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Wake Up Sailors, Scurvy Is a Hoax

2 points by _Microft 5y ago

bryanrasmussen 5y ago
maybe this guy is why they forgot what caused scurvy in the first place https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
_Microft 5y ago
What type of text is this? A parable?
- harpiaharpyja 5y ago
  https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Anvilicious https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Anvilicious
- jfengel 5y ago
  A satire. A deliberately thin allegory about COVID denialism.
nanis 5y ago
Wow. I had never heard of mcsweeneys.net before the rant from the other day[1] which I ignored as a one off but this site seems to be teeming with people who love vacuous arguments. Here is this genius[2]: > Some who become ill with COVID-19 need to be intubated and placed on ventilators. Intubation is a painful, invasive process where a doctor forces a plastic tube down your trachea to keep an airway open. Unnecessary intubation likely killed a whole bunch of people especially in the Northeastern U.S. last year. [1]: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-the-fucking-vaccine-already-you-fucking-fucks https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-th... [2]: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-short-quiz-for-my-students-in-lieu-of-asking-about-their-vaccine-status-or-requesting-that-they-wear-masks https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-short-quiz-for-my-stud...
- dekhn 5y ago
  you know it's a satire right?
  - nanis 5y ago
    Satire requires a certain level of intelligence which these seem to be lacking. Take this, for example: > [effects of scurvy] definitely sounds better than occasionally sucking on a lime. I am sure Ms. Baecht thinks that is a demonstration of supreme intellect. > You see it now, don’t you? Scurvy is nothing more than a made-up, foreign-fruit-induced plague, and I, for one, will not be silent! I will not be a sheep, er, I mean, I will not be a fish! I am a man! A very, very painfully misguided man, and I swear to you that the juice of a lime will never pass my lips—at least until the internal bleeding starts, and then I’m sure I will go along with whatever old sawbones says. And I definitely want access to that new experimental leech treatment. Sod off!
    - dekhn 5y ago
      you're being obtuse. mcsweeney's is a well known outlet for moderate humor. The articles could be procedurally generated.
      - jfengel 5y ago
        One might have thought that the opening sentence would be a pretty strong clue that this wasn't to be taken literally: I’m just a lowly seventeenth-century British sailor, not some fancy-pants seventeenth-century British sawbones It's not especially great satire, about on par of McSweeny's usual work. They occasionally aspire to genius, though mostly when they lean in to their academic audience and target them well.
        nanis 5y ago
        Here's actual satire which, like all good satire, is grounded in truth: https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/09/a-covid-19-vaccine-fractured-fairy-tale/ https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/09/a-covid-19-vaccine-fract...
BGthaOG 5y ago
Experimental gene therapy is far from a fruit

2 points by _Microft 5y ago

maybe this guy is why they forgot what caused scurvy in the first place https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

_Microft 5y ago

What type of text is this? A parable?

harpiaharpyja 5y ago
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Anvilicious https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Anvilicious
jfengel 5y ago
A satire. A deliberately thin allegory about COVID denialism.

nanis 5y ago

Wow. I had never heard of mcsweeneys.net before the rant from the other day[1] which I ignored as a one off but this site seems to be teeming with people who love vacuous arguments. Here is this genius[2]: > Some who become ill with COVID-19 need to be intubated and placed on ventilators. Intubation is a painful, invasive process where a doctor forces a plastic tube down your trachea to keep an airway open. Unnecessary intubation likely killed a whole bunch of people especially in the Northeastern U.S. last year. [1]: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-the-fucking-vaccine-already-you-fucking-fucks https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-th... [2]: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-short-quiz-for-my-students-in-lieu-of-asking-about-their-vaccine-status-or-requesting-that-they-wear-masks https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-short-quiz-for-my-stud...

dekhn 5y ago
you know it's a satire right?
- nanis 5y ago
  Satire requires a certain level of intelligence which these seem to be lacking. Take this, for example: > [effects of scurvy] definitely sounds better than occasionally sucking on a lime. I am sure Ms. Baecht thinks that is a demonstration of supreme intellect. > You see it now, don’t you? Scurvy is nothing more than a made-up, foreign-fruit-induced plague, and I, for one, will not be silent! I will not be a sheep, er, I mean, I will not be a fish! I am a man! A very, very painfully misguided man, and I swear to you that the juice of a lime will never pass my lips—at least until the internal bleeding starts, and then I’m sure I will go along with whatever old sawbones says. And I definitely want access to that new experimental leech treatment. Sod off!
  - dekhn 5y ago
    you're being obtuse. mcsweeney's is a well known outlet for moderate humor. The articles could be procedurally generated.
    - jfengel 5y ago
      One might have thought that the opening sentence would be a pretty strong clue that this wasn't to be taken literally: I’m just a lowly seventeenth-century British sailor, not some fancy-pants seventeenth-century British sawbones It's not especially great satire, about on par of McSweeny's usual work. They occasionally aspire to genius, though mostly when they lean in to their academic audience and target them well.
      - nanis 5y ago
        Here's actual satire which, like all good satire, is grounded in truth: https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/09/a-covid-19-vaccine-fractured-fairy-tale/ https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/09/a-covid-19-vaccine-fract...

BGthaOG 5y ago

Experimental gene therapy is far from a fruit