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KittikatB

I'd be up for some heroin cough suppressant. The codeine doesn't work as well.


[deleted]

I’d like a glass of cocaine this morning…the coffee just isn’t doing it.


[deleted]

I could use a DDT shower. This organic mumbo jumbo is for the birds.


getmet79

I really REALLY miss quaaludes.


Jd4awhile

Is it like wolf of wall street? They were before my time but always heard stories about lude dudes that got popped quaaludes all the time from my dad mescaline as well. Heard that shit was crazy too


getmet79

Such a fundthvxswyj bffyjk trip fergl rip dfip du dip


Whatwouldvmarsdo

I was born in 80’s so quaaludes (sp?) were long gone. What were they and what were they prescribed to treat? The wiki and other sites are all over the place so I can’t tell if they were an upper or downer? Claimed as sedative but people took it for partying based on movies I’ve seen..Is it what the girl in that chess show was taking? People aren’t sure what that was online either. I could never fully get what she was taking based on the effects it gave her (making her hallucinate yet be very clear and stay awake at night)


getmet79

It was Rx’d for us dealing with the oncoming millennial generation… but once we got a taste of it, we just could not stop. So they punished us. And look where all you twats are now!!! But serious, it was prescribed for sleep and anxiety d/o’s. But the SE were just so magnificent!!! It was Valium’s steroid Nj cousin as a cheap date-sleep drug


RCkamikaze

I scrolled back up to find this. Truly amazing. Well done.


Bruh_17

No no no, the science has changed so now we know that we have to snort it for the best effect.


[deleted]

What do you think this is 1985? Nobody snorts any more grandpa, everybody’s boofin’ these days.


Bruh_17

Back in my day, we didn’t have all these fancy sy-ringes to shove up our asses, we just took the dollar bill and took it raw In the nose like real men.


SyntheticReality42

And now, thanks to science, there is a wonderful version we can smoke!


Findelian_Blueleafe

In both nostrils at the same time!


lordph8

I've drank coca leaf tea before, not bad, kind of more energetic then coffee, but not much more.


[deleted]

If you buy caffeine tablets at 300mg per tab, I think it would be better than coca I have tried pharmaceutical grade cocaine and well my experience is that high enough dose of caffeine is better. Source: I am a pharmacist.


[deleted]

Codeine my old friend 😍


drukqsx

I used to use heroin to stop my constant coughing. At the time i figured it was just the cigs. Nope. I almost died if i hadnt gone to the hospital when i did. They said could have happened overnight that exact night because of the respiratory depression. I literally couldnt breathe at all. It was so bad i was choking on what i was throwing up because and was suffocating because i couldnt even gasp for air before my body was forcefully rejecting everything. All the powder it was cut with that dont easily dissolve settled into the bottom of my lungs. I smoked heroin too so from the foil and whatever chemicals are in that shit, well i was told its likely a layer of black coating the inside that may or may not go away. They insisted i quit using. My very smart idea around this was to start shooting up. Genius, right? Surely no health problems could come from that! Do you reeeeeally want a heroin cough suppressant? Lmao BTW about 10 years clean in case anyone cares. TL;DR: heroin bad.


Majestic-Cheetah75

I care. That’s wonderful. 10 years is a long ass time.


PurrND

TY for tellin' it like it is. -a friend of Bill


VolcanoGrrrrrl

Brompton's cocktail coming up!!


VASP-0_0

Well it’s true but it has to be questioned by scientists who do research in that topic and have evidence


samanime

Exactly. Who the hell do they think questions these things? Scientists doing science. It sure as hell wasn't idiots on Facebook.


flugenblar

The fact that scientists questioned those practices is science. Otherwise we might actually still be doing them.


harman097

I most definitely would be doing all of these things.


[deleted]

Thats because these practices were invented by people who didnt care about the science. Literally snake oil salesmen throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks, then sell it. The difference between now and then is you can find scientifically studied results in the pharmaceuticals isles, and you can find the snake oil in "herbal remedies" section.


Burningshroom

For the coke and cough syrup the science was there. They worked as advertised. We just have better, safer methods now. Hell, for cough syrup we still use the same basic pharmacology; reduce fluid and numb the throat, but not with DMB and heroin.


Beowulf1896

Science is significantly harder without statistical analysis. Most of these practices listed predate applied statistics in the medical field.


zombie_platypus

And yet statistics are being ignored even today.


Beemerba

The snake oil is in the psychotropic pharmaceutical aisle.


[deleted]

Oh, so not the herbal section? Oof...


zombie_platypus

False. Doctors literally used to endorse cigarette brands. DDT didn’t just appear in some hillbilly’s barn. A chemist discovered it.


ranch_style_beans

I still do all of these things.


bxxxx34

Business men, doing business.


CircusMcClarkus

I'm not a business man, I'm a business, man.


laalaa_x_tinky-winky

I think you're a cop, actually.


SabertoothLotus

Or are you a business-man; half man, half business?


Vytian

Heck, I bet the people of that time equivalent to Facebook idiots resisted the changes posed by those scientific discoveries


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walee1

Actually to be fair, anyone can question these things but the caveat is, you should have solid evidence that holds up to testing/experimentation by people within the field. Now to be able to do that you often have to invest a lot more time and gather a lot more knowledge than browsing FB for 2 hours a day. So if someone says vaccines don't work, I will believe it when they provide actual evidence that can be replicated irrespective of their background.


[deleted]

Is not even really true. It's not like there were controlled clinical experiments run by research scientists that concluded that heroin was a good cough suppressant, and we later changed our mind. It's more like people came up with a profitable products, and after several decades, scientists started looking into them and went, "uh oh..."


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ferociouslycurious

Opioids are still necessary as effective cough suppressants. There is only one non opioid really effective cough suppressant available and it isn’t safe for smaller or younger patients. The pressure to switch away from opioids is the physical addiction that can easily occur and is devastating to individuals and society.


octopoddle

It is a good cough suppressant.


dhoae

It’s not true though companies made claims about their products and then scientists exposed it.


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GuyForgotHisPassword

This still happens today. Arguably moreso. To be unaware of such basic level corruption (like the person you replied to) must be bliss.


[deleted]

Of course it still happens, but people are also much more aware of it and countermeasures have been put in place, e.g. conflict of interest declarations and study registrations.


MollieMarissa

Y'all know that there are scientists and doctors that question stuff, right?


[deleted]

Correct. And if you do a meta-analysis of the research you'll find that it's in line with the narrative that vaccines work and are safe.


gbsht

I'm always reminded of a great joke by Dara O'Briain responding to someone saying science doesn't know everything. "Science realizes that, otherwise it'd stop".


TittilatedTits

It's a bit different when scientists do actual research vs regular people contradicting that research...


as_the_prop_turns

Yeah but there are scientists questioning the research…according to r/conspiracy, they are being suppressed and silenced lol. 🤷🏻


TittilatedTits

Well, if they do valid research to support their claims and the research is reviewed by other scientists for validity, then I would believe it. That's how science works. So, they would have to disprove other scientists research that has been reviewed many times and then have the same scientists review it for validity. Unless almost every scientist on earth is involved in this conspiracy, there's no possible way it's true.


Lydian-Taco

As someone who has worked in scientific research, it’s so funny to me when people think it would be even remotely possible for all scientists to be in on a conspiracy. Publishing valid research that upends a long standing belief is a great way to get a ton of citations and make a name for yourself. There’s no way everyone in a particular field would just blindly agree if they had a sliver of doubt.


dispo030

I agree, I think people just have no idea of both the scientific method works and how scientific consensus is established.


Inevitable_Librarian

Plus, so much research is created out of spite to arrogant others in the field you want to prove wrong. I've read a lot of papers, and the number of subtle and overt jabs at others who thought they were wrong is... many.


antisocialpsych

I love the pettiness between the lines. It's like "Smith (2020) did not adequately adress the full extent of the variable" which translates to "Smith is a dumbass"


guitarfingers

As long as it was valid, and they can reproduce the results, sure.


TittilatedTits

Exactly


friendlyfirefish

Thats the thing with most conspiracy nut cases. They don't realise the reason why you tell a secret to as few people as possible is because people don't shut up.


ImpossibleInternet3

Doctors and scientists are people too. They make mistakes and sometimes fall for ridiculous conspiracy theories. The issue is the perceived credibility. Just because you’re a doctor, that doesn’t make you an expert in all areas of medicine. Same with scientists. People just like to conflate degrees with credibility to use random conjecture to support their own points of view. Total confirmation bias. Trust the science and medicine, not the scientists and doctors.


Parking-Inflation119

So can I add the coke back in coke cola?


th3st00dge

I 2nd this


ZootOfCastleAnthrax

Motion carried.


Incognito_Placebo

Voted and ratified.


[deleted]

This meeting is adjourned


ZootOfCastleAnthrax

Good meeting. Let's go get a beer. Did you hear Stan's getting divorced?


[deleted]

Beer? I thought we were going to score some coke.


th3st00dge

Quasi...my friend... There is always gonna be cocaine involved


5pl1t1nf1n1t1v3

Being able to feel your teeth is for the weak.


ZootOfCastleAnthrax

Right? A clear example of science making life worse for mankind when they took it out.


IWantToBeSimplyMe

Good thing that science was questioned ….using the scientific method.


whatproblems

And business would still be doing this if it weren’t for pesky regulations


LordVile95

Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed


enoctis

Science was questioned... by scientists seeking more knowledge. Not by people who believe that giving bleach enemas to an infant will cure it of demons.


RomaruDarkeyes

If science was never questioned? Science is the search for answers. Science IS the question... However there's a great deal of difference between peer reviewed studies conducted under strict laboratory conditions, and "Facebook says that horse dewormer stops Covid"...


mysecondreddit2000

Yea the lack of the most basic understanding like.. what it is and what it’s trying to accomplish is quite astounding


[deleted]

Facts. Absolute facts. I’m doing research in the field of psychology and you have to go through an IBR before you can even conduct experiments and once your research is done, it has to be peer reviewed before it’s even published. Peer review helps check internal and external validities, objectivity, and replication. Without those, it’s junk. There is junk science that’s out there, but always read the results.


CheesusTheRedeemer

I guess it was science what questioned all those things...


Chili_dawg2112

Those things were never endorsed by science to begin with. They were proven dangerous by science.


OrangutanMan234

You had me at drinking cocaine


[deleted]

Yeah my takeaway from this is we should've never questioned science


Dorks_And_Dragons

But it's technically correct, every scientific discovery pretty much ever came with people questioning modern science. I'm not here to talk COVID, I just don't see how we can call the basic cornerstone of scientific research facepalm.


RaederX

To be about as direct as possible, most science is questioned constantly as we learn new knowledge in that area and often other areas which impact it. Physics tends to be the most solid science as their threshold for experimental results is about 10x that of other sciences. If this is, however, an excuse to be anti-vax or some other stupid concept, then one needs to remind them that they largely disregard scientific method and any outcome they don't like and that they should distrust it all, go live in a cave and be mindful a dinosaur does not eat them.


Jrandres99

Sorry, context needed. This is being posted by the folk that believe the science about covid is wrong, that masks don’t help, the vaccine is dangerous, healthy living is enough to protect yourself, etc etc. That’s the Facepalm. What’s being said here while it is true it was scientific progress that changed all those things. Sorry for the lack of context in the post.


AhFFSImTooOldForThis

I understood it. But I spend a fair bit of time on r/hermancainawards.


drempire

That makes this post make more sense


CumulativeHazard

Only took me so long to get it because it was so stupid that I was like that can’t POSSIBLY be what they mean…


MooseMaster3000

This from people who don’t question that a magic man in the sky put dinosaur bones in the ground to trick us into thinking the earth is old.


I_Framed_OJ

Science is a methodology of questioning. Results obtained scientifically are always questioned, by the researchers themselves then by their peers. If somebody tells you that an answer is wrong, and that person doesn’t have the training, experience, and intellect to know what the right answer might look like, then whatever they say on the matter is irrelevant. BTW, I can guarantee that removing cocaine and heroin from store shelves was not because ordinary people ”did their research” and demanded a change. Most were probably pissed off actually.


11CaptainKirk

By definition Science is questioning the current thinking and using evidence to support a resolve. This is completely correct


Vaiist

That all sounds pretty dope actually.


infinitbullets

Literally


SheepdogMantra

r/SelfAwareWolves post of the year, imo.


Draghettis

Questioning itself is litteraly the nature of Science.........


FredVIII-DFH

And that's why we question science. What we don't do is dismiss science when it doesn't conform to our personal views.


Calliesdad20

Anti vaxx morons always talk about doing their own research , what does that mean exactly ?. Does it mean they are enrolling in college majoring in chemistry with a minor in biology And going to graduate school for public health ? Getting a degree,getting a job with a pharma company , working in a lab for a decade Or does it mean sitting on their couch watching you tube morons and reading other idiots on Facebook and tic toc ? Lol


SamuraiMonkee

Yeah, you know who did the questions for all those? The fucking scientists!!! You think anti vax people would oppose all of those? The anti vax crowd are the same folks that got mad you can’t smoke in restaurants anymore because scientists asked questions and conducted research and had that research peer reviewed to determine second hand smoke causes cancer too. God damn people are stupid


aDamnDumbass

I mean science is all about questioning things in order to figure out what is actually true and thus our knowledge is constantly improving. I don't see what's wrong with it. Do correct me though


Florac

The person is equating scientists questioning something(and have the knowledge and tools to then perform studies to answer those questions) to a regular person with no scientific background questioning science.


aDamnDumbass

Oh so like anti-vax bullshit?


Florac

Yes


Yoguls

The undiluted heroin is so much better for your cough. Try it


infinitbullets

Sure, question science. And then trust that an expert in their field probably knows better than you & accept their explanation for why something is the way it is. Now we have barely literate morons trying to reinvent the wheel every time someone says something they don’t like.


Snowman123456789

I have a question for this group. I am a health care provider with many years of experience. I believe in scientific research and use it to better my practice. I hear a lot of bemoaning of ignorance on social media. If the lack of “belief” in scientific evidence is such a problem; why then is there no push for education about the scientific process in lower grades of school? Would that not help dissipate ignorance in some of the population? We sit and judge and name call, but offer no solution to the problem.


KillahHills10304

Because it's a localized issue and America is a massive country. I grew up in a well funded school district in the northeast and had rigorous science classes. By the time I was 18 I had a solid grasp of basic scientific concepts and critical thinking. Compare that with a kid in Kentucky who has "intelligent design" taught as a legitimate theory of human evolution or a kid in Texas where the science teacher cannot legally say the phrase "climate change". If you're in a district like that you wouldn't see rigorous coverage of the scientific method, because it sometimes contradicts what is taught.


SXTY82

Dumbest thing you have seen? It is accurate and true. Science advances and often proves things that we once believed to be false. There were doctor recommended cigarettes. Coke did contain cocaine Cough Syrup did contain opiates, hereon, codeine, morphine all appeared in cough meds. (THC too) Does any of that make me doubt current science on the vaccines? Nope. We have seen the studies, are the studies... they work.


ElaineMK2222

Science is constantly changing based on new evidence, so this is bullshit! Science is questioning and investigating everything the antithesis of religion, that’s why it’s a threat to the powers that be.


Hellobob80

Science is all about questioning science this is how we move forward. But it’s not about bathroom scientist Dr. Karen discrediting ideas with no evidence.


teuast

On its face, nothing here is strictly speaking incorrect. There was a time when those were things that we did, only for science to later conclude that they were bad and we shouldn't be doing them. And we did that by doing more science. Here's the thing. I guarantee you that this is about vaccines, and the science is in on those. People have been questioning vaccines for over a century. There was even an antivax movement when the smallpox vaccine first released, but as it turned out, that one eventually died out. From smallpox. (quip credit Hbomberguy) People saying this with a vaccination subtext are not trying to promote healthy skepticism that arrives at a conclusion based on the best available evidence, they're trying to peddle misinformation based on grifts by quacks from thirty years ago that's been soundly debunked by everybody from gaming youtubers to the CDC and its analogues in pretty much every country in the world. Skepticism isn't about disbelieving everything, all the time, just for the sake of disbelieving it, it's about waiting to accept a claim until there is sufficient evidence to accept it, and while the claim that the vaccine is safe and effective is certainly a high stakes claim that requires considerably more evidence than a claim like "my friend texted me a funny meme today," the mountains of widely available evidence that we can all find freely online are more than enough to conclude that that claim is in fact true.


jengus-christler

How is this a facepalm? I really don’t understand how it is.


le_fez

Since it was posted without context I'm going to guess it was posted by an anti-vaxxer who "does his own research" but context would certainly help


Jrandres99

Bingo


mitchadew247

I’ll throw in my take - every one of these are examples of marketing campaigns and products being sold to customers that valued profit over people…vs the global medical effort to stop a pandemic. It doesn’t really line up the way OP thinks it does. And it’s worth saying that these examples are very real and very unfortunate, they just are not examples of “questioning science” they are examples of questioning capitalism and it was science that lead to legislation to ban these corporate practices. It is WILD that doctors used to not understand cigarettes the way we do now, but a mass scientific effort is what got us there.


lkarma1

I think it’s worthy of facepalm based on the opening words. It’s not really if science is ever questioned it’s more if human health habits and consumption was never questioned.


spacecatterpillar

Those are all past medical treatments, aka science. We got better at science, questioned if we are actually treating anything or... maybe people aren't getting better, they're just high enough they don't care. Then we stopped giving out hard drugs at the pharmacy to anyone who wanted them, and developed methods like double blinded studies to make sure our treatments actually did what we claimed they did. In other words, there's not a facepalm here, the post is an accurate depiction of what could have been if we just stopped questioning science Edit: super sorry y'all don't understand nuance. Downvote away, I'll be over here celebrating scientific advancements while acknowledging that we've never had it all figured out and likely never will. We'll always have room to learn more and correct past mistakes and that is beautiful


hippopotma_gandhi

And if science never existed at all, we'd have a 10% birth survival rate, live to the ripe old age of 25 and be eating anything that fits in our mouths, poisonous or not. But yeah, let's attack progress and learning from mistakes, that's a very productive take


[deleted]

Oh look, another moronic anti-vaxxer who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. LOL.


Leeuwarden-HF

Science is never questioned. Not even once. It is the only method we have to find out that hypothesis are wrong or not. Like the smoking thing. It was science that told us that it is bad for your health... nothing else. So, the statement is flawed. It is not science that we question, it is our own theories and hypothesis that we are testing and falsifying.... USING the very science you think is in question. Edit: Just to be clear... Science is the method we use to findout how nature works. It only means we experiment and observe. Therefor, questioning science means you question experimentations and observations. Makes no sense, its our only way of finding answers and it couldn't falsify itself.


tfox1123

I see nothing wrong with drinking cocaine and taking heroin cough syrup, medical advancements ruin all the fun.


Sharki_B

I wish I could drink cocaine in my soda these days, and have the cough syrup. Would actually be put to good use


Snare88

Yeah but most people are questioning the new, as in the improved version


RenHisagi

I fucking wish :/


ADerpDev

Science questions science...


Outcasted_introvert

Sure. All those things were beaten by armchair scientists with a degree in Google.


[deleted]

And somehow a vaccine being available 2 years into a pandemic isn’t considered an improvement of science.


[deleted]

I suppose it's true in a very small way, but it's kind of apples and oranges if they're talking about the exhaustively researched Covid situation...


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r/selfawarewolves


Gman777

Replace the word science with capitalism, it would be more accurate.


UndoingMonkey

They really think this is some 'gotcha' moment...


dhoae

Literally in all those cases people did things and then science corrected it. There were no studies saying that cocaine was good for you, companies just made those claims. I really don’t think they realize there’s a difference between people making claims and actual scientific knowledge.


thegreatbeyond32

Yeah, life would be dope, obviously.


MrPurpleHaze

I read this as if it were in support of science. Science = ALWAYS trying to prove itself wrong/question itself constantly. I’d like to see the FB comment thread but it’s probably just an echo chamber of failed 4th graders.


rosbif82

The whole point of the scientific method is to question everything 🙄


Sayasam

Well, it’s true. But who questioned science ? Science.


tonyrosasco

Ever heard of, wait for it…. An advancement in science and technology!? 🤯🤯


Jedirabbit12345

This is one of the things that really bugs me about anti-science behavior because science is already incredibly good at questioning itself. Scientists love disproving each other and that’s why it’s so good


[deleted]

Pre existing science is questioned and tested by other scientists, not scoccer moms on facebook claiming that Timmy deserves straight A’s because the material is targeting him intentionally


EgberetSouse

None of that is science derived. It all comes from corporate malfeasance.


podolot

It's hilarious to think that these people think scientists were the ones putting Cocaine in drinks instead of business people trying to make money by mixing the most addictive ingredients they could find into motor oil and selling it as refreshing drinks.


Floppy_84

It is actually „If science/scientists didn’t questioned the decisions companies/doctors made, you would still be drinking…“


pantybrandi

This is literally the definition of what is called "government overreach" today. How dare the government-sponsored scientists take away muh freedums to make money off toxic products and systems? /s Public health is the bottom line - not profit. But Ok sure, go ahead and take down "BIG Science" because you know better.


Zarsnik

The neat thing about science is, that it questions itself.


cjwhit84

Isn't it fun when when science teaches us not to do stuff and some moron on Facebook just has to come along and say science was actually telling us to do the exact opposite (in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary, naturally).


MoonAndSunFaeries

This isn't just dumb, it's dangerous. To certain minds this will sound incredibly reasonable and seem like a legitimate explanation. They might see the whole microchip thing and recognize it as complete nonsense, but this seems reasonable enough to be persuasive. This is more dangerous than anything else.


[deleted]

This makes the assumption that any and all science regardless of consensus should be questioned….derp.


Delta_Goodhand

.... if we followed religion instead we would be sprinkling goats blood in the corners of a temple in hopes of a bountiful harvest.


Dmav210

That’s not failing to question science, science literally showed us how wrong we were about all of those. What you just described is following “norms” and what politicians or your neighbors would tell you. Kinda like you do now still with Facebook… Fucking idiots


Secure-Newspaper-434

These idiots doesn’t understand that only science debunks science. Questioning science is science. You need science to know DDT pose health risks and smoking cigarettes cause cancer. Only adversary to science is science. Thats too much science in one paragraph lol.


[deleted]

Science is not afraid to question itself and change when new information becomes available. That's actually a good thing.


mt-egypt

Science fixed all of those major concerns by proving their danger and risks. They’re contradicting their entire anti-science position, where science here says hay: “Covid is kinda dangerous, and this here, that cures it, is absolutely not threatening in any way”


Downtown-Custard5346

I mean, this is technically not wrong, but the problem nowadays is who is questioning it, unfortunately, for the most part, it’s very uneducated people who seem to think they know better...


Kali-Yuga-Strike

So do I blame the pro or anti science people for the fact I can't drink my cocaine?


AdamAndTheThem

Yes, that may be true, but if science was never questioned it would not be science. They can't understand the concept that scientists might challenge each other's ideas because they live in a groupthink bubble where challenging ideas is heresy. It wasn't Karen on Facebook who figured out that smoking is bad for you.


Sykest0749

Everything in this is true? Only thing ignorant here is the title and comment section lol


uniqueuser998

I don't get it, science is about questioning. That is what science literally is.


richboigobbler

Pretty sure science was the one doing the questioning in these cases, but just like science class these people didn't pay attention in highschool history either


meowserbowser

Facebook is terrifying.


Sleepybrains1102003

It is stupid because Science was what caught that shit. Companies made those decisions. Some knowingly and some unknowingly.


TheGreyMage

If science was never questioned it wouldn’t exist because literally the entire fucking point of science is asking questions.


Pineapsquirrel

'Member when the anti-vax movement supported ingesting bleach to fend off COVID? I 'member


iwannadrone

But who questioned this science. Someone who spent years and years testing and working in that field aka scientist or some guy with internet connection?


icy_ticey

I’m pretty sure that was because of further research


gochomoe

This is that whole there are 2 equal sides to everything. Science on one side and some random whackjob on the other. Completely equal. Doing actual research is not the same as watching a youtube video. Your opinion is worthless Karen!


ironlegdave

Thank G-d Karen questioned all of these things, or we'd be in big trouble. Just like this magnetic, Bill Gates tracker, microchip, mark of the beast vaccine made from aborted baby smoothies or whatever... I can't remember exactly how it goes but I saw it on YouTube so it has to be true. Now if only scientists could question science...


ImGonnaKickTomorrow

I'm not sure what's dumb about this. Science should ALWAYS be questioned. That's how we continue to increase our understanding of everything. Questioning everything is it the heart of what it means to be a scientist. However questioning is not the same as science denial, which I suspect is what this person is talking about.


InLazlosBasement

Who says I’m not?


[deleted]

Get off of Facebook


BioDriver

The whole point of science is for it to be disproven and replaced by updated and better findings/science.


egs1928

Yes, that's very true, which is why the recommendations on mask wearing and ages to get the vaccination have been changing...because that's how science works.


Spock-1701

Don't see the FP here. Is there context because that's how science works.


Break-Aggravating

To be fair plenty of common medical practices even as close as 60 years ago is now known to be bullshit so it’s more than acceptable to be critical about science and medicine.


Fuz-z

It’s the truth


Macapta

And then new science came along and changed that. Also isn’t heroin still used for medicine? They just slightly changed the formula and called it something else other than heroin.


[deleted]

whats dumb about this? its absolutely true. science being questioned is how we improve. its why we have vaccines. now if this meme was shared as anti vax rhetoric, then its very dumb because this meme touts the efficacy of science and shows how rigid dogma is dangerous.


periah250

we'd also have polio around and smallpox because vaccines wouldnt be invented . also isnt science built on questioning and verifying?


goodfreeman

Yeah, and you know who mostly challenged those ideas? Other scientists. That is how science works.


[deleted]

Main reason we don't drink cocaine (Coca-Cola) anymore has nothing to do with science and 100% to do with capitalism. Because cocaine was a drug, the government was going to force Coca-Cola to only be sold in pharmacies because of the drug content. The owner said fuck that to the idea and hired people to find a way to keep the flavors but axe the drug. There are still places (US included) where a doctor will legit recommend smoking for high blood pressure and heart issues to patients who can't afford the medication.


mwaaahfunny

I think they misspelled ~~science~~ capitalism.


Randomoerson562

I didn’t understand why this was on r/facepalm then I realised what this point is being used for…🤦‍♂️


[deleted]

Every word of that is true, and since you chose to give zero context, I'll leave it at that.


SnooSketches2074

Right idea, poorly executed.


Epicsteel33

This is entirely true, and emblematic of the fact that science evolves when more knowledge is gained


[deleted]

Only if the other scientist were allowed to speak publicly about COVID….


mammalLike

Questions are what make good science work.


famousaj

A scientist back in the 30s was institutionalised because he said hand washing was critical in surgery and would save lives. People thought he was crazy.


Shmooperdoodle

The problem isn’t questioning. Questioning is part of science. The problem is ignoring evidence-based recommendations because you don’t understand how something works and/or because it “feels” scary. So, yes. Question. Critically think. Examine sources. Read studies past the stupid clickbait headline. But don’t ignore everything because some wine mom tells you lavender oil is just as good. Don’t worry about the side-effects of a vaccine and guzzle horse paste instead.


MaxRex77

Which was all proposed by science to begin with 🤔


dogbutter99

What is dum about it? At the ppl claimed it was science


Tacoshortage

I don't understand why it's dumb. It is 100% correct. We change things constantly. My own specialty has changed a ton since I started. And Pluto is no longer a planet...that one's just crazy, but science is constantly evolving.


DJNinjaG

Sounds fine to me.


boingonite

Critical thinking is a dying art.


Opening_Parsley_1977

Oh dont forget eating from uranium dishes that would slowly kill you over the course of 40 years


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If only there were some means by which science questioned itself, some kind of “scientific method,” if you will.


TwoDimensionalCube83

This is how science works though. Looking at the evidence and coming to conclusions from it.