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In reply to the discussion: i have my doubts about gravity because newton was a slave-trading heretic [View all]Cerridwen
(13,251 posts)Nothing exists without scientific proof. Willow bark was just a placebo effect until Baer aspirin proved and documented it just as they were set to make money from it.
Then there's that whole "theory" thing. "Everyone knows" that theory is just what happens around the water cooler and it has no other definitions outside of the water cooler.
Florence Nightingale couldn't be trusted because she had money and Jonas Salk was just a "rich Jew" who gave away his vaccine because he could afford to and "no one does anything without getting money for it." Altruism doesn't exist because it's not scientifically proven.
I also believe everything that's "Peer Reviewed" like that whole "vaccines cause autism" thing that British medical journal published and backed for 10 years before, uh, they didn't back it any more.
Oh, yeah, "Jefferson owned slaves!" so he's not reliable when it comes to slavery no matter what ideals he aspired to; he sucked!
Wait. Oh yeah, "how can something we can't see cause illness," and "If God had meant man to fly..." and so on and so forth.
Two dimensional, unquestioning, thinking gives my brain cells angina; wait, do my brain cells exist because we can't see them? There's a good opening for a snarky reply.
The world is flat; my church tells me so. The moon walk was staged in Hollywood.
I'm so confused.
Or not.