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People really think Astrology is scientific?
Today on the interwebs I ran across this link. It shows how key getting an education is. It’s hard to believe that 54% of people without a high school diploma actually believe Astrology is scientific? Really?
Believing in Astrology might not be the worst thing to believe in, but it does lead to magical thinking and I’m willing to bet that believers of Astrology also believe in other things that could be harmful. Whatstheharm.net is a great site that shows the harm, and dangers there are in believing in nonsensical things.
Every day on Twitter I see otherwise smart people wasting money on nonsense. Whether it’s Astrology, acupuncture, detoxification, or just buying organic food, or falling for the “all natural” fallacy. For the most part they are just wasting money, but there are some added risks, except for organic food, that’s just a waste of money. Often I want to speak up to the people wasting their money, but who am I? Why would anybody listen to me?
Maybe some day people will wise up to all the snake oil salesmen out there, but I doubt it. As long as there is snake oil to sell, there will be people buying.
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No More Daily Source Code For Me
I have been listening to Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code since October 2004. Back then when podcasting was new and fresh, his show was pretty good. It was a good place to lean about new podcasts and new things going on in the space.
Ever since he started Podshow the show has gone downhill. The only reason I kept on listening was because half the show was some crap music that I could fast forward through, so it wasn’t wasting much of my time.
Now, his shows are getting longer and longer, and all he ever talks about are his crazy conspiracy theories. People that believe in crazy conspiracies drive me crazy. He is convinced that since we still have winter, global warming doesn’t exist. He thing our government blew up the World Trade Center. He is also a crazy antivaxxer.
The last episode I listened to was episode 812, I unsubscribed after that. I can’t take his crap anymore. He played a clip of Jenny McCarthy spewing nonsense about how Vaccinations cause Autism. He believed all the crap she said. I will not support anybody that is against vaccines.
Vaccines have been proven time and time again not to cause autism. Antivaxxers like Jenny McCarthy are causing a great deal of harm by spreading misinformation and encouraging parents not to have their kids vaccinated, which is increasing the spread of Measles.
It’s often hard to find non-biased information on the Internet. Stopjenny.com is a good place to find information about the truths about vaccines and how wrong jenny McCarthy is. Antivaxxers probably think the site is nonsense, but who would you rather believe, doctors & scientists, or a Playboy Model?