“Vatican City Has The Highest Crime Rate In The World”: 49 Nonsense-Sounding Statements That Turned Out To Be True

People who think we were doing just fine before vaccines haven't bothered to consider human life expectancy and how it has roughly doubled since vaccines made it much more likely that people would survive childhood illnesses.

Didn't someone say we can inject bleach into the bloodstream? He's the obvious candidate for the 'guineapig' there.

Google "How do vaccines cause autism" and click the link that is exactly that. (I'm not including the actual link because BP will hide it.) And do it before jumping down my throat, it's actually hilarious!

And if you do catch that disease, take the horse medicine instead of the human medicine.

IDK why there's such a push against letting Darwinism take it's natural course ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Eat the tide pods, inject the bleach, believe that vaccines don't work idc. I'll come visit you in the iron lung and ask how not getting a vaccine is going... Let everyone FAFO, it's free for us all

You forgot that it will shrink genitalia and cause hair to grow on your palms.

Dihydrogen monoxide should be banned! It’s so dangerous!

Except it isn't. Because homeopathy, by definition, is dilution *until it is no longer detectable*. While vaccination is taking the harmful thing, making it non-harmful (or less harmful), and using it at detectable levels. If it were not detected, it would not elicit an immune response.

That is not true in any meaningful way.

Hot bull p*o. In homeopathy you're relying on water to have a memory, and with vaccines you're providing your immune system with memory.

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Line from a hilarious Ricky Gervais Netflix special. Plenty more worth hearing in that one.

Brilliant!

not exactly, while they are called universities today, some were only mosques at the time and schooling there didnt come until much later, or some were just theological training schools for Imam's. The formal institutions for teaching math and science like Oxford, while mixed with theological training (they were originally for priests) began in Europe. People hear a translation of a term, without understand we are talking about two different things. Arab world was much more of a teacher/apprentice thing until the 14th century (like the students of Abu Sina), which produced a lot of advances, but the universities we think of, did originate in Europe, not the arab world, as modern arabists try to claim by relying of people not understanding terms had different meaning with different translations, etc.

It depends on the characteristics. Even before Bologna and Oxford, there was education in monasteries, municipal schools, and guilds (where crafts were taught); in the Arab world at mosques—these schools were called madrasas. The teacher-student relationship was very important here. Although it is true that the oldest continuously existing university in the world is probably al-Azhar, it is not in the sense of European universities: Islamic law and theology were very important here, students chose their teachers rather than the other way around, they were not autonomous, and they did not have a clear curriculum. Meanwhile, in Europe, what we now call universities emerged, with an autonomous, clearly structured curriculum, consisting mainly of students taught by hired professors. One could also discuss how the emergence of European universities weakened the influence of the church and the nobility and enabled the emergence of humanism, but that would take a long time.

Hugo: what we think of as universities in the modern sense were invented in Europe. If you want to consider ancient centres of learning with university-like characteristics, you've got to think about places such as what is now called the "University of ancient Taxila" (in modern Punjab). It operated from 5th century BC to the 5th century AD - far older than any Arab centre of learning.

You dont know the Incas sacrifieced children to the rain god. Upwards of hundreds a a time. Desert full of baby mummies in clay pots

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The "power" of prayer...

I received an invite for a d**g trial where it was possible I'd be given a placebo over the course of 36 months... I DID NOT want to run the risk of being given the latter as this would be detrimental to my health, so I declined.

Thank you for checking it out!

Yes exactly ! Because if it was linked to the number of cells/mass we would see less cancers in Mice and much more in blue whale, but the ratio is actually almost the same between mice and humans and lower on whales!

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Obesity also greatly increases cancer risk - but it’s an increase mainly in fat cells, so different to the additional cells in a tall person.

Obesity is linked to an increased cancer risk.

Dang it all!! Now you have me really wondering... I was trying to avoid those dreaded rabbit holes this evening!!

Closer to the sun

Because of growth hormones.

Is it for the French, though?

Why did I hear a "Ba Dump Bump" after that?

Though in some surely for frying the French ...

Rolldy?

Wipe Castles

Sieze the means of prduction and start your own

And, presumably, 'not being able to remember ' a thing is built on 'one time you didn't remember it straight away' and now you're remembering the failure to remember ?

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You need a concussion or two

It is true. If you had a record of every time the story is told, you would find that the details 'creep' over time. It's also very easy to change someone's memory. If, for example, when they're telling the story you mention "Oh yes, that was when your mom had the red car", then in the future when recalling the incident they are highly likely to have integrated the idea of a red car, even if it wasn't in the original memory. This is why leading questions from police or prosecutors are so dangerous, and eye-witness accounts can be utterly wrong.

A man I worked with told the same story so often he thought it waa his, but was really someone elses