Science is hard. You gotta prove it, test it, and reproduce the results. Pseudoscience is easy. You make it up, add some fear, and watch ignorant people spread it.
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Well said.
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"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes."
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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us."
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Then write a science book containing all of known science with proof for everything in it.
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People are so gullible these days that they believe whatever nonsense is floating around Facebook. They share it without stopping to check it first. When is the last time a peer-reviewed article from a real scientific journal was shared on Facebook? I'm guessing it's never happened.
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you also get peer-reviewed in science by people equally qualify to assess what you've discovered. No such checks are done of republican liars.
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And even after proving you need to retest after additional tools or data become available.
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Yeah, in a year later when no one knows what you’re talking about it doesn’t matter because it was pseudo science and it wasn’t real anyways.
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Real science is math, something I didn’t understand when I chose my major; even chemistry is math. Boring, lol. It’s relating the science we use in everyday life which can excite folks. My favorite chemistry class…unlocking stains (chemical bonds) from fabrics. Now that’s interesting!
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Largely true about hard science, though nobody should need to point out that you fail to disprove rather than prove it.
Soft science falls right in between those two. A lot of the shit mental health professionals treat as objective reality is an inch from pseudoscience.
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Yep, yet progressive people are the snowflakes.
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You mean like untested, unproven, covid vaccines?
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Including this chump. bsky.app/profile/juli...
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Popper showed that one can never prove science. At best, we disprove all the visible alternatives and embrace what's left standing provisionally, until it fails a further test.
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So, just like religion
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Also when people tell you it’s fake you can demand they prove it’s fake. Then when they use supported theory or evidence of any kind you can dismiss that by pointing out that it’s part of the mainstream propaganda. It’s fun. You’re never wrong! Also you can sell supplements with it for some reason!
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Fringe science is entertaining
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Reproducible results are key, but to my way of thinking the thought process of why they were not reproduced is important too. Knowing why is half the battle.
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Maybe add some quantum theory jargon & use people's ignorance of it to convince them it's magic.
I've heard "Observer Effect," used as a blanket deflection to discredit fact. "You can't rely on X study because someone looked at it." 😬
Pretty clever particles, conducting studies like that 🤔
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Like nostradamus right?
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A succinct and perfect truth.
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Yeah. Just ask RFK Jr. He just uses his “science kit” from 3rd Grade.
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I always regretted not getting my degree in pseudo physics instead
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Damn, that's just what I said about Art! Go you! (It's okay.... AI is a'comin', my friend).
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Or if you want to sell shit: call that shit a panacea, sell that shit (or give it away for free as a loss leader) to those desperate enough to take it, and watch the placebo effect at work.
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You are so right about science and its genuine merits. One of the major stumbling blocks for some people is that they cannot understand / accept that scientific knowledge changes over time e.g. regarding covid-19.
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True
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Can you cite your sources?
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And when you have the pseudo scientists and the pseudo historians teaming up….?
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So slathering ivermectin all over my body while jamming crystals in my ears, doesn't stop polio?
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🎯
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There should be a Duh button
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And pay a lot of money for it. Pseudoscience in wellness is worth roughly $4 trillion.
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So true!! Yikes... we are surrounded by pseudoscience now with this administration
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Defunding research so you're opinion isn't proven, right or wrong, is also antiscience and fascist.
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youtube university isn’t a thing
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All while making money off those fools.
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Cool
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The absence of BASIC science education in the US is criminal. That’s why our daughter went to REED COLLEGE. WE insisted. Perhaps the only baccalaureate program that still requires a SOLID Science course as part of the CORE.
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Yup, that's this administration in a nutshell.
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wait did you make this up? /s
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#MAHA bsky.app/profile/mluc...
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You also gotta do some bootlicking in the academia “community” to get published. But hey, once u get tenured u can bullshit with no real accountability. If you befriend Epstein you can be made a star scientist even if you can’t speak or write your own thoughts for decades.
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Religion. Same same
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Listening to a relative spouting pseudoscience with another like minded person, I realized a big part of the appeal is that it’s fun; you can just repeat what you heard, and throw in your own made up details, and never have to back up anything
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an old favorite reply from trump's disastrous Covid fuck-up
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Putting this on FB.
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Science invites pushing back.
Lies require obedience.
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But pseudoscience is HARD.
You have to look up all those fancy words and keep using them so I sounds like you know what you’re talking about.
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You forgot profit (or grift).
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The problem is that pseudoscience is the stronger meme. It is a worldview that easily fits into people's minds because it's simple and it has inherent appeal because it makes people feel like they have control in a way they comprehend.
Science cannot shift to optimize its memetic strength.
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Exactly. It's why I know trans women are really just men with a mental illness. Yet I've seen ignorant people spread the idea they are women.
Thankfully the pendulum is swinging the other way, yay science!
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And charge many $s for the "special" product or program
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The Knowing part has been manipulated by the almighty dollar, and the CDC is in on it 😥 so science may not change, but our understanding of it is wrong on several levels. Plenty of things like r3,r40, and fluoride water. I'm already the CDCs science project while they know its harmful affects 🙏
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You’ve got it correct. Throughout history, science has been mocked, killed and ignored. One day, ignorance will be history along with humanity. Please bring in the dinosaurs
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A lie can travel around the world twice while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
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Here goes mainstream big science again. Always calling us uneducated stupid.
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All 3 parts are attached to the original post. Please watch all 3! #Talk about this. #Share this. Tell people #Online & #Offline!!
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Come on. It’s some effort to ensure the correct amount of fear is spread.
You make it sound like just any fool could do it?
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Yet science has been proven wrong thousands of times and people are habitually blinded by science too. Then there's the lack of integrity that much of the scientific community practices by putting profits above all else. I'm a fan of science, but even Einstein's theory of spacetime is wrong !!!
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science was always easy for me, being "gifted". It takes multiple sciences with math ability for any projections. Those who are lower IQ and unlearned don't really understand and make up bullshit.
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Are you trying to say there are no Jewish space lasers causing wildfires ? 🤣🤣🤣
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I wish this wasn’t true. I have trouble adding “scientist” to Robert F. Kennedy, jr.
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Science adheres to demands evidence, falsifiability, & repeatable experiments, while pseudoscience lacks these standards. Science seeks to disprove ideas, works with detailed evidence, and aims for accurate knowledge, making the process demanding. In contrast, pseudoscience begins with a conclusion.
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My facebook feed is full of people who do that
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Brilliant
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Yep
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So true. Cause and effect is so difficult to prove, but apparently the Repukliscums can do that in their own brains?🤔
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Scientific truth, is, like every other form of truth, a function of power. And it's mostly driven by the insatiable demand for profits by the monopolists that dominate the global economy.
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You sir get a repost.
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Not only that, the people who fall for pseudo science are more likely to give grifters their money
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Believing stuff is easy. Knowing stuff is hard.
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This reminds me of a Thomas Paine quote I just read about the Bible.
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☝️TRUTH
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cc:Bobby Kenney
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And claim the proven science is HIDING SOMETHING SOMETHING the ELITES!
Then just pretend all opposition is working for SHADOWY FORCES and drop your kickstarter/patreon/prettypleasemoney/etc to help you spread the SECRET TRUTH!
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If facts are against you, make up new ones.
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Ok, but you've completely underestimated the spooky soundtrack to this youtube video I just researched that proves you 100% wrong.
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There will be a mustard shortage coming . Stock up now!
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The YouTube Institute of Doing Your Own Research doesn't have a PhD avaliable.
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Nice one Chopper ✌️🏴👍 yep a POM
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Pseudoconcensus is a grift.
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This is good science.
REAL science.
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Kind of like the news.
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Or you stand back and marvel at the stupidity of people who screech about 'mah freedumbs' while they refuse vaccines and guzzle tubes of Ivermectin that they bought at the local Tractor Supply.
