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Category Archives: Snake Oil Woo Woo
False Advertising
I know crap when I see it. There are days when I completely agree with Prime: the internet is both the greatest thing and the worst thing that has happened to humanity. Thanks to the internet, I can learn about … Continue reading
Posted in And Now For Something Completely Different, Bullshit, Science, Snake Oil Woo Woo
Tagged "Truth" About Pet Food, abandon the internet, anti-science, anti-vaxxers, Bullshit, Cats, Factchecking VS Research, snake oil peddlers, Snake Oil Woo Woo, stupidity, Susan Thixton, webshites
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Father, Son, and Holy Shit
Yesterday, Prime and I were out and about, trying to figure out what we might have for dinner. I had just gotten off work and Prime had just put in several hours of overtime, so we were both pretty tired. … Continue reading
Posted in Bullshit, Science, Skepticism, Snake Oil Woo Woo
Tagged all of my contempt, Are you effing kidding me?, Are you effing serious?, Are you that effing stupid?!, Bullshit, Fundies say the darnedest things, GMOs are not evil, out of the mouths of jackasses, Religion, Snake Oil Woo Woo, the irony detector has exploded, woo, woo peddlers, Words have meanings
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This is a Thing that Happened and I Need to Go Back to Bed
This happened. This actually freaking happened: ‘Hot Dog Water’ seller in Vancouver gets laughs to prove point. Yes, you are reading that correctly; this guy was selling bottles of “hot dog water”, complete with a wiener inside the bottle, for the … Continue reading
And Today in “To Hell with this Shit, I’m Effing Done”…
Found this via Joe.My.God.: Goldman Sachs Warns Pharma Investors: Cures Don’t Provide Sustained Revenue, Chronic Illness Is Better. Because profits (emphasis mine)! Goldman Sachs analysts attempted to address a touchy subject for biotech companies, especially those involved in the pioneering “gene … Continue reading
Posted in Bullshit, Science, Snake Oil Woo Woo
Tagged "big pharma", Are you effing kidding me?, Are you that effing stupid?!, Bullshit, Can it get any stupider?, Cancer, conspiracy theories, Fuck Humanity, Fuck this I'm done, I can't deal with this shit, I literally can not, I Literally Can't Even, medical follies, medicine, Science, Snake Oil Woo Woo, what is this I can't even, woo, Your Daily Dose of Bullshit
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Fifteen Reasons Why
I found this months ago and I’ve just now gotten around to taking it head on: called 15 Reasons People Are Hating On Anti-Vaxxers, this fetid pile of an article on BabyGaga–yes, that is actually the website’s fucking name!–will make your … Continue reading
The Uncertain Journey
This is one of those things I don’t like to think about, but here it is: from PZ Meyers I’d feel schadenfreude, except that it’s such a damn sad waste. The gist of the article? Those that try and treat … Continue reading
Nature Is Not A Mother
I found this little gem while on Patheos a while ago and it was in the pagan section of their religious blogs: Are Hurricanes and Wildfires Persons? Respect the Power of Nature. Clunky title, I’ll be the first to admit … Continue reading
Posted in And Now For Something Completely Different, Hurricanes, Science, Snake Oil Woo Woo
Tagged hurricane season, Hurricanes, News, polemic takedowns, pseudoscience, Religion, Science, the lies we tell ourselves, This Is A Thing That Exists, Weather, You Can't Make This Shit Up, You have got to be kidding me
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On Irma
By now, unless you’ve been living under a rock or you’re living far, far away from a hurricane prone area, you’ve heard about Hurricane Irma and just how bad it is and probably will be. Unless you’re Rush Limbaugh, that … Continue reading
Minding the Gap
Last night, I called my mother, so I could work on getting a copy of my birth certificate. Now, I did have one of my own but due to circumstances beyond my control, I lost it. Yes, it irritated the … Continue reading
And Today in “What the Hell Are You Even Saying…?!”
This popped up on my Facebook newsfeed: An anti-vax “mother” is claiming that dying from a disease is “part of the plan”. I am not making this shit up. But I really wish I could say otherwise. “My religious beliefs are … Continue reading
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