Bad science

[Marcosn]

hahaha, yes plants crave electrolytes oh so much (is that from idiocrasy? <-- dunno how to spell that) but yes i cant stand all the bull that gets spread around "lets the oxygen penetrate your skin!" ewwww all these people really annoy me

 

[SextusMaximus]

I prefer reading the Daily Mail. Apparently because I use a biro pen I'm going to die due to kidney failure.

Don't forget to not use facebook [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html] either, or else you'll get cancer.

The Daily Mail is an ambassador for the peer-review process!

a doctor claims.

Does that answer that? He reckons that failure to communicate with people will increase risk of cancer. Firstly, I call bullshit. Secondly, why did he specifically point at Facebook?

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Whenever news programs consult "experts" on the subject. I'm guessing they confused the sentence "some random bloke on the street" with the word "expert".

 

[Kagim]

I prefer reading the Daily Mail. Apparently because I use a biro pen I'm going to die due to kidney failure.

Don't forget to not use facebook [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html] either, or else you'll get cancer.

The Daily Mail is an ambassador for the peer-review process!

My favourite part is after i read that story i found this [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1148611/Drinking-just-glass-wine-day-INCREASE-risk-cancer-168--say-French.html]

According to that over half of BC is going to die of cancer. We sure as shit drink more then a glass a wine a day on average here...

Mostly i love that oddly specific number. 168%

Damn.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Whenever news programs consult "experts" on the subject. I'm guessing they confused the sentence "some random bloke on the street" with the word "expert".

Like this? Seriously, this fella was a minicab driver who got mistaken for an expert in the lobby and just got dragged up to the studio.


Just watch it, it's classic. I love the way the dude just ad-libs through the interview.

 

[ben---neb]

Whenever news programs consult "experts" on the subject. I'm guessing they confused the sentence "some random bloke on the street" with the word "expert".

Like this? Seriously, this fella was a minicab driver who got mistaken for an expert in the lobby and just got dragged up to the studio.

Just watch it, it's classic. I love the way the dude just ad-libs through the interview.

I love his face in that split second where he realises he's in the completely wrong place been mistaken for someone else entirely. Pure loveliness. He recovers very well though.

 

[Pingieking]

Two words; Quantum Medicine.

Some runner ups; the intelligent design people (I always like how little intelligence is involved in that "field of research"), anti-vaccine people, and the people who think that condoms spread HIV.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Whenever news programs consult "experts" on the subject. I'm guessing they confused the sentence "some random bloke on the street" with the word "expert".

Like this? Seriously, this fella was a minicab driver who got mistaken for an expert in the lobby and just got dragged up to the studio.


Just watch it, it's classic. I love the way the dude just ad-libs through the interview.

That made my day.

 

[Juzari]

I never understood how hair or skin can be 80 percent (or any percent) more flexible or something like that, how do you calculate that?

Here's another good one. New, L'Ornier's super-duper extra glossy gloop of chemical goo! Makes your hair 10,000% stronger.
I'm sorry, but why? It's hair, its a couple of strands of keratin on your head. It's already stronger for its weight than steel. You're not going to make a bloody suspension bridge out of hair, are you?

A suspension bridge you say...... to the drawing-table!

I don't think I have seen an ad with really science in it

 

[Insanum]

I hate those "Daily drinks" like Yakult - When it comes down to it, those drinks are the bacteria equivilent of pissing in the wind.

I prefer reading the Daily Mail. Apparently because I use a biro pen I'm going to die due to kidney failure.

Oh man, Ive seen a facebook group saying that EVERYTHING causes cancer.

There are links to over 100 articles that the Daily Mail have published saying stupid things from Air Travel to X-Rays causes cancer.

 

[Omikron009]

I can't think of anything at the moment, but if I were to do something like this to make money for myself, I'd probably market untreated seawater as "mineral water with electrolytes."

What? It's true!

 

[AwesomeExpress]

I'll only believe someone if they're wearing a lab coat, holding a textbook, and have test tubes and beakers near by. And they have to say "science", "scientific", "scientific evidence", "scientific science", or "scientifically evident" at least twice.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Every diet pill claiming to be "clinically proven" to work. I want to know what "clinic" the study took place at and what type of people participated.

 

[megalomania]

Its got electrolytes.

"It's what plants crave."
"But why?!"
"It's got electrolytes."
"What the hell even are electrolytes?"
"... what plants crave."

You should have been more impressed that a plant is capable of craving something! That kind of requires a bit more of a developed (Read 'an actual') central nervous system.

P.S Electrolytes is a very misleading term, however you uptake fluids faster if what you drink has approximately the same sodium chloride content as your body. If you are interested there is a whole lot of in the maths backing up Osmosis which is controlled by salt balance in the body.