The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense

[BlackCat]

Quite funny :

http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2010/07/periodic-table-of-irrational-nonsense.html

Just a warning to borderline nutcase polytubbies - don't watch - it looks like a roadmap to a great number of things that may attract you.

[BlackCat]

Come to think of it - there are only a few polytubbies that is borderline nutcases - the rest is way over the line

[Al B. Sure!]

Looks like no one's interested in your thread...

I will say this though about the 'vitamin megadoses'. I'm not so sure about things like taking a whole crapload of Vitamin C to cure a cold but I had posted a thread about Vitamin D like two months ago and there is some evidence that high dosages of Vitamin D can be beneficial. Apparently, athletes in the 1930's and then Soviets throughout the Cold War era had some success with high levels of Vitamin D supplementation which had some steroid-like benefits. The RDA for Vitamin D here in the US is probably too low and the maximum suggested amount is far less by an order of magnitude than the true biological maximum.

[Guynemer]

I ****ing love that periodic table.

[SlowwHand]

Some nerd had too much time on their hands.

[Combat Ingrid]

That's what they said when Mendeleev first presented the regular periodic table.

[MikeH]

I ****ing love that periodic table.

[bipolarbear]

Saved. I love linking homeopathy people to James Randi lectures and watching them get steamed.

Fun fact: Many homeopathic remedies actually surpass Avogadro's number thus lacking a probable guarantee that you are consuming even 1 molecule of the given substance.

[Elok]

Okay, looking at it again...looking at it again...nope. I'm sorry, whoever did that just took a list of things he thought were stupid, went to a lot of effort to organize them in an irrelevant context, and called the result clever. You might say it's because I'm religious, but I think if this is funny to anyone, it's only in the way people on the hard right find Ann Coulter a comedic genius: "Ha-ha, he's saying things I agree with! Ha-ha!"

[Elok]

Actually, the conceit could have worked if the person making the chart were a little brighter; if, for example, he'd used actual elements of pseudoscience instead of tacking disparate ideas up there, so that it corresponded more to the periodic table while making a comment about what distinguished actual from fake science. E.G. Pa-Paranoia, Bf-Blurry Footage, Ai-Appeal to Ignorance, etc.

It still wouldn't be funny enough to be worth the effort IMO, but it would at least contain some aspect of actual humor.

[bipolarbear]

Other than the religious stuff, what do you disagree with on there?

[Elok]

No, that's not it. It's not that I disagree with it, it's that I don't see any actual humor in it. That rude "definition" of Christianity in Oerdin and Che's sigs, for example, is obviously something I disagree with, but I can see how it might be perceived as funny. This thing does not meet even that requirement. The only faint ghost of a joke in it is the way it associates an element of real science, the periodic table, with pseudoscience, and they bungled even that.

[bipolarbear]

I can agree with that. It certainly had a lot more opportunities for detail etc., but the creator was rather lazy in that sense. Personally I'd like to use it to play a game of Bingo while listening to Coast To Coast AM.

[Guynemer]

Saved. I love linking homeopathy people to James Randi lectures and watching them get steamed.

Fun fact: Many homeopathic remedies actually surpass Avogadro's number thus lacking a probable guarantee that you are consuming even 1 molecule of the given substance.

You wouldn't believe how many times a week a parent produces a homeopathic "cure" from their purse, saying, "I've been giving this to him, is that okay?" And I reply with, "Oh, that's fine. You paid $10 for a 10mL vial of water."

[bipolarbear]

What I really hate are the homeopathic remedies like Zicam etc. that masquerade as though they were comparable to Aspirin.