Celebrity Science: Stupidity fresh from your children's role models!
Jake Farr-Wharton 35 comments
Would it surprise you to learn that many celebrities and politicians are ignoramuses? Seriously, while there are some politicians and celebrities who are renowned for their brilliance, there are others that simply must be the product of creationist and the personification of dumb-blonde joke parentage.
Before you slap me with a “stop bagging Bush” comment, give yourself an uppercut, because there are far dumber well known humans that are just as stupid. I’ve compiled a few for your amusement and hysterics.
Ex-model, charity campaigner and ex-wife of musical genius Paul McCartney Heather Mills remarked: “Did you know that when you eat meat, it stays in your gut for 40 years, putrefies and leads to a disease that kills you? That is a fact”, she vehemntly chortled before falling through an open manhole.
Science says: Bullshit! All proteins are broken down quickly by enzymes, anything that can’t be digested is excreted by faeces within a few days of ingestion.
Actress Suzanne Somers, was caught talking about ‘the pill’ – that wonderful magic wonder of medical science that keeps the weight off my shoulders – “because is it safe to take a chemical every day, and how would it be safe to take something that prevents ovulation?"
Science says: Bullshit! You crazy wierdo, there is a reason you need to take the pill every day for it to work – the chemicals do not build up over time.
Sorry Suzie; Suzanne Somers also said the following about chemotherapy after Patrick Swayze’s death from cancer: “[They] put poison in his body…Why couldn’t they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins?”
Science says: Stick to acting… chemotherapy is necessary to kill cancer, and while it is a poison, the dosage and drug are tailored so as to only affect cancer cells and leave healthy ones. That said, nutrition is important… for all people… everywhere… not just those suffering from cancer!
Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty said: “I avoid carbonated drinks – they sap all the oxygen from your body and make your skin wrinkly and dehydrated.”
Science says: What the? Yeah, dude, carbon dioxide is bad for your skin… that is why I never exhale…
The actor Roger Moore stated: “There are even surveys suggesting that eating foie gras can lead to Alzheimer’s, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. In short, eating foie gras is a tasty way of getting terminally ill.”
Science says: Intelligence fail! Foie Gras, asside from being fatal to geese, is no more than a tasty snack for humans.
Fergie, from The Black Eyed Peas, said “I do vinegar shots. It has to be organic apple cider, unfiltered. Two tablespoons. For some reason I’ve noticed a difference on my stomach.”
Science says: Aside from making your breath smell like Keith Richards on a good day, vinegar does nothing.
Sarah Palin, in an article about her autobiography “Going Rogue”, said she “didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea” or from “monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees.”
Science says: Argh, evolution has been trumped by Palin and her superior intellect! Evolution isn’t as fast as she believes scince to be suggesting. It takes several thousand, or even millions of generations for a change to be noticed. Pitty she suffers from clinically diagnosed stupid syndrome… she is so darn hot!
Got any more? Man, I love science!
Peace, nation!
Here is another one you may want to add to your list: There have actually been a few celebrities over the years who lauded the health benefits of drinking your own urine, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_therapy
Even so, stupid politicians are still scarier than celebrities because they can make stupid laws. At least Suzanne Somers is only allowed to sell bizarre exercise equipment. Although, the fact that celebrities can be this clueless and still be famous implies that the general population is even dumber. Now, that is a scary thought.
Just this week on twitter, I have run into one guy who thinks that earthquakes are caused by demons, and another who thinks that Satan controls the weather. My general estimation of the human race is pretty low right now. In fact, I find all of this to be a bit depressing.
But, there is hope. I'm sure a large glass of urine will cheer me right up.
Rodney
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 11:16 AMGeorge W Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000: "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighbourhoods."
Science says: ... huh?
I don't even know where to start. I don't even know what he was trying to say.
Trent Greguhn
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 12:51 PMHow about Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and Bill Maher thinking that vaccine shots cause autism?
http://www.generationrescue.org/
Science says: Wrong, mercury in vaccines isn't the kind you think and certainly doesn't cause autism. Ethyl-mercury is the form that is used in vaccine shots, which is less toxic than methyl-mercury. In fact, there is more methyl-mercury in a can of tuna (75 micrograms of mehtyl mercury, 3x as much) than there is ethyl-mercury in a flu shot (25 micrograms of ethyl mercury). Fear not people, get your flu shots.
And while were on Heather Mills, let's talk about her obsession with homeopathy, something so bizarre I'll never quite understand. The more diluted something is the more powerful it will work. Well, we should probably fear anything that has any type of poison ever. In fact, water must have all kinds of poison in it completely diluted, and therefore we shouldn't drink it.
Science says: Goes against does-response relationships. This is like saying less venom injected into your body is worse than more. It's complete insanity.
Jake Farr-Wharton
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 01:26 PM...in response to this comment by Rodney. I fear I may have created a word in ignoramuses, but MS Word suggested it, so I went with it.
Jake Farr-Wharton
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 01:27 PMYeah, actually, I've seen that porno too.. but you can't call them celebrities! ahaha
Jake Farr-Wharton
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 01:29 PMI assume that like all things that Bush said, it made sense until the idea found his mouth...
Jake Farr-Wharton
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 01:31 PM...in response to this comment by Trent Greguhn. They actually had some unverified research to back them up. The problem was that Jenny McCarthey's son is Autistic.
Also, because it is something that YOU do TO your children, it is easy to blame something that makes sense... even if it isn't true.
Trent Greguhn
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 02:11 PM...in response to this comment by Jake Farr-Wharton. http://www.cdc.gov/Features/AutismDecision/
It says it there. No link between autism and vaccines. Of course I'm open to debate on this, however reading on the subject I see no correlation between vaccines and autism.
Autism is a burden, certainly, but she shouldn't be blaming vaccines which save so many lives. There's good things there in her foundation, but blaming vaccine shots is the wrong way to go.
Bush: I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully
Science says: ???? O_o
3.16
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 05:03 PMLets evaluate scientists comments too
They can be as silly
April 22, 2009 Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute has a solution for sorting science from pseudoscience: publish. In the weekly SETI article for April 16 on Space.com, he said he gets lots of wacky theories in the mail and email. Whats the best way to sift through claims and find the gems? Publication.
Shostak acknowledged that science cannot pre-empt ideas that seem wacky, because just about every new theory appears wacko at birth. If proponents of new ideas would publish them, others could kick them around and evaluate them. Novel ideas do not even need to be published in refereed journals, he said, though that would be best. Supporting evidence also helps. But no matter what your opinion of your hypothesis might be, if you hope for someone to fly you to Stockholm and hand you a check, dont just call me up and lay out your case, he said. Do something better: write it up and tell the world.
Shostak made a couple of references to Darwinian evolution. Charles Darwin not only had an idea; he had a book full of data examples from finches to whales that supported his idea, he said. That might have won him Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week by itself, but this line clinched it: Aliens didnt engineer our species. The evolution of DNA did.
SETI, Oh how much fun we can have with science? SCIENCE?
Lets put more up tomorrow
Jake Farr-Wharton
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 05:14 PM...in response to this comment by Trent Greguhn. The research that she had stumbled upon was 'research'. If I remember correctly, she had read it in an 'alternative health' magazine and the 'theory' went gang-busters.
The thing is, is that I can kind of understand where she was coming from, again, that vaccinations, the MMR shot, is something you do to your child.
As you say though, completely unfounded.luk
Jake Farr-Wharton
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 05:15 PM...in response to this comment by Mikey. Science says: The things you saw in the Aqua-man comics in the 70s-80s weren't real... face-palm.
Jake Farr-Wharton
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 06:30 PM...in response to this comment by 3.16. Of course, and you can't go by the korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk.
From Wiki: Hwang made further headlines in May 2005 when he criticized U.S. President George W. Bush's policy on embryonic stem cell research. Also, Time magazine named Hwang one of its "People Who Mattered 2004," stating that Hwang "has already proved that human cloning is no longer science fiction, but a fact of life."
Science says: Hwang proved only that his research was neither viable, nor conducive to any viable result on human cloning.
3.16, I work in medical research and abhor stories like that where scientists use their access to credibility to feed their ego. Invariably, it makes science less credible to the general public... or at least the general public who watch Fox News.
V2
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 08:23 PM...in response to this comment by Trent Greguhn. So Trent
You have scientific evidence to back up your nonsense
I call foul and fool
I think you are extremely gullible and ignorant to boot. Off you go and get a flue shot. You will be better for it, the govt says so.
Trent Greguhn
Friday 8th January 2010 | 03:52 AM...in response to this comment by V2. What on Earth are you talking about? Of course vaccinations are good for you. I don't really care about flu shots because I can take a flu. But children getting whooping cough and measles is an entirely different matter.
Yes. Science has tested vaccinations. There is no link between Autism and vaccinatiosn. My government doesn't tell me I'm better for it, science does.
I hope that if you have children they don't come down with anything through lack of vaccination.
Trent Greguhn
Friday 8th January 2010 | 03:54 AM...in response to this comment by Jake Farr-Wharton. Right, but the problem is they're still supporting anti-vaccination and telling people it's bad for their children.
I do understand how she could feel responsible, hell, anyone would probably be lookin' at it that way in the same circumstances.
But now that it's proven not to be the case it's time to let people start protecting their children from disease again in the form of vaccination.
Joe Marco
Friday 8th January 2010 | 05:05 AMclassic!
V2
Friday 8th January 2010 | 08:59 AM...in response to this comment by Trent Greguhn. So Trent
I should ignore everything I have heard, and just take your word for it?
I have not the faith you require
Trent Greguhn
Friday 8th January 2010 | 10:47 AM...in response to this comment by V2. Haha, depends on where you "heard" it from.
"I should ignore everything I have heard"
Actually, this is a pretty good philosophy for the most part. But instead, I would change it to, "Listen to what people say then do independent research to find your own truth"
And no, by all means, don't take my word for it. I would start off by clicking the links I linked Jake. If you'd like I can link you some other articles on medicine and you can do your own research and form your own opinion.
Jake Farr-Wharton
Friday 8th January 2010 | 11:49 AM...in response to this comment by V2. No, you shouldn't trust what you hear, ever.
You should always research everything. EVERYTHING. Mind you, you're a christian, so just do what Fox News tells you to do.
Jake Farr-Wharton
Friday 8th January 2010 | 11:50 AMThey're famous though, the rules don't apply to them. I'm totally going to do stupid shit like that when I'm famous!
Rodney
Friday 8th January 2010 | 12:02 PM...in response to this comment by Trent Greguhn. The problem with forming your own opinion is, it's only ever going to be just that. I could read up on medical research and form my own opinion and get it totally wrong. Because I haven't bothered to do a medicine degree or chemical engineering or whatever as background, etc. The article I am reading could be thoroughly biased and I may not pick that up, through lack of background knowledge. It may be written as a sales-pitch for a new drug, sponsored by the pharmaceutical company and I may just not know. And this is true in all areas where one is not an expert.
So at the end of the day, we all have to "take someone's word for it", in many, many areas. I am by no means advocating people not thinking for themselves but don't kid yourself that you can go and "read research" on any topic and come away understanding it. There's just too much information out there and too little time. You could spend a lot of time reading bad information without knowing it or misreading good information. I could easily provide people with some incredibly detailed and yet still baffling technical jargon relating to my field of expertise, let them read every word of it and still be 98% confident they still don't understand a thing about it.
The best I can do is say that it seems pretty logical to me that vaccination is the way to go - but I don't really *know* that - I am just pretty confident that it is and pretty trusting of the experts who say it is.
That's why we have societies and professions and trades, etc. I pay a plumber because I don't have the skills or the time to get the skills. So I take his word for it when he says my plumbing is shot and needs replacing (actually, in this case I probably *wouldn't* take his word for it but you get the idea).
Papa
Friday 8th January 2010 | 12:44 PMHa, fun read Jake. In light of "3:16"
I think I am going to change my name on this site to Ezekiel 4:12. One of my favorite verses...
Trent Greguhn
Friday 8th January 2010 | 12:52 PM...in response to this comment by Rodney. You're right.
V2, heed my word. Vaccinations are God's blessing to his children.
Amen.
V2
Friday 8th January 2010 | 12:55 PMhttp://www.kindredmedia.com.au/info/a_dragon_by_the_tail_/282/1
See my link just there
Its not Fox either, and as for trusting Fox. I will leave that to you
Why the pathetic stereotypes Jake. I bet you had a public school education. It does show
If anybody is stupid enough not to see the link between MMR and Autsim then its to late, youve already been immunised
When the Australian Govt stopped immunisation being mandatory for MMR, 50% of parents declined. Autism dropped by 50%, big coincidence.
I asked for scientific evidence Trent and got rhetoric. Expected no less.
Jake Farr-Wharton
Friday 8th January 2010 | 01:32 PM...in response to this comment by V2. Acually V2, because there is no viable or verified scientific research suggesting that MMR vaccine causes autism, it is just a coincidence. Those percentages are not real mate, they're from an 'alternative media source'.
Personally, I get my flu shot every year - the yearly flu and the 'special flu' like chook or piggy - and both have mercury in them.
In fact, any pregnant woman who eats any form of fish or canned vegitable will be ingesting some mercury, trace amounts, but far more than in an MMR vaccine.
As for your question, I was in Catholic school throughout primary years, then non-denominational Christian school for high school, and my universities weren't affiliated with any religion, as far as I know.
I used the 'Fox' stereotype because you made a very 'fox viewer' type statment.
Trent Greguhn
Friday 8th January 2010 | 03:09 PM...in response to this comment by V2. I told you to read the links I sent Jake, but as you don't have time to be scrolling up, I'll do the work for you.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/Autism/Index.html
http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/advice_from_doctors/your_childs_health/mmr_vaccine_and_autism
Your ignorance of vaccines is frightening. You should do some research into the horrible diseases that ran rampant when people declined getting vaccinations.
Since I doubt you'll click on the links, let me explain it to you.
What Jake said is true. There is more mercury in fish than there is in a vaccine. That's why a pregnant women is advised against eating fish. Now, there's also a mis-communication on the TYPE of mercury used in vaccines and that are found in fish. Ethyl-mercury is used as a preservative and is vastly less poisonous then its counterpart, methyl-mercury. And methyl-mercury is what is found in fish. As I said, three times the amount of mercury in tuna than in a vaccination shot and the vaccination shot only has ethyl-mercury, not methyl.
So there's your science V2, not that you'll really believe any of it.
Mini Mel
Friday 8th January 2010 | 04:33 PM...in response to this comment by V2. i was immunised, and according to you, should be austistic.. well, sorry to disappoint your misinformed mind, but no.. im not (nor is my brother, sister, cousins, nor their children.. we must have gotten the batch that doesnt tranfer austism hey).. immunising does not cause anything to occur but the bodies defences to disease, thus causing an immunity (funnily enough)
i my opinion, all those who dont want to be immunised, or immunise their children need to live a separate existance from the rest of society who do.. for the most part, you are putting your child's life in danger from a disease. that is disgusting and quite frankly shows lack of parenting and care.
i laughed heartily at a friend (but bemoaned his poor dog) when i kept telling him he needed to get his dog vaccinated from all the dog diseases.. he didnt want to.. and i told him "wouldnt you feel the fool when your dog gets sick from a preventable disease, all because of 'your' beliefs?".. needless to say, his dog got very very ill, and almost croaked. he blamed everyone but himself for his lack of care.
but like most misinformed ppl, you will believe what you want too.
V2
Friday 8th January 2010 | 04:48 PMMy point Jake is that anybody from anywhere can say anything and provide "stats" to back up all of it
I remember when Thalidomide and DES were considered safe by the medical profession
Use your brain.
Its what God gave it to you for
V2
Friday 8th January 2010 | 04:58 PM...in response to this comment by Mini Mel. Dont be so ignorant girl
I am not even remotely suggesting everybody who receives the MMR will get autism, I am not even suggesting that their is even a link.
Use your comprehension skills and read my post again "Scientific evidence as proof"
What a silly comment, what a silly girl
I think you are disgusting by allowing your children to be drug companies lab rats
Go and study Thalidomide and DES and then preach your faith in medicine to me
Blonde?
Dogs= Children to you? I am not suprised at your comment
What a hero, you nearly saved a dog
Trent, by all means be a pin cushion
Everybody else
Research
Research
Research
V2
Friday 8th January 2010 | 05:06 PMBut wait their is more
http://preventdisease.com/news/09/080709_swine_flu_hype.shtml
I am not saying its all factual, and if you work in a hospital things might be different
Play safe
Jake Farr-Wharton
Friday 8th January 2010 | 05:19 PM...in response to this comment by V2. Scary shit hey?
As I said, I work in medical research... in a hospital. If I don't get vaccinated, then I spread the shit that I get all over my clothes, my ID, my wallet, in my hair etc to my kids. There is this cool little thing called acquired immunity or pack immunity where when one or two or a few people in a small community develop antibodies to a virus etc. then a number of people do.
It's amazing!
Actually, I just made most of that up, but it sounded cool right?
V2, the amalgamation of my dad's sperm and my mother's egg created my brain, not God.
Saturday 9th January 2010 | 11:38 AM
...in response to this comment by V2. wow.. what an angry little man you are.. did you never get a hug from your parents.. or are you angry with them for allowing you to be a "pin cushion" as you so eloquently put it?
see, the analogy i used (its a big word hey? and im not even blonde.. so who is the ignoramus now for their stereotypical ways?) for the dog is that dogs, cats, rabbits etc also are vaccinated.. and stupid people such as yourself that wont vaccinate their pets because they think its going to cause some kind of auto-immune disease or other problems... also, can you tell me where exactly in my statement that i said that dogs equaled children? to some people who cant have children, yes they can replace a child. but i can find where i stated it
wake up sunshine... why do you think that all these horrible diseases are all but eradicated in the western world? vaccinations..
how in the world do you get lab rats from drug companies when people are smart enough to care for their child to get them vaccinated? do you know how long it takes for medicines to come to the fore? or do you just read mumbo jumbo websites that tell you what to think? i'm going with the latter, because it seems to me you are very much misinformed about medicine and would rather be like the family who was recently in the news here, that would not let their child have chemotherapy for cancer... they instead whisked her away to be wrapped in mud, believing that this would cure her.. they laughed for the cameras and boldly stated "won't you all feel silly for saying that chemo is the only cure.. we will bring back our daughter cured".. she died not but a few months later. all due to common ignorance.
ps you may want to use your comprehension skills to ready though what you have typed to see the grammatical errors
V2
Saturday 9th January 2010 | 12:12 PMi was immunised, and according to you, should be austistic.. ACTUALLY NO, I DIDNT SUGGEST THAT AT ALL SWEETY
READ MY COMMENT AGAIN AND SHOW ME THAT INFERENCE
well, sorry to disappoint your misinformed mind, but no.. im not (nor is my brother, sister, cousins, nor their children.. we must have gotten the batch that doesnt tranfer austism hey).. immunising does not cause anything to occur but the bodies defences to disease, thus causing an immunity (funnily enough)
READ MY COMMENTS AGAIN ABOUT THALIDOMIDE AND D E S(diethylstilbestrol). THEY ARE ACTUALLY RELEVANT TO THIS ISSUE
BOTH VACCINATIONS, SILLY GIRL
i my opinion, all those who dont want to be immunised, or immunise their children need to live a separate existance from the rest of society who do.
WHY? DOESNT THE IMMUNISATION WORK. WHATS THE POINT OF IMMUNISING YOURSELF THEN?
for the most part, you are putting your child's life in danger from a disease. that is disgusting and quite frankly shows lack of parenting and care.
MEASLES, MUMPS, RUBELLA- SERIOUSLY LIFE THREATENING DISEASES?
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT....LIFE THREATENING
i laughed heartily at a friend (but bemoaned his poor dog) when i kept telling him he needed to get his dog vaccinated from all the dog diseases.
COMPASSIONATE LITTLE THING AREN'T YOU.
he didnt want to.. and i told him "wouldnt you feel the fool when your dog gets sick from a preventable disease, all because of 'your' beliefs?".. needless to say, his dog got very very ill, and almost croaked. he blamed everyone but himself for his lack of care.
WHAT WAS HIS BELIEFS IN LOOKING AFTER HIS DOG. ITS ONLY A BLOODY DOG?
ITS NOT A CHILD
but like most misinformed ppl, you will believe what you want too.
I WILL, I WILL BELIEVE WHAT I WANT TOO. THATS MY CHOICE FOR ME AND MY FAMILY
BY THE WAY, OUR KIDS HAD THEIR SHOTS, AT 18MONTHS
GRAMMATICAL ERRORS, ARE YOU KIDDING ME READ YOUR OWN CODED DRIBBLES
SERIOUSLY, YOU DO WHAT YOU THINK BEST
I WILL DO THE SAME.
THIS AINT WORTH MY TIME
Rodney
Thursday 7th January 2010 | 11:10 AM"Science says: What the? Yeah, dude, carbon dioxide is bad for your skin that is why I never exhale "
-You fool! You're holding all the Carbon Dioxides inside you! That's even worse!!
Nice one, Jake. :-)
Oh and no, it does not surprise me to "earn that many celebrities and politicians are ignoramuses". :-P