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Good grief, mental illnesses and religions/spiritualities are not related. Claiming that psychosis is a naturally occurring religious/spiritual phenomenon will get people seriously hurt. Which brand of New Age bullshit even is this. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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I sometimes wonder what kids will learn about climate change 500 years from now. Will we teach future generations that we didn’t know until it was too late or that we didn’t listen?

#sometimes i wonder #climate change #science is important

What did you say about science?

Hey. I know you don’t like taking medicine. Like pills. You don’t like the idea of vaccination. You don’t like meds. Because you don’t like the big farma stuff, and it’s okay not to like the big farma stuff. I mean, you don’t like capitalism, you don’t like when your health is used as fuel for some rich person’s money-making car. Okay. That’s valid.

It’s just. Understand me there. Medicine isn’t made from a formula someone pulled out of their ass. It’s not unnatural and bad because it was synthesised. The ingredients in the medicine you choose not to take are synthesised from things that exist in nature. Your herbal tea there? It’s aspirin, just less effective. Your immune system? The stuff that stops you from dying of the flu? It grows stronger after you’ve caught a disease, right? That’s what a vaccine does. It’s litterally what it does. It gives you an innocent baby version of a virus, and teaches your immune system to kick its ass, so it will know how to kick adult version’s ass later. That’s all.

Of course, it’s alright not to trust what people sell you, you don’t trust what’s inside the vaccine, it’s alright. Just. Are you absolutely certain you’re applying this criticism to that tea you bought on etsy? Or that potion your mutual on internet told you to drink? Or that piece of incense you’re supposed to sniff to “push your disease away”, or something? Are you sure you can trust that essential oil to “rearrange your shakras”, and not poison you on the spot ‘cause it’s not supposed to be ingested????

This criticism, are you also applying it to the effectiveness of what you’re taking? You don’t like to take aspirin but you love drinking that safe herbal tea, which has the same effect after you drink a whole teapot? Okay. It’s alright. You’ll pee a lot, but in the end of the day, no harm done.

On the other hand, when you’re telling someone with cancer that plants will heal them better than chemo???? Stop. Nah bro, it won’t. Some plants might help. Some plants might make things a little better, yes. But. Science. Works. Science is there to help you. Science is one of the reasons humanity is still there to this day, ‘cause with the sum of bullshit a single human does in one life, we wouldn’t be half as many as we are today if we didn’t have science.

Please, consider the reason why people came up with vaccines. Consider why decades old remedies are still used for aspirin, paracetamol and all that. consider why science exists. Look at what you’re being suspicious about, then apply your suspicions to the alternatives you found to science. If the result is the same, I guess it’s alright. If it’s not? If it’s harmful? Perhaps reconsider using it, alright?

Anyway, this has been a PSA on the common sense that’s still lacking in too many people to this day. Witchcraft doesn’t discard science, ‘cause it was all that people had before science came along and saved thousands. Religion doesn’t make science bullshit either, they can coexist just fine! Please, apply commmon sense and critical thinking to your actions towards others or yourself.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk, folks, and remember: safety first, safety second, witchy times third!

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Science is the most important subject in our lives and is the stepping stone for how all other subjects work. Everything functions around science. The fact that school boards are trying to get rid of it is fucking ridiculous and they need to be punished for trying to uproot our abilities to understand the world around us. Physics is important, chemistry is important, biology is important, all science is important. To act as though science is worthless is to throw away any intelligence and wisdom one has. In this essay I will...

#angry rant #science is important #it is not useless #trust in science

Watching the commercialisation of Space. This is where capitalism was useful when government failed to innovate.

To be fair, NASA did lots of other innovations outside of manned missions. The science achieved on a tight budget(relatively speaking) has been nothing short of incredible.

I am super excited for this. Science can seem removed from reality. Many people will find this to be privileged first world waste. They will be wrong, despite appearances(I understand why people feel it). Going to space has benefited so much of humanity.

I can remember after the shuttle Columbia loss I looked up some of the projects they had done. Over 300 experiments were performed, many of them with salvageable results. One was a careful look at dust storms in Africa(after all these years I don't remember all the details, I hope I have the correct mission). The hope was to find a way to understand them better in order to give useful info to people living in vulnerable conditions. That was just one project that was meant to have very real applications on Earth.

I could go on, but I'm going to watch some neat applied science. This is actual rocket science.

My love of sharks

Since Im a small child I always thought sharks - especially the great white shark - to be utterly fascinating, hence the dream of a silly seven year old to be a shark scientist when I grow up.

I’m a grown up now and although Im not going to be a shark scientist, my knowledge of them is quite extensive. I read up upon those animals in my free time and I choose reliable sources to do so.

I always question myself why society is so scared of these majestic animals whilst at the same time they coo over lions and orcas, predators in their own rights. Subsequently I question my own motivation, why am I so fascinated by them?

Ultimately I think this primal fear most of humanity has, when they don’t know whats underneath them whilst swimming in the ocean is responsible for it and frankly seeing this GIF confirms this for me. I am afraid of predators lurking beneath me whilst out taking a dip in the ocean but this fear never gave rise in me to hate a group of animals which play an important role in the ecosystem of all oceans, no, if anything I’m curious about sharks. To understand them and hence understanding my own fear. I educate myself about this topic, to understand these animals and to understand myself.