The inexpert, flawed and sometimes intentional misuse of scientific method to explain anecdotal evidence in order to foment fear of actual scientific discovery or progress and to promote confirmation bias contrary to fact.
Janet placed the key on her neck and said to inquiry panel members: "If the vaccine doesn't fill your body with magnetic crystals, then explain why this key sticks to my neck. Huh?" The key promptly falls off her neck. Janet does not realize that keys are generally brass and won't actually stick to a magnet because -- wait for it -- brass is not magnetic. The key sticks to Janet's neck at certain angles because of perspiration, similar to the spoon-on-the-nose trick kids do at Thanksgiving gatherings. Janet has resorted to sciencism to justify her reasoning for not trusting vaccination against the pandemic.
by Laughter On Water June 10, 2021
Get the sciencism mug.Called FSI, probably one of the most annoying forms of science ever devised. It involves theories, memorization of the periodic table, and lots of algebra that require four steps to solve. Many of these have frustrating formulas in order to determine specific heat, Boor's Law, mole to atom conversions, orbital notation, balancing from the activity series, and many others that can make your life miserable. Usually, the bookwork involves a large amount of problems that take hours to complete. The tests are also your worst enemy, and those who study for seven freaking hours usually get a 50 on every single test.
Scenario 1:
Miss Sakuraba: For homework tonight, please complete problems 1-9, doing every single problem!
Susumu: Are you freaking high on marijuana!? There can possibly be no way I can do every single one of them!
Scenario 2:
God dang it I failed Miss Sakuraba's Foundations of Scientific Inquiry class and now I have to take it again!
Miss Sakuraba: For homework tonight, please complete problems 1-9, doing every single problem!
Susumu: Are you freaking high on marijuana!? There can possibly be no way I can do every single one of them!
Scenario 2:
God dang it I failed Miss Sakuraba's Foundations of Scientific Inquiry class and now I have to take it again!
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A person who always comes to smoke your weed. The only reason they chill with you is to smoke your weed. They smoke it all then leave right after they smoke it. These people are fucked up!!!
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Get the Science mug.New age religion fervently worshipped by atheists. Science is the messiah, beset on all sides by unbelievers who threaten to undermine it's entire existence. In short, science is being crucified. The second coming of the science messiah will visit perfection and worldly paradise here on earth. Global climate cataclysm will be reversed at the same time as developing an infinite energy source to support unending economic growth, we will cure cancer, bio-engineer life forms to do our bidding, the purpose of the universe will be explained and computers will solve the halting problem in a few CPU cycles.
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"Statements in religious texts are hypotheses. Science should use theory and experimentation to falsify or corroborate them."
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