40 Ignorant People Getting Shut Down With Science Facts
Arguing with the anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, and climate change deniers is a heck of a job. If you've ever tried, you’ll know what I am talking about.
And even though you recognize the fallacy in their arguments, like saying that masks don’t help to stop the coronavirus, you sometimes need heavy artillery.
Luckily, some people who know what they’re talking about have done everyone a service and stepped in to school the science deniers big time. From biochemists to sport scientists, these are some of the most mic-drop moves in stopping the spread of misinformation.
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I never knew that a simple apple had such a complex chemical composition. I learn something new everyday.
You can safely assume that this is true for everything natural you eat. Life is basically a very complex chemical reaction with MILLIONS of chemical compounds. Artificial foods tend to be FAR less complex, and their composition far more consistent. The main difference between natural chemical compounds and artificial chemical compounds is that, for the natural compounds, the "is this safe to eat or is it harmful" test has been done over and over for generations (by people getting ill or dying if they got it wrong).
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Anti-vaxxer logic: Why risk having a child with autism when you can have one with a wheelchair?
or even dead, and bringing back some diseases that were thought extint
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Lol that's one of my favorite jokes and I love jokes to the extent I make up several a week.
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My favorite is the chemical composition of an EGG https://jameskennedymonash.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/ingredients-of-an-all-natural-egg1.pdf
My favourite some years ago was an elaborate website warning people about the perils of dihydrogen monoxide.
Haha yes! I post that on my facebook every once in a while. It's a great one.
Load More Replies... So apparently apples keep doctors away unless they have a PhD in Chemistry in which case it attracts them.
Anti vaxxer logic "I don't understand therefore I'm not going to lookup facts"
I'm a chemical engineer and I get so sick of people telling me something is "chemical" free. Now they like to spew the words "non-toxic". Water is one of the most toxic chemicals - more people die from drowning than any other chemical exposure
Good Missy Engineer - then you can tell everyone here that the chemical list of an apple in this post is fake.
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Well apparently some people are dumb enough to try injecting Lysol into themselves after the president suggested it. I consider anti vaxxers to be of the same risky mentality.
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Only when it's not fake. What happened to the Folate Vitamin C Vitamin K Carbohydrates Sugar Calcium Iron Magnesium Manganese Phosphorus Potassium Zinc Asparagine D-Categin Farnese P-Coumaric-Acid Avicularin Quercitin Rutin Ursolic-Acid Protocatechuic-Acid
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When Bored Panda doesn't bother to check to see if it's fake... like here... yes, it's priceless.
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Only because she believed the apple list. It's fake and Bored Panda shouldn't have posted it. Google 'chemical composition of apple' so you don't get burned.
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You've included the seeds of which are somewhat poisonous if consumed in vast rat testing quantities lol
Lordy!! I thought that was the make-up of something really scary, like Twinkies or Diet Coke.
It's not the make-up of an apple, that's for sure.
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Ha ha ha I feckin love it lol! Just goes to show how "educated" anti-vaxxers are lol! Brilliant
DId you fall for that list of chemicals? I believe in vaccines but I also believe in looking up stuff and so if you google 'chemical composition of apple', you'll see that list is fake.
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I have always genuinely wonder what anti-vaxxers are afraid of. Is the autism thing just an internet myth? Actually asking
Autism is often not recognized until around the time MMR is given. (If you know what to look for, it's evident earlier in family videos though.). Faced with a terrifying diagnosis, parents look for what happened "just before" and blame the vaccine. Then a doctor wrote a paper saying it was connected to the preservative in the vaccine, and got it published. The paper was debunked, the doctor lost his license, and the preservative was taken out of the vaccine, but there's no changing their minds. When you feel a tragedy has happened, the urge to find a cause to blame it on is very powerful.
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Well............ there is a slight difference between eating an apple and having an apple injected into your body or blood stream.
everything has a chemical composition. some chemicals are naturally occurring, but in high quantity can be harmful. Like a few found in an apple. I think that's interesting.
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We are chemicals, water, and hormones, with a mind sitting on top?
antivaxxer idiots would stay away from water if you analysed it to them
I always thought that apples weren't good for people to eat. Apples for Worms and Eve.
The antivax story: there was (just one!) UK physician who posted several articles in the Lancet (those were later revoked due to conflict of interests re insurance claims) on babies developing side effects after vaccines. The truth is - yes, side effects can happen. And they do. But sometimes these side effects actually bring to light an existing problem, like not properly functional immune system. So these side effects can actually help improve someone's life in a long run.
HAHAHAHAHA!! SOMETIMES I HAVE TO LAUGH AT PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR PAY SCALE THINKING THEY KNOW SCIENCE.
It's a shame that Bored Panda doesn't check before they post things though because this one is fake. Google 'chemical composition of apple' and you'll see.
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Yep - L I T E R A L L Y every organic thing is made up of chemicals...
anti vaxxers have not seen the damage these diseases can do, they don't know what life was like without vaccines I do, the first ten years of my life there were no vaccines and no antibiotics. I am niney years old and consider myself lucky to be alive.because i lived in isolation an a farm.
Although I love the punch line, when I read the first chemical I though: - Well, I would not want to be drunk. So , what I would have added is some kind of proportion , or amount of each..
Regardless of anti vaxxers logic...i will choose to follow advice of a pediatrician who has seen babies and children die from those evil apple chemicals!!
Because that list of chemicals in an apple is so fake, you mean?
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I absolutely LOVE this! It is so often that I deal with people who say they don't want "any chemical" things and I try to make them understand that they are not using the words right, reminding them of the one and only chemical formula everybody knows by heart: H2O, water.
lies beget lies...baby parts, aluminum, and many other poisons. Ask the doctor for the insert in a vaccine...then go look at the chemicals.
If they are combined together in small amounts in an apple they are fine, but I still object to having them in my body in large amounts, which can be toxic. This is like saying I should be fine with sprinkling chlorine over my food because after all it's in table salt.
Everything is chemicals. You are chemicals. If you want the breakdown, may I suggest Fullmetal Alchemist.
Isn't it amazing how many people believe that chemical list for apples? They should just google 'chemical composition of apple' to see it's fake.
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Whoever came us with these chemicals as being the composition of an apple are absolutely INCORRECT! People do your own research! Don't let people call you ignorant and yet they are ignorant for giving false information. I just researched and none of those component chemicals are in an apple!
Only because he believed the post. Like you did. Google 'chemical composition of apple'.
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The poster forgot the dangerous (2R,3S,4R,5R)-2,3,4,5,6-Pentahydroxyhexanal...
This kind of fallacy is exactly why science gets discredited, what does an apple have to do with vaccines? Don't have to be an anti vaxer not to want to eat or otherwise be injected with synthetic chemicals be it of an apple or not. I am pro choice by the way.
You mean you got burned because you believed this list? Just google 'chemical composition of apple' and you'll see this list is fake. Don't feel bad for falling for it.
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So a standard vaccine is composed of an apple. Makes no sense. Give me a break.
The chemical list for an apple is fake. Bored Panda shouldn't have posted this.
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These days, when there are so many science deniers, it may feel like arguing with them is absolutely pointless. But a 2019 study published in the journal Nature Human Behavior showed that it’s in fact worth arguing with them.
Philipp Schmid and Cornelia Betsch of the University of Erfurt in Germany conducted six experiments with 1,773 subjects. They assessed “how to mitigate the influence of a denier on the audience.”
The results showed that “not responding to science deniers has a negative effect on attitudes towards behaviors favored by science (for example, vaccination) and intentions to perform these behaviors.”
Alan Turing was praised for what he has done during war time and condemned for whom he loved. That's the great tragedy of his life.
Dear God-botherers. If god drowned everyone except one family on the planet because they were evil then he believed that unborn children could be evil (not to mention all the born children). You anti-abortion types must really hate god for that.
Facing deniers can be treated as a concerned and important effort to fight misinformation. The authors of the study suggest that “not turning up to the discussion at all seems to result in the worst effect.”
Meanwhile, showing up on an acquaintance's Facebook post, even if you think it's pointless, will surely do some good.
Interestingly, the authors claim that science deniers use the same rhetoric across domains. It means that “uncovering their rhetorical techniques is an effective and economic addition to the advocates’ toolbox.”
Never ending story of idiots spreading a disease because they do not believe in science.
I can't believe that the idiot had 1.8k up-votes. Yowsers, so many dafties.
Lol. How dare you debunk the nonsense I'm spewing on the internet with science? Don't you ever do that again!!!!
Even if you'd put the entire flat-earth movement in a spaceship and circle the earth in any way they want, they'd be telling you that it's a trick with mirrors and projectors. But at least they are harmless and don't hurt other people with their nonsense.
I mean, astrophysics aren't directly related to climate change, but you can expect someone who has a PhD in it to know à lot more than someone so unintelligent that they spell virus vIRUS and say that people who believe the truth(that climate change exists) are criminals.
hahahaha I love it when people who have no flippin' idea who they are talking to make an ass out of themselves. I always look up whoever I am in a discussion/argument/debate with before I make a comment that I might regret later. You never know if someone's background qualifies them to be right or not.
History is there to teach the future lessons. But of course, you do need some kind of education to be able to understand those lessons.
Do people forget that literally everything is made up of chemicals...?
ANYONE who has been on a mountain above 5000 ft has seen the curvature of the earth, as a Skydiver who has jumped from above 10,000 ft the curve of the earth is extremely pronounced at that height.
Someone should probably tell them that Darwin believed in God and evolution simultaneously throughout most of his research years.
More and more European countries make vaccinating mandatory. Unvaccinated children are banned from schools in those countries and parents can be forced to have their children vaccinated. And rightly so. Screw your "strong convictions" and "religious beliefs", our national health is endangered because of your bullshit and we are getting tired of your stupidity.
It's so sad to see one thinks that if their kids are momentarily healthy without vaccination, that's proof that this state will keep up indefinitely. It most likely won't. It would be funny to see their faces when they realize their mistakes, but it won't, because it would be to the expense of the child who'd deserve better.
Tell that to the families of women who died from cervical cancer. Including a 15 year old girl in the UK a few years ago. Plus it’s been proven that men can be affected by HPV as well so some are campaigning for teenage boys to have the vaccine too. Oh and it might not cause cancer, but more often genital warts and other infections. Who would want to be protected from getting genital warts right?! Morons...
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I had to stop reading these. People who embrace ignorance and stupidity are scarier than Freddie Kruger.