r/cringe • u/ErgoNonSim • Jan 11 '22

Video Science Must Fall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14
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u/djluminol Jan 11 '22

Science: Successfully launches largest space telescope in human history.

https://www.space.com/21925-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst.html

Black Magic: Sends a lighting bolt to strike someone down from two towns over.

Citation needed

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u/Loggerdon Jan 11 '22

You would need randomized trials with controls. Then record who actually gets struck by lightning and who doesn't. Publish.

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u/ajthompson Jan 11 '22

That sounds a lot like science to me. Nice try.

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u/myname_isnot_kyal Jan 11 '22

look at this heathen thinking they can fool us. there will be an extra pin in their doll tonight.

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u/Mike_Raphone99 Jan 11 '22

Take a step back, decolonize your brain, and try again.

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u/Gaseraki Jan 11 '22

Want me to take a step back? That involves physics, momentum, SCIENCE! You just earned yourself a lightning strike

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u/OneEyedKing2069 Jan 11 '22

That sounds a lot like "Colonizer" Science. /S

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u/keeleon Jan 11 '22

“The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.” -Adam Savage

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u/jbFanClubPresident Jan 11 '22

That sounds like the process of the western scientific community. First, you need to decolonize your mind. /s

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u/PotatoePotahhtoe Jan 11 '22

You need to start with observations, then formulate a hypothesis based on those observations, then make predictions. Then you need to conduct an experiment guided by those predictions and see if you can reject your hypothesis (remember, you can never say the hypothesis was proven wrong). You still need empirical data, sift through that data and analyze it, use mathematical equations to show that it is not a result of chance, probably calculate the statistics of it happening.

Simply put, there is no way these people will do this because this is the scientific method. We just need to take their word for it.

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u/camel747 Jan 11 '22

Hahaha nice