SFL- Not Checking Snopes

[dramaturge]

(04-17-2012 12:40 PM)Papa Bear Wrote:  I'm an ex-chiropractor. So, in addition to all the Fundie forwards and links, I get fruity, flaky New Age forwards and links. My chiropractor friends are passing this link around. Ever wonder why some people think chiropractors are fruitcakes? Yeah. This.
Students-Experiment-Shows-How-Microwaved-Water-Kills-Plants-After-Just-Days

Wow. That's just crazy. If even a quarter of those claims were true, we'd all be dead by the age of 20 from using microwaves. hahaha

[amyrose5]

(04-17-2012 01:12 PM)dramaturge Wrote:  

(04-17-2012 12:40 PM)Papa Bear Wrote:  I'm an ex-chiropractor. So, in addition to all the Fundie forwards and links, I get fruity, flaky New Age forwards and links. My chiropractor friends are passing this link around. Ever wonder why some people think chiropractors are fruitcakes? Yeah. This.
Students-Experiment-Shows-How-Microwaved-Water-Kills-Plants-After-Just-Days

Wow. That's just crazy. If even a quarter of those claims were true, we'd all be dead by the age of 20 from using microwaves. hahaha

Crazy?? No way!! How could you not take someone seriously when he has a research study specifically cited??? That is carefully documented by a sixth grader!! Didn't you read it???? And we know that sixth grade science fair projects are the source of the best and most accurate scientific knowledge in the world today!!!!!

[lucrezaborgia]

if you pour it on straight from the microwave I dare say you will kill some plants.

[MKxcomm]

Even the title made me giggle. This is so true

[Bob M]

(04-17-2012 01:50 PM)lucrezaborgia Wrote:  if you pour it on straight from the microwave I dare say you will kill some plants.

But if you pour it straight on the microwave while it is on, you will probably kill all the plants in your house and within 30 feet of your house when it burns down.

[Bill]

If I had a dollar for every ridiculous forward I got from my fundy family.... I'd have a lot of dollars.

[Tiarali]

I have successfully gotten one aunty to start checking things with hoax-slayer on facebook before copy/pasting them.

[myotch]

Just today, my mom wanted me to buy her some incandescent light bulbs, because "tomorrow, they stop making them and the news said they will be $60". I didn't inquire if that $60 was for a single bulb at home depot or, like, a 500 pack at Costco.

Last month, it was "pink slime".

I filed this under "Mom", subsection "B" (for bulbs), right after the "A-A-A" section (Alzheimers, Aluminum Cans, and Aspertame).

[NotUnderLaw]

pink slime? Like in Ghostbuster 2?

[Jeremy]

(04-17-2012 10:34 AM)EmilyKing Wrote:  I know that fundies aren't the only people who don't check the validity before reposting something on facebook, but they seem to be worse than the average population. This is the one I've seen several times in the last couple days.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp

Just fired that one on over to my sister, who posted the Einstein thing a day or two ago. Hilarity should ensure.