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Fox News, Anti-Vaxxers, and Bad Memes: Death by Stupid
My sister in law ran into the magic of anti-vaxxers on social media this evening, and I was so blown away by the thread that I had to write an article about it. Maybe if it wasn’t for the fact
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Soy Sauce “Cleanse” Renders Woman Brain Dead
Yes, we did not go for the obvious joke that she was already brain dead to attempt this in the first place. Wanna fight about it? Let’s start with some basic facts about soy sauce: One serving (a tablespoon, although
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Antivaxxers Responsible for 30% Increase in Measles Cases
Merry Christmas you shitty parents. Shame on you. You gullible cognitive troglodytes. Sure, you might suffer some of the consequence of your ignorance as you watch your children take ill with easily preventable diseases, but your children, and everyone else
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Monkeys with Smaller Testicles Compensate by Screaming Louder
Filed under “Testosterone” and “Social Media”: could this explain some of the comments on our Facebook page? From the article on Discover Magazine: Researchers used laser surface scanning to build 3-D anatomical models of hyoids from 255 male and female
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It’s Perfectly Legal to Kill Someone as Long as you Use This Specific Weapon
Legal in all fifty states, and nearly every country on Earth! Attention psychopaths and sociopaths: have you ever wondered what it’s like to kill another person, but are worried about those pesky legal consequences that might ruin future plans? Have
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YouTube Star who Claimed Veganism Cured Cancer has Died of Cancer
Do not ask for whom the bell lols… Okay, that’s totally insensitive, but come the crap on people, it’s 2018—if you have the technological capability to be a YouTube star, you also have twenty-four hour access to nearly all of
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Vaccine Deniers More Prone to Believe Other Conspiracy Theories
Sure, you’re sitting there with a deliberately stupid look on your face as you read this. But then you uncross your eyes, wipe off the drool, and realize that it’s important for Science to study general Human stupidity so we
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Anti-Vaxxers Make Death Threats to Judge Who Ordered Child Vaccinated
“If she can get away with this, the b—-h has got to die. The b—-h has got to die.” Just in case you were concerned that this is another example of the media taking something out of context in order
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The NHS says “NFW” to Surgeries for Smokers and Obese Patients
Obesity is a medically and scientifically complicated topic that is even further complicated by the public’s lack of medical and scientific knowledge. And you triple-down on the complexity once you figure in social factors such as body image standards, and
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