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The way flat earthers claim that the earth is so obviously flat just baffle me. Like, do you people even watch the sky?
If the earth was actually flat and the sun was a flat disk as many claim, the sun would appear to get flatter as it reached the horizon.
If the earth was actually flat, contrails wouldn't curve downward on the horizon. Clouds wouldn't obviously be curving. Satellites wouldn't obviously be taking a curved path.
The earth is just... so obviously round if you actually pay attention to the sky????
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i hate you alternative wellness natural chemical free vegan non-GMO herbal intuitive whole foods healing raw high vibrational plant based cleanse gluten free superfood supplement blend bullshit!!!! You're not healthier and more balanced and connected to the Earth because your smoothies are full of unidentifiable green and brown powders you got from a subscription box to ✨URTH-CRUNCH VAGINAL ENLIGHTENMENT✨!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What's your favorite Paleo diet fact?
That it’s a pile of lies?
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The whole “your brain doesn’t finish developing until 25” spiel has fucking ruined society I swear. It’s such a gross misunderstanding of the original study it’s laughable, and yet people use it as scientific evidence that infantilising young adults (usually women or people perceived to be women lbr) is ethical actually.
YOUR BRAIN IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING AND DEVELOPING YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. YOU DON’T SUDDENLY WAKE UP ON YOUR 25TH BIRTHDAY WITH ALL THE MATURITY AND KNOWLEDGE YOU NEVER PREVIOUSLY POSSESSED. STOP SPREADING THIS NONSENSE
#Inspired by the Cass report and the fact it’s also spreading this bs and using it to deny trans healthcare#pseudoscience#neuroscience#infantilization#brain development#cass review#cass report#transphobia#trans rights#rant#vent#psychology#psychiatry
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PSA: my blog is NOT for people who believe crystals can cure disease, mental illness, chronic conditions, disabilities, etc. or people who believe crystals can substitute modern medicine and be effective in the slightest. yes, this includes people who say crystals can “help with depression/anxiety/etc”.
#saying crystals can ease certain symptoms of mental illness is a VERY slippery slope to saying crystals can cure said illnesses or more#if by ‘crystals can help depression’ you mean crystals can boost your mood#then stop misusing words like depression and anxiety. say what you really mean#my stuff#witchcraft#crystals#pseudoscience
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By: Mary Harrington
Published: Feb 19, 2024
A new study challenges the common assertion that gender-dysphoric youth are at elevated risk of suicide if not treated with “gender affirming” medical interventions. If it’s true, it ought to have a seismic impact on the accepted medical approach to gender-confused youth.
Reported in the BMJ, the study examines data on a Finnish cohort of gender-referred adolescents between 1996 and 2019, and compares their rates of all-cause and suicide mortality against a control group. While suicide rates in the gender-referred group studied were higher than in the control group, the difference was not large: 0.3% versus 0.1%. And — importantly — this difference disappeared when the two groups were controlled for mental health issues severe enough to require specialist psychiatric help.
In other words: while transgender identity does seem to be associated with elevated suicide risk, the link is not very strong. What’s more, the causality may not work the way activists claim.
The association between gender dysphoria and mental illness is well-documented by both providers of “gender-affirming care” and trans advocacy groups and clinical psychology research. But one less well-evidenced claim, based on this association, is that these difficulties are caused not by being transgender, but by the political and social stigma associated with it. Gender dysphoria, we are to understand, is not in itself a mental health issue. What causes mental health issues in transgender youth — up to and including suicide — is the wider world’s rejection of their identity, and of the metaphysical frame of “gender identity” as such.
This is the root of the oft-repeated social media assertion that anyone who demurs about trans identity, however mildly, is complicit in “trans genocide”. The same assertion that invalidating trans youth makes them kill themselves is also behind the rhetorical question routinely used to browbeat parents into consenting to social and medical transition for their gender-confused offspring: “Would you rather have a live daughter or a dead son?”
It’s behind the prohibition on “trans conversion therapy” already in force in several countries, and promised by the Labour Party in England too. Such measures forbid therapists from exploring with their clients whether there is any link between their gender dysphoria and — for example — life trauma or other mental health issues. For logically, if the cause of distress and suicidality in trans people is not being accepted for who they are, any therapist who seeks to explore links between gender dysphoria and other biographic or psychiatric issues is complicit in just this kind of non-acceptance, and is thus not helping but harming their client.
But as the study puts it: “Clinical gender dysphoria does not appear to be predictive of all-cause nor suicide mortality when psychiatric treatment history is accounted for.” Rather, what predicts risk in this population is “psychiatric morbidity”. And contra the activists, transitioning does nothing to reduce it: “medical gender reassignment does not have an impact on suicide risk.”
Every suicide is a tragedy, and leaves grieving loved ones behind. No one wants to be complicit in pushing a young person down that path. So the suggestion that questioning someone’s gender beliefs may have this effect serves as a powerful emotional cudgel. But if the Finnish study is correct, this whole rhetorical, legislative, and medical edifice may be built on sand. If the elevated risk of suicidality in trans youth disappears when you control for other psychiatric difficulties, this suggests strongly that trans youth are not more at risk due to transphobia or invalidation, but due to the well-documented fact that gender dysphoria tends to occur in people who are disturbed and unhappy more generally.
It ought to follow from this that the way to manage suicide risk in trans-identified young people is not to affirm their gender identity and whisk them off for medical interventions, but to watch for and treat psychiatric comorbidities. Ultimately, though, the claims of gender ideology are less scientific than metaphysical. So don’t expect scientific evidence that contradicts its prescriptions to have much impact on trans advocates. Even if “following the science” would make a real difference to suicide risk in gender-dysphoric youth.
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History will view "gender affirming care" advocates the same way we view lobotomy advocates.
#Mary Harrington#affirm or suicide#suicide narrative#trans or suicide#suicide#gender affirming care#gender affirming healthcare#gender affirmation#affirmation model#medical corruption#medical scandal#medical malpractice#gender lobotomy#pseudoscience#medical experimentation#religion is a mental illness
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The number of absolute smegheads on this website who reply to critiques of astrology as having no scientific evidence to back it up or being used as a basis for discrimination or being used as a get-out-of-working-on-your-toxic-personality-flaws-free card by saying stuff like "WeLl ThAt'S jUsT sOlAr AsTrOlOgY! yOu NeEd To CoNsIdEr ThE lUnAr ChArT" as if the problem wasn't that astrology is a bullshit pseudoscientific ideology that encourages you to judge yourself and your fellow human beings based on circumstances beyond any of your control and that actively denies the possibility of personal growth.
#astrology#pseudoscience#aries#capricorn#libra#gemini#saggitarius#virgo#cancer#scorpio#taurus#aquarius#pisces#leo
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I was an astrologer – here's how it really works, and why I had to stop
What broke the spell for me was, oddly, people swearing by my gift. Some repeat customers claimed I’d made very specific predictions, of a kind I never made. It dawned on me that my readings were a co-creation – I would weave a story and, later, the customer’s memory would add new elements. I got to test this theory after a friend raved about a reading she’d had, full of astonishingly accurate predictions. She had a tape of the session, so I asked her to play it.
The clairvoyant had said none of the things my friend claimed. Not a single one. My friend’s imagination had done all the work.
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The man was agitated, with red-rimmed eyes and clammy skin.
“Help me,” he said. “I’m under a curse.”
At first it was just flickering lights, he said. And then a figure, at the edge of his vision. Now something grabbed his fingers or stroked his arm. There was more – and it was happening more frequently.
“I saw a Catholic priest,” said the man. “But he couldn’t help. Can you?”
Yes, yes I could. I [who worked as a temp typist in a hospital] knew exactly what he needed to do.
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Well, maybe I wasn’t psychic, but it didn’t matter. It was just entertainment, after all, until the cursed man came in. The one who’d seen the Catholic priest.
“Get to a doctor,” I told him. “Now.”
That very week, I’d typed letters for a neurologist who specialized in brain diseases. Some of those letters had documented strikingly similar symptoms to this man.
“Are you saying I’m crazy?” he said, his hands balled.
“No,” I reassured him. “But Catholic priests know what they’re doing. If he couldn’t help, this isn’t a curse.”
That made the man angrier.
“You’re a fraud!” he shouted, and stormed downstairs to demand his money back.
The encounter shook me, badly. Shortly afterwards, I packed my astrology books and Tarot cards away for good.
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The best crank on Unsolved Mysteries was that guy who claimed he had discovered a secret code in the Bible, which it turned out meant that he developed a computer program that would look for any word he looked for in the Bible, by looking a certain number of letters apart. And then it would find the word he asked the program to look for. It was the one time even the show seemed fully aware this guy was full of it
I think they talked to him bc he claimed to have predicted the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin & warned him about it, but then he revealed that the Bible Code didn't give like, a date or time, just the word "assassin" near his name. Everything else was just running a search after a tragedy happens and then finding the thing he made the computer look for. He only made one other prediction of the future, a nuclear war in 2006
Anyway we used to have a fringe theory based around someone going "all of these words are in the Bible! As secret codes"
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I want to make it clear, I'm not here to oppose the possibility of people being incarnated souls from other planets. However, if you identify yourself specifically as a starseed - IE, an allegedly advanced spiritual being come here to spread supposed enlightenment - I will have to oppose you on the grounds of you choosing to become a missionary to preach spiritual eugenics and promote cultural genocide.
If you aren't a space missionary here to preach spiritual eugenics and promote cultural genocide, then please call yourself literally anything other than "starseed." (No, this term cannot be "reclaimed," as literal white supremacists proudly call themselves "starseeds" right now, and the starseed movement has always been tied in with various racist pseudoscientific crap like ancient alien theory and linear evolution.)
#starseeds#starseed#cultural genocide#genocide#white supremacy#spiritual eugenics#pseudoscience#racism#new age#spirituality
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Don't use pseudoscience to justify magic, y'all
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Ectober: Pseudoscience
Every teen hero's gotta have a power discovery montage of some sort
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This Ectober, @wingedflight and I are going halfsies (like our fav ghosts) creating non-stop Paulina Phantom content! Check out the #paulina phantom au tag for more!
#danny phantom#my art#danny phantom fanart#dp fanart#paulina phantom au#ectoberhaunt23#paulina sanchez#eh science#eh23#Day 10#pseudoscience
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Baldness is caused by wearing hats. The Electrical experimenter. March 1921.
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Far too many people today are okay with eugenics and this is something I find to be deeply troubling.
#dougie rambles#personal stuff#vent post#political crap#eugenics#anti eugenics#pseudoscience#ableism#neurotypicals#neurotypical ableism
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FINALLY!!! THE FISH CHART FOR THE MERMAID AU IS COMPLETE! I hope you can see that little Leon in the front of the line!
Working on this between final semester projects and answers for the mermaid AU asks. Hopefully this chart can clarify a bit about the species. Or, hopefully, open up room for more questions!
Symbol Codex:
-Red/Orange E = Endangered
-Red/Orange ! E = Highly Endangered
-Pink downwards key = Live Birth (No eggs)
-Blue male symbol and downwards key = Male Carriers
-Yellow downward arrow and triangle = Low Fertility
-Blue lung = Cannot Extract Oxygen from Water
Some major notes for the chart:
-The "Common Names" are not necessarily accurate to the scientific classification or function of these species. They are just what people started referring to them as prior to further research. I.E. 'Open Ocean' merfolk don't actually live in the open ocean, they just migrate farther distances and are thus the most likely to be seen in open ocean environments.
-Females are normally larger than males regardless of species, this chart doesn't do a great job with that.
-Everything under the 'Squamos Monotremes' category can crossbreed to some degree! It's a very complex system that cannot be explained in this short post.
-I literally have no practical way to explain Octo Folk
Anyway, I hope ya'll enjoy this chart in the meantime!
#resident evil#biohazard#leon kennedy#leon s kennedy#fanfic#ao3#my art#fanfiction#mermaid#mermaid au#creature design#pseudoscience#theoretical biology#mermaid biology#science fiction#sci fi#art#digital art#lgbtq#queer#cute#original species#drawing#au
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At this point, Pseudo-Scientific American is basically as reliable as The National Enquirer.
This is what ideological takeover looks like.
#Colin Wright#Emma Hilton#Nicholas Christakis#Jerry Coyne#Laura Helmuth#Scientific American#SciAm#pseudoscience#gender pseudoscience#sex is binary#sex binary#biology denial#gender flat earth#gender flat earthers#gender ideology#queer theory#sex denialism#biology denialism#biology#wokeness#woke#wokeism#cult of woke#wokeness as religion#PseudoScientific American#religion is a mental illness
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