Magnetism Proves Same-Sex Marriage Unnatural

[William769]

A postgraduate student at the University of Lagos in Nigeria claims his experiments with magnetism prove same-sex marriage is wrong.

“When you bring a North Pole of a magnet and a South Pole of a magnet they will attract because they are not the same, indicating that a man will attract a woman because of the way nature has made a female,” Chibuihem Amalaha told the Nigerian news website This Day Live. He added, “Man cannot attract another man because they are the same, and a woman should not attract a woman because they are the same. That is how I used physics to prove gay marriage wrong.”

His work is being lauded by certain fellow Nigerians, with one of his teachers saying he should be considered for a Nobel Prize, but many activists pointed out that it is unscientific and potentially dangerous, reports U.K. site Pink News.

“It’s debatable as to whether the embarrassing article is more damming [sic] of the standard of education at the University of Lagos or of the standard of journalism at This Day,” said Luiz DeBarros of South African LGBT website MambaOnline, according to Pink News. “The uncritical and uninformed article is likely to add to the ignorance and prejudice surrounding homosexuality in Nigeria.”

http://www.advocate.com/politics/2013/09/15/nigerian-researcher-magnetism-proves-same-sex-marriage-unnatural

And to think I have been going about this all the wrong way. How stupid could I have been?

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. ...sometimes there really are no words at all....

good mornin', Bill!

[William769]

4. Good morning to you to sir.

[KittyWampus]

2. I would argue that magnetism IMPLIES that it isn't the physical plumbing that is definitive

it's the psyche inhabiting a particular body.

But I am not a Reductionist or Scientific Materialist.

So I'm comfortable defining things outside physical characteristics.

[MineralMan]

3. I don't think that's what "animal magnetism" actually means.

Morons abound. Apparently that it true in Lagos, Nigeria, as well. Uff da!

[William769]

11. Between Russia, the middle east, Africa & the Caribbean

It's kind of hard to keep up.

Forgive me if I have left out any bigoted regions above, I can only battle so many at one time.

[MineralMan]

13. Along with certain places in the USA, of course.

Here in Minneapolis St. Paul, MN, we have an RCC Archbishop who displays the same level of moronic thinking as this guy in Lagos. Very strange. Fortunately, the state overall has a different opinion.

[William769]

15. True but in many of the places I mentioned it's Government sanctioned.

Big difference.

[MineralMan]

19. That's true.

[cali]

5. Okay then. That settles it.

Settles that there is no end to the insanity of these fucks.

[Vanje]

6. If you can't get your magnets to attract...

its because you're using the wrong end.

[William769]

12. No comment.

[Th1onein]

7. Well, that DOES it for me! I'm totally convinced now.

Jeebus.

[gollygee]

8. That is funny and sad at the same time

Stupid in action, but people will find any excuse at all to try to rationalize their hate.

[Vashta Nerada]

9. I initially thought this was going to be from Texas or Florida.

I guess I wasn't too far off.

[MNBrewer]

10. This just in "Magnets proven to be an inadequate model-system for human sexuality"

Also: Nigerian college student's future Nobel Prize postponed indefinitely.

[William769]

16. One would hope!

[petronius]

17. Not only that, my mail-order PhD from the University of Lagos has been

seriously devalued...

[redgreenandblue]

14. This has to be satire. Please let it be satire.......

[William769]

18. Sadly, it's not.

[MNBrewer]

21. This is the same type of person who believes that the banana disproves evolution

[William769]

24. Maybe disproving evolution but proves something else!

[Hard_Work]

29. Dafuq

did I just watch?

[pintobean]

53. A commercial for one of nature's

dildos.



Hint - it wasn't yellow.

[HappyMe]

20. What?

This would be hilarious, if it wasn't so damn sad.

[William769]

23. Best use of the facepalm I have seen in awhile.

[Xipe Totec]

22. Use oil and water as the model of gender interaction to reach the opposite conclusion.

Neither magnets, nor oil & water, nor cooties can serve as an adequate model for gender interaction.

[msanthrope]

25. Is this one of those Nigerian scam emails? You didn't send money, did you? nt

[brooklynite]

26. So, to follow this to its logical conclusion...

...if you run a heterosexual against a homosexual for 20 minutes, it will change their alignment?

[Vanje]

34. For that to work faster

rub them together vigorously

Magnets , I mean

[Adrahil]

27. GOP will soon be insisting this theory get equal time in classrooms!

[joeybee12]

28. BS...Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus both live at the North Pole and they're attracted to each other

Science, I don't need no stinking science.

[Hayabusa]

30. Seems legit...

(That's the closest to eyes rolling that I could find.)

What an idiot...

[geek tragedy]

31. two poles are attracted to each other, therefore sex between gay men is the preferred natural

order.

That's about as serious as this 'thesis.'

[gopiscrap]

32. WTF?

[Turbineguy]

33. Mr. Amalaha

may have a lot more ferrous material in his head than most of us. My advice is for him to ask for a refund of his tuition. In fact, the University should offer a refund right away.

[KamaAina]

35. What a coincidence. I just got an email from his cousin

who's a prince there. Looks like I may have come into some money!

[DetlefK]

36. Gravity: Like attracts like, therefore homosexuality is natural.

Unbelievable what passes for a scientists these days.

A colleague told me first-hand that physics in India doesn't even contain lectures on quantum-mechanics.
And I read an article that indian tech-companies prefer to recruit art-students and teach them from scratch, rather than trusting the education of their country's own science-students.

[MindPilot]

37. now we know...

Magnets are like the tides, you just can't explain that.

[Orrex]

38. So I guess masturbation proves the existence of the magnetic monopole?

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It's so damn simple!

[Dr. Strange]

54. Asshole.

That was going to be my joke.

[Orrex]

57. Reason for alert: Dr. Strange is too slow with the masturbation jokes

[KurtNYC]

39. Flip one of the magnets over.

Magnets go both ways dontchaknow.

[GeorgeGist]

40. This is a poor knockoff ...

of The Onion.

[William769]

44. The Onion is fictional for laughs

This is not fiction.

[longship]

41. PZ Myers has an extensive Blog post on this today.

Delusionally Competent

You know that Chibuihem Amalaha is a scientist because at the top of the article, his photo shows him wearing a lab coat and holding a flask of colored water. That’s enough for me! And he goes on to demonstrate his competence by citing his great discoveries.

... {quotes and comments from PZ, then he ends with a typical PZ flourish.}

Oh, we can fix that. I’m a biologist. I condemn your work. Worse, it’s the dumbest pile of barely literate shit I’ve seen in ages; the argument from analogy has no force at all, and relying on comparing people to magnets, solutions of different pH, or algebraic rules is simply idiotic. The biology used is selective examples backed by a childishly avid adoption of the naturalistic fallacy and the crudest mechanical view of how the brain works. Shame on your professors for praising a pathetic collection of superficial and often wrong observations; shame on the media for pretending an ignorant fool is a respectable scientist.

Recommended click through.

[petronius]

49. Comment #3 there made me lol:

Fuckin’ humans, how do they work?

[Rex]

42. What a fucking idiot. Magnets attract or repel due to lines of force.

Humans attract or repel, due to certain chemical reactions in our brains.

[2ndAmForComputers]

43. This guy is most assuredly an insane clown. I hope he doesn't have a posse.

[winter is coming]

45. Obviously people *do* attract people of the same sex, or there wouldn't be same-sex couples.

Looks like this brilliant scientist should be on the faculty for the Star Trek Technobabble Institute. Their motto: "Just reverse the polarity!"

[Nye Bevan]

46. Also, protons and electrons. I think this issue is now settled (nt)

[sibelian]

47. ..... but doesn't that mean that heterosexuals should join up in long chains?

You know, if opposites attract and everything... um, I dunno, shouldn't straight people be all kind of glommed together in a big puppy-pile of heteroseuxality?

[arcane1]

51. It's too early in the week for that kind of talk.

Save it for the weekend

[Behind the Aegis]

48. I dunno; rubbing poles together always gives me a charge.

[Warren DeMontague]

64. You know what's a shame?

There's no more DUzys.

[LostOne4Ever]

50. What it proves

Is that there are quite a few people in Nigeria has a very poor understanding of what science actually is about.

If anything this guy should be blackballed from ever serving on any real scientific research and any experiment bearing his name should be assumed to be flawed and disregarded.

[enlightenment]

52. Good grief.

THIS is what is coming out of their university?

What do they teach at the med school? The four humors?

[mindwalker_i]

55. Gravity disagrees, as does the strong nuclear force

[Myrina]

56. Someone spent prom night at home with his chemistry set

... Homeboy obviously don't know Thing 1 about what attracts 2 individuals. Hint: it ain't polar.

[Jim Lane]

58. Male humans and female humans are very similar in many ways.

If we're to learn from the magnets, shouldn't we all be having sex with animals?

[Initech]

59. MAGNETS!!!!!!!

[Katashi_itto]

60. Gay people are magnetic?

So you can put them on refrigerator doors?

[Nevernose]

61. Bullshit. NOBODY KNOWS HOW MAGNETS WORK

It's a scientific mystery that no one on planet Earth understands. Would these guys lie to you? Could these guys be wrong?

Sorry. That song just never gets old for me.

[BadgerKid]

62. The male bar magnet / female solenoid model was not considered?

[Warren DeMontague]

63. Is this like Insane Clown Posse science, or what?