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How do you tell your partner that their family are fucking idiots without affecting your relationship?
buy him a copy of bad science.How do you tell your partner that their family are fucking idiots without affecting your relationship?
That sounds like a cool film. Also I don't think junior or leaving cert science covers quantum physics...
How do you tell your partner that their family are fucking idiots without affecting your relationship? .
So FiFI would you be posting here if they went to mass every Sunday, surely it all amounts to the same thing.
I feel your pain Fifi. I had a friend who got into this pseudo-science/shamanistic bolloxology/homeopathy/reiki/buddhism/2012 apocalypse thing the last couple of years (there's no apocalypse this year now btw, it's the dawning of a new age of the mind apparently).
Way back when I was a friend of his on Facebook, he put up many videos and links to websites about the aforementioned nonsense. When I pulled him up on a few things (completely misquoting Einstein and other genuine scientists to support mysticism, posting photoshopped images purporting to show examples of 'sacred geometry' (i.e. maths to you and me) in nature, posting links to videos like this fucking bullshit ) he deleted my posts, ignored me, replied with another misquote, implied that I was the mad one getting so uptight about facts and the like, cheered his hanger-on friends who were doing their best to belittle me etc.
Like yourself, I googled the names of the 'scientists' in the links he posted and they were all hokey. After watching one nonsensical video about a comet aligning with earth in 2012 and causing all sorts of shenanigans, I googled the name of the comet and found myself on a NASA page put up for the explicit purpose of dispelling pseudo-science myths.
There was no arguing with the chap as he was keeping his own counsel and I don't think there was anything I could have said to talk him out of his beliefs, so I gave up and decided not to be friends with him anymore. There's definitely a surge in this type of thing going on lately. Unfortunately, social networking has put a lot of these loopers together and they're whipping each other up. The 'documentary makers' and the like are just out to make money and anyone taken in by it is either incredibly gullible and uneducated or they want to jump in on the scam too.
There's nonsense, and then there's dangerous nonsense. Pseudo-science is the latter as it exploits the uneducated and discourages genuine learning. It makes me really fucking angry because of that. People should have an educated appreciation of the incredible world around them, it's terribly sad to see people being so naive and gullible.
At the end of that rant, I've no advice to you Fifi. I'll always speak my mind in front of these people as I think they get a bit indulged and insulated by their circle of friends and family and they really need to be pulled up on things. But you're no doubt outnumbered so I don't know what you can do. Maybe make them watch some Brian Cox
[video=youtube_share;3zBqRLK_ESs]http://youtu.be/3zBqRLK_ESs[/video]
Good rant. You should be the Leader. Brian Cox can be adviser.
ALL HAIL GENE POOLE, THE RIGHTEOUS and BENIGN LEADER of the INCORRUPTIBLE and UNQUESTIONABLE NON-DOGMATIC ERA OF SSCCCIIEENCEE.
Plenty of court jesters around too.
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