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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Dori on April 05, 2014, 05:23:21 PM
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Arcanetrance (2,447 posts)
What the hell is with people's disbelief of science in this country
I'm debating with a friend online be a use she claims that the Yellowstone volcano is about to erupt and that the animals are fleeing it. Well I sent her a link to a news story with interviews from scientists monitoring the volcano and they are basically saying it's bulls hit no eruption is imminent on our lifetime. Her exact response to me is sorry I trust the animals over machines animals can sense things. All I can think is this really where our country has come in terms of science
House of Roberts (587 posts)
2. I think it's because scientists can no longer be executed
for heresy?
Warren DeMontague (53,774 posts)
3. Don't bother.
If she wants to believe the Yellowstone caldera is about to blow, let her. If she's right, it won't matter anyway.
cantbeserious (4,376 posts)
5. The Christians Have Told The Public That Believing In Fairy Tails Will Make Them Wealthy
Hard to compete with those promises.
arcane1 (22,478 posts)
7. I'd settle for some basic rationality and critical thinking. Science can come later.
Logical (12,309 posts)
8. I agree. Critical thinking skills are lacking. Even on the DU. n-t
LittleBlue (5,440 posts)
9. A friend of mine said she was doing a "cleanse"
I tried to show her that it isn't healthy, and that the primary benefit is simply from weight loss. It doesn't dissolve fat and none of its proponents can actually name which toxins it supposedly cleanses. I showed her quotes from doctors discrediting the practice, and I told her to eat solid foods of the same caloric amounts and drink water if she really wants to lose weight.
She is currently on the cleanse. You can't reason with some people. Once they "read it in a magazine", it's all over. These magazines and dodgy health blogs are practically the bible for some.
arcane1 (22,478 posts)
13. At least your friend's toxins are (presumably) physical substances.
I have friends who think they can rid their bodies of "toxic frequencies" by walking outside barefoot
arcane1 (22,478 posts)
18. You know, vibrations, energy, or something...
The thinking goes that since you have to "ground" electrical appliances, then walking on the ground will "ground" the body's electricity. Otherwise "toxic frequencies" will build up.
MissB (10,602 posts)
21. My mother has a wand.
She is not a witch. In fact, years ago, when she rented out rooms in our former house, she kicked out a boarder because she burned incense. She viewed that as witchcraft, so the poor young girl had to go.
But now she has a wand. It's about the size of a pen. She waves it over her food, her sore shoulder, her cats....
I'm an engineer. I struggle with the existence of her wand. It seems to make her happy, and my boys do find it to be utter BS.
(She also ingests liquid silver. And gives it to her cats.)
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MissB (10,602 posts)
21. My mother has a wand.
(She also ingests liquid silver. And gives it to her cats.)
Considering silver doesn't turn to a liquid until 1,750 degrees F, hat's off to your mom! :greet:
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Considering silver doesn't turn to a liquid until 1,750 degrees F, hat's off to your mom! :greet:
Probably something called "collodial silver" or a close misspelling.
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These are the same creatures that worship gaia,believe in chakras,send healing white light over the Internet and bow before the great and poweful Gore.
Idiots.
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None of that is goofier than the church of global warming.
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Sat Apr 5, 2014, 04:39 PM
Star Member Arcanetrance (2,450 posts)
What the hell is with people's disbelief of science in this country
I'm debating with a friend online be a use she claims that the Yellowstone volcano is about to erupt and that the animals are fleeing it. Well I sent her a link to a news story with interviews from scientists monitoring the volcano and they are basically saying it's bulls hit no eruption is imminent on our lifetime. Her exact response to me is sorry I trust the animals over machines animals can sense things. All I can think is this really where our country has come in terms of science
Now if the online friend had said that there was evidence of a mass animal migration in Yellowstone that was due to global warming, the story would have had a different ending.
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Considering silver doesn't turn to a liquid until 1,750 degrees F, hat's off to your mom! :greet:
Sounds like she ingests mercury. Some in South America do it as a remedy for chronic stomach problems. In it's liquid from it is fairly harmless.