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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.
Its 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
(60,006 posts)good mornin', Bill!
William769
(55,142 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)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
(146,248 posts)Morons abound. Apparently that it true in Lagos, Nigeria, as well. Uff da!
William769
(55,142 posts)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
(146,248 posts)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
(55,142 posts)Big difference.
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Settles that there is no end to the insanity of these fucks.
Vanje
(9,766 posts)its because you're using the wrong end.
William769
(55,142 posts)Th1onein
(8,514 posts)Jeebus.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Stupid in action, but people will find any excuse at all to try to rationalize their hate.
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)I guess I wasn't too far off.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)Also: Nigerian college student's future Nobel Prize postponed indefinitely.
William769
(55,142 posts)petronius
(26,595 posts)seriously devalued...
redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)William769
(55,142 posts)MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)William769
(55,142 posts)did I just watch?
pintobean
(18,101 posts)dildos.
Hint - it wasn't yellow.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)William769
(55,142 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)Neither magnets, nor oil & water, nor cooties can serve as an adequate model for gender interaction.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)brooklynite
(94,302 posts)...if you run a heterosexual against a homosexual for 20 minutes, it will change their alignment?
Vanje
(9,766 posts)rub them together vigorously
Magnets , I mean
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Science, I don't need no stinking science.
Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)What an idiot...
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)order.
That's about as serious as this 'thesis.'
gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)Turbineguy
(37,285 posts)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
(78,249 posts)who's a prince there. Looks like I may have come into some money!
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)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
(12,693 posts)Magnets are like the tides, you just can't explain that.
Orrex
(63,169 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 16, 2013, 01:19 PM - Edit history (1)
It's so damn simple!
Dr. Strange
(25,915 posts)That was going to be my joke.
Orrex
(63,169 posts)KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Magnets go both ways dontchaknow.
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)of The Onion.
William769
(55,142 posts)This is not fiction.
longship
(40,416 posts)... {quotes and comments from PZ, then he ends with a typical PZ flourish.}
Oh, we can fix that. Im a biologist. I condemn your work. Worse, its the dumbest pile of barely literate shit Ive 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
(26,595 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Humans attract or repel, due to certain chemical reactions in our brains.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Looks like this brilliant scientist should be on the faculty for the Star Trek Technobabble Institute. Their motto: "Just reverse the polarity!"
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)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
(38,613 posts)Save it for the weekend
Behind the Aegis
(53,918 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)There's no more DUzys.
LostOne4Ever
(9,286 posts)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
(8,830 posts)THIS is what is coming out of their university?
What do they teach at the med school? The four humors?
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)... Homeboy obviously don't know Thing 1 about what attracts 2 individuals. Hint: it ain't polar.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)If we're to learn from the magnets, shouldn't we all be having sex with animals?
Initech
(100,028 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)So you can put them on refrigerator doors?
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)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.