Roflan posted:

If the supposed purpose of these 'societies' is to be a forum for equals to engage in debate and discussion(heh) and not be a place to jerk each other off about how superior they are to everyone else, wouldn't something like an informal interview where you discuss a wide variety of intellectual or obscure topics with a member or group of members be a better test than a test the autist savant could pass?

Sorry for rhetorically asking the obvious.

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

This week Belgian judge Mieke Butstraen sentenced two parents to a suspended six-month jail sentence over the death of their seven-month-old baby Lucas. The couple owned a health food store in Beveren and fed the child vegetable milk made of "oak, buckwheat, rice, and quinoa," according to the BBC. He died weighing nine pounds, which is at least seven pounds underweight according to CDC numbers, and had organs that shrunk to half their normal size.

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/wjqbem/judge-convicts-parents-after-baby-dies-from-vegan-diet

Strudel Man posted:

That's not amusing at all.

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

Oops

BluesShaman posted:

This lady convinced herself that a pants-making GBS threads retard was in love with her, and she was in love with him. Then she raped him.

Duckbox posted:

Can we discuss the fact that Marie Curie was a terrible scientist and female role model who spent her life fighting the emerging scientific consensus on radiation poisoning despite watching her husband and everyone else in their lab slowly succumb to it?

Also that she refused to let other people study radium because she liked having the monopoly on it and wouldn't release anything that suggested it was dangerous so it was sold as a magic cure all and thousands of people died from it, but it's ok because now she's a famous science hero for discovering a cool new way to poison herself and everyone around her.

A lot like the leaded gasoline guy, tbh.

Wikipedia posted:

She was known for her honesty and moderate life style.[22][75] Having received a small scholarship in 1893, she returned it in 1897 as soon as she began earning her keep.[11][30] She gave much of her first Nobel Prize money to friends, family, students, and research associates.[14] In an unusual decision, Curie intentionally refrained from patenting the radium-isolation process, so that the scientific community could do research unhindered.[76] She insisted that monetary gifts and awards be given to the scientific institutions she was affiliated with rather than to her.[75] She and her husband often refused awards and medals.[22] Albert Einstein reportedly remarked that she was probably the only person who could not be corrupted by fame.[14]

Lazer Monkey posted:

Oh yeah I remember that thread, did she get time?

Pick posted:

I agree that's dumb but at least she had the excuse of being born in 1860 when a lot of medicine was probably crap nuts

Also woah she had a nice painting done in the 1880s!

BluesShaman posted:

She got 12 years, but the conviction was overturned this summer. http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...n_case_has.html

BluesShaman posted:

She got 12 years, but the conviction was overturned this summer. http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...n_case_has.html

Creed Reunion Tour posted:

Does the guy who invented leaded gasoline, CFC gases, and a device of strings and pulleys to lift him out of bed which subsequently strangled him to death count?

Duckbox posted:

Can we discuss the fact that Marie Curie was a terrible scientist and female role model who spent her life fighting the emerging scientific consensus on radiation poisoning despite watching her husband and everyone else in their lab slowly succumb to it?

Also that she refused to let other people study radium because she liked having the monopoly on it and wouldn't release anything that suggested it was dangerous so it was sold as a magic cure all and thousands of people died from it, but it's ok because now she's a famous science hero for discovering a cool new way to poison herself and everyone around her.

A lot like the leaded gasoline guy, tbh.

BluesShaman posted:

BluesShaman posted:

This lady convinced herself that a pants-making GBS threads retard was in love with her, and she was in love with him. Then she raped him.

Guy Mann posted:

GBS hates women.

Drunk Nerds posted:

Oh, I just remembered I wrote an article for SyFy that fits here:
8 incredibly dumb theories famous scientists actually believed

Drunk Nerds posted:

Oh, I just remembered I wrote an article for SyFy that fits here:
8 incredibly dumb theories famous scientists actually believed

Dr Strangepants posted:

Nice article. Now we know his name...

Tesla also believed a pigeon had a human soul and loved him, or something like that. And that he could make free energy for all of society by manipulating the Earths magnetic field. Which, even if it were possible, I don't see how "beaming" large quantities of free energy across the globe would be any different from a death ray. Not to say he wasn't a genius.

Orkin Mang posted:

i love women, 's tits

Former DILF posted:

yuo should suck he dick

Pick posted:

In the weeks before his arrest, Rader had asked po­lice whether he could communicate with them via a floppy disk without being traced to a particular computer.

BluesShaman posted:

This lady convinced herself that a pants-making GBS threads retard was in love with her, and she was in love with him. Then she raped him.

Interview with the idiotic piece of poo poo posted:

I got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin' and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin' kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I'd drink the syrup, I was this side of death, Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.

[...]

So I went in, and those guys in uniform couldn't believe the smell. They were ridiculin' me and pushin' me around and I was cryin', but all the time I was laughin' to myself. When they stuck the needle in my arm for the blood test I passed out, and when I came to they were kicking me into the wall. Then they made everybody take off their pants, and I did, and this sergeant says, "Oh my God, put those back on! You loving swine you!" Then they had a urine test and I couldn't piss, But my poop was just like ooze, man, so I poop in the cup and put it on the counter. I had poop on my hand and my arm. The guy almost puked. I was so proud. I knew I had these chumps beat. The last thing I remember was wakin' up in the ear test booth and they were sweepin' up. So I went home and cleaned up.

[...]

But you know the funny thing about it? I'd make an incredible army man. I'd be a colonel before you knew what hit you, and I'd have the baddest bunch of motherfuckin' killers you'd ever seen in my platoon. But I just wasn't into it.

Orkin Mang posted:

i love women, 's tits

Gorilla Salad posted:

Wait, how did they trace it back to his church's computer?


Speaking of pants making GBS threads retards, let's talk about Ted Nugent.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Wait, how did they trace it back to his church's computer?

Guy Mann posted:

High IQ societies are a fun hole to get lost in. Modern science can't even really define or quantify intelligence let alone measure it on some objective scale yet there is always someone who swears that they've figured out how to separate the true intellectual aristocracy from the untermenschen and it just happens to place them at the very tippy top.