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The Scientific Method: Emotional Rollercoaster Edition
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The Scientific Method: Emotional Rollercoaster Edition
The scientific method they taught us in school vs. what actually happens in the lab! First you make an observation with the confused squinting of Fry, then scream "WHAT IS HAPPENING?!" like a deranged meme guy. Your hypothesis? Just a dinosaur plotting something sinister. Then comes the prediction phase where Keanu is utterly bewildered, followed by experiments conducted by... *checks notes*... a chemistry cat with a bowtie. Obviously. When the results come in, you either pump your fist like Success Kid or spiral into existential crisis. If things go sideways, Jackie Chan clutches his head in despair as you reject your hypothesis. Finally, you emerge with a wild-haired "theory" that looks suspiciously like an alien conspiracy. And we wonder why the public doesn't understand science! This is basically peer review in meme format.

The World If Greeks Had Actually Tested Their Theories
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The World If Greeks Had Actually Tested Their Theories
Imagine if Aristotle had been like, "Let's actually TEST whether heavier objects fall faster" instead of just declaring it from his armchair! We'd be zooming around in flying cars by now! Those Greek thinkers were brilliant but skipped the whole "prove it" step that makes science... you know... actually work. 2600 years of technological head start? We'd have colonized three galaxies and cured death by Thursday! Instead, we had to wait for Galileo to drop balls off towers and go "huh, look at that" before science really took off. The ultimate "what could have been" timeline!

Some People Believe It To Be A Myth
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Some People Believe It To Be A Myth
This statistical masterpiece showcases the three types of people on the scientific belief spectrum. In the middle, we have the casual "I believe in science" guy, representing the average person who accepts scientific consensus without diving into methodology. On the left, the science denier who rejects evidence entirely. But the real hero is on the right—the scientist who doesn't "believe" in science because science isn't about belief! It's about evidence, testing hypotheses, and statistical significance. The bell curve brilliantly illustrates how most people fall into the middle "believer" category, while both deniers and actual scientists occupy the tails of the distribution. The quotation marks around "believe" are doing some heavy lifting here!