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Irrelevant Scientific Research Honored

Posted by samzenpus on from the wierd-science dept.

More than 1,000 people attended this year's Ig Nobel awards, a light-hearted alternative to the Nobel Prizes. Scientists who unlocked the inner secrets of dog fleas, crisps and tangled string swept the show. Handing out awards was William Lipscomb, the 1976 Nobel laureate for chemistry, also doubling Thursday, at the age of 89, as the hero in the "Win-a-Date-With-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest." The prize itself is a plaque that reads, "This Ig Nobel Prize is awarded in the year 2008 to an Ig Nobel Prize Winner, in recognition of the Ig Nobel Prize Winners' Ig Nobel Prize winning achievement." At last I can submit my paper, "Everything is Really Wet, Even Dry Stuff." for peer review.

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  1. All science is irellevant -except for THEOLOGY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is what it would be like, if the majority of people were athiests.
    ATHIEST KID: Mom, I'm going to go fuck a hooker.
    ATHIEST MOM: Okay, son.
    ATHIEST KID: Afterwards, I'm going to go smoke pot with my friends, since it's "not addictive."
    ATHIEST MOM: Okay, come home soon!

    The athiest kid leaves the room. The father comes home from work several minutes later.

    ATHIEST DAD: Hey!
    ATHIEST MOM: Hi, honey! I'm pregnant again. I guess I'll just get another abortion, since "fetuses don't count as human life."
    ATHIEST DAD: Okay, get as many abortions as you want!
    ATHIEST MOM: Oh, and don't go in the bedroom.
    ATHIEST DAD: Why not?
    ATHIEST MOM: There are two gay men fucking eachother in there.
    ATHIEST DAD: Why are they here?
    ATHIEST MOM: I wanted to watch them do it for awhile. They just aren't finished yet.
    ATHIEST DAD: Okay, that's fine with me!

    Suddenly, their neighbor runs into the house.

    ATHIEST NEIGHBOR: Come quick, there's a Christian outside!
    ATHIEST MOM: We'll be right there!

    The athiest couple quickly put on a pair of black robes and hoods. They then exit the house, and run into the street, where a Christian is nailed to a large, wooden X. He is being burned alive. A crowd of athiests stand around him, all wearing black robes and hoods.

    RANDOM ATHIEST: Damn you, Christian! We hate you! We claim to be tolerant of all religions. But we really hate yours'! That's because we athiests are hypocritical like that! Die, Christian!

    THE END

    Scary, isn't it?
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    1. Re:All science is irellevant -except for THEOLOGY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      This is also the myth of liberalism. Conservatives put too many restrictions and are not accepting, they are racist, sexist, whatever, they try to force everyone to have their world view, the liberal on the other hand, won't accept a person whose opinion differs from their own (the conservative) without calling them intolerant. The liberal is only liberal and accepting of other liberals, they will not recognize the conservative's right to their ideals and will fight in a court of law to enforce their ideals. They do the same things that they accuse conservatives of doing, they even have the same line as a standard of acceptability, they just look at the line from different sides. And before you go start complaining about economics and politics, I'm not talking republican and democrat here. I'm not talking rich/poor. I'm not talking evolution/creation here. I am talking social conservatives vs social liberals...there is a difference

      republican != social conservative != rich old boy != creationist
      democrat != social liberal != poor or new rich != evolutionist

      While these may tend to be the case more often than not, there is nothing that actually equates them.