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Post by sTeamTraen » Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:47 pm

How a couple of Spanish skeptics (the good sort) trolled alternative medicine proponents into believing in faecomagnetism.
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Re: Good sh.t

Post by Gfamily » Thu Feb 11, 2021 1:32 pm

sTeamTraen wrote:
Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:47 pm
How a couple of Spanish skeptics (the good sort) trolled alternative medicine proponents into believing in faecomagnetism.
I'm trying to Google faecomagnetism but not getting any results. Should I be sceptical?
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
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Re: Good sh.t

Post by shpalman » Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:53 pm

Is it the thing of dogs all lining up in the same direction to poo?
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Good sh.t

Post by Woodchopper » Fri Feb 12, 2021 2:35 pm

Gfamily wrote:
Thu Feb 11, 2021 1:32 pm
sTeamTraen wrote:
Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:47 pm
How a couple of Spanish skeptics (the good sort) trolled alternative medicine proponents into believing in faecomagnetism.
I'm trying to Google faecomagnetism but not getting any results. Should I be sceptical?
They’re Spanish, you need to google ‘fecomagnética’.

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