How to tell someone they've made a foolish post on FB?
I had to do this today to one of my FB animal rescue friends. She is great with dogs and horses, but apparently way too much into the God threads.
My message to her was: "...I saw one of your posts today and wanted to let you know that it is from a satire website. The "Explore God" fb page has deleted this post: http://witscience.org/first-scientific-proof-god-found/
Her reply:
"Okay thanks...I'm going to keep researching it though. I'm fascinated but [SIC] the thought."
= new reply since forum marked as read
you can blame genetics now for your racist rants no guilt if you are a complete maroon !!
in the article the example they use is ..............Joe Biden
http://witscience.org/racist-can-blame-genetics/
comment section:
I must say that as an actual Bioorganic Chemist I am appalled at each and every article on this website, but this one in particular is absurd. First, the 23rd chromosome you are ranting about here is more commonly known as the sex chromosome. Humans do indeed have 46 chromosomes but this is the result of 22 pairs of autosomes and a single pair of chromosomes. So actually a grammar correction is needed for if I understand you correctly you are suggesting that racist individuals are lacking one of their pair of 23rd chromosomes. If this is the case this is a condition called turner syndrome, also called monosomy X (x being the one sex chromosome present). It can only occur in females as Monosomy Y is invariably fatal in humans and the fetus will not develop. So the claims about Vice president Biden’s paternal line all having monosomy y is utterly absurd since if that were the case they would not exist. Secondly, females with turner syndrome very commonly have non-functioning gonads, no menstrual cycles, and are sterile. Thirdly, abnormal chromosome number resulting from sex cells would be non-inheritable even if the affected individuals were fertile because it is a result of a structural defect in replicating cells, not the result of an individuals genomics (functional genetic code). Finally, I would very much like to see your credentials Dr. Amanda Black. I have search far and wide and oddly enough the only reference I can find to you is your named attached to these absurdly anti-science articles. If you were a PhD as you say, then you would know that excessive self-referencing is a death with in the peer review community.
Talk about annhilating a bigoted fake!
