"Science isn't political!"
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Science MemesSounds legit. Where do I sign up for my glyphosate injections?
Someone should.
Only wearing crop tops to help the little greenhouse in my belly
Bacteria is not in the kingdom plantae.
Your stomach micro biome is plants.
Non organic plants at that
That’s interesting. I wonder where the sunlight gets in to my stomach for all those plants to photosynthesize.
Rfk seems to think the sun shines out his asshole.
You eat it, duh!
Of course science is political. Knowledge is power and all power systems are political.
But ignoring philosophy, Science is a charity. By in large they must beg for their money. You don't suppose that the people providing the money have any influence?
And I'm not talking about junk science, biased studies, or even fraud. A perfectly run study may still be political simply because it was chosen for funding over something else.
It's a little more complex than that. Some things:
- https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/09/02/book-review-dark-academia-how-universities-die-by-peter-fleming/
- https://massivesci.com/articles/chaos-in-the-brickyard-comic-matteo-farinella/
It's a structural problem, but still the same problem plaguing the rest of society at the moment.
It looks like you all snuffed some TetraFunkoTetris
Everything is political, and there has never been a time that proves that better than now.
doesn't harm organic tissue
Which is totally why Bayer has settled their lawsuit for several billions of dollars over claims that it causes lymphoma.
Edit: also, plants are organic tissue.
Also, the stomach's microbiome isn't plants...
Your stomach microbiome is plants
Which is why I spend a solid 3 hours a day facing the sun with my mouth held wide open. Gotta let my tummy plants photosynthesize somehow.
You say that as a joke but I'm pretty sure this clown is also one of the quacks who regularly talked about the "health benefits" of butthole tanning.
I once saw him (in person) give a drunken, sloppy, rambling speech to a bunch of high schoolers back in 1999. Calling him a clown is an insult to clowns.
So I know just because they are saying to bring back the R word and stop being woke, it's still offensive to many but...
As an individual to whom the r-slur applies, I think that this word also applies to RFK Jr.
I can't tell if this is supposed to be for or against glyphosate?
Depends who is making money.
He seems to be.... pro-celiac?
Real red blooded manly Americans only eat the rawest red meat directly from the carcas and have no need to worry about celiac disease like some girly communist liberal soy boy would.
/s
Ah yes, he's on the show with the very tall and smart scientist Dr Rogan /s
He contradicts himself even in his own wacky theories
Considering wacky theories have a tendency to contradict each other (and itself) it would be far more impressive if his wacky theories weren't contradictory.
I remember that when Roundup first came out, glyphosate was being held up as a brilliant example of herbicide design since it inhibits a vital metabolic pathway in plants that animals don't have. They even claimed that the surfactants in Roundup were more harmful than the glyphosate itself. I guess that claim didn't hold up too well.
My mother developed an allergy to Roundup that she thought was celiac until she discovered that organic bread didn't bother her at all.
So what does he think he's found a cure for this time? We've done covid, fatness, and autism - is this supposed to be a cure for gluten allergy?
As someone with violent celiacs disease, i can appreciate the allure of something that could cure or alleviate a genuine gluten allergy. It would be absolutely amazing if it were to ever happen.
But anything coming out of this guy’s mouth is poison, and should be treated as such.
Science itself is not political, this is not a science meme, and having looked at your post history I won't be missing anything by not seeing you again.
Byeeee
Your memes give me life, never stop
Luv u guys too.
Assuming you're a student, have you ever tried to write up a lab report from multiple arguments using the same experiment? It's a fun exercise in the potential for politics in science because it shows how you can capture and use the same data to argue diametrically opposing points.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03177-1
Touche! I'm gonna put this on the "...AND ANOTHER THING!!!" list if you're cool with it
Always. Knowledge and memes are meant to be shared.
There is a philosophical distinction between the essence of science and the human application of scientific method. It's not that important a distinction in practice, but I don't refrain from pedantry when replying to people who for some reason can't bring themselves to post in a political memes community.
Any scientists want to weigh in here? It's a theory I've heard that does sound plausible even though it's coming from this moron's mouth.
RFK's entire health policy is oriented around the false belief that all disease is the result of dietary choices, i.e. metabolic disorders that can be treated with supplements. The supplements market is unregulated and larger by far than the pharmacological market, but it doesn't really get a slice of public health money.
RFK is trying very hard to make it possible for government dollars to subsidize pseudoscience health bullshit and the easiest way to do it is by promoting the idea that the cause of good health is diet and exercise and the cause of bad health is bad diet and no exercise. Which isn't strictly wrong, but it is a way for him to crowbar in fascist ideas about people with hereditary diseases and the disabled and so on, while cashing in on that sweet unregulated supplement money
I'm just here to point out that your stomach microbiome consists of bacteria and fungi, which are not plants. There's also direct evidence glyphosate causes several different types of cancer in animals, which is pretty harmful to animals. Also all life is made up of organic tissue, not just animals.
In the spirit of the comment we’re replying to - what direct evidence is there? I’ve mostly seen studies providing dubious or weak links between realistic dosages of Glyphosate and any animal harm. I legitimately want to learn more if I’m mistaken.
Yes and in that you are correct.
Nah, that sentence is just total non-sense.
Plants are still "organic tissue", the microbiome is mostly in the gut, not the stomach (the stomach is full of acid) and it does NOT consist of plants but of bacteria.
I was asking more of whether glyphosphate was responsible for some of the seeming uptake in gut disorders from wheat we see today.
I think it's been posted here because it is funny, as the gut microbiome is in fact not "plants"
I believe what he was trying to get at is that the shikimate pathway that glyphosate inhibits is also used in the bacteria and fungi that make up the gut microbiome.
Not sure what his overall point was supposed to be (or whether he had one) but that's the "microbiome is plants" part.
We are increasingly finding out that gut biome affects mood because the majority of serotonin and dopamine are produced in the gut. While I have to see any conclusive research, I would not be the least surprised to see a direct link between glycophosphate and depression discovered in the future.
