^Probably just being cynical, but I get the feeling PcD didn't do a lot of critical thinking before posting that latest piece of clickbait.

Now i just finished watching the England v Greece game and i have to say using my critical thinking skills that Rico Lewis,Phil Foden and Ollie Watkins look out their depth - just saying.

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fangman said..
^Probably just being cynical, but I get the feeling PcD didn't do a lot of critical thinking before posting that latest piece of clickbait.

Fluoride has now been proven in federal court to lower IQ.
Your comment indicates to us that your getting too much unfiltered tap water.

Pcdefender and Snoidberg approve of this decision.

I have been trying to figure out CT and having a read here and there. One of the pieces suggested that CT'ers should consider the validity of Hanlon's razor more often:

'Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.'

On a more serious note, the author, (Kari James- Uni of Queensland), goes on to suggest that CT might be a protective mechanism resulting from previous trauma. The sense of powerlessness, victim mindset, and status degradation that arise from trauma underpin the development of CT ideologies in order to (over)- protect the individual from being fooled again. The psych equivalent of an auto immune disease perhaps?

Full article here:
newmatilda.com/2024/11/04/in-defence-of-conspiracy-theorists-its-the-trauma-stupid/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=irony-alert-a-pro-guns-president-just-got-shot-47

Waking up to fluoride yet?
Drinking fluoride haz no benefit for your teeth. Fluoride works topically, drinking the stuff will just build up in your bones and brain causing classification where you could get rheumatoid arthritis, bone cancer, alzheimer's and if you get enough you'll end up with crippling fluorosis.
A known side effect of fluoride.
If you like fluoride use mouthwash but you should never swallow the stuff.

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snoidberg said..
Waking up to fluoride yet?
Drinking fluoride haz no benefit for your teeth. Fluoride works topically, drinking the stuff will just build up in your bones and brain causing classification where you could get rheumatoid arthritis, bone cancer, alzheimer's and if you get enough you'll end up with crippling fluorosis.
A known side effect of fluoride.
If you like fluoride use mouthwash but you should never swallow the stuff.

Fascinating post. I've been drinking flouridated water for over 60 years. I still have all my teeth and haven't had a proper filling for 50 years. No sign of rheumatoid arthritis, bone cancer, alzheimer's or crippling fluorosis.

And here we are in 2024, with your IQ severely affected, and mine not. Go figure.

^^^But think just how much smarter you could have been if you hadn't spent 60 years guzzling all that F adulterated H2O

No no
a judge said that (in a place with double the fluoride of elsewhere incidentally) there was sufficient concern about it and so they should stop fluoridation while they investigate

so that means we are all wrong over here

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snoidberg said..
Waking up to fluoride yet?
Drinking fluoride haz no benefit for your teeth. Fluoride works topically, drinking the stuff will just build up in your bones and brain causing classification where you could get rheumatoid arthritis, bone cancer, alzheimer's and if you get enough you'll end up with crippling fluorosis.
A known side effect of fluoride.
If you like fluoride use mouthwash but you should never swallow the stuff.

Given the thread title and out of respect to the OG, I think the idea here is that you post your idea/thoughts etc, but you also show some evidence of critical thinking, not necessarily your own. This easily done with a reference link to perhaps a research paper/articles with citations.

OK then. I'm sceptical about the stats in this article
www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o

There would be a 5% chance that a single chimp would successfully type the word "bananas" in its own lifetime.

I reckon they've misused probability by assuming that chimpanzees would hit random keystrokes with a computer level of randomness. IMO the chimps wouldn't dance their fingers all over the keyboard, but would tend to strike adjacent keys more than distant ones.
A and S are adjacent as are B and N. If those were the only keys available, bananas should come up at 1/4pwr7 = 1/16384, but since they are pairs, the case can be made for 1/2 pwr7 = 1/128.
It's certainly not 1/(however many keys there are on a standard keyboard)pwr7.
If we said it's just the letters A-Z the odds would be 1/8031810176. At 1 keystroke/sec a 5% lifetime probability would imply chimps live 12 years, but they live 30-40 years in captivity.

Good point about the pairs on the keyboard, but I guess you could make the keyboard any size and configuration and then train the chimps to 'type' like a Boomer.
I would also hazard a guess that The Infinite Probability Drive will be invented before the end of the Universe and chimpanzees will be smashing out works disputing evolutionary bias against chimp branch of the tree before you can say bananas and make the whole thing a moot point.
hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Infinite_Improbability_Drive

Ah yes, any thoughts on the comparison between the infinite improbability drive and the Tardis?
Or perhaps the Tardis actually had one at it's core?

In any case, there is at least one 300 page book written by a chimp in print. It's not Shakespeare, but it's as well written as any other celebrity memoir.
This is the story of Tarzan's chimp, Cheeta, in his own words.
www.harpercollins.com.au/9780007280162/me-cheeta/