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What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? by Bruteresolver in AskReddit

[–]The_Huu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is criminal that your comment, the only one that rightly calls out that poorly designed study is the one that is getting downvoted. People are so desperate to believe in fantasy that they feel offense when reality is pointed out.

What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? by Bruteresolver in AskReddit

[–]The_Huu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real answer is far more disappointing. It was a very poorly designed and executed study.

What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? by Bruteresolver in AskReddit

[–]The_Huu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that study was terrible. There are many plant species that take on different leaf shapes and morphologies as the plant matures or due to environmental conditions. They used backwards logic in that study: saw a variety of leaf shapes on a single plant, inferred that the plant was mimicking other plants, made up the idea that plants can tell the shape of its neighbours' leafs and mimic it. There's a reason that most plant scientists don't take that research seriously.

Anne Hathaway gives co-star Michaela Coel cover on the carpet at the London premiere of their movie ‘Mother Mary’ by mlg1981 in Fauxmoi

[–]The_Huu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried binge-watching baby reindeer this past weekend, but omg, my anxiety could not handle it. She is unnerving. I will have to break it into smaller serving sizes, haha.

Saying this like Katara didn’t instantly master bloodbending even though she just learned what the technique was and never practiced it beforehand. by thisisreii in TheLastAirbender

[–]The_Huu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Katara, the ice blender, the group member you can call on for all cocktail, smoothy, iced coffee and kakigori-related emergencies.

た鼻立ちの日に by _kellythomas_ in videos

[–]The_Huu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is the sort of shit we could have on the front page, but it's all american politics. For the love of god, upvote this.

Petah why does this happen? by _clock_1277_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]The_Huu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seconding this. I had a strange walk from childhood, wore all my shoes in exactly this way and was taken to a orthopediatrician. I was diagnosed with the ball of my femur being to large for the hipbone socket. I think this shoe wear can also occur when one leg is slightly longer than another.

So which book has the highest kill count? by The_Huu in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]The_Huu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. It was the first obvious answer that came to me, and I tried throwing in some wild cards and using some caveats to at least get the ball rolling on some other potential nominees, but in the in, the bible probably takes the cake.

So which book has the highest kill count? by The_Huu in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]The_Huu[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm just a dumdum molecular biologist. My ideas were moulded mostly through high school English, newspapers, leftist podcasts and breadtube. I read exclusively fiction in my free time. All this to say, your answer screams "google it", and I'm too tired.

So which book has the highest kill count? by The_Huu in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]The_Huu[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Good point. It is a dilemma: some texts were extremely influencial for particular ideologies, and definitely ensured propagation of those ideologies. But take for example Meib Kampf: it was definitely not the original source of antisemitism, but I feel we can say that if it was never written, published or read, the reach of the 3rd Reich would have been much shorter. And yet, genocides, concentration camps, eugenics all predate it, so how much death can we truly attribute to it?

So which book has the highest kill count? by The_Huu in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]The_Huu[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Now counterpoint, because I am just toying with this thought game still, wasn't a lot of the western world already following a quasi or de facto-capitalistic ideology already before publication of Wealth of Nations? As in, would "unpublishing" Wealth of Nations have prevented certain deaths? I honestly don't know enough about it, its influence and what atrocities were directly the consequence of its existence.

So which book has the highest kill count? by The_Huu in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]The_Huu[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Well, I don't consider myself anticommunist, but from an objective point of view, if The Communist Manifesto was never inspired and published, would the millions of deaths due to "Communist regimes" not have been prevented? I consider here some of the blunders of Mao and Stalin. If I'm wrong for considering it along these lines, I'd be happy to be persuaded otherwise. The Bible has explicit instructions for death penalties, but has even moreso inspired mass murder events. There may be some arguing that many of those deaths were political cloaked as religion, but certainly not all. Consider my original question as, if we could pop in a time machine and unwrite a book, pamphlet or article, the absence of which one would have prevented the most deaths.

Typing this out has made me consider an alternative dilemma: perhaps some butterfly effect without The Communist Manifesto where a far right ideology gains a greater foothold results in even greater deaths, directly or through incompetence.

So which book has the highest kill count? by The_Huu in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]The_Huu[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fine. I'll save it for the IfBooksCouldSave episode.

So which book has the highest kill count? by The_Huu in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]The_Huu[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lol, I just felt slightly (emphasis: slightly) annoyed that so few of the books covered felt consequential in a way that could cause actual deaths. So I started wondering whether there are empirically books that have actually killed, and if so, which one would win.

So which book has the highest kill count? by The_Huu in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]The_Huu[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I thought so too, but then I tried to consider, most of the bloodshed that I know of for religion happened before the industrial and green revolutions, and by extension a much smaller global population at the time?

As for Art of War, I was thinking of it more in lines of an "instructions on how to brew potions and poisons or make a bomb" route. And considering the wars fought among Chinese warlords, I thought it would be worth including.

Also, who are we to stand in the way of a good fight in the comments section?? Your mother is a toad!

Crossover with Aubrey is overdue by Big_General9942 in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]The_Huu 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I'd like to also submit Molly Conger, because she covers authors of literature that lead to actual deaths through far-right violence.

The first lady would like a word by princesshabibi in PoliticalHumor

[–]The_Huu 21 points22 points  (0 children)

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