I used to have the same opinion as OP. Then I experienced the horrors of academia and am jealous of the people who 'love science' because they still have an idealized, wonder-filled perception of what goes on in the world of research.
For example, today I learned that the area of the shadow of an arbitrarily rotated unit cube is equal to the difference in height between its lowest and highest points. It must be a unit cube because we are numerically comparing length and area which use units with different dimensionality.
The whole "no one should be able to date, have kids, or actually live until they're 40 or so" mentality definitely turned me off. I feel like it's actually harder to do research as a research scientist than to just treat it as a weekend hobby, because you end up neglecting so many basic human needs along the way that it ends up being more distracting than a full-time job.
Bill Nye achieved peak popularity after a video teaching children to engage in butt-stuff with out pointing out some of the consequences. What is going on with the world?
You should have sex with strangers, and if you abide by a sexual preference then that is proof that you are a bigot. If you don't fully agree with this message then you are scientifically incorrect in addition to being an irredeemable deplorable who should/will vote for Trump.
/u/restlessly_injected As much as I agree with you on personal taste, it's nice to have someone go to bat for you when half the country unironically thinks "hur dur ur stoopid" and cheers on the assholes trying to defund your lab so they don't have to be accountable. I mean, do you really want the average, socially inept (and often foreign) scientist trying to explain why their work is important to the public? It doesn't take a genius to see how that would go.
and then Intelligence tells you to reread and notice that the phrase wasn't "catch your death of a cold", and realizes that hypothermia is a thing and so is pneumonia.
I have always considered it to mean that you will catch a cold. After some googling, it seems that most dictionaries agree with me, but there are some that use your interpretation. So I guess you weren't really wrong.
They certainly are, in their respective fields. They act like they're the fucking messiah in every field of science, though, and people suck their dicks for it.
Much like the failure of Islamism and inters-sectional feminism that is the modern left, the white sharia clowns on the right also hate science.
These guys are being targeted because they are atheists who believe in evolution. Push the next retard who complains about them: its either "Islamophobia is the biggest problem in the world" or "they are teaching my kids about evolution hurr." It is a united left-right muslim-christan attack on atheism and science.
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1 snallygaster 2018-04-08
I used to have the same opinion as OP. Then I experienced the horrors of academia and am jealous of the people who 'love science' because they still have an idealized, wonder-filled perception of what goes on in the world of research.
1 life_is_painfull_ 2018-04-08
I don't agree, am also in academia and I enjoy NDT. Maybe its cause am dumb about things outside my field and get blown away cool science facts.
1 youshareon 2018-04-08
No, it's your black cock lust.
1 toynbeeidea16 2018-04-08
brb, signing up for a STEM major
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-04-08
No kink shame pls. π¦π This is a sex positive subbie (ββΏββΏ) ππ¦
1 zergling_Lester 2018-04-08
For example, today I learned that the area of the shadow of an arbitrarily rotated unit cube is equal to the difference in height between its lowest and highest points. It must be a unit cube because we are numerically comparing length and area which use units with different dimensionality.
1 preserved_fish 2018-04-08
His beatification of Giordano Bruno in Cosmos annoyed me.
1 RelevantEmployment 2018-04-08
The whole "no one should be able to date, have kids, or actually live until they're 40 or so" mentality definitely turned me off. I feel like it's actually harder to do research as a research scientist than to just treat it as a weekend hobby, because you end up neglecting so many basic human needs along the way that it ends up being more distracting than a full-time job.
1 Leftist_Degenerate 2018-04-08
Nietszche pointed out the scientists resemble clergy in the self-negation required of them.
1 RelevantEmployment 2018-04-08
The messed up part is that they spend like 80% of their time on managerial bullshit instead of making discoveries anyway.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-04-08
Oh cry me a river. You can still have the love and be weary of the fuckery done by scientists/researches. As if they can't be biased cunts.
Do i like NDT and Nye? Nope. Not my "type".
1 siskonaut 2018-04-08
Medical students shouldn't be allowed to have opinions on real science/research. Especially if they only got their bachelors.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-04-08
1 Slaanesh_0 2018-04-08
I love you Ed.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-04-08
Same. Took you 15 hours just to say that? ΩΩ Ψ§Ψ€
1 Slaanesh_0 2018-04-08
Took me way longer actually, I've been a secret admirer of yours for many moons πππ
1 siskonaut 2018-04-08
delet yourself
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2018-04-08
only the heat death of the universe can ensure absolute deletion.
1 OkThatsProblematic 2018-04-08
Bill Nye achieved peak popularity after a video teaching children to engage in butt-stuff with out pointing out some of the consequences. What is going on with the world?
1 imnotagayboy 2018-04-08
Wait what?
1 UmmahSultan 2018-04-08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtJFb_P2j48
You should have sex with strangers, and if you abide by a sexual preference then that is proof that you are a bigot. If you don't fully agree with this message then you are scientifically incorrect in addition to being an irredeemable deplorable who should/will vote for Trump.
1 imnotagayboy 2018-04-08
Oh for fucks sake I forgot how much I need to commit suicide since my last viewing of... that
1 dis_is_my_account 2018-04-08
People get really defensive about their favorite meme science people.
1 toynbeeidea16 2018-04-08
Mister Wizard or GTFO
1 wootfatigue 2018-04-08
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<- Updoots to the left!!!
1 PowerOfJerkoffMagic 2018-04-08
lol, they're mad about this article:
http://www.macleans.ca/opinion/is-jordan-peterson-the-stupid-mans-smart-person/
1 RelevantEmployment 2018-04-08
/u/restlessly_injected As much as I agree with you on personal taste, it's nice to have someone go to bat for you when half the country unironically thinks "hur dur ur stoopid" and cheers on the assholes trying to defund your lab so they don't have to be accountable. I mean, do you really want the average, socially inept (and often foreign) scientist trying to explain why their work is important to the public? It doesn't take a genius to see how that would go.
1 Mgrth111 2018-04-08
Well he is right though.
1 Eternal_Mr_Bones 2018-04-08
People can be smart and still have dumbass opinions.
Idk why this is hard to grasp.
1 toynbeeidea16 2018-04-08
Dumb opinions make you dumb.
1 Eternal_Mr_Bones 2018-04-08
You can think that lizards are at the center of the Earth and still be a brilliant scientist tho.
1 mrmcdude 2018-04-08
and then Intelligence tells you that colds aren't caused by being cold
1 Gil-Gandel 2018-04-08
and then Intelligence tells you to reread and notice that the phrase wasn't "catch your death of a cold", and realizes that hypothermia is a thing and so is pneumonia.
1 mrmcdude 2018-04-08
I have always considered it to mean that you will catch a cold. After some googling, it seems that most dictionaries agree with me, but there are some that use your interpretation. So I guess you weren't really wrong.
1 niexx 2018-04-08
building a part of your identity from either liking or disliking a famous science communicator are both equally good reasons to kill yourself
1 PhysicsIsMyMistress 2018-04-08
I mean those two are smart people so idk what op thinks is smart.
1 tathrowaway666 2018-04-08
They certainly are, in their respective fields. They act like they're the fucking messiah in every field of science, though, and people suck their dicks for it.
1 GuillotinesNOW 2018-04-08
TIL Chocolate Science Man is a dummy and that literally any retard can find a PhD in Astrophysics in a Cracker Jack box.
1 ebdragon 2018-04-08
Iβm sure heβs very knowledgeable about astrophysics but some people act like that makes him an expert on everything
1 COINTELPROxShareBlue 2018-04-08
a lot of people seem to like it, ergo its trash
1 Hayleycakes2009 2018-04-08
It's easy to ignore facts and reality when you're a faux intellectual piece of shit with a double digit iq and no friends/redeemable qualities.
My favorite comment and im only like 5 commemts into the thread. This can describe like 80% of reddit
1 73696D756C6174696F6E 2018-04-08
They're just science entertainers for children and young adults. Nothing wrong with that.
1 PotatoePizza 2018-04-08
Much like the failure of Islamism and inters-sectional feminism that is the modern left, the white sharia clowns on the right also hate science.
These guys are being targeted because they are atheists who believe in evolution. Push the next retard who complains about them: its either "Islamophobia is the biggest problem in the world" or "they are teaching my kids about evolution hurr." It is a united left-right muslim-christan attack on atheism and science.
1 HopDavid 2018-04-08
Tyson is being targeted because he's incompetent. See this thread in badmathematics as well this thread in physics.
Tyson can get away with mangling high school math and physics because most his audience slept through high school.
1 reallyrunningnow 2018-04-08
Don't insult our supreme messiah.