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30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions My high school biology teacher was a super religious creationist. He taught us about evolution while telling us how he thought it was all bulls**t. I always wondered why people go into professions that are directly opposed to their beliefs. Seems like a miserable existence.

Zeno_The_Alien , pxhere Report

Final score:

262points

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Colin Matthews 3 years ago

It's because they want to prove it to themselves to try and answer the huge doubts they have about religious dogma

48points

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I’ve worked with an aerospace/aeronautical engineer once that believed the earth was flat. It was so weird because in order for the calculations to function properly, you have to take into account of the earth not being flat.

humanCharacter , pxhere Report

Final score:

260points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago (edited)

This is getting ridiculous

106points

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I’m an ICU nurse of about 10 years. I would occasionally float to our regular, non-icu and non-covid floors. Plenty of nurses who denied how serious covid was.

The cognitive dissonance is real. Of course none of them came up to help on our covid units

ThisisMalta · , Hush Naidoo Report

Final score:

251points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

Really sad

49points

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30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions Degree is Psychology here. So many peers with devout faith, one brain dead moron took psychology as a way “to know god better” he told me and convert more to Jesus.

Once took a course literally called, “Belief in Weird Things” which was for Psych majors. 300 students enrolled, nearly half dropped out because they were offended at some point when we broke down their weird beliefs.

Final score:

196points

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Sian Edwards 3 years ago

I'm all for people having faith in any religion or moral code, but they have to accept that others don't necessarily share those beliefs.

83points

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions Used to be a science teacher and I always got flack on the evolution chapter from parents that were doctors. Like babe I hope you at least believe in bacteria and viruses evolving...

I've also come across many nurses who don't think mental illness is real.

deathbychips2 , Andrew Neel Report

Final score:

195points

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Bowtechie 3 years ago

I once had an uber driver who claimed she was a semester shy of completing her nursing degree. She said vaccines caused my T1 Diabetes. I was diagnosed so young I didn't even have all my first doses yet.

69points

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions Professional cook here. Near the beginning of the pandemic I heard about a Sous Chef I worked with in the past being an anti-masker. I asked through the grapevine why he washes his hands before and after handling food and the reply was “that’s common sense”. But somehow the scientific medical community saying that masks help prevent illnesses is just a big hoax. It’s beyond frustrating.

SilkwormAbraxas , Tanya Gorelova Report

Final score:

194points

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Robert T 3 years ago

So he'll wash his hands, but will still breathe a respiritory-born virus over people's food. Damn I'm going to need a big bat.

52points

BEANSijustloveBEANS , Fabian Horst Report

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions My friends uncle is a '5G gives you cancer while the government controls your mind' conspiracy theorist. He's a 5G installer

Final score:

172points

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Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago (edited)

You should play along and ask him how he can do that to people and sleep at night.

122points

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions My mom's really into homepoathy bulls**t (treating illnesses with the souls of elements or whatever). She's a pharmacist.

S0mber_ , Bru-nO Report

Final score:

168points

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

I think the homeopathy trend has more to do with the fact that many people haven't found the medical help they needed from traditional medicine.

68points

#10

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I worked with a former airline PILOT who was/is a flat earther. He has since went back to being a pilot but I am not sure if he still thinks Earth is flat. When I pressed him on being a former pilot and believing malarkey he claimed the schools indoctrination into round earth didn’t work on him and that the pilots windscreen was a very thick and curved glass that made everything appear to be curved.

epidemic , imcckpit Report

Final score:

167points

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Roger Haywood 3 years ago

Flattards. You gotta love them. When I say love, I mean laugh at.

89points

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30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I remember a few Evangelists and one Catholic ( odd since most Catholics I know aren't creationists) in my major (geography) saying they knew the truth about the age of the earth, but had to lie on tests (classes like oil&gas, hydrology, geology,etc.) in order to get good grades.

How Christian are you when you break one of the 10 commandments and lie about your faith in order to get ahead?

Final score:

166points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

You are a typical hypocritical kind

58points

#12

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions Last career I had, knew people who were flat earthers and moon landing deniers...we were all satellite communications engineers.

Nerdeinstein , pxhere Report

Final score:

139points

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I I 3 years ago

flat earthers have members all over the globe , thats their FB quote

77points

WhaleIfItIsntJonah , Polina Tankilevitch Report

#13

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I work with a medication aide that refuses to take medication and actively preaches god>medication. Apparently god isn’t paying her bills so she still keeps coming to work.

Final score:

130points

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Roger Haywood 3 years ago

That is being a hypocrite.

47points

#14

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I know someone who doesn’t believe in germ theory. We work for a company that builds water sterilization.

Link9454 , Anna Shvets Report

Final score:

129points

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Sue Hazlewood 3 years ago

Since when were germs classed as a theory?

28points

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#15

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I worked with a wildland firefighter who was a climate change denier. We fought more wild fires. We got way more OT over 3 years. Yet didnt believe it was true science and started to complain he couldnt enjoy his summers due to work....lol

Final score:

125points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

Not at all surprising. My farrier is a professional fire fighter (his group takes their rig all over the Western US to fight those epic fires) big climate denier. Great farrier.

24points

#16

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I know a dude who works in the oil field who doesn't believe in dinosaurs. "Fossil fuels"

roosell1986 , pxhere Report

Final score:

124points

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Don't Look 3 years ago

He’s not right obviously but fossil fuels aren’t actually dinosaur-based.

57points

#17

I work with someone who thinks bloodletting is a cure-all.

I work in a children's cancer ward.

Auto-Harper-587 Report

Final score:

121points

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Roger Haywood 3 years ago

What is this? The dark ages?

63points

#18

I work with a locomotive engineer who is a flat earther and also said that gravity is a hoax. I can laugh at the flat earth part but not believing in gravity on a fright train in the mountains seems a little crazy to me.

Blackflipflop Report

Final score:

118points

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Robert T 3 years ago

Does he work on the ghost trains at an amusement park? (Just wondering what a fright train is)

32points

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#19

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I work with two anti-vaxxers. They are nurses who work with elderly patients.

Final score:

112points

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Serbob 3 years ago

Recently found out that an anti-vaxxer worked at my step-father's retirement home and contracted Covid. The home's response was that with human rights they couldn't force her to get vaccinated. We all wanted her fired. We have the right to refuse her access to our relatives. It turned into a real s**t show.

4points

#20

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I used to work with a geologist who used to think minerals ("crystals") could heal you even from cancer.

xenascus , Antranias Report

Final score:

106points

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Sian Edwards 3 years ago

Which is hilarious because some minerals can cause cancer or are dangerously toxic. Asbestos and cinnabar, for example.

62points

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#21

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I work in defense. No one there believes government creates jobs. We only get paid by government.

farmguy111 , Touch Of Light Report

Final score:

101points

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Colin Matthews 3 years ago

And by defence, we mean attack.just gotta push out the propaganda

27points

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#22

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I work with a cancer biologist who fell for the alkaline diet hype. She got persuaded by somebody who is 1000x less educated in the matter than she is.

Final score:

94points

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Sue Hazlewood 3 years ago

Hadn't heard of this 'diet'

19points

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#23

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I’m an aircraft mechanic and I work with a guy who believes in chemtrails.

Final score:

91points

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Guido Pisano 3 years ago

well water IS chemical

29points

#24

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions My mom is a geologist and she worked with someone who was a young earth creationist. That person's excuse was "god created rocks that were 4.6 billion years old". I guess if it works it works, but that makes no sense to me

IWishIWasAGoomba , mdherren Report

Final score:

88points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

Hard to argue with a marshmallow

51points

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30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions One of my teachers (it wasn't a biology teacher) made me do a homework to prove that dinosaurs aren't mammals as, for him, mammals are animals with lungs.

Cocokill , Fausto García-Menéndez Report

Final score:

87points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

I’d send _him_ to the principal’s office

42points

Nicola Roberts 3 years ago

All elephants are grey. Not all grey animals are elephants. In the age of enlightenment they figured this out 400 years ago.

17points

Robert T 3 years ago

Dinosaurs aren't mammals, they're reptiles. Dictionary definition: any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals. However his definition of a mammal is not correct. A mammal is something with mammaries.

15points

Becky Samuel 3 years ago

Dinosaurs aren't reptiles unless we define birds as reptiles. The statement "mammals are animals with lungs" is correct but not sufficient to define a mammal, but that doesn't make it false.

8points

Samantha Lomb 3 years ago

We know

5points

H Edwards 3 years ago

The problem is that a lot of people seem to think that 'animal' just means 'mammal'.

2points

Martha Meyer 3 years ago

That teacher is in desperate need of a brain transplant.

10points

Canadian potato 3 years ago

don't make a poor soul take his brain!

3points

Marco Conti 3 years ago

Mammals: Mammaries. Mammals are animals with boobs!

9points

SirWriteALot 3 years ago

Milk glands. Must not be boobs.

0points

Wyn Williams 3 years ago

Non avain dinosaurs are reptiles and dinosaurs had lungs..

5points

Lara Verne 3 years ago

So according to him, birds are mammals, because they have lungs?

3points

Rain WhiteBuffalo 3 years ago

I once knew someone who did not believe bugs were animals.

3points

Samantha Lomb 3 years ago

I had a student describe a bat as a bird. This was an English ( EFL) class for college kids and they were supposed to be practicing vocab by describing words on a list. I had to explain bats are mammals like humans. They have live births and they produce milk.

5points

Carol Emory 3 years ago

Actually, dinosaurs aren't mammals, they're reptiles. Mammals give birth to live young. Reptiles lay eggs. Mammals are warm blooded. Reptiles are not warm blooded, they need alternative sources of heat like other animals or the sun.

2points

John Baker 3 years ago

Some reptiles are live-bearers and some mammals lay eggs. Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, and many were feathered.

10points

Bex 3 years ago

Wait, am I the only one here who wants to know HOW you (the OP) completes the homework to his satisfaction?? Did you write a paper, and if so, where did you find your evidence???

2points

PeachPossum 3 years ago

Maybe he was joking and it was a trick question... but somehow I think not. :(

1point

Roxy Eastland 3 years ago

Isn't it a diaphragm that only mammals have?

1point

Leodavinci 3 years ago

Dinos weren't mammals.

1point

Hollysmom 3 years ago

How did dinosaurs breath?

1point

mcborge1 3 years ago

Very loudly I bet. :D

6points

David carro 3 years ago

Are you sure you understood the instructions correctly, or were you a distracted child, looking at how flies fly while getting the homework?

0points

Jace 3 years ago

What.

0points

clive apps 3 years ago

Dinosaurs are not mammals. They do not have mammary glands. Some recent discoveries point to a possibility of some types being warm blooded, not like other reptiles.

0points

Allen Lavine 3 years ago

I hope they gave that teacher a drug test

0points

Keyy 3 years ago

what !?

0points

Charlotte A. 3 years ago

Because we all breathe with our mammary glands...

0points

WorldNeedsReboot 3 years ago

Many laid eggs, so...

0points

Marie 3 years ago

I.... so help me... I wanna read that paper.

0points

Clark Meldrum 3 years ago

dinosaurs are reptiles.

0points

Stephanie IV 3 years ago

Oh.

0points

Tom Hanlin 3 years ago

Dinosaurs weren't mammals but, did have lungs so, I'm not clear on what his idea was. Nor have I heard of "a homework" so, maybe this is just a fluke of the English translation.

0points

mcborge1 3 years ago

I'm sorry but I would have laughed in that teachers face. Detention be damned.

0points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Well, good thing the teacher didn't teach biology, because he clearly failed it.

0points

Ted Expert 3 years ago

I can't believe how many people think writing "dinosaurs are reptiles" in the comments makes you clever. It's a post about dumb fools; pointing out that the dumb fool is wrong is kinda obvious. Well done for pointing out the obvious.

-2points

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30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I worked with a guy who’s previous job had been designing missile launch systems who also thought the earth was flat, I’m not entirely sure how he slept at night

Final score:

81points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

But is there night?

32points

Practical-Purchase-9 , National Cancer Institute Report

#27

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I worked with someone who had a PhD in genetics but was young earth creationist. She couldn’t seem to comprehend phylogenetic diagrams, useless as supervisor to PhD students, seeing as she was incapable of discussing a number of highly relevant topics.

Final score:

81points

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Samantha Lomb 3 years ago

Honestly, research, publication and supervisory skills are totally different anyway. I know a number of PhDs who were horrific supervisors. One actually got banned by the department from taking female grad students as she was horrifically emotionally abusive to them and they had to scramble to find new supervisors. No one would ever warn the incoming students though.

22points

#28

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions My 4th grade science teacher and my 9th grade history teacher are moon landing deniers...

Alpha_Eagle222 , WikiImages Report

Final score:

80points

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Amelia Bedelia 3 years ago

If someone tells you they don't believe in the moon landing, just look them dead in the eye and say "you believe in the moon?!?!?"

30points

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#29

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I had to teach a historical geology class because the geologist who was supposed to teach is was a Young Earth Creationist.

MoniMoksith , Diego Delso Report

Final score:

74points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

Un-freakin-believable

19points

howmuchforthissquirr , RF._.studio Report

#30

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I've met a PhD in Chemistry from a top 5 university that was anti-vax. Their PhD work actually involved the analysis of heavy metals in an environment and how it impacted a childs likelihood to develop autism. I got into it with them, and they were able to reference a handful of scholarly papers to justify their stance.

Final score:

63points

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Samantha Lomb 3 years ago

Honestly, having a PhD myself, its not about intelligence but more about the ability to complete tasks on time. A lot of really smart people never finish cause they are either perfectionists or terrible at time management. And A LOT of scholars cherry pick information to fit their points of view

62points

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30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I had an ancient civ professor tell us that we know that the Epic of Gilgamesh was true because the bible proved it.

My notes from my 1 day of class included a lot of [Citation Needed] tags. I dropped it shortly thereafter.

NerdCrush , mentatdgt Report

Final score:

21points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

19points

#32

30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I still don't get how a school mate who was studying biology and science, and who won science fair prizes every year, is now an evangelical Christian, who says it all happens because God. I thought it went the other way, (the more you science the less religion), but she certainly went the other way.

LDan613 , Chokniti Khongchum Report

Final score:

17points

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Carol Emory 3 years ago

Never assume. I had a classmate that came into our entomology class and tried to get us to sign up for the Atheist Club. I told her, just because you believe in science doesn't mean you can't believe in God. The two are not mutually exclusive. Even Pope John Paul II admitted that science has proven that nature is responsible for creating the physical man, but no science, no matter how perfect, can explain when God put the soul in man....and he's right.

2points

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30 People Share Stories About "Professionals" Who Had Some Controversial Opinions I worked as a lab assistant for a fundamental Baptist who graduated from Liberty University. Believes the earth is 6,000 years old. Was an x-ray crystallography lab so it not like he didn't believe in matter or something, but was still a creationist.

glivinglavin · , Jonathan Borba Report

Final score:

16points

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Samantha Lomb 3 years ago (edited)

Liberty is not an accredited university. Cannot believe an actual organization accepted his degree. That a Liberty grad believed all that bullshit is not surprising at all

17points

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sofacushionfort 3 years ago (edited)

Steven Brandenburg was a licensed pharmacist by the state of Wisconsin who deliberately left 500 doses for the Moderna vaccine fall below temperature, which were then injected into hopeful patients ineffectively. The ignorant will only do evil if the enlightened allow them where only good is needed.

29points

fuggnuggins 3 years ago

Nice bit of gossip. What's your point? While I'm here: you know the name of the inventor of mRNA? His name is Robert Malone: Spike protein is very dangerous, it's cytotoxic (Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Bret Weinstein) https://youtu.be/Du2wm5nhTXY ; Maybe it was the worst choice for the best reason.

0points

Jan Jansen 3 years ago (edited)

The youtube show 'Today I Found Out' did an episode on the flat earth conspiracy and concluded with (roughtly) these words: "It's always imprtant to note that many of the core psychological quirks that make flat earthers believe the earth is flat in spite of all the evidence of the contrary, exist in all of us. We all have firmly held beliefs that simply arent true and are based on the same level of evidence. Yet we tenuously cling to them and no amount of evidence is going to convince us otherwise. But luckily for most of us the absurdity isn't quite so easy to spot, allowing us to feel superior to those with alternate ideas."

20points

Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago

Albert Einstein said that the two most common things in the Universe were hydrogen and stupidity. A lot of these dips have no business being in their professions!

0points

Meike H 3 years ago

Very nice

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Steve 3 years ago

Even so, those flat earthers are crazy! They completely ignore the existence of the 6th dimension - Nicholas Cage!

-1point

Jace 3 years ago

All of us? I highly doubt that. Most people? Sadly probable. This is why most people scare the s**t out of me. I feel like I’m the only sober person in a vehicle full of drunk people who won’t let me drive.

-2points

Sian Edwards 3 years ago

As a species, the human race is f****d.

15points

Kate Yeti 3 years ago

I was reprimanded by a nurse at my ob/gyn for choosing to get my tubes tied after having twins, our first and only children. Found out later she had 10 kids and was devoutly Mormon. I'm a Protestant with tattoos, wild colored hair, and a comprehensive knowledge of power tools. I live in an area with a high Mormon population. With very few exceptions, most of them are extremely nice and would never do something like that! (The yelling at me for my choices, I mean. There are LOTS of kids around here 😏)

7points

Bowtechie 3 years ago

I work for a major hospital and one of my coworkers refuses to get the flu shot each year because she doesn't like the side effects and claims she's never had the flu so what's the point. I used to work in front of her in the office before the pandemic and I'm so glad we work from home now. I'm high risk for everything due to an autoimmune disease and she knew it, but didn't want to protect herself and others because she didn't like how the shot made her feel (I have violent reactions to vaccines because of aforementioned autoimmune disease, but I suck it up because the flu could literally kill me). You work for a HOSPITAL, you know perfectly well healthy people can get horrible reactions to the flu all the time and it's worse when they don't have any history of the vaccine. They offer you this for FREE, just get it FFS and stop being selfish. She has a kid in the same boat as me now, so I'm hoping she changes her tune.

7points

Toujin C'Thlu 3 years ago

I'm wondering where some of these people got their degrees.

7points

Becky Samuel 3 years ago

A degree does not prove that someone has good reasoning or critical skills. A degree merely proves that the student is capable of producing material that satisfies certain basic criteria.

12points

Martha Meyer 3 years ago

Christmas gift from Santa Claus?

1point

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Side of a weetbix box?

-1point

WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

There are sometimes promotions where you get a degree with the purchase of 2 cases of beer. It's kind of equivalent to how some people got their driver's license with the purchase of a condom.

-1point

respulero 3 years ago

I really hate stupid people claiming the stupidity of others, being right or not.

3points

Unwelcomed Guest 3 years ago

With Anti-Vaxers no amount of logic or reason is going to sway their opinion so you really need to fight fire with fire so I have come up with a batshit crazy conspiracy to combat them. My conspiracy theory is that the Anti-Vax movement was created by an evil patriarchal cabal that is determine to bring down feminism and lock women out of having careers of their own. Rational for this is before vaccines were readily available the child mortality rate was 20 times than it is today (and this is the case only 100 years ago go back further and it was a lot higher) so if a couple wanted a couple of kids that reached adulthood they needed to have 5-6 kids just to hedge their bets (in developed counties where Vaccines are readily available and accepted not only does it reduce infant deaths from disease but also reduces SIDS by 50%) which means the years that women spend today building and developing their career was instead spent pumping out and looking after babies.

3points

fuggnuggins 3 years ago

This is one of the sleaziest, gossipy, low standard pages I've seen on this site. And sleaze is this site's specialty.

2points

Radek Suski 3 years ago (edited)

This clearly shows what I am preaching for years; our educational system is pretty broken. You literally can be an idiot but with a bit of cleverness you can slip through the system to get academical titles. There is a guy in the German neonazi party who is a history teacher. How the hell you know our history and still be a homophobic racist? There are people with doctor or professor titles who firmly believe the earth is flat. Our system is almost 100 years old and barely evolved for decades

2points

Alexei Arntzen 3 years ago

A lot of the comments here mock professionals for having doubts/questions within their field of expertise. But maybe people have these doubts BECAUSE they have extra knowledge about the topic. I have a PhD in immunology and am quite wary of the COVID vaccines, because I know how it works, and how it is completely different from a conventional vaccine. Meanwhile, 9 out of 10 people I talk to have no idea how the novel mRNA vaccine works, and think I am a loony anti-vaxxer. Oooook

1point

cassiushumanmother 3 years ago

That is called ultracrepidarianism. Everyone do it, we have an opinion on everything without having any knowledge in this field. We all do that. Against or pro nuclear power?: unable to explain trully how this work but still opinionated, it's valid on every topic, it's human nature. As a ethologist, sometimes i comment about animals facts or share some knowledge and i'm downvoted, because you know "i had many dogs in my life so i know better than a scientist who spend 5 years to study that field" or "because my vet said so" ( a vet is specialised in medicine, not behavioral biology/psychology for example). But we all are ultracrepidarians, it's human to pick a side even (and sometimes even strongly) if we truly know nothing about the matter. I know that i know nothing.

-2points

Suzy the observer 3 years ago

I love these robust discussions! Most Pandas restore my trust in humanity which gets a beating regularly.

1point

K Witmer 3 years ago

This is just depressing. We have all this access to education and people just squander it out of stubbornness and being easily manipulated

1point

Dave Jones 3 years ago

It amazes me how all the Pandas are so SURE of their beliefs. They post that anyone that disagrees must me crazy. Use some humility. Higher power, vaccines, CDC, climate change, racism, Biden, Trump...believe or not your opinions on the might be wrong

1point

Seabeast 3 years ago

Science, unlike religion, isn't about "belief". It's about testing things and proving whether they work or don't.

4points

Roger Haywood 3 years ago

Most of these I had a laugh at.

1point

Jace 3 years ago

I really got to stop reading lists like this. It just leaves me extremely pissed off and disgusted.

0points

Mer☕️🧭☕️ 3 years ago

Seems to me there are a lot of people hired to do jobs they can't actually - or ethically - do. Also, why are so many people afraid of reality? Why do they want so hard to believe that the earth is flat? That it isn't as old as it is?

0points

Damon Tripodi 3 years ago

Okay these are getting ridiculous.

0points

Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago

College level course and we had a guest speaker. He was a research physician who had recently studied the efficacy of acupuncture. They put up a cloth sight barrier so the patient could not see what they were using. Turns out if you are poked with a toothpick you have the same result as being poked with an acupuncture needle. So, confirmation bias leading to placebo effect. One student was so upset she yelled at the speaker and left the room Sorry not sorry to burst your bubble.

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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago

🤦‍♀️

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Olesia Kovalenko 3 years ago

I'm an ICU doctor and many of my colleagues and nurses still have not gotten the vaccine because they "don't need it" or "it needs to be studied more" or '"it might give me infertility"

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

This is a very sad post.... i want to cry really....

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mutzolina 3 years ago

My grandpa used to call these kinds of people: "graduated idiots"

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Kateryna 3 years ago

Why would people take over a profession that challenges their beliefs? And how can they believe things despite evidence? I sense a lot of existential crisises in their lives

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sofacushionfort 3 years ago

Well, I was in the US military, despite being an ardent pacifist. Though I will admit that being in the US military is what turned me into a pacifist.

7points

Never Stop Twinkling™ 3 years ago

To be honest not many of these are that surprising now that I think about it. Sometimes even the most intelligent beings tend to possess questionable or outright dumb opinions, especially some of the widely regarded and celebrated philosophers of the past.

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Sabed Hussain 3 years ago

Are all these stories of America?

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Dave Jones 3 years ago

Yes, because everywhere else in the world people are brilliant and have perfect knowledge of the truth.

6points

senator brown 3 years ago

TRUE LIFE TESTIMONY OF HOW MY DAD WAS CURED FROM CANCER.> I am Brown. My Dad has been suffering from (CANCER) disease for the past 2 years. He had constant pain, During the first year, we all had faith in God that I would be healed someday. This disease started circulating all over his body, after going through ( 5 ) chemotherapy and Radiatherapy for 1year and he has been taking Cytotoxic, monoclonal Antibodies, (MABs) treatment from his doctor he was tired of life, he wanted to commit suicide, few months ago i decided to go on search in the internet if i could get any information concerning the cure for Cancer, on my search i saw a testimony of Mrs Sharon from USA who has been cured from (CANCER) by this great Dr. Alabi and she drop the email address of Dr. Alabi: bestherbalcure@gmail.com.. and also advised we should contact him for any sickness that he would be of help, so i wrote to Dr. Alabi telling him about my Dad (CANCER) he sent us the natural herbal remedies through D

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Arenite 3 years ago

Humans are going to stupid themselves out of existence.

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Luna Moth 3 years ago

Okay.... its time to start the down voting. This site is filled with one of the largest groups of sheep and close minded people I have ever seen. You all make me lose any hope I ever had for humanity. It makes me physically ill to see how far behind as a race we are. I couldn't care less about your comments and "opinions". You'll all down vote this because you are prisoners of your own mind. I feel so sorry for you all...

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Fred L. 3 years ago

You know whenever somebody uses "sheep" as a degoratory term I view the post to be utter bollocks. Of course just one of those opinions you don´t care about while still writing yours.

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

If you feel physically ill for more than a short time, it might be worth seeking medical help. It could be psychological or physical or even the more obvious rhetorical hyperbole, but better to be safe than sorry

1point

Sakeena 3 years ago

There’s medicine for whatever you’re dealing with here.

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Dave Jones 3 years ago

I just said that.

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Scyth 3 years ago

It's not just this website unfortunately. These people hate those who burst their bubble with the truth, just like george orwell said.

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MrLoufoque 3 years ago

My cousin is a nurse and rants about how Covid vaccines are ineffective. So, yeah...

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Dave Jones 3 years ago

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Tuncer Coşar 3 years ago (edited)

80-90% of all Middleeast population do not believe in Evolution including scientists, engineers, doctors, professors etc; even the biologists

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ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago (edited)

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Sabed Hussain 3 years ago

hope u r alwys inside ur house... so there is less possibility of spreading the virus... u maybe healthy... good fr u..

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

Bad side effects for a few days... compared to the potential of millions of people dying. Interesting how self absorbed you are when you weigh out two options.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

I had bad side effects. So what? FYI, @Ivan, "pretty young and healthy" still dies of Covid ---- or has asymptomatic Covid and ends up wtih heart/lung damage for life anyway. Please, get a vaccine. EVERY vaccine ever has had bad side effects. We're seeing it on the news now b/c fear sells. In fact, the risks are quite low with Modern and Pfizer compared to, say, *COVID*. Don't count on Novavax. Every vax will have an issue. They always have, they always will, because we are not all identical. Good luck.

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Don't Look 3 years ago

Meh… fair enough.

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Tina Hugh 3 years ago

Your body, your choice

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Scyth 3 years ago

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sofacushionfort 3 years ago (edited)

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fuggnuggins 3 years ago

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Jan Jansen 3 years ago (edited)

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Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago

Albert Einstein said that the two most common things in the Universe were hydrogen and stupidity. A lot of these dips have no business being in their professions!

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Meike H 3 years ago

Very nice

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Steve 3 years ago

Even so, those flat earthers are crazy! They completely ignore the existence of the 6th dimension - Nicholas Cage!

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Jace 3 years ago

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Sian Edwards 3 years ago

As a species, the human race is f****d.

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Kate Yeti 3 years ago

7points

Bowtechie 3 years ago

7points

Toujin C'Thlu 3 years ago

I'm wondering where some of these people got their degrees.

7points

Becky Samuel 3 years ago

A degree does not prove that someone has good reasoning or critical skills. A degree merely proves that the student is capable of producing material that satisfies certain basic criteria.

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Martha Meyer 3 years ago

Christmas gift from Santa Claus?

1point

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Side of a weetbix box?

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

There are sometimes promotions where you get a degree with the purchase of 2 cases of beer. It's kind of equivalent to how some people got their driver's license with the purchase of a condom.

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respulero 3 years ago

I really hate stupid people claiming the stupidity of others, being right or not.

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Unwelcomed Guest 3 years ago

3points

fuggnuggins 3 years ago

This is one of the sleaziest, gossipy, low standard pages I've seen on this site. And sleaze is this site's specialty.

2points

Radek Suski 3 years ago (edited)

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Alexei Arntzen 3 years ago

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cassiushumanmother 3 years ago

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Suzy the observer 3 years ago

I love these robust discussions! Most Pandas restore my trust in humanity which gets a beating regularly.

1point

K Witmer 3 years ago

This is just depressing. We have all this access to education and people just squander it out of stubbornness and being easily manipulated

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Dave Jones 3 years ago

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Seabeast 3 years ago

Science, unlike religion, isn't about "belief". It's about testing things and proving whether they work or don't.

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Roger Haywood 3 years ago

Most of these I had a laugh at.

1point

Jace 3 years ago

I really got to stop reading lists like this. It just leaves me extremely pissed off and disgusted.

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Mer☕️🧭☕️ 3 years ago

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Damon Tripodi 3 years ago

Okay these are getting ridiculous.

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Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago

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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago

🤦‍♀️

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Olesia Kovalenko 3 years ago

I'm an ICU doctor and many of my colleagues and nurses still have not gotten the vaccine because they "don't need it" or "it needs to be studied more" or '"it might give me infertility"

0points

Vicky Z 3 years ago

This is a very sad post.... i want to cry really....

0points

mutzolina 3 years ago

My grandpa used to call these kinds of people: "graduated idiots"

0points

Kateryna 3 years ago

Why would people take over a profession that challenges their beliefs? And how can they believe things despite evidence? I sense a lot of existential crisises in their lives

0points

sofacushionfort 3 years ago

Well, I was in the US military, despite being an ardent pacifist. Though I will admit that being in the US military is what turned me into a pacifist.

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Never Stop Twinkling™ 3 years ago

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Sabed Hussain 3 years ago

Are all these stories of America?

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Dave Jones 3 years ago

Yes, because everywhere else in the world people are brilliant and have perfect knowledge of the truth.

6points

senator brown 3 years ago

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Arenite 3 years ago

Humans are going to stupid themselves out of existence.

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Luna Moth 3 years ago

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Fred L. 3 years ago

You know whenever somebody uses "sheep" as a degoratory term I view the post to be utter bollocks. Of course just one of those opinions you don´t care about while still writing yours.

1point

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

1point

Sakeena 3 years ago

There’s medicine for whatever you’re dealing with here.

1point

Dave Jones 3 years ago

I just said that.

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Scyth 3 years ago

It's not just this website unfortunately. These people hate those who burst their bubble with the truth, just like george orwell said.

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MrLoufoque 3 years ago

My cousin is a nurse and rants about how Covid vaccines are ineffective. So, yeah...

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Dave Jones 3 years ago

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Tuncer Coşar 3 years ago (edited)

80-90% of all Middleeast population do not believe in Evolution including scientists, engineers, doctors, professors etc; even the biologists

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ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago (edited)

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Sabed Hussain 3 years ago

hope u r alwys inside ur house... so there is less possibility of spreading the virus... u maybe healthy... good fr u..

5points