Comment on Nutritional Hexes
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
All over the place, we’re dealing with people who Do Not Get science, because they don’t really inhabit an objective reality. They’re doing the same woo-woo nonsense humanity has always done. It’s all just stories and belief. The signifiers just changed from headdresses to lab coats, and the jargon has a bit more Latin.
Soapbox@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
The “I don’t want to eat chemicals I can’t pronounce.” crowd get really mad when you try to explain that everything in the known universe is made of chemicals whose names they can’t pronounce. That meme listing the chemical makeup of an apple is a classic.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!