/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5304715]

Holy shit I'm in tears!

[Anonymous No.5304724]

And this is the result in lack of chemistry education in elementary school
Thank you government
Thank you

[Anonymous No.5304727]

I lit up a bowl right before seeing that and my sides exploded.

[Anonymous No.5304729]

This is absolutely retarded and gay.

[Anonymous No.5304730]

I feel like this is far too pseudosciency to be legitimate...or maybe I'm just too faithful in the world not being THAT retarded....idk....

[Anonymous No.5304733]

>>5304715
I think I cried a little from laughter.

I'm so ready to sell Birch's reagent to dumb white people taking advantage of the "hurr durr free electrons are good reductants" principle.

[Anonymous No.5304734]

Those comments are hilarious!
/photo.php?fbid=310950529013625&set=a.223064071135605.45905.222272341214778

[Anonymous No.5304736]

>>5304734
"No wonder I was healthy as a child!"

[Anonymous No.5304740]

I'm in general chemistry 2 and what is this

[Anonymous No.5304745]

Except that many parasitic worms exist who can and do enter your body through your bare feet on dirt.
Enjoy your worms.

[Anonymous No.5304747]

>>5304734
Notice how 99% of them are women
Coincident? Nah, they're just retards as always

[Anonymous No.5304748]

>>5304747
>>5304736
can someone link me? its not working

[Anonymous No.5304752]

>>5304748
Just put facebook.com infront of it

[Anonymous No.5304754]

>>5304748
Try this
/photo.php?fbid=310950529013625

[Anonymous No.5304755]

americlaps are that esasy to troll?

stupid amerikunts

[Anonymous No.5304759]

>>5304752
>>5304754
>mysides.jpg

[Anonymous No.5304760]

Must be some damn big electrons.

[Anonymous No.5304763]

>biophysics energy medicine

[Anonymous No.5304765]

>>5304747
Well, to be fair it's on a page called Rawforbeauty, so I don't know how many men you'd expect

[Anonymous No.5304770]

>>5304715
Placebo effect is real, more news at eleven.

[Anonymous No.5304771]

>All the people dumb enough to do this will likely get parasites.
Natural selection?

[Anonymous No.5304772]

I don't get it
Why do people think that pseudo scientists are more legit than actual scientists?
I DON'T FUCKING GET IT

[Anonymous No.5304775]

>>5304772

Because profit motive.

[Anonymous No.5304777]

ITT: /sci/ denies scientific facts they don't like

[Anonymous No.5304793]

What the fuck is an anti-oxident?

[Anonymous No.5304815]

Though walking barefoot has some therapeutic advantages, this is just total bs.

[Anonymous No.5304826]

>>5304772
Because it perfectly fits their preconceived bias' and because it uses big scientific terms it has to be legit, to which they'll treat like a faith despite having absolutely zero understanding of what those terms mean.

This world hasn't changed at all from the past few centuries.

[Anonymous No.5304827]

Christ, I haven't lost this much faith in humanity since I heard about "sungazing"

[Anonymous No.5304828]

http://energymedicineuniversity.org/faculty/oschman.html

Why aren't you taking biophysics at Energy Medicine university /sci/?

[Anonymous No.5304830]

>>5304827
...Do I even want to know?
...Can I guess by just reading the name?

[Anonymous No.5304835]

I hate to be that guy, but what did they poorly photoshop out of that photo? A dog? A watermark?

[Anonymous No.5304836]

>>5304835
I think it was a dog

[Anonymous No.5304838]

>>5304734

[Anonymous No.5304844]

>>5304838
Or, what if, we access our previous stars energy through the Earth and THAT is the most powerful of powerful antioxidant there is. EVER

[Anonymous No.5304849]

>>5304715
see, I would think you were full of shit and nobody did that.

Then I met a girl who bought necklace crystals b/c she thought it reduced sickness by aligning her chi or some shit.

[Anonymous No.5304861]

>>5304830
People who believe you can train your body to survive solely off of drinking water and staring at the sun for several hours a day


No, really.

[Anonymous No.5304865]

>>5304861
I'm not even angry
I'm just sad that these are the majority of people on earth
People who "care" about eachother
Natural selection I guess...

[Anonymous No.5304880]

Hippies are worse than creationists.

[Anonymous No.5304892]

>>5304880
Hahahahaha, no.
Except for maybe the ultra insane PETA types.

[Anonymous No.5304896]

Anybody hear of nailing yet?!

It's all the rage!!

To think that forcing a nail into your brain with a hammer would cause all of your pain to go away nearly instantly!

[Anonymous No.5304898]

>>5304896
Don't be silly.
Nobody would believe that


unless you told them it only works with organic wooden nails

[Anonymous No.5304901]

>>5304733
LOL DUM WHITE PPL LAWL

[Anonymous No.5304907]

>>5304896
The pain is just demons leaving your body. The more it hurts, the stronger the demons that you're forcing out.

If it stops hurting, you must try harder.

[Anonymous No.5304908]

Top news like this make my mornings a little brighter

[Anonymous No.5304920]

>>5304892
You some kind of idiot? Hippies can be just as retarded as creationists, and are often more active in their anti-science attacks.

You ever hear of a Creationist breaking into a physics lab and....what? Changing the calendars? Nope.

Well, hippies and similar fucks have broken into labs and released animals, stolen shit, destroyed shit, etc.

[Anonymous No.5304951]

>>5304920
What is stem cells

[Anonymous No.5304956]

This has a lot to do with a disconnect between scientist and the general populace. The people writing this bs dont give a shit, all they're trying to do is to make connection. Scientist try to prove stuff without connecting to people. Thats the point, don't be subjective, ignore emotions, and overwhelm people with your objective proofs.

[Anonymous No.5305013]

>>5304920

>PETA
>releases a few animals, yells about Veganism way too much, gets bitchy about fur

>Creationist/ID lobby
>infiltrates highest offices of government, thus depriving millions of children of their right to a comprehensive education in biology through legislation, perpetuates deep social divide over personal health/maternity issues, impedes bioscience research and development (most prominently in the area of stem cells)

Tell me again why Hippies are worse than Creationists.

[Anonymous No.5305015]

Oh man
All that stupid, it burns me

[Anonymous No.5305031]

>>5305013
Well for one...that silly ID lobby hasn't gotten its silliness taught in schools.

...Right?

The abortion thing, pfft. That's not a Science issue. I'd love more stem cells to play with, but w/e, can't use an aborted baby as recycle :(

Not sure whwat you mean by generally impeding bioscience research....that's more PETA/hippie folk (if its animal models)

[Anonymous No.5305043]

>>5305031

>...Right?

Tennessee
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/law-allows-creationism-to-be-taught-in-tenn-public-schools/20
12/04/11/gIQAAjqxAT_story.html

Louisiana
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/06/27/us-usa-evolution-louisiana-idUSN2719223520080627

Elsewhere, campaigns continue.

>Not sure whwat you mean by generally impeding bioscience research....that's more PETA/hippie folk (if its animal models)

I consider the impact of Creationism to be much greater than losing some test animals to PETArds. It's farcical to pretend that's an endemic problem. The ongoing Creationism lobby engenders skepticism over Darwinian Evolution, which undercuts the basic tenets of biology. Limitations on stem cell research are only the tip of the iceberg.

[Anonymous No.5305049]

I took a creating a meaningful life class last year and we actually had to "learn" about this. The professor was some hippie lady and she invited her shaman (mexican, former gang member) friend over to lecture to us. All he talked about was this, magic mushrooms, and drinking baking soda water to cure cancer.

[Anonymous No.5305067]

>>5305049
Maybe the meaning of your life is to educate people of hoaxes like that.

So the class worked.

[Anonymous No.5305068]

It amazes me how stupid this shit sounds, but then real things exist like how you need to stand in sunlight to not have your bones die due to lack of Vitamin D.

[Anonymous No.5305072]

>>5305043
oh Jesus christ no...(@ the school thing)

But I don't see Creationism convincing anyone that evolution is untrue.

I do, however, see a risk in greater restrictions being imposed on animal research because of hippies and PETArds thinking "OMG ANIMAL RESEARCH IS SO CRUEL ITS TORTURE"

^talk about misinforming the public, they make shit up like that all the time, and it gets published in HuffPo and faggot newspapers like that. Nobody takes Creationists seriously, but this, ugh.

[Anonymous No.5305075]

>>5305068
Not if you're white.

[Anonymous No.5305081]

>>5305072
Actually, US parishes are funding similar advocacy groups here in the old world too.

They haven't accomplished much yet, but the recent resurgence of extreme right has also seen the rise of extreme conservative values like dependence on the bible and creationism.

[Anonymous No.5305097]

>this will also reset your bodycock when flying!
wow

[Anonymous No.5305105]

electrons anti oxidants.

scavenging free radicalssssss

lol that was pretty good. read

[Anonymous No.5305146]

>>5304715
the idea of doing something pleasant and routinely is calming yeah but the science, fucking hell

[Anonymous No.5305486]

>Does this work with weightloss?
Fatties gonna fat

[Anonymous No.5305536]

>>5304715
>Biophysics energy medicine
I'm sorry what

[Anonymous No.5305611]

Remember when you used to believe that we lived in a world of data, of empirical fact, of truth, and where intelligence and technology were the next step of human evolution? The more I learn about others of our species, the more I begin to believe that we will never be more than slightly smarter apes who existed for a few million years before dying off. Everything our society is or will ever be will eventually be inconsequential, and we will have the ignorant, gullible, and fanatical to thank for never advancing beyond "complex tool use," in other words, our modern technology. We are idiots.

[Anonymous No.5305676]

>>5305146
Yes, I too think that there are some unscientific fields that could help a lot where science can't but it is crazy to make up sciency words just to advertise it, and dangerous also

[Anonymous No.5305729]

>>5304715
of course there are free electron in the ground. or where did you think the electrons from a lightning would go after impact?

[Anonymous No.5305742]

>>5304828
>Dr. Oschman has both the academic credentials and the background in alternative therapies to carry out his explorations. He has degrees in Biophysics and Biology from the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked in major research labs around the world. These include Cambridge University in England, Case-Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, the University of Copenhagen, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he was on the faculty, and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, where he was a staff scientist

The message I'm getting from this is that if I ever get tired of academia and lose all integrity, I can make major bank selling pseudoscience.

[Anonymous No.5305750]

>>5305742
yes, there's always that choice, pseudoscience is always looking for any kind of people with an official education that can support their claims

[Anonymous No.5305759]

>>5305742
Oh yes, pseudoscience and scams are a great backup.

My friends in the physics department and I were working on a plan to sell "radiation shielding panels" (plastic frames with a few layers of clear plastic and aluminum foil between them) over the internet to cash in on the 2012 stuff.

Unfortunately we couldn't get everything together in time.

[Anonymous No.5305766]

>>5305759
That's gold. Just word it so that it sounds sciency to a common folk but so that it's true.

For example, those radiation panels you describe would do shit against the gamma rays from an atom bomb, but they do shield against beta radiation. Of course, a sheet of paper also shields against beta radiation, but they don't know that :D

[Anonymous No.5305770]

>>5305759
enjoy going to jail for fraud then

[Anonymous No.5305773]

>>5305770
If it shields against sunlight then technically it's not fraud.

[Anonymous No.5305775]

>>5305770
haha, that's why I told him this:
>>5305766

It must SOUND like a scam to a real scientist, and appeal to whatever makes the ignorant folk imagination go, but it cannot really be a scam

[Anonymous No.5305780]

>>5305773
Also, would you like to try my special concentrated food that prevents vitamin deficiency?(apple juice)

[Anonymous No.5305781]

>>5305773
Oh you diabolical little bastard

[Anonymous No.5305784]

Also try my super abtronicgymaster 2000, which (this goes in small print) combined with diet and excersise, can make you reach your maximum genetical potential.
I also sell a pill that ensures you don't have nightmares about ghosts, because, fuck that no way to prove it

[Anonymous No.5305786]

>>5305781
You see how easy it is, and we are just some average people with a decent sense of morals. Imagine the amount of sneaky bastards that manage to milk millions out of the idiots, it must represent a big part of the economy

[Anonymous No.5305793]

One more: buy my special instructions to avoid meteorites which is guaranteed to decrease the chance of you being hit by an asteroid by at least 80%!!!!

any other ideas?

[Anonymous No.5305812]

You have to target people's fears to be really successful. It helps to be familiar with the current crop of conspiracy theories.

Personal Chemtrail Neutralization Gear
It's one of those hats with the built-in fans, decorated with bits of orgonite connected to the fan's circuit with wires (at the same point, so it doesn't interfere with the circuit) along with a dust mask and a little squirtbottle for spraying the air around you with vinegar (user supplied).

[Anonymous No.5305831]

>>5305793
This special plate protects your food from radiation when you microwave it!

[Anonymous No.5305836]

>>5305812
>Except for maybe the ultra insane PETA types

Have you forgotten about alternative medicine, homeopathy and the antivaxxers? Unlike creationists these people are endangering others with their bullshit.

[Anonymous No.5305855]

>>5305812
That would be a good one.
Just make some cheap carbon filter mask. And market it as having "a design that can neutralise over 9000 chemical agents" sell it at 200$ each one and never let the idiots know you can make your own for 10$ worth of materials

[Anonymous No.5305944]

>>5304861
You can if you're a plant.

[Anonymous No.5305978]

>>5305944
For example Robert Plant can

[Anonymous No.5306005]

>>5305978
He's a plant, get it?

[Anonymous No.5306061]

>>5306005
if you dont get it you are not quite bright, the joke is easy

[Anonymous No.5306092]

>>5306061
I get it
There's just nobody itt

[Anonymous No.5306093]

So... what school do I have to go to get a degree in Biophysics Energy Medicine?

[Anonymous No.5306130]

Well, clearly they are special electrons. They must have an extra quark or something.

[Anonymous No.5306138]

>>5306093
You mean you don't know yet?
Just go where Dr. James Oschman himself went!!
http://energymedicineuniversity.org/faculty/oschman.html

[Anonymous No.5306140]

>>5306093
Hubbard University for Biophysics Energy Medicine

It's a secret to everyone.

[Anonymous No.5306182]

>>5304777
YOU TAKE THAT FUCKING BACK

[Anonymous No.5306198]

i hate people

[Anonymous No.5306210]

>>5304793
Oxygen needs to follow the octet rule (where elements need to 'fill" their electron shells) oxygen has 6 valence electrons, and it needs to have 8 to have a complete octet. However oxygen can become a free radical (this happens when it bonds to one Hydrogen atom, and has one free unpaired electron). However this means that Oxygen will try to bond to anything in the body, like fat cells for example (or even your DNA, which can cause some problems as you can imagine). This can be very damaging to humans. (except this happens less than 2% of the time). The free radical oxygen compound can sometimes negatively alter the chemical structure of whatever it is bonded to, but this is not always the case. Anywho the picture is saying that the electrons in the ground are going to fix these free radical oxygen molecules. EXCEPT why this is bullshit, is that oxygen is carried in the blood stream, not on your skin cells. In fact, your skin cells are dead, so there is no oxygen circulating in your epidermis layer. So oxygen is not going to bond with the grass because it's in your blood stream, not your feet. Hopefully this helps.

[Anonymous No.5306226]

>>5306210
oh shit I didn't say what an anti-oxidant is, basically anti-oxidants prevent the free radicals from ripping your cells apart by bonding to them. So the dude is saying grass will be the anti-oxidant, but really like I said earlier, it won't.

[Anonymous No.5306246]

>>5304715
I want to sexually connect my hefty appendage into her ground and let my free electrons flow into her most inner orbital. I would ravage her body by expunging her free radicals from within and ease the my inflammation with her damaged tissue.

[Anonymous No.5306250]

>>5305836
To prevent this, we really should introduce skepticism into our educational curriculum, we need to make sure that the future does not get ripped off by the charlatanry of others.

[Anonymous No.5306353]

>be biophysicist
>read OP's pic
>seems reasonable

[Anonymous No.5306432]

>>5305013
You forgot funding domestic terrorists from the PETA list.

[Anonymous No.5306600]

There actually is some truth to that.

[Anonymous No.5306606]

>>5306432
>You forgot funding domestic terrorists
This is what the major corporations want you to think. Be afraid of the evil "eco-terrorists".

A handful of kids breaking windows of a car dealership or a guy shooting a pipeline with a .30-06 =/= the damage caused by virtually any other group.

[Anonymous No.5306639]

>>5306250

But if you do, then that means kids might question parents. And if kids question parents, then that's tearing a family apart. Why do you want to tear families apart with your liberal agenda?

[Anonymous No.5306660]

Sounds like a great way to get ring worm or lyme disease.

[Anonymous No.5306665]

>>5306639
I hate being such a stupid liberal!

[Anonymous No.5306756]

>>5306210
Most ROS stress occurs strictly within cells due to the metabolism of xenobiotics.

There is a small amount of movement of ROS between local regions of cells (it's actually a natural signalling pathway) but for the most part ROS isn't floating around in your blood at all.

[Anonymous No.5306764]

> oh... I've got an idea. I'll try to place a box of sand under my desk and rest my foot on it while working. How does that sound? Would it still be as effective as standing or walking barefoot outside?

Yes, yes it will.

[Anonymous No.5306791]

>>5304715
Step it up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAOy9PZd_tQ

[Anonymous No.5306800]

>>5304734
Victoria: 1 like
Kacem: 0.

[Anonymous No.5306825]

>>5304734
Hehe...he...

>Kill me

[Anonymous No.5306881]

There's this weird thing going on at my kitchen stove when I don't wear shoes..
When I touch the metal plate of the stove (the base, there are 4 fires, gas as a medium) I get an electric shock.
Now.. this pseudoscientific earth anti oxidant therapy might be bullshit, but it might also work very, very slightly? Ofcourse it's redonk to think some oxidative stress in a cell in your ear would be able to pull an electron out of the air.. but perhaps there is some kind of interaction.. perhaps we could be more scientific and pitch some effects that could occur by being a footie?

[Anonymous No.5306897]

>>5306825
she killed her daughter

[Anonymous No.5306900]

>>5306791
why the fuck would you make me watch that bullshit, anon?!
The SHIT I PUT UP WITH

[Anonymous No.5306903]

>>5306825
oh god is this real

[Anonymous No.5306908]

>>5304907
We've gone full circle

[Anonymous No.5306993]

>>5306881
Are you talking about static discharge or is it continuous for as long as you touch it? If the latter, then something is wired wrong, and you should probably get it fixed.

[Anonymous No.5307098]

>>5306897
If it's real, she fucking did!
Can't find it though

[Anonymous No.5307284]

>>5306903
Hate to burst your bubble, but those auto correct lines come from using javascript to edit webpages on your end. You can prevent them but its a pain in the ass.

[Anonymous No.5307296]

>>5307284
Tricked!

[Anonymous No.5307892]

>>5306639
Right....nobody teaches their kids to "question authority." Riiiiight

>tfw parents all smugly tell me they teach their kids to "question all authority" because they are so hip

[Anonymous No.5307894]

>>5306250
You mean we should teach critical thinking in our schools?

That's a good idea.

[Anonymous No.5307901]

>>5307894
Sorry, that sounded more sarcastic than I meant it too. I agree critical thinking needs to be emphasized more in school. Kids these days are too fuckin stupid.

Have some Jamie Eason

[Anonymous No.5307907]

>>5307892
>mfw they then subliminally send a contradictory message that if you question authority you are punished

[Anonymous No.5307982]

>>5307907
So? What's wrong with disciplining children when they are bad? As for questioning authority - that's something to be done with discretion, when appropriate. If someone is full of shit, question away. If you're the one at fault for questioning that authority, then you get hosed...that's how it works, that's how we learn.

[Anonymous No.5307992]

>>5307982
authoritarian detected

[Anonymous No.5308004]

>>5307982
Nothing wrong with disciplining children. The problem arises when you try to introduce contradictory notions like "question authority" in a authoritarian environment. All it does it create a false idea that "question authority" = "question only those that can't fight back". I'm all for authoritarian environment but to have you distort the meaning behind "question authority" is completely dishonest.

[Anonymous No.5308019]

>>5308004
Fair enough. However, I meant instill the moxy to question authority when they think it's RIGHT, even though there is the possilbility of getting punished, as that is what happens in the real world.

> "question authority" = "question only those that can't fight back".
I agree that's bad, and it seems to me that's the brand of "questioning authority" that's more in vogue these days.

[Anonymous No.5308020]

Earthbender masterrace

[Anonymous No.5308282]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5308626]

>>5304849
"necklace crystals b/c she thought it reduced sickness by aligning her chi or some shit."

It is extremely frustrating to live with someone who knows jackshit about science and claims to know the secret to everything by reading bullshit pseudoscience crap. I know from experience, my dad's second wife 'believes' in those crystals.

[Anonymous No.5308631]

>>5304956
pleb detected

[Anonymous No.5308634]

>>5308626
I live in a house full of vegans, raw foodists, spiritualists and fucking yoga
God damn glad that I'm moving out in a year or so

[Anonymous No.5309288]

>>5308634
haha oh wow

[Anonymous No.5309804]

>>5308634
is the toilet always occupied because they get indigestion from all that raw food?
also yoga apparently has some applications for preventing hernias so at least they are doing something right lol

[Anonymous No.5309837]

>>5309804
Come to think of it, I never see them go to the bathroom!

[Anonymous No.5309890]

>>5306881

You need to call an electrician. My grandmother nearly died from a faulty stove.

[Anonymous No.5310002]

I have a friend like this. He's generally a nice guy, but his attachment to pseudoscience and conspiracy theories always gets on my nerves.

[Anonymous No.5310053]

This shit tends to go hand in hand with people who believe in conspiracy theories and the Illuminati. To them, big pharama is all lies so the grassroots scientists are the only ones they can trust.

[Anonymous No.5310110]

>>5304838
>No limits
So gurren lagann is real?

[Anonymous No.5310116]

>>5304920
>Arguing about which stupid belief filled with nuts is worse
They are both antilogical so they are both stupid.

[Anonymous No.5310163]

Oh wow. To think there are people who actually believe this shit.
I mean, it's fun walking around barefoot in the summer sometimes but I'll stick to curing my diseases with actual medicine.

god damn it took 7 captchas to post this.

[Anonymous No.5310170]

They why do millions of Africans still get sick and die on a daily basis?

[Anonymous No.5310179]

>>5310170
Because broo
The universe totally like, knows how unfair it is that, like, they get these benefits FREE and the rest of the world don't man!
We need to, like, make everyone go barefoot
That way, man, the universe will see our balance bro
And then it will, totally like, get rid of aids and stuff!

[Anonymous No.5310190]

>>5305812
>implying chemtrails don't real
>2012