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Of all of the popular unscientific nonsense what's your biggest pet peeve? By this I mean the ignorant but relatively harmless stupidity.

Mine is probably ancient aliens.

JimG 8 May 16
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Homeopathy and Bach Flower Remedies. If you break your arm, some Arnica and Rescue Remedy won’t cut the mustard. Really ridiculous.

Livia Level 6 June 2, 2018
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Astrology has always made me cringe. Not to mention flat earthers which boggles the mind. Such dribble

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Chemtrail conspiracy theorists.

Athos Level 5 May 17, 2018
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For the harmless, the essential oil, superfood, crazy talk always gets my head shaking.

Do you guys remember the cupping craze from the last olympics? People will believe some weird shit

WallyWorld Level 5 May 17, 2018
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There's the one where people believe we are being replaced by lizard people. Although. given how government here is deteriorating, there might be something to it. Kidding.

zeuser Level 9 May 17, 2018

Here's hoping the reptilian overlords show up and replace these assholes soon.

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Moon landing deniers are pretty funny.

Sunishine Level 6 May 17, 2018
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Flat Earthers. Harmless unless they are influencing children.

Kafirah Level 8 May 17, 2018
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Non-GMO advertising. Again, not totally harmless, but not as bad as anti vaxxers, etc.

The fact that I haven't seen a single TV commercial saying, "Yes! Our product is GMO, because it's safe, it's effective, it's productive, and it's helpful in every way! Quit being nieve by paying more for inferior products!"

Oh and things like Salt that's labeled Non-GMO. Really?

EddieDean Level 6 May 16, 2018

In other words, the ploys of "marketing gurus".

I've seen nonGMO water too.

@JimG isn't it sad? The fact that there are enough misinformed people that this kind of marketing works. People need to start caring about educating themselves.

I bet sales would increase if you labeled diapers or pencils or battery acid as Non-GMO. Ugh.

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"relatively harmless stupidity" this does not exist.

Any stupidity can be catastrophic at some point.

Believing in the super natural at all is ridiculous.

I think belief in ancient aliens is harmless, and I wouldn't classify it as supernatural, just idiotic.

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So hard to pick one!

Sunishine Level 6 May 16, 2018
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Anti-gun fanatics.

Define which guns. Muskets? hunting rifles? ... or medium machine guns, whose only justification is for wholesale slaughter?

@Petter
Our anti-gun fanatics don't seem to understand the difference. But to answer your real question, I think you should be able to own any of the above. Now, why you'd want a fully automatic weapon is beyond me. But some folks collect them.

@bigpawbullets Agreed, but with basic "sensible" restrictions on use in public. Just as anyone should be allowed to own a car on their private property.
But to drive it on the public highway it must be declared roadworthy and the driver must be examined for being capable of safe control.

@Petter
Very good comparison.
To own (legally) a fully automatic weapon where I live requires a background check and specific registration of each weapon... plus a hefty tax. And, you're very restricted as to where you can fire it.

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Yeah the flat earth idiots realllllllly drive me insane

But they're usually only saying it for fun or profit.

@Petter even worse...

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That climate change is a hoax...but that's not harmless.

Heraclitus Level 8 May 16, 2018

I agree it's not.

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