I think the funniest/stupidest thing about vegans is that they're all like "we're trying to be like herbivores." Setting aside for the moment that you're opting to be a prey animal, science is finding more and more every day that there's really no such thing as a vegan herbivore in nature. Literally all herbivores on Earth are actually omnivores ( Read more... )

Science is the bomb. Except for the modern food/nutrition/health branch of science. It's overrun with corporate corruption, bad science, and terrible science coverage. ONE study, almost certainly paid for by the - (decides Mad Libs blank-filling words) - dairy industry suggesting that vegan "milks" might cause cancer if you force feed about a ton ( Read more... )

Something just occurred to me. Science says that old age happens because our cells can no longer replicate themselves, because the replication process damages DNA, and eventually that DNA gets so damaged it can't replicate anymore ( Read more... )

As long as people keep thinking of autism as a disease, they're going to keep finding "evidence" that it's "caused by" this, that, or some other thing because of their confirmation bias, but they're not going to ever find a real cause for it until they pull their heads out of their asses. Even then, I doubt they'll ever find a cause for it. Or if ( Read more... )

Some fool on Quora: sex is not an arbitrary label. Sex is a biological descriptor. One is free to say that gender is a social construct, and therefore arbitrary and fluid. Sex is not a social construct, neither is it arbitrary or fluid, anymore than eye color is.

Me: Ask a scientist who specializes in intersex conditions whether sex is an ( Read more... )

I don't talk about it much, but my position on global warming/climate change hasn't changed for years. Which is that climate change is a real thing, which is growing more obvious all the time and has now gotten to the point where even idiots should be able to see the truth, but I also believe it's incredibly arrogant to think humans are causing it ( Read more... )

I was walking home today, which is always a great time for me to start thinking things through, and somehow I got on the subject of water fluoridation, and how my GF and I can't even discuss it without fighting, because she's opposed to it. I'll be honest and say I don't remember why she's against it, as the very fact of being against it fills me ( Read more... )

A combo of two Tumblr posts I made.

News had a thing about “cocamide DEA” being a carcinogen, and so I looked it up, and it is basically just fatty acids from coconut oil. Which makes me think the tests for its carcinogen properties need to be re-done, being careful to use animals that are not under stress (like the mice that are afraid of male ( Read more... )

When pure cesium meets water, it goes BOOM. So I just had a thought: if you make a bullet of cesium, would it survive long enough to penetrate a person's body? And would it then go BOOM when it meets the water in their body ( Read more... )

I've long been skeptical of all the scientific studies that keep being unable to agree on the effects of something-or-other. That's my scientific side, in fact. On the news, people seem to be under the impression that just because one scientific study says X, means that X is true. Without considering the source of that study (which IS important; if ( Read more... )