this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
836 points (98.2% liked)

Science Memes

10905 readers
779 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc^2^ in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.

The funny thing is that that's literally all I remember about that talk. I don't remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

The Onion’s TED parodies capture this dumb shit perfectly

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reminds of various evangelical speakers seeing "crosses" in nature or cheese toasties and thinking they're profound. Truly a Christmas miracle that a pair of lines intersect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My favorite was the one who claimed to have converted to christianity after seeing 3 waterfalls and because he saw three of something one time that means the trinity is real.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Imagine what wild beliefs he'd be lurching into if that story were remotely true. Wild that people seem to be into it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Ted talks went from mildly interesting to Deepak Choprarian nonsense so insanely fast.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I just listened to the most recent Behind the Bastards on forensic 'science' used in court cases and Robert played a clip of one guy who had a Ted talk where he spoke about how he uses divining rods to find dead bodies buried in the ground.

The worst part is this guy is still employed in the field, testifies as an expert witness to get people convicted of crimes, grifts families of missing persons claiming he can find them for a fee based on their body's "unique frequency" (obtained from fingernail clippings), consults/instructs law enforcement on his techniques using taxpayer funds, and worked until recently at the famous body farm at the Univeristy of Tennessee.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Tedx is a service you pay to come and pretend you have words worth saying, like how you pay Guinness world records to come and hand you a fancy plaque