Some Quotes and Memes are good but unfortunately there are also many bad ones.
Here we will be criticizing and taking apart some of the lesser quotes, memes exposing their flaws and sometimes plain stupidity.
There are many bad quotes that deserve to be questioned. This one is very obvious and does not require a long explanation.
Every Accomplishment Starts With the Decision to Try.
If the Quote where written as follows it would be an entirely different story and I would not be criticizing it.
Some Accomplishment Starts With the Decision to Try.
or even
Many Accomplishment Starts With the Decision to Try.
There is really only the word “Every” that makes this quote wrong. It is wrong because not every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. In fact many accomplishments happen by accident, by luck or just pure chance.
It is this fundamentalism, a typical hallmark of the motivational movement that makes this quote so irritating. “Every Accomplishment Starts With the Decision to Try”. The word Every makes this quote an absolute without exception, without question, and that is wrong. It is small minded and irritating to the rational brain
The quote fancies itself to be wise. When in reality it is constrictive and narrow and limiting. Condensing everything down to fit inside its own limited template.
Today I will go trough the various statements on this meme. Some of the statements are true while aoters are not.
Vaccines
Work.
Vaccines
do work but they are for the most part unnecessary. The immune system
is like a muscle and should be challenged in order to stay strong.
Viruses that don’t kill you will make you stronger. Since evolution
is true vaccines should be reserved as a last resort. A society that
relies on vaccines over generations will evolve to be so weak that
they can no longer survive without it, and that is a bad thing.
Vaccines
themselves are not without risk and do contain substances that are
not healthy for the human Body.
Climate
Change is Anthropogenic.
Climate change is real and will be the death of us if we don’t act now. Climate does cycle by nature But the human contribution to global warming far succeeds that which happen by nature alone. In order to keep nature in equilibrium any carbon mass that is mined and released in to the atmosphere has to be collected and buried or contained. Any carbon mas that is derived from plants needs to return to plants.
Evolution
is True
Yes
evolution in inarguably True. It is irrelevant if God exists or not.
Evolution is true either way. If God does not exist then evolution is
the explanation of life. If God does exist then god is within
evolution and evolution would still explain physical life on in our
universe.
GMOs Are
Safe.
Actually
GMOs are a unknown. Since those that claim GMOs to be safe are in
fact not clairvoyants there is no way for them or anyone else to
predict with certainty that GMOs are safe. Some GMOs might turn out
to be safe but the odds are fairly small. History has shown before
that supposedly great human ideas turn out to be a catastrophe. The
variables in nature are endless and there is no way for scientist to
test or even predict them all. A scientifically literate person would
know that A Unknown can not be considered save. GMOs are being pushed
by industry and not true unbiased Science.
The Earth
is Not Flat.
Correct
the earth is not Flat. The earth is a Sphere. The motion of the
heavenly bodies, gravity and Kepler law al ad up. But I challenge any
flat earther to travel to the edge of the earth and take a Video or
at least a photo. No photo-shopping allowed.
Humans
Went to the Moon.
Yes they
did. The moon landing conspiracy documentary did seem fairly
convincing. And not much of a counterargument was offered for quiet a
while after its release. There is a very good episode by the
Mythbasters on the moon-landing that explains That the moon landing
did in fact happen and hoe some of these seemingly impossible things
do in fact have a logical and simple explanation.
MythBusters – NASA Moon Landing
Astrology
is Nonsense.
The the season in which one is born can have an effect on them but this has nothing to do with the stars. The astrological signs are not accurate either they fall on entirely different dates and have different durations than is claimed by astrologers, see Constellations and the Calender. Regardless of the inaccurate constellations there has been no concrete evidence to suggest that Astrology is accurate.
Aliens Did
Not Build the Pyramids.
Extraterrestrial
life probably exists, refer to the drake equation for some
probabilities. But I don’t think that aliens built the pyramids. With
enough time and workers the pyramids can be constructed using a basic
knowledge of physics
Homoeopathy
is Water.
I thought
homoeopathy was actually Vodka or some other form of alcohol. I have
seen no convincing evidence of Homoeopathy so far. However
mainstream medicine is a industry which is corrupt. Mainstream
medical science is a business and heavily biased towards profit. That
makes scientific findings within conventional medicine very prone to
be pseudo-science. If Homoeopathy was to work the pharmaceutical
industry would do everything in its power to discredit Homoeopathy.
If homoeopathy was to work it would work via a message not quantity.
That is why you could not overdose on Homoeopathy even if it turns
out to be true.
Acupuncture
Does not Work.
That one
is false. Acupuncture can and does work. Acupuncture is not a
absolute one for all solution like some of its advocates like to
claim. However acupuncture does have some value and in some instances
even a lot of value. Acupuncture be integrated in to medicine and
studied further using the scientific method. No doubt. Not something
the pharmaceutical industry would be happy about.
Chronic
Lime Disease does not Exist.
I don’t
know. I currently do not have a opinion on that one as I have never
head of it before.
Naturopathy is Pseudo-science.
Not true. Naturopathy has a lot of promise. It is simply that a corrupt medical industry refuses to accept anithing that they can not put a patency on. It is the pseudo-science of industry that should give way and aplie true science to Naturopathy and you will find that there is a lot of great benefits that can be confirmed by science and that even more can be discovered.
Detoxification
is an Absurd Concept.
There are
plenty of absurd Detox methods and especially detox products that
have little or no value. However detox itself is important and highly
valuable to your health. Toxins are very real in our modern
environment. They are present everywhere from our food, the air we
breathe, the water we drink and even the clothes we wear. Evolution
is real and all those modern human caused toxins have never been part
of our evolutionary adaptation and our bodies are therefore not
equipped to deal with them. They are the seeds for Cancer and cancer
is on the rise soon to overtake heart failure. There are reasonable
and effective detox methods that will be beneficial to ones long term
health.