Ads have had enough of malakas On July 4, they went crackers.

[TheGreatWave]

Slight tweak to the suggestion, but here it is.

I’ll never forget when it looked like we were entering lockdown some poor key worker (nurse?) stating that she was a single mum with an 11 yr old and she didn’t want to leave him/her for 14hrs a day on their own. I don’t blame her. But there was page after page screaming “don’t you know there’s a national emergency - your 11 will just have to suck it up”
It was disgusting. As if any of those morons would like to leave their child all alone for 14 hrs a day for weeks on end.
I was so angry and very nearly left Mumsnet over that.

Oh and yes to the Facebook group.

@Drivingdownthe101

The 'AD' threads on here make me realise what a scientifically ill educated nation we are

Quote from another thread. How very dare they!

Oh my god, their inability to self reflect in that statement is killing me!!

@Drivingdownthe101

The 'AD' threads on here make me realise what a scientifically ill educated nation we are

Quote from another thread. How very dare they!

What a crock! We've been really rigorous with all the data we've shared and analysed. Cheeky fecker!

Feeling like the uncool kid not getting in on the FB PM action.
Please!

Went past a still "closed" playpark with a very uneasy mum and toddler on it - I cheered her on.

I don’t get the Facebook thing either I’ll join your gang @DominaShantotto

Just starting now on bbc1 panorama programme on impact of Covid on cancer. Wonder if prof Sakora will be on? Should be an interesting watch

I can't believe that people are still churning out the "without lockdown 500, 000 people would have died" mantra!

Hi everyone, found you again! I don't post often, but just wanted to say to @Spudlet that my DS also chews his arms - he is pre ASD diagnosis- and I can thoroughly recommend chewellery from a website called Chewigem. They have loads of advice on there as well.

Or that the only people with any immunity test positive on that daft antibody test. It’s utter bollocks

@Drivingdownthe101

The 'AD' threads on here make me realise what a scientifically ill educated nation we are

Quote from another thread. How very dare they!

That's hilarious. I wonder how well educated they think Prof Spiegelhalter is?

Hahahaha if they say so

Some people parrot crap that ‘experts’ have said but they seem incapable of understanding that no one fucking knows. They can’t get their heads around the idea that scientists don’t have the answers either, only a range of hypotheses.

There's lots of poor science everywhere on Mumsnet. I'm reasonably well educated scientifically (I have a BSc) but certainly am not an expert. I think the AD threads will have got it wrong but if I want an expert opion I'll go to a proper exper. Sorry ADs although obviously some of you may be Prof Spiegelhalter or Prof Sakora in real life.

@Drivingdownthe101

The 'AD' threads on here make me realise what a scientifically ill educated nation we are

Quote from another thread. How very dare they!

I'm a science teacher 😳😂

FrugiFan that’s brilliant .

I’m not sure we claim to be scientific experts do we? Or even talk much about science! We discuss stats sometimes. We talk about Greek swear words and playgrounds more often.

I have been fretting about a friend in Florida with toddler and new baby with all the bad news about cases rising, but the death rate percentage wise is so low. Gave my head a wobble.

@BakewellTarts I suspect everyone on mumsnet will have got it wrong

We talk about stats and risk more than science I would say. And having fun.

I’m not sure we claim to be scientific experts do we?

The point is the scientists don’t know either

@Teateaandmoretea

I’m not sure we claim to be scientific experts do we?

The point is the scientists don’t know either

The dementors do though. THEY KNOW EVERYTHING.

@Drivingdownthe101 exactly that

@Teateaandmoretea I agree and those at the extreme will probably have got it most wrong. Generally I think we are a moderate bunch not wedded to extreme views and open to litsening. Unlike some threads.

@justasking111 we have elderly relatives in the Mid West so I understand the worry. I know they are being sensible though and the US is a big place. Certainly where they are there is loads of room for everyone.

95% of the crap posted on the CV board has me wanting to weep & rend my hair at the state of UK scientific illiteracy.

Dementoring is a special kind of science. You take every hypothesis Ithat is negative and turn them into fact because they were written by an expert. You take every real negative piece of evidence (US) you add all these up.

Any positive piece of evidence you multiply by zero. It can be expressed as below:

D = fn + (p x 0)

Our next thread title has to be an equation like this!