• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    There’s a process for ‘challenging facts’, it’s called the scientific method.

    What these people are doing is called the moronic method.

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      But it’s so much easier if you just start with a conclusion instead of all the way back at observation. You don’t have to do any work for soundness at all, just ignore facts that disagree with what you want to believe.

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        Sometimes people don’t have a conclusion, they just want a more entertaining explanation than reality.

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      Conspiracy theories are so close to the scientific method. They’re looking at data, drawing conclusions from them. They can disagree with each other in a civil way like scientists do. These people aren’t dumb, it’s some kind of mental problem. I think it’s the same mental problem that can turn you into a sovcit if it happens in the legal field. These people need mental help

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    Has anyone found a wall socket on the side of a pyramid, or maybe even a USB socket to recharge a phone?

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    I’m all for critical thinking and not taking everything folks tell you for truth.

    That said, I’m fully against being a complete waste of oxygen (or in this case, datacenter space)

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      I wouldn’t even call this critical thinking as the commenter stated, “let them choose what they want to believe.” Sounds like someone picking their preferred religion not thinking critically and allowing evidence to guide their decision. Not to mention the whole aspect of the parental figure leading them astray from established fact in the first place and making them think these theories have any sort of legitimacy.

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    I know Americans live in the land of the free and all, but this is legal? How is this not child abuse? When I was a kid, I remember my dad telling me that having the dome light on in the car was illegal, which I believed for YEARS. The children are going to be fucked. It’s like they don’t even want them to be contributing members of society.

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    i can’t fathom how a so-called developed nation can allow their children not just stay uneducated but to be completely miseducated like this. education is a human right.

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    “Are there any kids science books / videos that teach alternate science, not mainstream science?” -insane person 1 probably

    “The Four Humors and Phrenology are fascinating topics and its mind boggling that its not something we can get clear answers to from mainstream science books.” -insane person 2 probably

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    My biology teacher and chemistry teacher were friends

    My biology teacher told us once that the Jewish government is trying to trick kids in schools from Romania to become trans to solve overpopulation by telling them to take a pill to look better

    My chemistry teacher told us once that the Egyptians advanced technologically much faster than the rest of the world(saying that there are phone drawings in the pyramids),but since they were isolated, all the technology got destroyed from a nuclear war(or the equivalent of that)

    Fortunately, no one was paying attention

  • And then the peak reality denier roared over the din, “I’ve kept my child in the cellar since birth. Our curriculum consists of solipsism reinforcement and how to touch peoples’ eyes and white linen shirts after eating hot Cheetos.”

    Seriously, why are these people abusing their kids so hard?

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      Because the world terrifies them, and they want their kids to be terrified of it too.

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    Hey, I’ve seen this stuff before!

    It was in the book Foundation by Asimov!

    What did it say this means?

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    OverSimplified has very easy to digest history videos. Technically, you could learn alot from Youtube if you know good channels. Obviously YouTube is mostly commentary, vlogs, and other form of entertainment.

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    Is that dickhead seriously using an azimuthal equidistant globe projection as a flat Earth map? How do they suppose that works?