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
This person probably thinks that a menstruating woman is also unclean and expelling demons from her body.
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And the most terrifying part is the "please distribute..." at the end. OMG PLEASE DON'T.
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What does the sparkling water do? Cause your period to come out like pink champagne? /s
Bubbles are the devil and will invite Satan to your uterus
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And remember ladies, don't ride on a bicycle, or god forbid a train at any time, because your uterus may fall out.
Avoid abdominal injuries *always*. The rest has been debunked, and this was originally cited as from the "Indonesian Cancer Institute".
Happy to redistribute to the women at Facebooks misinformation dept.
Seriously. I'm pretty sure blunt force trauma isn't good anytime; except in movies for curing amnesia. Lol.
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Must’ve been written by a man who flunked both his Health Ed class and Biology. Probably flunked most of his other classes as well.
No ice? I want to eat all the ice cream I can when I am on my periods.
Well, I never got the hang of drinking ice anyway, and don't care for sparkling water; cold bothers my teeth. Also none of this applies now since I quit that a few yrs ago. Really I can do with or without cucumbers-esp. those with sap, and my pores just disappeared when in contact with the water. They should ignore my collarbone, btw. Oh, and hard objects won't injure me as I was born in a black hole.
Hmmm this is an odd one ... No 2 ... about the pores being open ... I'd have to agree somewhat with that one ... being an old hairdresser, of MANY years, I found out that permanent hair colour and bleach treatments tended to "itch/burn" more when a woman was having her period ... odd but true, perhaps someone else has come across this.
menstrual cycle does have an impact on pain tolerance, there are good studies on this subject. I think it comes from estrogen levels being higher in some phases and lower in others, but don't quote me on this) Still, pretty interesting and can even be useful for planning things like tattoos or hair removal
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Oh No! I Have Consumed Ice! I Shall Obtain Cancer Because Ice And Cucumbers! /s
And....Which Man came up with this? My Mother told me (I am mid 60') that getting ones feet wet would STOP your Period. Showers or baths didn't count for some reason. I spent many a day, each month standing in puddles, little did I know that I should have been eating cucumbers at the time. That is where I went wrong...All those years ago.
So what it’s safe again to go swimming again on your period? No more Shark issues?
Written by the Ohio legislature which is right now trying to force gynecologists to reimplant ectopic pregnancies into the womb (a procedure which does not exist and is believed to be impossible) or be charged with "abortion murder."
I’m sorry but the op of this one had to be a man, that’s been coddled by his bible thumping mother, and hasn’t been let out of her basement in 45 years.
This has to be fake. I refuse to get to the suicidal state I would be in if I found out this was legitimately something people believed.
cucumbers dont have sap do they? besides if they do i don't think it would affect us
Well I'm sorry Wendy, I don't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die!
We once thought people believed things like this because they didn't have access to information. The internet has proved this is not true.
I'm never sure how to vote on posts like this. I upvote because it is good to know loons like these exist, but I feel silly upvoting something that is this wrong.
MIL tod me, a trans mae on testosterone, not to move anything heavy as womens stomachs collapse like that... wtf
*me eating as many cucumbers as i can every month because i do not want children*
If you've got sap in your cucumber you're going to have a bad time. And a worse salad.
And remember that women shouldn't ride trains when they're on their period, because their uteruses would just fly around w***y-nilly at those high speeds... oh wait, we debunked that years ago. This guy would get along great with the Greeks.
Well other than 4 which is kinda true if your hot hard enough it's all ridiculous
Hitting a women´s body with hard objects outside the period is perfectly fine, actually. I suggest baseball bats or cars....
Apparently this writer did not manage to avoid getting hit by hard objects. On the abdomen or elsewhere.
Wow! Ice during period = 5 to 10 years of blood retained in the uterus! Man, if that was close to the truth, the woman would have an infection waaaaay before a cancer! LOL,
So we should be investigating cucumber intake as a natural birth control, yeah?
WHY HASN’T ANYONE WARNED ME OF THE DANGERS OF CUCUMBER SAP BEFORE NOW
So am I safe with pickles or should I avoid those roo? Fortunately I prefer room temperature or warm drinks so I should be safe with that but i guess my Houdini gut punch training should be put on hold though
Well, I like no. 4 on general principles ☝️ Would cut out the sexist prejudice in a fit of egalitarianism though and not even throw potatoes at obviously male midriffs.
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Yeah. If you get headaches during your period, it's not the shower...it's low iron..also known as anemia. Most women that have their periods experience a dip in iron since it is essential for healthy red blood cells. See your OB/GYN to find out if you need to supplement your iron intake.
My mother tried the old wives tale on me about bathing during your period. I was like, ain't that counterintuitive?
Someone somewhere actually thinks like this. I wonder if a cross or wooden stake or garlic would protect us.
Cucumbers and shampoo can kill you. So can bullets. Avoid all of this during 'your time'. For real!
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
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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