Scientifically illiterate adults

[Look-at-Stupid]

On social media, I had a moron actually argue with me that gravity is just a law and not a theory. Seems he forgot that we have learned quite a bit since Sir Issac Newton. Most notable Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity that redefined and refined it last century. There is still much we do not know about gravity.

Same moron also wanted to argue that a scientific theory is just a guess. I am not a scientist, but a reasonably well-educated person.

How do these morons get along in life being that shit stupid?

[WalkerTx]

Originally Posted by Look-at-Stupid

On social media, I had a moron actually argue with me that gravity is just a law and not a theory. Seems he forgot that we have learned quite a bit since Sir Issac Newton. Most notable Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity that redefined and refined it last century. There is still much we do not know about gravity.

Same moron also wanted to argue that a scientific theory is just a guess. I am not a scientist, but a reasonably well-educated person.

How do these morons get along in life being that shit stupid?

That doesn't know how to spell Isaac. Sorry, I couldn't resist that one !

[Look-at-Stupid]

Originally Posted by WalkerTx

That doesn't know how to spell Isaac. Sorry, I couldn't resist that one !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton


Hmmm? So who is the stupid bitch here? Looks to be you dumbass

[WalkerTx]

I must be missing something. I could have sworn, Isaac was spelled with two a's, not two 2's...

[Look-at-Stupid]

opps, my bad, but you're still a smartass, address the topic, unless of course you're just as stupid as the person I post about

[BLM69]

You know social media is the toilet of the internet?

[Look-at-Stupid]

Originally Posted by BLM69

You know social media is the toilet of the internet?

I am beginning to agree with you.

[right_now]

Originally Posted by Look-at-Stupid

How do these morons get along in life being that shit stupid?

Socialism

[Dickey9090]

Originally Posted by Look-at-Stupid

On social media, I had a moron actually argue with me that gravity is just a law and not a theory. Seems he forgot that we have learned quite a bit since Sir Issac Newton. Most notable Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity that redefined and refined it last century. There is still much we do not know about gravity.

Same moron also wanted to argue that a scientific theory is just a guess. I am not a scientist, but a reasonably well-educated person.

How do these morons get along in life being that shit stupid?

Question

Did man land on the moon ?

[billw1032]

Originally Posted by Look-at-Stupid

On social media, I had a moron actually argue with me that gravity is just a law and not a theory. Seems he forgot that we have learned quite a bit since Sir Issac Newton. Most notable Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity that redefined and refined it last century. There is still much we do not know about gravity.

Same moron also wanted to argue that a scientific theory is just a guess. I am not a scientist, but a reasonably well-educated person.

How do these morons get along in life being that shit stupid?

You do realize that Einstein's theory of gravity is actually General Relativity and not Special Relativity, don't you?

[Look-at-Stupid]

Originally Posted by Dickey9090

Question

Did man land on the moon ?

PLease go kill yourself

[Look-at-Stupid]

Originally Posted by billw1032

You do realize that Einstein's theory of gravity is actually General Relativity and not Special Relativity, don't you?

At least I was in the ballpark

[Dickey9090]

Originally Posted by Look-at-Stupid

PLease go kill yourself

LMAO !!!

Please go fuck yourself. Relatively speaking !!

[Dogberry]

And here I was hoping this would turn out to be a nice conversation in full swing...

There is a certain amount of illiteracy when it comes to scientific language. When someone says "there is no evidence that vaccines cause autism," another might infer that we merely lack a positive, that the tests haven't been done that show the connection. When another mentions "the theory of evolution," one may very well assume it's just a guess, formulated on bar napkins and not much else.

The reality is that we know vaccines don't cause autism and evolution is no conjecture. Among the extensive volume of studies performed specifically to test a correlation between vaccines and autism, an answer has emerged: there is no correlation, a resounding affirmation of the hypothesis "vaccines do not cause autism." The reality is that the word "theory" is not used in a scientific context the same way it is in regular english conversation. It represents an extensively tested and internally consistent body of knowledge upon which we can make predictions regarding future outcomes. The scientific theory of evolution underpins many of our current fields of scientific endeavor and is the foundation of which those continue to expand our knowledge of the world.

How do people get by without internalizing this? Beats me. But I think our education system fails a lot of people.

[Look-at-Stupid]

Nicely put sir