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What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: Let's cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We're not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don't believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I'm sure almost everybody has something to add.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Fucking magnets, how do they work?"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (4 children)

we should totally revoke the degrees of chiropractors. And the ones of psychoanalysts while we are at it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Baby formula is not as good as mothers milk this gets debunked like every two years and then they change the formula and claim that bs again.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I don't think that we currently know enough about physics to say for sure that faster than light travel is impossible.

I think it's likely that there are still scientific breakthroughs to be discovered that will make currently impossible things possible.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

String theory always smelled funny to me. Don't know if it's still actively researched or if it fell by the wayside. Couldn't care less! Lol

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That somehow the dozens of microphones all around us aren't listening at all.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Anything I think is ideologically motivated. Having a study to cite doesn't make you right if the study is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Psychiatry and psychiatric drugs. But it is hardly scientific anyway

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The problem with psychiatry is that it's expected to have quick fixes like other schools of medicine. Often the conditions are chronic and the treatment is long term at best which makes it slow and expensive. Drugs can help in the short term but they're often not able to be replaced by correct treatment due to funding.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (17 children)

The prompt is dangerous and indulgent for anti-science idiots. You don't "believe in" science... Science is. You can choose to believe in fairy tales, conspiracy theories and other made up shit like religious dogma, don't causally equate the two categories - ESPECIALLY not while naming science directly. Maybe say, "what's a thing that you can't believe it's real?" If you need to post.