I'm not a scientist, but...

[titbumwillypoo]

I'm a bit concerned about the wheel. I'm not sure if I trust it. Also fire seems a bit dangerous.

Tempted to start a "I'm not an economist but I'm concerned about the trading of shells and stones with holes in."

I’m not a scientist but I have spent 25 years studying politics and the law

I haven't spent 25 years studying politics, yet I'm aware politicians say things for political reasons. I've noticed they're especially fond of catchy slogans dumping responsibility for their decisions onto other people ("we're following the science").

Is it because my brain isn't sufficiently highly trained, that I've noticed this?

Yeah, that wheel, I had one, it kept on rolling, not sure where it is now.

I’m a scientist and when I (very rarely) reveal my qualifications to you because you ask me what qualifications I have to back up my facts opinions and I ask you to do the same, you tell me it’s
A) none of my business, or
B) you have too many to list

If I tell you it’s none of your business, you say I’m full of shit. I think you may just not like me.

@hedgehogger1 It is more fiendish than that:

Dihydrogen monoxide:

• is also known as hydroxyl acid, and is the major component of acid rain.
• contributes to the "greenhouse effect".
• may cause severe burns.
• contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
• accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
• may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
• has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.

Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:

• as an industrial solvent and coolant.
• in nuclear power plants.
• in the production of styrofoam.
• as a fire retardant.
• in many forms of cruel animal research.
• in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
• as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.

Oh, and you die if you inhale lots of it and you die if you don't consume any!

I LOVE the dihydrogen monoxide one.

I am not James Bond but I think politicians in this country are dangerous.

I know to do my own research and not be a sheeple and distrust MSM. I won't believe doctors and scientists. Except those who have Youtube videos or feature in the Torygraph or the Daily Wail (and speak outside their specialism/have been struck off/don't have the qualifications and credentials they state/are having a MH crisis because I know that's how experts and the establishment discredit the voices of truth).

I know to distrust the chemicals in food and to be careful about what I put in my body, except the Fair-trade recreational rectally-transported, oppression-causing, perception-enhancing chemicals obviously because those have been used (but not rectally-smuggled) for millennia by societies in touch with their culture.

@Zilla1

"Following the science has led us to a place where our economy has been tremendously damaged" am struggling to think of an occasion where the UK has followed the science rather than followed the business and/or politics then occasionally incorrectly used science to justify those decisions. Grateful for examples, Booksare

Is this a joke?

Foot and mouth in cattle?

You might as well have said “I’m a scientist and we agree ALL THE TIME” OP.

Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.

Shouldn't that be "especially after washing"?

Acorn, not a joke.

You might want to look at the reasons why foot and mouth is managed using a 'burnt earth' approach - a clue - business. I understand most exports of related animal products would be affected as other nations wouldn't import related food products from a country with endemic foot and mouth = business and politics, not science. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong (that's a scientific approach, btw).

Fire is really dangerous.
Just a small fire warms a room up, & fires are lit all over the global causing global warming.

If fire were invented now, it wouldn’t be allowed.

I don't trust this glass stuff, how can it keep my dwelling safe when a large animal could crash through it and eat us all. I'm sticking with good old fashioned stone walls.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3989032/

"The presence, or even threat, of FMD prevents access to lucrative international markets."

@Anniegetyourgun Nah, it might let the cat out of the bag. To get traction with online scams, you need to scare your audience, not educate them.

@Nackajory

For a moment I thought you were referring to that new game show on the magic screen in the corner of my living room.

An 'elite' group encircle someone and ritualistically dance and chant 'the wheel. The wheel'. What happens to those people after they go back down that hole, ask yourself that?

Are you prepared to admit that “science”Is allowing you to type onto your phone/computer from wherever you are in the world and allow your opinions to be read by thousands of strangers somewhere else in the world on a device that is significantly more powerful than computers that took humans to the moon?

Humans have never been to the moon. And what’s more the Earth is flat - flat I tell you!!

@tabulahrasa

“Exactly! My 'alarm' has a microchip in it. You know what microchips are for? So Bill Gates can monitor us - I bet he's watching me type this!”

They wanted me to microchip my pets... I’m not having bill gates spying on my pets!!!

My cats previous humans had her microchipped. I suspect this is why she spends so much time asleep. Other people, no Saskia, it's because she is a cat, but I know that it's because Bill is putting her into snooze mode.

Saskia, your poor cat. I wonder if the owners were told she was being chipped or if they just thought she was getting a so-called vaccine and couldn't notice the 12mm long chip? Does the chip enable he to be tracked or tell the cat authorities what she's thinking or does it control her too? Damn cat-controlling establishment.

They should repeat the McCain's TV advert but amend it so instead of the two children discussing 'Daddy or chips', the child says 'Daddy is chipped, Daddy is chipped'...

@CounsellorTroi Don't tell me the views from the Enterprise deck when you were gazing down at all these round planets were all a show?!?!?

You can live a life free of wheels and fire. I have written a book which I can send you for only 17 installments of £19.99.