Pop Quiz!

True or False
1. The Earth is the center of the universe.
2. GPS units work via magic.
3. Vaccines have been linked to autism in credible studies.
4. Astrology takes into account planets revolving around distant suns.
5. Diseases are caused by vapors in the blood and/or demon spirits.
6. 9/11 was an inside plot using controlled demolition.
7. Aliens landed at Roswell.
8. The Earth is flat.
9. The Moon landings were faked.
10. Evolution is wrong and there is no evidence for it.
11. Socialism, Communism, and Fascism are the same things.
12. GMO food is inherently bad.
13. Gingers have no souls.
14. Homosexuality is wrong, as documented in the Constitution.
15. Fluoride in the water is a Soviet plot.

Answers:
What, are you fucking stupid? They are all false. (Well, except #13. Gingers really do not have souls, but neither does anyone else. SOULS DON”T FUCKING EXIST.)

If you think science is wrong, but use GPS, a computer, the internet, a cell phone, drive a car, use anything made out of plastic, including Nylon or Polyester clothes, then you are fucking dumb.

Explanations:
1. No, it is not. We revolve around a smallish sun, on the edge of one of billions of galaxies that are trillions of miles apart. The universe is so huge it is really impossible to understand it well. The fastest thing we have sent into space, Voyage 1, travels at ~39,000 mph. At that speed, it would take around 75 THOUSAND years to get to the closest star to us, Alpha Centauri. That is 4.3 light years away. The farthest stars are 14 BILLION light years away.
2. GPS works by timing how long transmissions take to get from your GPS unit to a group of satellites. Those measurements are based on the same speeds that tell us how big (and thus how old) the Universe is.
3. Wrong, and the Doctor(oops, he has lost his license and been banned from practising) who came up with that study manipulated the data and used horrid methodology. The Lancet revoked the paper. All previous and subsequent studies have shown ZERO linkage between any vaccine info and any Autism/Asperger syndromes. The ingredient claimed to be the cause was pulled anyway, but there were no declines in diagnoses.
4. Chinese, European or whatever flavor Astrology you look at is complete bunk. No two practitioners give the same predictions and study after study has shown no correlation in birth times to later life events, successes, or failures.
5. Bacteria, Viruses, or auto-immune issues cause disease.
6. There was no short sell of stock, the owners took a huge hit on insurance, not made money, there was no exodus of 4000 Jews before the attack, the government’s response was poorly done, but that had more to do with new circumstances and an inept administration. The buildings fell as would be expected based on the circumstances, Popular Mechanics (among many, many others) clearly detailed how.
7. No, it was top-secret government testing. All accounts of extra terrestrials/aliens have never had any more legitimacy than religious delusions.
8. No, we can see the landing site now using modern satellite pictures.
9. No, we can see it is round now using modern satellite pictures and globes have been made and documented for over 500 years.
10. Non-random selection of random changes. Simple, elegant and amazingly powerful given the 4 billion years Earth has had to work on it. If you want to believe in some creation myth, which one of the thousands are you going to pick?
11. Socialism: no private property, all is collectively owned.
Communism: The stage that is suppose to happen after Socialism, where social classes go away.
Fascism: Classes are needed for a strong state, that demands loyalty to hierarchy. Anti-liberal, anti-enlightenment.
12. Any food that has been bred for distinct characteristics is a GMO food. The issues at hand relate to what could happen, but are more akin to slippery-slope arguments. There are legitimate concerns about patents and foods that cannot be replanted, but those are not related to the foods themselves.
13. The soul is an artificial construct of certain religions to help explain mind/body duality, but science (and any experience you might have with Alzheimer’s, stroke or aneurysm victims) clearly shows there is no independent mind or soul from the body.
14. Just like God is not in the Constitution, neither is sexual preference. The same part of the Bible that calls out male gay sex also forbids haircuts, tattoo’s
and cheeseburgers, but those are conveniently ignored.
15. The Soviet Union has not existed in 20 years. Fluoride saves teeth. Idiots who buy bottled water for their kids have found that out as they need far more dental care then kids who drink from the tap. For the first time in decades, rich kids have worse teeth than poor kids.

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