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CBC: 43% of Canadians think science is opinion, 52% think GMOs are bad for the health
- Thread starter AuthenticM
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That's not how this works.
Tarextherex
Banned
old af
Both canadians and americans are dumb british descendants, only difference is that americans have more balls
Outside of the big cities you got illiterate rednecks everywhere. The canadian conservative party is trump levels of stupid. Yall think every canadian is like trudeau smh
WaterAstro
Member
Realistically, all science is an opinion, a collective opinion of mostly everyone.
Then maybe someone with a different opinion will completely prove all of us wrong!
Then maybe someone with a different opinion will completely prove all of us wrong!
Nightwing123
Member
Stuff like this makes me sad 
yanipheonu
Member
Could the scientific community be doing more to promote their message? I'm just unfamiliar with the efforts of scientists to reach out to the public, but it certainly might need to do more against the piles of fake news out there.
Cow Mengde
Banned
At least I feel better knowing Canada is just as dumb.
Winterblink
Member
Hey now, nobody asked me these questions.
theaffection
Member
Alot of people percieve the scientific community to be snobby or stuck up, etc
Epsilon-delta
Banned
North America is united in ignorance.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
1 out of 5 Canadians believe in a link between vaccines and autism? Yikes.
Millions duped by a single conman (wouldn't be the first time though)
Millions duped by a single conman (wouldn't be the first time though)
Lol
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I mean anti-science have big marketers and are litigious. Basically, have huge troll communities that can harass scientists and companies.
How ubiquitous is this logo in Canada?
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Canadians are just Norther Americans!
You have no idea how many uninformed individuals are whining about current tax proposals to get rid of loopholes because "muh taxes!" despite it not affecting their taxes.
No.
In reference to what? Boomers are some of the worst in this regard
Tal Shiar Agent
Banned
You ever had organic bananas? Taste so much better not being artificially ripened.
Lyon N. Laap
Member
It's amazing how many people deride or don't believe the scientific community, but are so willing to jump aboard with fringe researchers or outright liars who claim to follow the same scientific method. How would such vast international conspiracies come about from scientists in countries that may hate each other?
It is a travesty what that man's bunk research did for children and communities and across the globe, and what climate change deniers, heroes of oil companies, are doing to the planet.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Yeah but I bet the anti-GMO and Vaccines = Autism people are leftier Liberal or NDP voters.
Different kinds of stupid on both sides.
Earthbound64
Banned
"43%? That's just, like, your opinion man."
Atomic Playboy
Member
Sounds like someone is part of the 43%. Statistically significant sample sizes? That's just, like, your opinion, man.
Good timing Earthbound64.
Earthbound64
Banned
Yeah, in any polling/survey thread, there always seem to be comments like that from people who don't understand statistics... I mean "opinions."
Atomic Playboy
Member
Videos about Monsanto or videos made by Monsanto? I was picturing the Troy McClure film about cows from The Simpsons. "Just ask this scientician."
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
You also see products voluntarily label themselves as "GMO Free". If that's your only exposure to the concept, you'd think of them as bad.
My girlfriend was bragging to me about how her chips were healthier because they said GMO Free, and I explained to her how I didn't give a shit about that
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
1 person out of 5 thinks there's a link between vaccines and autism? I refuse to believe this. The methodology/sample must be faulty.
Or the prairies are skewing the results... >_>
About.
If it were videos by Monsanto, we probably would have been less worried about GMOs.
KojiKnight
Member
I'm sorry Canada! This is partially us US people's fault.
though a large part of it is also Albertans...
This is going to blow your mind, you might want to sit down for this ... If you select people carefully, so you that you have a good sample base (not everyone from the same village, for example), you can make a fairly strong assessment of something over a very large population, while still using only checking a few thousand people.
I know, the first time I understood this in statistics class, I needed a strong drink.
Earthbound64
Banned
Opinions and fakenews, obviously.
Resident_UA
Member
Yeah the anti-vaccines brigade is mostly educated liberal minded people. So god damn weird.
Canadians get a lot of the same media that Americans get. Even more so in the age of the internet and social media. The general public has never been all that scientifically literate to begin with, so a constant barrage of FUD on their feeds is going to skew perspectives.
These results don't surprise me.
These results don't surprise me.
killer rin
Member
Makes sense. We did just get off a 10 year period of a government which did everything short of formally declaring war on Science.
Wyndstryker
Member
Well can't really say that science is a fact when it's more or less an accumulation of knowledge that is based on observations. Science keeps changing and what we know as good can change later.
A fact is unchanging yet our knowledge of things do change
A fact is unchanging yet our knowledge of things do change
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
It's also not an "opinion"
Subpar Spatula
Banned
i believe it is an opinion, but then again i'm a super heavenly person that can cast fireballs