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40 Of The Most Ridiculous ‘Scientific’ Diagrams You’ll See That Beg The Question ‘What Were They Thinking?’
I have no doubt that every one of us has seen something odd in our textbooks—a name, an illustration or a graph that looks just a bit too odd or completely bizarre for it to be in a textbook.
Of course, to us as kids that was comedy gold and we’d go around showing everyone this unique and hilarious discovery. But now… well, yeah, it’s still super funny, but now it also begs the question “what were they thinking!?”
Believe it or not, there’s an entire Facebook group dedicated to sharing with the world the most ridiculous, yet scientifically accurate and true, illustrations and diagrams that people find hard to believe that they managed to make it into a textbook.
Bored Panda has collected some of the best examples for you to enjoy below. And while you’re down there, why not vote and comment on the ones you’ve liked the most!
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The Facebook group in question is called Science diagrams that look like s**tposts and is dedicated to sharing proper science illustrations, figures, and graphs from textbooks and other publications whose editors obviously never bothered to check the end product before printing, thus ending in results that are reminiscent of s**tposting—internet slang for creating content of no value.
The group was created by an internaut named Luke who found these diagrams really funny, while admitting he has no idea why—it just was, and we all understand it, though can’t entirely explain it.
Oh dear.... ummm... seems like someone has a toddler and had a pet fish...
It has over 448,000 members as of this article and even has its own Twitter account with over 500,000 followers. There’s an influx of hundreds of posts each month with members constantly sharing some of the most ridiculous, yet accurate, depictions of all things science.
Shared imagery often involves animals and the natural world, but it’s not just how they depict it, but also what they write. Besides disfigured animals and humans, illustrations that raise more questions than they actually answer, and crappy design in general, there’s also the occasional mislabeling (whether deliberate or not, nobody is truly sure) of illustrations that raise eyebrows at the very least.
I'm a ER/OR nurse, you would not believe the things I've seen, and helped remove, from colons, rectums and stomachs.
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Hmm, I'm not sure about this one. There is no way the ladybug would have survived intact if swallowed. The acid in the stomach alone would have mangled it! And as for going through the back door, so to speak, as someone said: how could it survive the pre-colonoscopy purge? Unless it was...inserted...just before the procedure. So, all in all, I call b******t. I also need to get out more....
They said in the case report that the colonoscopy prep may have protected it from stomach acids. https://journals.lww.com/acgcr/fulltext/2019/08000/an_unusual_finding_of_a_ladybug_on_screening.8.aspx
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oh great. I've got a colonoscopy to deal with in a few days. Yet something else to worry about.
I didn't believe this was true, but I found the medical case report: https://journals.lww.com/acgcr/fulltext/2019/08000/an_unusual_finding_of_a_ladybug_on_screening.8.aspx
Then the patient swallowed it without realizing it, perhaps in his sleep, and the preparation for colonoscopy helped the ladybug to escape the gastric juices ... Interesting, thanks
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The doc doing mine said "Oh, thank god" at one stage. He then said "You have a very long colon and I was about to lose the controls, but we just reached the end"
I assume this person went to the toilet in the meadow, right on top of this ladybug, and well... the rest is history
Random aside, but I very rarely get to talk about this; When my time comes and I need a colonoscopy, I'm going to request the camera footage and find someone to superimpose the Death Star trench scene inside my colon. Second option...Indiana Jones running from the giant boulder
I think the Indiana Jones should be your first option!
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"well, you're cancer free, but we, uh, found something you should know about..."
You must follow the path of Lemmiwinks brave Ladybug. Seek help from Catatafish for he is very wise.
Mmmmm I'm not even going to try and wonder how the lady bug was in this colon! Mmm nope nope nope.....
Make sure you use a clean glass (without insects) for your clean out drinks.
Somebody forgot to clean the equipment. I wonder if that's covered under health insurance or house and garden?
More often than not, these diagrams are taken out of their academic and scientific contexts, making it raise even more eyebrows, though others, even within context, would still look odd making people think how is this scientific because of how they are visually depicted.
It is interesting to think that s**tposting is, in some shape or form, present in the actual scientific community, especially in physics. There is this metaphor of the spherical cow which is a highly simplified model of a complex real-life phenomenon where a problem is reduced to its simplest form so that brainy people could make the calculations more feasible, despite it being no longer applicable in reality. So, some scientists are used to this.
For more hilarious scientific oddities presented in image form on the internet, you can check out the Facebook group or follow their Twitter. Or just keep scrolling! But before you go, let us know what you thought of this. Do you have any stories to share about your textbooks? Leave us a comment below!
Looks like when influencers use photoshop to enlarge their butt, but the background gets a little bit of surgery too.
So.... angry about being happy, disgustingly happy, inconsolably happy, afraid of his own happiness, surprised that he's happy, and happy that he feels nothing.
But, she looks so happy! She's on her way to her own fruit viking costume!
The little white baby becomes a small black child who grows into a dancing teen girl who matures into 1980's yuppie man. Women spring fully formed from the ether, merge with the 80's yuppie to form a small white baby. Got it.
Let me explain the big chill is when all stars die and there is no more heat. The big crunch is when gravity collapses the universe into a black hole. Big rip is when the universe expands so much the fabric of spacetime unravels. Big snap is like big rip but the mini-dimesions unravel too and make a new universe. Death bubble are black holes that turn into strange matter holes that consume the whole universe.
You could literally say that about any mammal... and if you don't ignore the mouth and internal organs most mammals are doughnuts.
Note: this post originally had 60 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.
I can help with that. Be warned, it will require a lobotomy, and I can't even cut a coupon out without f*****g it up, so brain surgery is going to be a lot trickier. You're gonna have to pay upfront. In cash. I don't do Bitcoin. It's a scam.
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You totally misused “begs the question.” Begging the question is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument’s premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it. It is a type of circular reasoning: an argument that requires that the desired conclusion be true. It does not mean “the following question should be asked.”
I can help with that. Be warned, it will require a lobotomy, and I can't even cut a coupon out without f*****g it up, so brain surgery is going to be a lot trickier. You're gonna have to pay upfront. In cash. I don't do Bitcoin. It's a scam.
Load More Replies... You totally misused “begs the question.” Begging the question is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument’s premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it. It is a type of circular reasoning: an argument that requires that the desired conclusion be true. It does not mean “the following question should be asked.”
