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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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Raine Soo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never knew that a simple apple had such a complex chemical composition. I learn something new everyday.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my favourite tweets of all time (the second one, obviously). I hope to be one day this articulate.

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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.”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Paul K. Johnson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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random observer
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, but Christianity does actually teach that all humans have the potential to do evil baked into their nature, so they should believe that "unborn children could be evil". So there's no contradiction there. Even from a secular perspective, this would seem to be a true thing about humanity, as it happens.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh, you don't have to be an atheist to answer that question. That's just embarrassing. Why can't it be acceptable for me to believe in god and science! Lol well whatever, I do anyway :)

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Vicky Zar
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good for you! As a child I tried to reconcile one with the other. So I came up with the idea that Adam and Eve were the first cavemen after they were thrown out of Eden. Lol

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And of course, dinosaurs did survive and evolve into birds.

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Eric Soliday
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes they probably evolved into turkeys and chickens too, and turtles have existed for so long some animals are just champions of survival

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Bob Belcher
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not all religious people are that dumb. Please don't lump us all together. I know each of us have extremist but most of us are trying to make it through the day.

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Aragorn II Elessar
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. I am Christian, but I despise Trump, support LGBTQ rights, am pro choice, and am vaccinated. Christianity and science are not mutually exclusive. My faith gives me a purpose for existence and comforts me, and has gotten me through some hard points. Believe what you will or don’t, but please, please, don’t hate on believers or group the extremists and the sane among us together.

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Tiffany Marie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah I don't do the whole God thing anymore. Those people are delusional and super judgemental and narrow minded. I've had my experience. F*ck that!! I also don't want a human being (pastor or preacher) control me using fear. I don't want to give anyone power or control over my life. Also pay them.

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PhantomBuni
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Faith isn’t fear, but you’ll get that eventually. And we donate to help our pastors feed their families. They aren’t all TV pastors with massive houses you know. And please be respectful, we’re trying to have a level debate.

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Raph cuddy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

guys please don't let this guy make you form opinions about christians, a decent study of the bible will show that multiple occurences of the bible either legitimately happened, or were metaphors to represent occurences, even the creation story of the bible's order of events matches with the actual order that the earth formed, in millions of years instead of days

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Owen Easby
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Any "decent study of the bible" will reveal it to be no more than a collection of stone-age tales written by men to control others. Surely, an all-powerful god would be aware of the entire world he purportedly created, not just a measly piece of desert.

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Fixin'Ta
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just to be clear -- not all Christians believe in a literal 6-day creation, or that dinosaurs and humans were on the planet together. Some of us believe God used evolution in creating the universe. Some of us have absolutely no problem with science (heck, God created it). We're not all brainless idiots.

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Nathan Freeman
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a Christian, I like to think the dinosaurs went extinct when the two got off Noah's ark. And then they accidentally fell off a cliff. Which would explain everything without having to take asteroid craters into account.

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Abrams Mitchell Scott
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do Adam & Eve have bellybuttons? They had 2 kids Cain & Able, where did the grandkids come from? Almost every man & beast in the world is evil, except Noah & his family. So murder the whole world humans, animals, loads of birds, insects, reptiles & oh wait, fish are cool, Lucifer must have laughed his a*s off... Oh yeah just for good measure, close your eyes and just imagine you're in the Middle East a few thousand years ago... find me a group of guys named Matthew, Paul, John, etc etc oh and Mary. I don't begrudge anyone's faith or beliefs, but realize many fables, tales and poems are based on truth to teach, not preach. "Be Excellent to each other." Bill S. Preston

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Katrin P.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Flintstones are no scientific depiction of the Stone Age.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really? Thanks, you've just messed up my worldview. But at least I still have The Jetsons serial documentary to hold onto.

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Mark
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Watched one too many old film with dinosaurs and cavemen in it!

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John-Paul Bitler
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a Christian and I can say that this tweeter is very stupid in the way they said that. Education. Get it.

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Melina Pothier
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s really funny, the entire world talks a big talk about acceptance and peace but the moment the topic of god comes into the picture it’s nothing but hate and accusation. There’s no sense in calling out and hating gods word if you haven’t read it/understood it and applied it’s principles. To hate it because of what many men do “in the name of god” but staunchly in contrast to what God tells one to do, then this is not a faithful person. Most people want an excuse to not be accountable, to do as they please and that is it. If they wanted to truly understand it, they could. But all this hateful talk against believers in god, it does not shed the best light on you and it certainly doesn’t prove any kind of point, it’s just hypocrisy. And I’m explicitly talking to all of the naysayers below in the comment section.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this is the kind of commentary you get when you mash two unlike disciplines together. Science and Religion, as needed and useful as they both are, make terrible bedfellows.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Science is needed and useful, and I suppose you could say the same for religion, given that it seems to be the only thing preventing some people from becoming the next Jeffrey Dahmer.

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Dee Slater
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is scientifically impossible for something to come from nothing. The question mark that we all arrive at eventually is my God

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M O'Connell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You may be correct. One's intelligence can be judged by how quickly they reach that wall of question marks, and what they resort to when they get there. I run out of mental confidence just before the realm of quantum mechanics, but I don't need to resort to a deity for my life's purpose. I am more than willing to leave the finer points of theoretical physics to someone with the appropriate background.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not an atheist, but still funny. You have to let science explain somethings. God made it isn’t always a good enough answer for intellects

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Eric Soliday
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean I'm not an atheist but I don't think god would've landed us right in the middle of an Earth with deadly lizards that are all 5 times larger than us

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Vicky Zar
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just love this one. You should not use arguments you understand only by half

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Frances Emanuel
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When god was ghost writing the bible, why didn't he insist on mentioning the extinction of the dinosaurs? Certainly he was responsible for their creation and demise, and what a perfectly threatening tale that would have been to keep the flawed humans he also created in line.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so unbelievably dumb it makes me wonder if it's trolling

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Vicki Perizzolo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that is so fkg awesome! lmao!!! I'm guessing Matthew is a fan of that ridiculous dinosaur religious place in KY

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Sandy Kavanaugh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, man! I snorted diet coke out my nose when I read this! I was not prepared.

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Daniel Callaway
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A lot of people don't realize that true Dinosaurs were gone long before Man appeared. Wooly Mammoths are not dinosaurs!!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Neither Christianity nor science require a belief in creation, but atheism does require a belief in evolution. The atheist is unable to decide objectively, while Christian and agnostic are free to consider all arguments. None of these beliefs are dependent on intelligence. Rather, we choose who we will trust.

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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.”

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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.”

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never ending story of idiots spreading a disease because they do not believe in science.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think we should celebrate holidays of all existing religions, that should be given equally to all followers and non followers. Yay! Every day is a holiday! ♡

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't believe that the idiot had 1.8k up-votes. Yowsers, so many dafties.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol. How dare you debunk the nonsense I'm spewing on the internet with science? Don't you ever do that again!!!!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

President of the kick a*s roasting division of the IGF

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

hahahaha I love it when people who have no flippin' idea who they are talking to make an a*s 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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Calculating the amount of valence electrons in a nucleus is easy, since there are none.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People seem to forget that astronauts are bonafide scientists with degrees in engineering, and other biological and mathematical sciences. DId they think that they were just a bunch of space cowboys?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"A little knowledge (learning) is a dangerous thing." Alexander Pope

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The theory that vaccines cause autism has been completely debunked years ago. Did the anti-vaxxers not get the memo? It doesn't matter. They'll still believe rumour and hearsay over science.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone should probably tell them that Darwin believed in God and evolution simultaneously throughout most of his research years.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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 b******t and we are getting tired of your stupidity.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I instantly tune out anyone who refers to grown women as 'girls' anyway, especially when they're talking about an educated woman in a high level position. I'm fairly certain this same man wouldn't refer to a male meteorologist as a 'weather boy.'

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The issue, my friend, is why do flat-earthers believe hokum without question?

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