{"id":43141,"date":"2018-04-20T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43141"},"modified":"2018-04-19T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T17:15:16","slug":"memes-for-morons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/memes-for-morons\/","title":{"rendered":"Memes for morons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <em>Facebook<\/em>, SF author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/larry.correia\/posts\/2133627773314807\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Correia<\/a> responds to a currently popular meme (NSFW language, so it&#8217;s below the fold):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a cartoon going around from \u201cMarch Against Monsanto\u201d about how doctors could cure cancer but don\u2019t because they make more money treating it than curing it.<\/p>\n<p>So I went off.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>This is fucking stupid.<\/p>\n<p>No really. It is truly fucking stupid. It is brain dead idiocy, only believed by chumps.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s incredibly insulting. What, do doctors, researchers, and all these greedy corporate execs not get cancer themselves? Do they not have loved ones die of cancer?<\/p>\n<p>It is insulting to anybody who knows how research works, it\u2019s insulting to anybody who knows how big business works.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d have to have a childlike simpleton\u2019s grasp of reality to believe this horseshit.<\/p>\n<p>If you found a cure for cancer you would make billions. Not to mention the epic marketing boost and goodwill your company would get (from everybody other than brain dead conspiracy theorists)<\/p>\n<p>But there isn\u2019t actually such a thing as \u201ca cure for cancer\u201d because there are hundreds of kinds of cancer. So whoever makes up this nonsense about a magic bullet is also a fucking idiot when it comes to basic biology.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s say a corporation did find a cure for one type of cancer but they covered it up because they make more money off of treating symptoms, yet NONE of the hundreds of people involved with the process leaked this, and NONE of the dozens of rival companies around the world stole the idea in order to make billions of dollars themselves?<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who lacks the critical thinking skills to not poke holes in this should be ashamed of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>March Against Monsanto can kiss my ass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Facebook, SF author Larry Correia responds to a currently popular meme (NSFW language, so it&#8217;s below the fold):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,28],"tags":[347,702,513,593],"class_list":["post-43141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-media","tag-debunking","tag-nsfw","tag-research","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bdP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43142,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions\/43142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}