FancyMancy
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AKA fake Science, false Science, (((science))), jew science, "science", etc.
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Tomatoes are fruit, not vegetable.
Peanuts are legumes, not nuts.
Catfish are fish, not cats.
Dogfish are fish, not dogs.
Pluto is a planetoid/dwarf planet, not a planet.
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Stupid science: 4 dumb experiments done by scientists
04/01/2017
Head-banging is bad for you
The next time you go to a heavy metal concert, Australian scientists warn, don't head-bang. Two University of New South Wales scientists, Declan Patton and Andrew McIntosh, were interested in the risks associated with head-banging. They found that when the range of motion is greater than 75 degrees, there is a greater risk of mild head injury as well as neck injury.
After interviewing multiple head-bangers, Patton and McIntosh recommended that head-bangers should "head-bang to slower tempo songs … only head-bang to every second beat, or use personal protective equipment".
Animals on acid
When a Human gets high on lysergic acid diethylamide - that's the drug LSD, or as it is known more commonly, acid - they often undergo a "marked mental disturbance", including paranoia and aggressiveness. An overdose of the drug can kill you, but what about larger Animals, like elephants?
In the 1960s, Dr. Warren Thomas and a few of his colleagues tried to recreate the phenomenon of an elephant going on musth, a period of aggression in male elephants. In an effort to fully understand the brain pattern of an elephant during this period, Thomas injected an elephant named Tusko with 1.5 million units of LSD.
After becoming aggressive, he began "to sway, his hindquarters buckled". Nearly two hours later, Tusko died. Afterwards, Thomas concluded that "it appears that the elephant is highly-sensitive to the effects of LSD". This may offer insight into the cause of death should a lethal overdose be taken by a Human, he added. Really.
Scientists train Japanese-speaking rats (sort of)]
If you watch a video backwards, can you understand what people are saying? Neither do rats, one study (https://archive.ph/aldou [link not working]) shows.
In the early 2000s, Juan Toro and his colleagues demonstrated that rats and other species can discriminate sentences in two languages – Dutch and Japanese – when played forward, but not backwards. After conducting the experiment, the scientists concluded that when languages are played backwards, features that could help the rats differentiate between Dutch and Japanese were distorted to the point that that "none of the … species could effectively discriminate between sentences when played this way".
Wearing socks over your shoes reduces your chances of slipping on ice
The next time you're walking on a slippery path, try wearing your socks over your shoes. A study (https://archive.ph/C6wPV) was conducted by New Zealand scientists who wanted to know if wearing socks over shoes improved traction on icy paths.
After conducting an experiment with 29 people, of whom two-thirds had fallen on ice previously, scientists found that wearing socks over their shoes was associated with "a statistically significant improvement in traction". The only adverse effects reported were "short periods of indignity for some members of the intervention group".
https://archive.ph/R0v3Z
The 10 Most Ridiculous Scientific Studies
09/09/2015
Study shows beneficial effect of electric fans in extreme heat and humidity
You know that space heater you've been firing up every time the temperature climbs above 90º in August? It turns out you've been going about it all wrong. If you don't have air-conditioning, it seems that "fans" (which move "air" with the help of a cunning arrangement of rotating "blades") can actually make you feel cooler. That, at least, was the news from a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) last February. Still to come - "Why Snow-Blower Use Declines in July".
Study shows benefit of higher quality screening colonoscopies
Don't you just hate those low-quality colonoscopies? You know, the ones when the doctor looks at your ears, checks your throat and pronounces, "That's one fine colon you have there, friend"? Now there's a better way to go about things, according to JAMA, and that's to be sure to have timely, high-quality screenings instead. That may be bad news for "Colon Bob, Your $5 Colonoscopy Man", but it's good news for the rest of us.
Holding on to the blues - depressed individuals may fail to decrease sadness
This one apparently came as news to the folks at the Association for Psychological Science and they have the body of work to stand behind their findings. They surely are the same scientists who discovered that short people often fail to increase inches, moody people don't have enough niceness and folks who wear dentures have done a terrible job of hanging onto their teeth. The depression findings in particular are good news, pointing to exciting new treatments based on the venerable "Turn that frown upside down" method.
Quitting smoking after heart attack reduces chest pain, improves quality of life
It looks like you can say goodbye to those friendly intensive care units that used hand out packs of Luckies to post-op patients hankering for a smoke. Don't blame the hospitals, though - blame those buzz-kill folks at the American Heart Association who are responsible for this no-fun finding. Next in the nanny-state cross-hairs - the Krispy Kreme booth at the diabetes clinic.
Older workers bring valuable knowledge to the job
Of course, they bring other things, as well - incomprehensible jokes, sensible shoes, the last working Walkman in captivity, but according to a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology, they also bring what the investigators call "crystallised knowledge", which comes from "knowledge born of experience". So yes, the old folks in your office say corny things like "Show up on time", "Do an honest day's work", and "You know that plan you have to sell billions of dollars worth of unsecured mortgages, bundle them together, chop them all up and sell them to investors? Don't do that", but it doesn’t hurt to humour them. They really are adorable sometimes.
Being homeless is bad for your health
Granted, there's the fresh air, the lean diet, the vigourous exercise (no sitting in front of the TV for you!), but living on the street is not the picnic it seems. Studies like the one in the Journal of Health Psychology show it is not just the absence of a fixed address that hurts, but the absence of luxuries like, say, walls and a roof. That's especially true in winter - and spring, summer and autumn, as well - follow-up studies have found. So quit your bragging, homeless people. You're no healthier than the rest of us.
The more time a person lives under a democracy, the more likely she or he is to support democracy
It's easy to fall for a charming strong-man - that waggish autocrat who promises you stability, order and no silly distractions like civil liberties and an open press. Soul-crushing annihilation of personal freedoms - gimme' some of that, big boy. So it came as a surprise that a study in Science found that when you give people even a single taste of democracy, well... it's like what they say about crisps - you want to eat the whole bag, but hey, let's keep this one a secret. There's nothing like a peevish dictator to mess up a weekend.
Statistical analysis reveals Mexican drug war increased homicide rates
That's the thing about any war - the homicide part is sort of the whole point. Still, like a paper in The American Statistician showed, it's always a good idea to crunch the numbers. So let's do the equation - X–Y=Z, where X is the number of people who walked into the drug war alive, Y is the number who walked out, and Z is... you know... the dead people. Yep, it looks like it adds up. (Don't forget to show your work!)
Middle-aged congenital heart disease survivors may need special care
Yeah, but they may not, as well. Yes, you could always baby them, like the American Heat Association recommends, but you know what they say - a middle-aged congenital heart disease survivor who gets special care is a lazy middle-aged congenital heart disease survivor. Heck, when I was a kid, our middle-aged congenital heart disease survivors worked for their care - and they thanked us for it, too. This is not the America I knew.
Scientists Discover a Difference Between the Sexes
Somewhere, in the basement warrens of Northwestern University, dwell the scientists who made this discovery - androgynous beings, reproducing by cellular fission, they toiled in darkness, their light-sensitive eye spots needing only the barest illumination to see. Then one day they emerged blinking into the light, squinted about them and discovered that the surface creatures seemed to come in two distinct varieties. Intrigued, they wandered among them - then went to a kegger and haven't been seen since. Spring break, man; what are you gunna do?
https://archive.ph/Ygt79
I was also told that "scientists" wasted something like 10 grand (I don't know which currency) on figuring out hOw To MaKe ThE pErfEcT cUP oF tEa. By the way, there is a subreddit of the same name which began on 19th of October 2022. I only thought of this "idiot science" myself today on 08/11/2022. I found it today when I was searching for examples of stupid science things like these. Please add your own!
Feel free to add your own.
Tomatoes are fruit, not vegetable.
Peanuts are legumes, not nuts.
Catfish are fish, not cats.
Dogfish are fish, not dogs.
Pluto is a planetoid/dwarf planet, not a planet.
...
Stupid science: 4 dumb experiments done by scientists
04/01/2017
Head-banging is bad for you
The next time you go to a heavy metal concert, Australian scientists warn, don't head-bang. Two University of New South Wales scientists, Declan Patton and Andrew McIntosh, were interested in the risks associated with head-banging. They found that when the range of motion is greater than 75 degrees, there is a greater risk of mild head injury as well as neck injury.
After interviewing multiple head-bangers, Patton and McIntosh recommended that head-bangers should "head-bang to slower tempo songs … only head-bang to every second beat, or use personal protective equipment".
Animals on acid
When a Human gets high on lysergic acid diethylamide - that's the drug LSD, or as it is known more commonly, acid - they often undergo a "marked mental disturbance", including paranoia and aggressiveness. An overdose of the drug can kill you, but what about larger Animals, like elephants?
In the 1960s, Dr. Warren Thomas and a few of his colleagues tried to recreate the phenomenon of an elephant going on musth, a period of aggression in male elephants. In an effort to fully understand the brain pattern of an elephant during this period, Thomas injected an elephant named Tusko with 1.5 million units of LSD.
After becoming aggressive, he began "to sway, his hindquarters buckled". Nearly two hours later, Tusko died. Afterwards, Thomas concluded that "it appears that the elephant is highly-sensitive to the effects of LSD". This may offer insight into the cause of death should a lethal overdose be taken by a Human, he added. Really.
Scientists train Japanese-speaking rats (sort of)]
If you watch a video backwards, can you understand what people are saying? Neither do rats, one study (https://archive.ph/aldou [link not working]) shows.
In the early 2000s, Juan Toro and his colleagues demonstrated that rats and other species can discriminate sentences in two languages – Dutch and Japanese – when played forward, but not backwards. After conducting the experiment, the scientists concluded that when languages are played backwards, features that could help the rats differentiate between Dutch and Japanese were distorted to the point that that "none of the … species could effectively discriminate between sentences when played this way".
Wearing socks over your shoes reduces your chances of slipping on ice
The next time you're walking on a slippery path, try wearing your socks over your shoes. A study (https://archive.ph/C6wPV) was conducted by New Zealand scientists who wanted to know if wearing socks over shoes improved traction on icy paths.
After conducting an experiment with 29 people, of whom two-thirds had fallen on ice previously, scientists found that wearing socks over their shoes was associated with "a statistically significant improvement in traction". The only adverse effects reported were "short periods of indignity for some members of the intervention group".
https://archive.ph/R0v3Z
The 10 Most Ridiculous Scientific Studies
09/09/2015
Study shows beneficial effect of electric fans in extreme heat and humidity
You know that space heater you've been firing up every time the temperature climbs above 90º in August? It turns out you've been going about it all wrong. If you don't have air-conditioning, it seems that "fans" (which move "air" with the help of a cunning arrangement of rotating "blades") can actually make you feel cooler. That, at least, was the news from a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) last February. Still to come - "Why Snow-Blower Use Declines in July".
Study shows benefit of higher quality screening colonoscopies
Don't you just hate those low-quality colonoscopies? You know, the ones when the doctor looks at your ears, checks your throat and pronounces, "That's one fine colon you have there, friend"? Now there's a better way to go about things, according to JAMA, and that's to be sure to have timely, high-quality screenings instead. That may be bad news for "Colon Bob, Your $5 Colonoscopy Man", but it's good news for the rest of us.
Holding on to the blues - depressed individuals may fail to decrease sadness
This one apparently came as news to the folks at the Association for Psychological Science and they have the body of work to stand behind their findings. They surely are the same scientists who discovered that short people often fail to increase inches, moody people don't have enough niceness and folks who wear dentures have done a terrible job of hanging onto their teeth. The depression findings in particular are good news, pointing to exciting new treatments based on the venerable "Turn that frown upside down" method.
Quitting smoking after heart attack reduces chest pain, improves quality of life
It looks like you can say goodbye to those friendly intensive care units that used hand out packs of Luckies to post-op patients hankering for a smoke. Don't blame the hospitals, though - blame those buzz-kill folks at the American Heart Association who are responsible for this no-fun finding. Next in the nanny-state cross-hairs - the Krispy Kreme booth at the diabetes clinic.
Older workers bring valuable knowledge to the job
Of course, they bring other things, as well - incomprehensible jokes, sensible shoes, the last working Walkman in captivity, but according to a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology, they also bring what the investigators call "crystallised knowledge", which comes from "knowledge born of experience". So yes, the old folks in your office say corny things like "Show up on time", "Do an honest day's work", and "You know that plan you have to sell billions of dollars worth of unsecured mortgages, bundle them together, chop them all up and sell them to investors? Don't do that", but it doesn’t hurt to humour them. They really are adorable sometimes.
Being homeless is bad for your health
Granted, there's the fresh air, the lean diet, the vigourous exercise (no sitting in front of the TV for you!), but living on the street is not the picnic it seems. Studies like the one in the Journal of Health Psychology show it is not just the absence of a fixed address that hurts, but the absence of luxuries like, say, walls and a roof. That's especially true in winter - and spring, summer and autumn, as well - follow-up studies have found. So quit your bragging, homeless people. You're no healthier than the rest of us.
The more time a person lives under a democracy, the more likely she or he is to support democracy
It's easy to fall for a charming strong-man - that waggish autocrat who promises you stability, order and no silly distractions like civil liberties and an open press. Soul-crushing annihilation of personal freedoms - gimme' some of that, big boy. So it came as a surprise that a study in Science found that when you give people even a single taste of democracy, well... it's like what they say about crisps - you want to eat the whole bag, but hey, let's keep this one a secret. There's nothing like a peevish dictator to mess up a weekend.
Statistical analysis reveals Mexican drug war increased homicide rates
That's the thing about any war - the homicide part is sort of the whole point. Still, like a paper in The American Statistician showed, it's always a good idea to crunch the numbers. So let's do the equation - X–Y=Z, where X is the number of people who walked into the drug war alive, Y is the number who walked out, and Z is... you know... the dead people. Yep, it looks like it adds up. (Don't forget to show your work!)
Middle-aged congenital heart disease survivors may need special care
Yeah, but they may not, as well. Yes, you could always baby them, like the American Heat Association recommends, but you know what they say - a middle-aged congenital heart disease survivor who gets special care is a lazy middle-aged congenital heart disease survivor. Heck, when I was a kid, our middle-aged congenital heart disease survivors worked for their care - and they thanked us for it, too. This is not the America I knew.
Scientists Discover a Difference Between the Sexes
Somewhere, in the basement warrens of Northwestern University, dwell the scientists who made this discovery - androgynous beings, reproducing by cellular fission, they toiled in darkness, their light-sensitive eye spots needing only the barest illumination to see. Then one day they emerged blinking into the light, squinted about them and discovered that the surface creatures seemed to come in two distinct varieties. Intrigued, they wandered among them - then went to a kegger and haven't been seen since. Spring break, man; what are you gunna do?
https://archive.ph/Ygt79
I was also told that "scientists" wasted something like 10 grand (I don't know which currency) on figuring out hOw To MaKe ThE pErfEcT cUP oF tEa. By the way, there is a subreddit of the same name which began on 19th of October 2022. I only thought of this "idiot science" myself today on 08/11/2022. I found it today when I was searching for examples of stupid science things like these. Please add your own!
