This Online Group Calls Out People Who Think They Know Better Than Years Of Science, Here Are 50 Of The Most Absurd Posts (New Pics)

Social media gave all of us a platform. And since everyone has an opinion on everything, we have to be more careful when consuming content—not all of it is valid.

Probably nothing proves this point better than the subreddit ‘Facebook Science.’ Gathering the dumbest statements they can find on the internet, its 50K members constantly show that there are no limits to human ignorance

“[This online community is] about the science-denying pseudo-intellectuals who think they know better than centuries of scientific understanding and aren’t afraid to leave comments arguing even the most simple of concepts,” the subreddit’s moderators write on its ‘About’ page.

Theories? Evidence? Experiments? Reputable scientific methods aren’t welcome here. This is the epitome of “My friend in the bar says…”

For more painfully ridiculous false statements, check out We’s first publication on the subreddit.

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#1 Bloody Muppets

#2 *know

Efforts to flood the world’s media with dishonest information or malicious content go to the very top.

Donald Trump derided any critical news coverage as “fake news” and his unwillingness to concede the 2020 presidential election eventually led to the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol.

For years, radio host Alex Jones denounced the parents of children slaughtered in the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newton, Connecticut as “crisis actors.” On August 5, 2022 he was ordered by a jury to pay more than US$49 million in damages to two families for defamation.

#3 Who Wants To Start A Magnet Business With Me(Credits To R/Vaxxhappened)?

#4 Someone Does Not Understand How Fruit Trees Are Seasonal

#5 Ohio Back At It Again With The Real Science™

According to Mathieu O’Neil, Associate Professor at the News and Media Research Centre of the University of Canberra and Michael Jensen, Associate Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis of the University of Canberra, three schools of thought have emerged to address this issue.

“The first suggests disinformation is so pervasive because distrust of traditional sources of authority, including the news media, keeps increasing,” the academics pointed out. “When people think the mainstream media is not holding industries and governments to account, they may be more likely to accept information that challenges conventional beliefs.”

#6 Worst Idea I’ve Ever Heard. Please Don’t Give Me The Vaccine, Oh No, Please Dont

#7 Facebook ‘Scientists’

#8 ‘disappears’

#9 The Article Is Making Fun Of You, Dale

“Secondly, social media platforms’ focus on engagement often leads them to promote shocking claims that generate outrage, regardless of whether these claims are true,” O’Neil and Jensen added.

“Indeed, studies show false information on social media spreads further, faster, and deeper than true information because it is more novel and surprising.”

#10 This Is No Asteroid Hole

#11 The Dumb S**t That Shows Up On My Facebook Feed

#12 Ow My Finances

#13 I Would Like To See Your Evidence, Lindsay

And lastly, the role of hostile and deliberate disinformation tactics cannot be overlooked.

“Facebook estimates that during the 2016 US election, malicious content from the Russian Internet Research Agency aimed at creating division within the American voting public reached 126 million people in the US and worldwide,” O’Neil and Jensen said to illustrate this point.

#14 Found This Recently

#15 This Family Friend’s Facebook Account Is A Gem

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#16 Terrible Science, But I’d Watch This Movie

#17 Covid 19 Does Exist

So what can we do? Bradley Crocker, Lecturer & Ph.D. Candidate in Health Psychology at McGill University, thinks that in order to be saved from misinformation, we need to be exposed to it.

“Efforts to remove and label misinformation on social media platforms may help, but a more pertinent question is whether these efforts can match the rapid pace of misinformation spread,” Crocker wondered. “In response to the growing pressure to control misinformation on their platforms, social media giants have generally relied on reactively removing or labeling false content after it’s widely noticed and reported.”

#18 False Equivalency Bro

#19 “The Lack Of Humility Before Nature That’s Being Displayed Here, Uh… Staggers Me.”

#20 The Government Wants To Control Your… Brians?

#21 Corona Cult

Even if social media giants manage to crack down on misinformation on their platforms, what about the rest of the internet?

Rumble, for example,offered to host Joe Roganon its video-streaming platform with no censorship.

What’s to stop content creators and common users from turning to websites that are outside the jurisdiction of democratic lawmakers?

#22 F**k, I Must Have A Negative Iq Score

#23 Viruses Are A Myth

#24 Health Tips From The Insane

#25 Til You Can Cure Cancer By Screaming In A Cave

“If encountering online misinformation is inevitable, our best approach to mitigate its effects may be to improve users’ abilities to recognize and dismiss it,” Crocker said. “One of the most promising ways to do this uses experiential learning, stemming from something called inoculation theory.”

“Inoculation theoryis based on an analogy between resistance to persuasion and resistance to contagious disease. Just as exposing individuals to a weakened pathogen helps to protect them against severe illness (vaccination), tactfully exposing individuals to weakened forms of misinformation can improve their ability to recognize and resist it.”

So I guess, in a way, the subreddit ‘Facebook Science’ is making the internet not only more fun but also safer.

#26 Biology Lesson

#27 No, He Would Be Dead

#28 Manufactured Government Fog

#29 They Probably Think It’s Dead Babies

#30 That Settles It. The Fires Are Fooling Us

#31 Wake Up

#32 #idonotconsent

#33 Globe Lies

#34 Yes, I’m Sure About That. You Forgot To Mention The Extremely Low Density Of The Atmosphere Up There

#35 Expert Scientists Bad Because Fictional Boat Better Than Real Boat

#36 I Posted This On R/Flatearth Someone Told Me I Should Post It Here Too

#37 There’s A Lot To Unpack In This One

#38 This One Made Me Irrationally Angry

#39 Yikes

#40 Engineers Are Bad

#41 Water Thoughts Only 🙏

#42 It’s Just A Joke!!

#43 Corona Hoax

#44 This Was Posted Seriously

#45 Just A Theory!

#46 Lmao My Kids Would Freak Out If I Taped This To Them

#47 Nasa Just Need To Use Toilet Seats, It’s Cheaper

#48 “I’m A Climate Denier. I Don’t Have To Be On The Defensive”

#49 Vacines Bad

#50 I Cu Out There Not Using Copper Cups

#51 The Lamp Turns Off At Night, Duh

#52 #think

#53 “So What Exactly Is Gravity?” She Asks

#54 Ancient Silicon Trees

#55 Cars Have 5g Antennas

#56 Children’s Shows Are Also Factual

#57 Space Bad

#58 Can Not Calculate

#59 Transgender

#60 The Illuminati

#61 Trappuccino

#62 I Know I Probably Post Way Too Much On This Sub, But My Facebook Feed Is Just Wooden Ducks At A Target Range

#63 Here’s A Shell Embedded In A Rock. Checkmate Agnostics

#64 Yes. That Is Absurd

#65 Can I Get An Amen?

#66 The More You Know

#67 One Eye

#68 Nasa Is Untrustworthy

#69 A Vaccine Being 95% Successful Means It Kills 5% Of Test Subjects

#70 Y’all Ever Come Across A Facebook Post With Five Paragraphs Of Bullshit That Is Just So Much That You Don’t Even Bother Trying To Post It Here? This Is Literally All That Was Salvageable

#71 Doctors Are Idiots

#72 This Ad, On Reddit! (Idk How To Flair This)

#73 My Mom’s Best Friend Found The Cure

#74 It’s Called Carbon Dating

#75 The Facebook Phds Are At It Again

#76 “I Was Diagnosed With Satan, But It Was Removed With Surgery”

#77 Spot The Racist

#78 This Is Stupid

#79 I Don’t Even Know What To Say About This

#80 Greta Thunberg Is In The Illuminati

#81 Christmas Is Controlled By The Illuminati

#82 All Celebrities Are Transgender

#83 Do Your Research On Vaccines

#84 “Perception”

#85 Makes Sense

#86 This Trash Went To Space

#87 Found In The Wild On A Family Member’s Facebook

#88 Humans Aren’t Angels, Therefore Evolution Is False

#89 I Dont Really Have Anything To Say It Kinda Just Speaks For Itself. Morons Calling Fucking Einstein A Pseudoscientist

#90 Disease Expert

#91 Gaming Is Satanic

#92 Woman Who Shared This Was My Non-Verbal Adult Sister’s Healthcare Aid For Years. Sincerely Hope She Never Tried Any ‘Cures’ With Her In Private To Fix Her ‘Vaccine Triggered Autism’

#93 One Of Mankind’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries

#94 A Girl In The Comments Sincerely Said “So This Is Why One Of My Sons Came Out White”

#95 Climate Change Is A Curse And Not Caused By Carbon Emissions, Apparently

#96 Plan E.t

#97 Spongebob Is God?

#98 This Can Be Arranged

#99 Doesn’t Sound Too Bad

#100 I Really Like This Guy As A Person So It Makes It Extra Sucky When He Keeps His Tin Foil Hat Well Shined And Is Constantly Posting Anti-Vaxx And Flat Earth Images