you can see my comment... Please help fight this war by commenting with me...

 

[jedidia]

Please help fight this war by commenting with me...

I don't think anything was ever won by commenting on youtube...

 

[fsci123]

Did anybody notice that user who posted that the stars and planets were made by the (glorious)USA...