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That penn and teller episode with the petition for removing dihydrogen monoxide from schools was fantastic. https://youtu.be/zVxypRWZODQ https://youtu.be/zVxyp

• amanaplanacanal 5y ago
  Using obscure terminology to confuse people certainly makes a good joke :-) I'm not sure it really tells us much though.
  • waterhouse 5y ago
    It tells us that people are willing to sign a petition to ban a thing while clearly not having done their research on the thing, just because an authoritative-seeming stranger told them something plausible. It means that such petitions shouldn't be taken seriously; and, to the extent that they are serious, it implies something about people's recklessness with regard to policymaking. (I wonder how such a survey would fare today, when most people have smartphones with browsers and an internet connection.)