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Atrociously unfunny as is the rest.
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What a wonderful Photoshop edit.
Actually what a rubbish one.
Skin tone is only part of what evokes a race based reaction.
McCain still looks like a Caucasian, albeit one who has spent a week in a tanning machine.
Obama still looks like an African-American, albeit one who has bleached his skin.
If this was a valid attempt to test race based reactions then their face shapes should have been edited, i.e. cheekbones, nose shapes, lips, etc.
Oh and congratulations to everybody who instead of commenting the picture, decided to rant and rave politically.
A note - it is a proven scientific fact that brain logic centers switch off when debating political issues if the subject identifies too closely with a given political view. Obama is not the Messiah, McCain is not the Devil, Obama is not a terrorist and McCain is not Bush II.
Actually what a rubbish one.
Skin tone is only part of what evokes a race based reaction.
McCain still looks like a Caucasian, albeit one who has spent a week in a tanning machine.
Obama still looks like an African-American, albeit one who has bleached his skin.
If this was a valid attempt to test race based reactions then their face shapes should have been edited, i.e. cheekbones, nose shapes, lips, etc.
Oh and congratulations to everybody who instead of commenting the picture, decided to rant and rave politically.
A note - it is a proven scientific fact that brain logic centers switch off when debating political issues if the subject identifies too closely with a given political view. Obama is not the Messiah, McCain is not the Devil, Obama is not a terrorist and McCain is not Bush II.
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"//Now, before you all scream "hoax!" and pillory the MIT professor for falling for the trick (and me for posting it), please consider that many of today’s scientific dogmas were once crazy ideas that were initially dismissed out of hand by the majority of scientists at the time."
Every nutter says "They laughed at Einstein too."
No, 'they' didn't. And even if 'they' did than that would still not mean that being laughed at is a sign of being right.
I'm going to pillory you for raising the nutter laugh argument. Do you know how many perpetual motion hoaxes there have been and that their inventors have always compared themselves to the 'misunderstood' geniuses of the past?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Einstein created a sophisticated mathematical explanation which gradually won over doubters when experimentally validated (the experimental results were actually fiddled with but that's a different story). He didn't whack together his theories in his garage with a hammer and pliers.
Oh and nobody laughed at Heisenberg either.
As far as Stanley Prusiner goes, if its your field than you should know about Tikvah Alper, John Stanley Griffith and Francis Crick. Prusiner did not pull prions out of thin air.
There is another major difference between these outstanding scientists and a garage inventor - the scientists created theories to explain nature, they didn't build impossible machines. An inventor is not necessarily a scientist.
Every nutter says "They laughed at Einstein too."
No, 'they' didn't. And even if 'they' did than that would still not mean that being laughed at is a sign of being right.
I'm going to pillory you for raising the nutter laugh argument. Do you know how many perpetual motion hoaxes there have been and that their inventors have always compared themselves to the 'misunderstood' geniuses of the past?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Einstein created a sophisticated mathematical explanation which gradually won over doubters when experimentally validated (the experimental results were actually fiddled with but that's a different story). He didn't whack together his theories in his garage with a hammer and pliers.
Oh and nobody laughed at Heisenberg either.
As far as Stanley Prusiner goes, if its your field than you should know about Tikvah Alper, John Stanley Griffith and Francis Crick. Prusiner did not pull prions out of thin air.
There is another major difference between these outstanding scientists and a garage inventor - the scientists created theories to explain nature, they didn't build impossible machines. An inventor is not necessarily a scientist.
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The person who designed this has no idea how a Venn works.
This would work if the main categories were Things crazy rednecks own, things alien conspiracy theorists own and things Michael Jackson owned. At the overlaps we'd for instance have firearms for conspiracy theorists. Or flying saucers for Michael and the alien conspiracy theorits.