This Online Group Calls Out People Who Think They Know Better Than Years Of Science, Here Are 50 Of The Most Absurd Posts (New Pics)
Social media gave all of us a platform. And since everyone has an opinion on everything, we have to be more careful when consuming content—not all of it is valid.
Probably nothing proves this point better than the subreddit 'Facebook Science.' Gathering the dumbest statements they can find on the internet, its 50K members constantly show that there are no limits to human ignorance
"[This online community is] about the science-denying pseudo-intellectuals who think they know better than centuries of scientific understanding and aren't afraid to leave comments arguing even the most simple of concepts," the subreddit's moderators write on its 'About' page.
Theories? Evidence? Experiments? Reputable scientific methods aren't welcome here. This is the epitome of "My friend in the bar says..."
For more painfully ridiculous false statements, check out Bored Panda's first publication on the subreddit.
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Efforts to flood the world’s media with dishonest information or malicious content go to the very top.
Donald Trump derided any critical news coverage as “fake news” and his unwillingness to concede the 2020 presidential election eventually led to the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol.
For years, radio host Alex Jones denounced the parents of children slaughtered in the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newton, Connecticut as "crisis actors." On August 5, 2022 he was ordered by a jury to pay more than US$49 million in damages to two families for defamation.
Who Wants To Start A Magnet Business With Me(Credits To R/Vaxxhappened)?
“The reason I’ve made such stupid decisions…” nah that’s all you mate
Someone Does Not Understand How Fruit Trees Are Seasonal
Ohio Back At It Again With The Real Science™
According to Mathieu O'Neil, Associate Professor at the News and Media Research Centre of the University of Canberra and Michael Jensen, Associate Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis of the University of Canberra, three schools of thought have emerged to address this issue.
"The first suggests disinformation is so pervasive because distrust of traditional sources of authority, including the news media, keeps increasing," the academics pointed out. "When people think the mainstream media is not holding industries and governments to account, they may be more likely to accept information that challenges conventional beliefs."
Worst Idea I've Ever Heard. Please Don't Give Me The Vaccine, Oh No, Please Dont
Facebook ‘Scientists’
If you look hard enough you could find "evidence" for most ridiculous "theories". The world is crazy.
'disappears'
The Article Is Making Fun Of You, Dale
"Secondly, social media platforms' focus on engagement often leads them to promote shocking claims that generate outrage, regardless of whether these claims are true," O'Neil and Jensen added.
"Indeed, studies show false information on social media spreads further, faster, and deeper than true information because it is more novel and surprising."
This Is No Asteroid Hole
The Dumb S**t That Shows Up On My Facebook Feed
Ow My Finances
I Would Like To See Your Evidence, Lindsay
And lastly, the role of hostile and deliberate disinformation tactics cannot be overlooked.
"Facebook estimates that during the 2016 US election, malicious content from the Russian Internet Research Agency aimed at creating division within the American voting public reached 126 million people in the US and worldwide," O'Neil and Jensen said to illustrate this point.
Found This Recently
This Family Friend's Facebook Account Is A Gem
Terrible Science, But I'd Watch This Movie
Iced wall, monsters on the other side our weapons are no good against them...Now where have I watched this???? https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/game-of-thrones-the-wall-explained.html
Covid 19 Does Exist
Edit only to add thanks and for clarification. My SO was a kind dear man, who played Santa Claus at nursing homes and literally rescued every lost kitty he ever met. We had very good years. And I live in assisted Living. That's why I lost so many. Plus we were very hard hit. We're rural, and in the first wave we had 75 cases. It's still active. I want to make this person to forcibly French kiss a known COVID ridden petri dish every day for 14 days. I lost my SO of 16 years, and 27 other friends to COVID. The only reason I really wouldn't do it,is I don't know any COVID petri dishes I dislike that much. This one infuriates me. .
So what can we do? Bradley Crocker, Lecturer & Ph.D. Candidate in Health Psychology at McGill University, thinks that in order to be saved from misinformation, we need to be exposed to it.
"Efforts to remove and label misinformation on social media platforms may help, but a more pertinent question is whether these efforts can match the rapid pace of misinformation spread," Crocker wondered. "In response to the growing pressure to control misinformation on their platforms, social media giants have generally relied on reactively removing or labeling false content after it’s widely noticed and reported."
False Equivalency Bro
"The Lack Of Humility Before Nature That's Being Displayed Here, Uh... Staggers Me."
The Government Wants To Control Your... Brians?
Corona Cult
Even if social media giants manage to crack down on misinformation on their platforms, what about the rest of the internet?
Rumble, for example, offered to host Joe Rogan on its video-streaming platform with no censorship.
What's to stop content creators and common users from turning to websites that are outside the jurisdiction of democratic lawmakers?
F**k, I Must Have A Negative Iq Score
For f**k's fatherly sake, my fruity IQ is so freaking low now, it's fifty feet into the ground.
Viruses Are A Myth
Health Tips From The Insane
"Your body shouldn't be hit by hard objects" Yeah, I'd like to avoid that when I'm not on my period, too...thanks
Til You Can Cure Cancer By Screaming In A Cave
"If encountering online misinformation is inevitable, our best approach to mitigate its effects may be to improve users’ abilities to recognize and dismiss it," Crocker said. "One of the most promising ways to do this uses experiential learning, stemming from something called inoculation theory."
"Inoculation theory is based on an analogy between resistance to persuasion and resistance to contagious disease. Just as exposing individuals to a weakened pathogen helps to protect them against severe illness (vaccination), tactfully exposing individuals to weakened forms of misinformation can improve their ability to recognize and resist it."
So I guess, in a way, the subreddit 'Facebook Science' is making the internet not only more fun but also safer.
Biology Lesson
No me, a biological female, having a similar collarbone.
No, He Would Be Dead
Manufactured Government Fog
Every time someone starts throwing the term "Orwellian" around like this I feel pretty damn confident in assuming they've never read a word that man actually wrote.
They Probably Think It’s Dead Babies
That Settles It. The Fires Are Fooling Us
The fires are not allowed to cross the border without a visa - well played, Mexico!
Wake Up
#idonotconsent
Posted on FB, which tracks you and knows just about everything about you.
Globe Lies
Yes, I'm Sure About That. You Forgot To Mention The Extremely Low Density Of The Atmosphere Up There
Expert Scientists Bad Because Fictional Boat Better Than Real Boat
I Posted This On R/Flatearth Someone Told Me I Should Post It Here Too
There's A Lot To Unpack In This One
We learned that the racists, misogynists, narrow-minded idiots, and plain ol' douchebags are even more asinine when they don't have anything better to do. Someone should've sent them fidget spinners.
This One Made Me Irrationally Angry
Yikes
Engineers Are Bad
The secret trick is called "maintenance". Ironically, I guarantee that allotting government money to road maintenance or to a good education would be something those people like OP vehemently oppose because taxes are bad or something.
Socialism! Woke socialism! Deep state woke socialism!
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No, greedy rulers arrived and their bean counters (accountants) started to dictate how little money should be spent on projects. Then the greedy CEOs whose company "won" the contract cut costs and used the cheapest materials possible. Meanwhile the engineers get blamed.
"...and they even lived for hundreds of years." I might need a citation on that one ma'am.
In Chester there's a cemetery that contains multiple graves showing that people from the seventeenth century lived into their mid-hundreds. Which proves nothing except that an illiterate population is bad at counting.
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Are they trying to say the Romans were uneducated? Because half the maths and physics concepts used by engineers today are the exact same ones used by the Romans. No they didn't call it a "degree" but they didn't just send random dudes out to build roads. They had pretty intense schooling and apprenticeships. Conservatives trying to degrade education by appealing to this mythical past human who was somehow smarter and healthier despite literally everything we know about them, is just exposing how incredibly ignorant they are about history. Something that could be remedied ironically, with a decent education.
May I direct you to aquaducts? Definitely the creation of an engineer or two.
If those roads have lasted "an eternity", that means they were built before the universe came into being. Talk about planning ahead!
Actually, many did have educations in the form of apprenticeships or formal education in schools to learn math and philosophy. They just didn't get an expensive piece of paper to prove it.
They lasted an eternity? I don't think we've reached eternity yet.........
Well, I was born in Rome and I traveled the Via Appia many times because some of my friends lived there. If you want to bend your car frame, go more than a few Kmh where the paving stones are still on the surface. Also, 2000 years is hardly an "eternity". One more thing: we still use similar methods to build modern roads, we just put asphalt on top so it can be resurfaced without having to quarry a mountain each time. These people likely think we build modern roads by pouring asphalt over dirt.
Well they probably didnt have cars or trucks or heavy equipment riding on them either.
Yeah, must be very fun and "connected" to die from disease caused by the lack of sanitized water
For a million times... The old building that still standing is due to a lot maintenance. Borobudur temple for example, is buried and broken until restored by govt in 1970-era. Even for a stone structure like that, it only functional for around 100 years before succumbed to ruin because of dust from mount Merapi explotion
BTW if you drove a higher-end Citroën you wouldn't notice a difference between those two roads - now THAT is engineering.
The difference is not the engineering. It's the road maintenance budget (or the paucity thereof) that differentiates those two.
I don't think those guys who repaved my road yesterday were exactly engineers. They also only put a "Road Closed" sign on one end of the road, so we drove through the construction, THEN we got to the sign.
Or maybe, vehicles that weigh more than ten times the weight of a horse and a carriage arrived XD
I loved the part about "they even lived for hundred of years"!! It's hysterical!! LOL
Why is nobody mentioning the ancients living for hundreds of years? Sounds like this idiot fell asleep during history class and dreamt half of this!
all these workers building roads out in the hot sun all day are also impressively pale
That's only because the 18 wheelers the Romans used were made of wood and much lighter, so fewer potholes
Back then no expense was spared because they believed it it was worth doing then it's worth doing right, nowadays we have politicians who only care about budgets and will happily save money in the short term even if it means having to fix something dozens of times.
I can see how they might be more intelligent compared to a modern American, however, stay with me here, it’s because they were educated. Ya know, created the Hippocratic oath and all that jazz* *although arguably not Jazz itself.
To be fair, the number of semis and salt truck were also somewhat lower before the invention of the wheel.
we engineer them to ensure that they will fail and we'll pay to repair them. 100%
Water Thoughts Only 🙏
It’s Just A Joke!!
Corona Hoax
This Was Posted Seriously
Really? I thought they were stolen from their carrot parents by the liberal elite who eat them!!!
Just A Theory!
Lmao My Kids Would Freak Out If I Taped This To Them
Nasa Just Need To Use Toilet Seats, It’s Cheaper
"I'm A Climate Denier. I Don't Have To Be On The Defensive"
Vacines Bad
I love how the only evidence these people have is "I don't like the billionaires, so they must've made a vaccine to kill us all".
I Cu Out There Not Using Copper Cups
Note: this post originally had 117 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Things like this used to be funny. Now the sheer mass of willful utter stupidity gets depressing.
I saw a story today that people are cooking chicken in Nyquil. That should probably be on this list 😂
This "trend" could have deadly or very serious consequences as heating up some medications makes them more potent. And you don't even have to eat it just inhaling the vapors can cause exposure. Please don't do this people and if you have kids please hide the NyQuil. Acetaminophen overdose can cause liver failure and death within 72 hours
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The absolute irony here is that these same science deniers are using an electronic device created with scientific theory to spread the word that science is false and doesn't work. Or when they try and use the scientific method to "prove" their wonky ideas. Here's something to chew on. Outrageous claims require the person stating the claim to prove the claim. Nobody has the obligation to disapprove it. So if I were to state that the sky is just a TV screen, there is no burden on anyone to disprove that statement. The whole obligation falls to me, the original claimant, to offer overwhelming proof that my claim is correct.
I have the time, and after this post, I have the motivation and reasoning to support it. I’m seeing 117 images so there are at least 117 people on the hit list.
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I am silently wondering if our world is even salvageable. These kinds of people will always exist, no matter what. It makes me absolutely sick.
We TRIED to weed the worst of them out with the bleach injections and Tide Pods, but it just wasn't enough.
Load More Replies... Just appalled. so many people so proud of their ignorant ill-conceived ideas that they trumpet about it all over the place.
I have a migraine now. And possibly deep depression at knowing I share the planet with these people. I definitely lost a lot of brain cells after this.
Science is not *easy*, ergo people prefer other explanations. Even if they may not actively be anti-vax to start, for example, they may still fall for anti-vax propaganda. Their emotions will cloud their intellect. It's a failing of the species. We're not terribly advanced, in some ways.
Well, I think I lost a good few brain cells reading all of this. But then again, what else was I expecting, right?
Aside from the parts where people have suffered actual pain from the real issues here, the related fallacies, or any of their implications, the comments sections of this thread are really entertaining.
I wonder how many of these looney posts are made by people in the USA? And you wonder why the rest of the world laughs at you...
I guess that, regardless of the global effects of these issues, there are always going to be people like you who can't help but actively promote their hatred and bias. Whatever happened to you, I'm sorry, and I hope you find peace.
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hey do your research sheeple the truth is out there. /s
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Worrying that people like these are in charge of some places. Nice to know our safety can depend on them.
I need a conspiracy cleanse after reading this list. I'm going to go watch miniminuteman on yt for a while and watch him debunk ancient aliens and tell me about cool archaeology.
If only these people would use theirs skills of reasoning and deduction for science, instead of making connections and stories where there are none. Waste of human potential.
They have zero skills of reasoning and deduction that is precisely the problem.
Load More Replies... Most are absolute b******t but I do wish people would be more critical and skeptical on science and governments and their intentions. Don't be too naive and ask questions
There's a thing called a journal. You just google "journal of whatever -international" and replace "whatever" with the item you want. E.g. "journal of pharmacology". You can also look at BioRxiv an similar. "Science" and "Governemnt" are not monolithic things. Governments can barely get a competent invasion together nevermind a global conspiracy. Scientists work in hundreds of different research areas. You don't get to lump them together.
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I just did. This "fact" was cited by an overwhelming 2 sources. One from "Christian Headlines", and the other from "The Daily Wire", which is the brainchild of that prominent scientist and towering intellectual, Ben Shapiro. Oh, well.
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Things like this used to be funny. Now the sheer mass of willful utter stupidity gets depressing.
I saw a story today that people are cooking chicken in Nyquil. That should probably be on this list 😂
This "trend" could have deadly or very serious consequences as heating up some medications makes them more potent. And you don't even have to eat it just inhaling the vapors can cause exposure. Please don't do this people and if you have kids please hide the NyQuil. Acetaminophen overdose can cause liver failure and death within 72 hours
Load More Replies... The absolute irony here is that these same science deniers are using an electronic device created with scientific theory to spread the word that science is false and doesn't work. Or when they try and use the scientific method to "prove" their wonky ideas. Here's something to chew on. Outrageous claims require the person stating the claim to prove the claim. Nobody has the obligation to disapprove it. So if I were to state that the sky is just a TV screen, there is no burden on anyone to disprove that statement. The whole obligation falls to me, the original claimant, to offer overwhelming proof that my claim is correct.
I have the time, and after this post, I have the motivation and reasoning to support it. I’m seeing 117 images so there are at least 117 people on the hit list.
Load More Replies... I am silently wondering if our world is even salvageable. These kinds of people will always exist, no matter what. It makes me absolutely sick.
We TRIED to weed the worst of them out with the bleach injections and Tide Pods, but it just wasn't enough.
Load More Replies... Just appalled. so many people so proud of their ignorant ill-conceived ideas that they trumpet about it all over the place.
I have a migraine now. And possibly deep depression at knowing I share the planet with these people. I definitely lost a lot of brain cells after this.
Science is not *easy*, ergo people prefer other explanations. Even if they may not actively be anti-vax to start, for example, they may still fall for anti-vax propaganda. Their emotions will cloud their intellect. It's a failing of the species. We're not terribly advanced, in some ways.
Well, I think I lost a good few brain cells reading all of this. But then again, what else was I expecting, right?
Aside from the parts where people have suffered actual pain from the real issues here, the related fallacies, or any of their implications, the comments sections of this thread are really entertaining.
I wonder how many of these looney posts are made by people in the USA? And you wonder why the rest of the world laughs at you...
I guess that, regardless of the global effects of these issues, there are always going to be people like you who can't help but actively promote their hatred and bias. Whatever happened to you, I'm sorry, and I hope you find peace.
Load More Replies... hey do your research sheeple the truth is out there. /s
Load More Replies... Worrying that people like these are in charge of some places. Nice to know our safety can depend on them.
I need a conspiracy cleanse after reading this list. I'm going to go watch miniminuteman on yt for a while and watch him debunk ancient aliens and tell me about cool archaeology.
If only these people would use theirs skills of reasoning and deduction for science, instead of making connections and stories where there are none. Waste of human potential.
They have zero skills of reasoning and deduction that is precisely the problem.
Load More Replies... Most are absolute b******t but I do wish people would be more critical and skeptical on science and governments and their intentions. Don't be too naive and ask questions
There's a thing called a journal. You just google "journal of whatever -international" and replace "whatever" with the item you want. E.g. "journal of pharmacology". You can also look at BioRxiv an similar. "Science" and "Governemnt" are not monolithic things. Governments can barely get a competent invasion together nevermind a global conspiracy. Scientists work in hundreds of different research areas. You don't get to lump them together.
Load More Replies... I just did. This "fact" was cited by an overwhelming 2 sources. One from "Christian Headlines", and the other from "The Daily Wire", which is the brainchild of that prominent scientist and towering intellectual, Ben Shapiro. Oh, well.
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