#psuedo science

[geezerwench]

“Unreliable” Lung Float Test Still Being Used to Convict Women of Murder — ProPublica

#lung float test #misogyny #still birth #abortion #abortion rights #suppression of women #womens rights #psuedo science #quackery

[bravecrab]

I was reading up on criticisms about Evolutionary Psychology, and I stumbled upon this headline on a pro-Evolutionary Psychology article:

Which as a queer, childless, atheist lefty is such a weird compliment. Evolutionary Psychology is a massive red flag, and I would recommend reading up on it.

#psuedo science #evolutionary psychology #eugenics #right wing grifters #politics #science #mine

[teachanarchy]

How Fake Science Won

#science #psuedo science #philosophy #critical thinking #Youtube

[thevalleyisjolly]

Hey, remember the awful audio quality back in C1, especially with the liveshows and the Skype-in episodes, and how nobody blamed the cast for having loud reactions or said that they should stop yelling and shouting despite the literal blowouts?  Hey, remember when Percy used to take over every other group conversation and push for his ideas over the rest of the party’s suggestions, and people just went “Yeah, he’s being a dick, but that’s the type of person Percy is and Taliesin is doing a great job of role-playing as this character”?  Hey, remember when Joe Manganiello came in with a clearly evil PC with his own agenda who ultimately ended up betraying the party, but no one complained that Joe was making the cast uncomfortable and should leave the show?  Hey, remember when Kashaw was interested in Keyleth back in the early days of C1, and no one mocked him for pursuing a PC who wasn’t yet in any canon relationship but had hints of romance with other characters?

Gotta take another peek at those standards because they sure are looking doubled right now.  But hey, I’m sure those are the only reasons why people are criticizing Erika so much for things that other cast members and guests get away with and are even praised for.

Now, this might be a wee bit of a controversial take, but the Critical Role cast are in fact adults who have been playing D&D on and off the Internet for a long time and who have invited many guests to play with them.  They’ve spoken extensively about safe play environments as well as open communication both at and away from the table.  If anyone was uncomfortable even for a minute with someone’s character choices or play style, they’d bring it up off-camera.  If Matt thought a character concept wasn’t a good fit for the table or the story, he’d work with the player to develop something that was. Hell, Erika is a long-time personal friend whom most of them have played with before. If they didn't like how Erika played D&D, or weren't comfortable with something they did in-game, they're perfectly capable of having that discussion with each other as friends and professionals.

Y’know, you don’t have to like either Dusk or Erika, but you do have to examine how you’re talking about them because right now, a lot of the flack they get boils down to “I don’t like them for doing the exact same thing that white cast members are doing/have done, and I assume that because I dislike how they're playing D&D, they must also be making the cast uncomfortable.” And it does not matter whether you had any conscious racist intent or reasoning, because the impact of your words is singling out the sole nonbinary person of colour at the table and treating them as some kind of aggressive "threat" towards the white cast members, whom I will reiterate, are their long-time personal friends who invited them to play in this campaign in the first place.

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr discourse #i mean...i expected this the moment erika showed up because i've been in fandom too long #and fortunately i'm blocking enough people that i don't have to see the more rancid takes that are apparently out there #it's just. sigh. #look; i also do not like loud voices but you know what? #one of the more common forms of hate that get levied against people of colour who are AFAB is that they're 'too loud" #it's perfectly alright for white men to yell their heads off; then they're just being passionate about the thing at hand #and you'll get some psuedo-science bullshit about how people who are AFAB have higher decibel voices that are painful to listen to #as if opera singers or pop stars don't also hit those high notes loudly and get applauded for it #they'll also get accused of being 'too emotional' and 'too aggressive' and even 'talking over [white fave's name]' #do you even hear yourself at that point #if the yelling bothers you; there's literally a cr blog that warns for loud noises in the episode #for myself; i just like to take off my headphones when the audio gets loud and follow the captions until the sound is normal again #absolutely wild that everything people critique erika for is something that a white cast member or guest has done before #and i assure you; the cr cast is more than capable of dealing with players who make other players uncomfortable #just look at the or*on debacle and chr*s h*rdwick

[outofthiisworld]

💜 ECTOPLASM— again!

Hinted before, Ophelia’s ectoplasmic core is both symbiotic and sentient! To an extent.

Its sentience isn’t what humans would find familiar, it’s only truly driven by its own instincts (ie. keep host alive, consume, exist)

It also works in a psuedo-hivemind of sorts, as the necrotic cosmic energy has a natural pull towards the cosmos itself (especially of its own kind). This is the reason why Ophelia will feel strong calls for the stars (the core wants to go home).

Home. What is that for Ectoplasm?

— why the unknowns of space, baby!

The energy is strikingly similar to how jellyfish exist, it floats through clouds of nebulae, unbothered by most outside forces as it devours plasma in it path to sustain itself. It mimics the appearance of both stars and nebulae in order to camouflage itself in the depths of space.

SYMBIOTIC?

The symbiotic nature of ectoplasm teeters between symbiosis and parasitic.

The initial symbiotic connection is… destructive and extremely volatile. Typically, the ectoplasm’s intense energy destroys a potential host from the inside out immediately (an overflow of energy)— in this stage, it will consume and absorb the host completely.

If the ectoplasm successfully accepts and connects with the host upon death, it will begin an osmosis stage where it will slowly assimilate itself with the host until they become ONE.

#⭐️… meta #💜… headcanons #//get you a space parasite that wants nothing more than to both keep you alive at all costs and also consume you #//psuedo-science my one true love. sighs #//art was…ngl a lil tough tonight so self coped with ectoplasm word splurge #//the links in this post are moreso for me when i inevitably rework on the ectoplasm section in ophelia’s bio umu

[troonwolf]

How can you tell someone is one of these white middle class people you speak of? What should i watch out for

I feel like this is sarcasm and I can't remember who I was calling white middle class people + tried looking through my blog but it's too far back or in between memes for my impatient ass to find.

With that said I'm pretty sure you're talking about my criticism on endogenics because I've called them that a few times.

Obviously not everyone in a group is gonna be white and middle class even if the majority are, but as someone who used to be in endogenic spaces I noticed a few things

Grand majority of them are white Americans

Grand majority are from middle class backgrounds

Grand majority come from fundamentalist religious (Christian) backgrounds and have religious trauma in connection to it but they outright refuse to consider how that may impact their perspective and beliefs today.

Now as someone who is no longer in the community but still observes for critical reasons, things are genuinely not that much different today. Where do you think this whole weird approach to mental illness even comes from, my man? Christianity. Unironically it's from white Western fundie culture.

Fundies hate mentally ill people. In fundie circles you're taught either to approach mentally ill people like they're special and somehow blessed, or that they're fucking possessed by demons. This is an attitude that persists very strongly in Western fundie circles. They don't trust psychology, they think it's all a scam. If they think there's something demonic about being mentally ill, they will perform exorcisms and many people over the decades have died due to abuse during exorcisms and other "cleansing rituals."

The "positive" outlook of mental illness isn't much better. You're still denied treatment, and now you have the burden of being a weird Christ-like figure to your family and neighbours, essentially suffering for "the glory of God" because they think your psychotic audio hallucinations are actual angels.

Many endogenics leave environments where this ^ is the norm, and though they have enough critical thinking and self-awareness to recognise that religious brainwashing for what it is, they don't realise or care that they're falling into the same trap as before, except with liberal-friendly language.

They don't want to approach mental health symptoms as if they're mental health symptoms because they're taught that's scary, bad, that it makes them broken, that the trauma and illness "taints" their system. These are things you can easily find endogenics saying for why they refuse trauma labels. It's not because there's any logical reason to refuse those trauma labels, it's because something inside them is averse to it. Scared of it. Because that's what they were taught. That mental illness is scary and makes you broken.

And so you end up with thinking like this: (all yanked from sysmedsaresexist)

All this ^^^^ Is about spirituality. It's about faith. it's about ideology. Even the stuff that isn't explicitly about faith, is still about faith, because that's how they approach it. It's not about data, or what's healthier, or even what's probable, it's not even about having a good internal reason for yourself WHY you resist trauma labels. It's about what makes them feel the best. Because that's how fundie religious backgrounds teach you how to reason- with belief, and faith, not with grounded reasoning backed up by data.

Asides from that, there's also the very middle class white person thing of appropriating other cultures and bastardising them for your unhealthy anti-science belief system. A lot of the time when I vaguely make fun of white endogenics it's because of that.

#anti endo #endos dni #syscourse #endo cult #tbh dude if you see someone obsessed with anime and tulpas they are most likely white #but in general all of this [spreads arms wide to encompass the mess of endogenics] #is the internet nerd equivalent of your weird hippy aunt who denounces christianity #but has just replaced it with a load of misunderstood and fake bullshit about how rocks have magical properties #it's the same anti-intellectual psuedo-science navel-gazing shit that white people always do #like white americans have no real culture #and their only culture is terrifying and tells them to whip themselves everytime they have bad thoughts #so they just go around stealing culture from everyone else #same shit with tulpas etc #actally I take it back the bit about white ppl having no culture #becaue every white person has the option to look into their ancestry and discover the roots of their culture before christianity took ove #but they would rather appropriate from other cultures and refuse reasonable explanations for things #most of y'all have some kind of pagan root you could rediscover but instead you do....alll this...

[cursedauxiliary]

This feels. uh a bit personal... 

#is the professor ok #anthropology psuedo science question #2023

[unreal-pokemonality]

Sinnoh's been pulling back on legislation around pokemon breeding regulations. So, PSA: don't purchase pokemon from Sinnoh Breeders. Many of them are mass bred incest babies. Especially popular pokemon like Riolu, Eevee, and Cleffa will often be bred for commercial and competitive use. Shiny Breeding has also been on the rise lately.

#and breeders will often be dishonest about the pokemon being sold #theyve come up with this whole concept of IVs #which is just a massive psuedo science #i heard paldeans even use bottle caps to max out there ivs? which is like #if anything proves my point #anyways shiny breeding is especially notorious for introducing mass outbreaks of invasive species #but i wanted to get that psa out there #please do not enable these people #pokemon irl #unreality

[wordwizards]

ID: A digital sketch of a character looking irritated. She is a thin white woman with curly brown hair tied back with a bow. She has a blue shirt and a white sweater. She has a clenched fist in front of her chest and grits her teeth while rolling her eyes. End ID.

#wiz.txt #8659 #georgia steinkeller #inspired vaguely by 'daughter of [x famous character!]' movie varieties #but specifically lady frankenstein #or in that same vein #when she's doing mad scientist stuff #& people are like 'what but...woman!' #& she's like 'woman i may be...but i know science things...also i don't care if people die. i like it actually.' #she is psuedo sort of adopted by mad scientist...? #it's him his ex wife's nephew and her. and she's besties with the nephew.

[serostuffsmh]

Your overhaul freaks? What about me? Kai has a cumsock

-🐎

That. I-

I’m sure he does.

#I bet he masturbates and is disappointed in himself after #like most people #smh he’s supposed to be a man of logic and psuedo science #admin jen asks #kai rambling

[punkpinkpower]

Getting emotional about the Ted Talk I'm giving myself in my head that no one but me cares about:

#I put some thoughts to paper today #and finally identified #after like 7 years #why i hate body language psuedo science and how its specifically used as an othering tool to exclude certain groups #and in general is a racist and ableist transphobic idea taken very seriously by people in positions of power #it has taken me so long to articulate these thoughts #may have to write an essay

[teachanarchy]

Watch "Science vs. Pseudoscience - Siska De Baerdemaeker" on YouTube

#science #psuedo science #critical thinking #evidence #Youtube

[lith-myathar]

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#this is why i must chuckle when people say the stars and planets don't affect your life in any way when they want to dunk on astrology #like yes it's a psuedo-science and you don't have to believe in it or like it or whatever but bestie #that is simply categorically untrue. the big star up there is the whole reason any of this even exists and you wanna say stars #have no effect on you lmao

[ai-dont-care]

a/b/o yuri but it's loosley based off of meerkats instead of wolves

#im note even joking #yes i am #am i though? #okay but meerkats are actually somewhat usocial #much more so than wolves #where the alpha female is the only one 'allowed' to mate/get pregnant/have pups #so there's like... built in drama #it can genuinely be as wholesome or as fucked up as you want #this thought started out as what if guys used meerkats instead of wolves to use as thier metaphor for men in society #and then i was like wait #there's another more intresting use of applying wolve social psuedo science to humans

[vinnieharned]

Personality Types are Probably Bunk...

New blogpost: Some thoughts on personality tests.

I’ve always had an inexplicable attraction to personality tests. Part of this is probably part of my inclinations to want to ‘hack my productivity’ by figuring out new ways to make my brain work better, harder, and faster. But I think when it comes to a lot of tests, I just really like the idea of having a label for my tendencies whether that’s introvert/extrovert, or type A type B…

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#Myers-Briggs #personality #Personality tests #Psuedo-science #psychology

[anawfuldragon]

Sorry to my three followers. I’m an astrophysics major and insane

#Psuedo science also happens to be a huge pet peeve of mine.