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The Science of Conspiracy.

 

Why do people believe in bullshit? 

 

 

It was a hot summer night and all the right elements were in place to engage in a philosophical chat: alcohol, friends, ideas floating in the sea breeze and the echo of people's thoughts It is the unapologetic reason of just talking. The fresh wind mitigated the unusual heat. I heard people talking about global warming and how the seasons are getting extreme; then somebody said that there is not such thing as global warming because this term was created by the government for carbon taxation. I put closed attention on those words.

Later heard something about chemtrails: a black-op  to “control our mind”. Then that human clones exist and there was an U.F.O crash in Roswell, New Mexico. Finally, the biggest transgressor  of  that night: vaccines create autism.  I snatched some beers and left the group, too much mental diarrhea around me. 

 I ended up completely hammered, playing God of War. It was a good day after all. 

    Stop saying bullshit you mother fucker, if not am gonna fucking snap your neck. 

The next morning after pissed and sweated out the ethylic elixir, I was a little baffled. My alcoholic friends are smart -very smart-  Do they really believe on those things? so I decided to do some research and try to find out the origin of my friends conspiracies theories -bullshit ideas- around the net.

So for you guys, this tiny work. Enjoy it! 

 

Humans clones are walking among us.

 

 

This idea has been around for long time, made popular due the 90’s TV show: The X-files and the clonation of the sheep Dolly but it is VERY HARD TO CLONE any mammal - took at least 277 different trials to clone Dolly - and there are several philosophical and practical questions  that need to be address. 

Dr. Robert Lanza, chief scientific officer at the biotech company Advanced Cell Technology, which works on cell therapies for human diseases, and has cloned animals says:

"The extremely high rate of death, and the risk of developmental abnormalities from cloning makes human cloning unethical" and follows "It's like sending your baby up in a rocket knowing there's a 50-50 chance it's going to blow up. It's grossly unethical"

Exploding babies are never a good idea, at all.  

On the other hand, there is a very interesting scenario worthy to read: A  war in Krypton to give full rights to clones and stopped being used as organ banks.

 

Chemtrails

Conspiracy theorists say that those clouds that look like a cocaine lines control your mind.

This is one of my favorites. While I was stalking people on their facebook pages a few wannabe hipsters put a fantastic picture of Miami’s blue sky, that deep color crowned by silver clouds; a majestic view. What grabbed  my attention were the comments on it: “ So sad, chemtrails”  and more people saying that yeah, indeed, there are chemtrails and we are fucked.

Chemtrails are believed to be a government  effort to subdue the will of its people. The evil empire sends its aircrafts to  release chemical compounds in the air that modify our behaviour making us docile and accept the law with no second thought, but for a very strange reason those facebook friends are immune to this effect.

This is totally bullshit idea fueled by a paper drafted by the U.S Air Force "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025."

Which is almost a plot for a X-men movie: controlling the weather for bellicose reasons. 

 

                  Weather controller witch by day, amazing stripper by night.  

Many government agencies around the world have received petitions from their citizens to know if these chemtrails are a real threat or just the excess of spare time mixed with too much imagination.

So far, science has found no proof that there are chemical compounds been released into the air that controls people’s minds but the classic chemtrail white cloud rail are known as contrails: "streaks of condensed water vapor created in the air by an airplane or rocket at high altitudes." 

 

Roswell

 

Very popular conspiracy theory, just google roswell+incident and you will have more than 2.17 million results. Goes like this: In July 7, 1947 an aircraft crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. The next day the local newspaper, The Roswell Daily Record, published in its first page that a flying saucer collided in the dessert and its dead crew was captured by the Air Force. People lose their shit, we are not alone in the universe and aliens are crappy drivers too.

There are several books, websites and films that are related with the Roswell incident. Not long ago video footage of an alien autopsy was circulating the net; later was revealed this was a reconstruction from a previous film now lost. After more than 50 years of the Roswell legend the true came out, the recovered debris was part of the Mogul Project: Use of weather balloons with attached microphones released to the stratosphere that allowed the detection of sound waves created by nuclear tests. 

Global Warming Deniers.

                                       Is a Myth, is a myth! 

There are many scientific research that relates the climate change with the use of fossil lard a.k.a fuel; as well deforestation that creates the Greenhouse Effect and holes in the ozone layer. In other words humans are just fucking up this planet. The conclusion of these studies are clear: if we don’t tide shit up, is gonna get hotter.

Oceans are boiling, glaciers are melting, penguins are becoming the new rotisserie chicken and polar bears are sweating. The global warming effect is making stronger storms and arid areas getting bigger. If we don't do something oceans will flood because of the ice cap melting

Several countries are creating new laws to mitigate this serious problems, which by the way affects everyone in this planet. Nonetheless, here in the U.S.A things are different, the lawmakers don’t mess around with mere mortals. They go straight to the source, they go to God. As this very eloquent and well informed congressman John Shimkus said while debating the idea for a very need legislation for carbon emissions:

“I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God,” “And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood.”  “The Earth will end only when God declares it’s time to be over. Man will not destroy this Earth. This Earth will not be destroyed by a Flood. I do believe that God’s word is infallible, unchanging, perfect.”

                                        Am a fucking loser, I knew it the whole time .

Awesome words from + 2000 years ago to tackle a modern day problem. Did I mention that global warming is real ? and this guy is in charge to make our laws?

You can read more here, here and  here.

Vaccines are dangerous.

                             Vaccines are manufactured by the Umbrella Corporation !

Andrew Wakefield is an english asshole which for some unknown reason got into the very respectful medical profession. In 1998 he published a research which correlated the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR)  with autism, even the prestigious medical journal The lancet published his findings and because of that now some people believe the vaccines are the Gates of Hell. Some afraid parents did not take their kids to vaccinations. Leaving them unprotected and exposed to the disease. 

                                                       This is a fucking idiot.

Wakefield’s research  was  found to be at least erroneous, going from fraudulent to even malicious ( he was going to sue the MMR Vaccines companies). Dr Horrendous cannot longer be a medical practitioner in his homeland, back here in america the damage is done, measles returned and as well in the Uk .

 

 

Vaccines and Mental Retardation. 

                     Don't be deceived by her beautiful eyes, she does believe in bullshit. 

In 2011 the republican primary debate, the contender Michele Bachmann, invigorated the idea of possible vaccine side effects saying that she met a  “distraught mother” of a child that developed mental retardation after been inoculated with the HPV vaccine.

There is not evidence that relates vaccines and mental retardation. Nada, zero.  Worth to mention, that her husband has a clinic that  claims can cure gayness. 

Scary fact: she might have a chance to become the  presidential candidate for the 2016 Election. 

 

Girl can only walk backwards after getting a flu shot. 

Desiree Jennings is a  gorgeous virginia resident that after having a flu vaccine shot in 2009 she developed severe side effects: walking erratically, passing out while eating and slurred speech that left her in a terrible state. Her doctors diagnostic: Dystonia,  which is a neurological and muscular disorder. She was only able to run and walk backwards normally, and when no cameras were around: she just walked perfectly.  

   

 

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Why do people believe in these bullshit?

The good professor Stephan Lewandowsky at the University of Western Australia, might be able to give us an answer thanks to his research about the psychology of Conspiracy Theory behind climate change.

This is a part of his interview with salon.com

salon.com: why do people believe conspiracy theories?

Professor Lewandowsky: There are number of factors, but probably one of the most important ones in this instance is that, paradoxically, it gives people a sense of control. People hate randomness, they dread the sort of random occurrences that can destroy their lives, so as a mechanism against that dread, it turns out that it’s much easier to believe in a conspiracy. Then you have someone to blame, it’s not just randomness.

So in other words: this crazy talk gives you hope to keep on going one more day. Faith that you have some sort of control in this hectic world, but when these "truths" are not based in facts and the falsehood can carry very negative effects in others people's  lives. Like a mantra beggin to be recited so many times to become reality.  This is why individuals professing conspiracies theories can be as dangerous as religious zealots: they go against reason and no proof to base their beliefs. 

Just remember, faith does not equal bullshit but is a very thin line. 

 

There are conspiracies theories that are scary because they are totally true. Check them out in this amazing article by craked.com

 

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Technology, Entertainment and Design. (TED)

 

TED is a set of international conferences regarding of Technology, Entertaiment and Design. -T.E.D- owned by the non-profit organization Sapling Foundation, its main goal is to propagate            " ideas worth spreading" these conferences are now well know, nobel laureates and many experts in their respective fields have been speakers of the event, from Bill Clinton to Isabel Allende, giving their knowledge and helping the share of ideas.

Showing two of the conferences, one from Cesar Harada and other from Isabel Allende, each of them enticing and  promising.

 

Cesar Harada. ( From TED.COM)

 Cesar Harada. Believes that ocean currents, the wind and other naturally occuring phenomenon can provide unique inspiration and novel solutions to mankind’s worst disasters, like oil spills and radioactive leaks. A French-Japanese inventor and TED senior, he is the creator of PROTEI -a revolutionary sailing technology -- featuring a front rudder, flexible hull and open-soure hardware -- that allows for efficient clean up of both oil and plastics from the sea. Currently based in London, Harada recently traveled to Japan and is designing Protei to measure radioactivity along the country's coast.

The general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station, Harada teaches at Goldsmiths University London. A former project leader at MIT, he graduated form the Royal College of Arts Design Interactions in London and worked at the Southampton University Hydrodynamics laboratory on wave energy. Harada has also studied animation, and his films and installations have been seen at festivals and events across the world, from the United States to Japan.

A fantastic talk, please enjoy it. 

 

 

 

 

Isabel Allende. ( from TED.com)

 

As a novelist and memoirist, Isabel Allende writes of passionate lives, including her own. Born into a Chilean family with political ties, she went into exile in the United States in the 1970s -- an event that, she believes, created her as a writer. Her voice blends sweeping narrative with touches of magical realism; her stories are romantic, in the very best sense of the word. Her novels include The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna and The Stories of Eva Luna, and her latest,Ines of My Soul and La Suma de los Dias (The Sum of Our Days). And don't forget her adventure trilogy for young readers -- City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon and  Forest of the Pygmies.

As a memoirist, she has written about her vision of her lost Chile, in My Invented Country, and movingly tells the story of her life to her own daughter, in Paula. Her book Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses memorably linked two sections of the bookstore that don't see much crossover: Erotica and Cookbooks. Just as vital is her community work: The Isabel Allende Foundation  works with nonprofits in the SF Bay Area and Chile to empower and protect women and girls -- understanding that empowering women is the only true route to social and economic justice. 

"Allende can spin a funny, sensual yarn, but she can also use her narrative skills to remind us that parallel to our placid and comfortable existence is another, invisible universe, one where poverty, misery and torture are all too real."

Patricia Hart, The Nation

 

 

These are amazing talks, which I hope, it can kindle your mind. 

Share Knowledge. 

Global Climate change? Hocus-Pocus ? While debating here in America, China created jobs.

 

Thomas L Friedman recently wrote in the New York Times about how China is creating jobs regarding the climate change, an issue that still being debated in the States.

Climate change is not a simple issue, tax carbon emissions, green technology, data and so more on make this possible creating legislation a hard one to deal, but like it or not China saw this problem as a chance to grow and create jobs.

As Mr Friedman writes in his post:

“There is really no debate about climate change in China,” said Peggy Liu, chairwoman of the Joint U.S.-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, a nonprofit group working to accelerate the greening of China. “China’s leaders are mostly engineers and scientists, so they don’t waste time questioning scientific data.” The push for green in China, she added, “is a practical discussion on health and wealth. There is no need to emphasize future consequences when people already see, eat and breathe pollution every day.”

And because runaway pollution in China means wasted lives, air, water, ecosystems and money — and wasted money means fewer jobs and more political instability — China’s leaders would never go a year (like we will) without energy legislation mandating new ways to do more with less. It’s a three-for-one shot for them. By becoming more energy efficient per unit of G.D.P., China saves money, takes the lead in the next great global industry and earns credit with the world for mitigating climate change.

So while America’s Republicans turned “climate change” into a four-letter word — J-O-K-E — China’s Communists also turned it into a four-letter word — J-O-B-S"

And there is nothing wrong going green, it is something that is beneficial for all of us, a technology that helps the environment to avoid waste of non-renewable recurses and thus helping each of us to reach a balance with our surroundings. 

What's wrong with that ?

If you wanna see Mr. Friednman's whole article. please click here.

 

What you think about China taking the lead on Green Jobs and Green Technology?

Do you think that the lack of scientist as representatives in both houses have something to do to create a legislation that creates green jobs?

Speak your mind and let us know .