derinthescarletpescatarian:

anarchistmemecollective:

xkcd-for-that:

atalantapendrag:

atlas-prime:

pinchtheprincess:

cactustreemotel:

msdoublenegative:

sjw-proverbs:

girljanitor:

tacticalconscience:

Even if you don’t think vaccines and autism are related … these are some staggering numbers!

YES THESE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING I WOULD ALSO POSIT THAT HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THESE IMAGES AND TEXT ALSO

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12/10 best response to this idiocy.

correlation does not equal causation dumbasses

Those are the best graphs ever.

I have seen similar posts, but this one has the best charts. 

“Is this mountain range affecting the murder rate?” Best response.

When ice cream sales rise, so do rates of drownings. This does not mean ice cream makes you drown.

    [Cueball holds a cellphone. Black Hat is sitting at a desk with a laptop.]
    Cueball: Another huge study found no evidence that cell phones cause cancer. What was the W.H.O. thinking?
    Black Hat: I think they just got it backward.

    [Black Hat turns towards Cueball in an unframed panel, holding the laptop with one hand by the upper edge of the screen. Cueball is not visible.]
    Cueball: Huh?
    Black Hat: Well, take a look.

    [There is a plot of total cancer incidence and cell phone users. Cancer rises from 1970 to 1990, then stays relatively steady. Cell phone use rises from roughly 1984, and steeply after 1990, to the present.]

    Cueball: You're not... There are so many problems with that.
    Black Hat: Just to be safe, until I see more data I'm going to assume cancer causes cell phones.
He holds the laptop like that on purpose, to make you cringe.
image of a graph titled "please stop eating ice cream it causes shark attacks!" with an image of a shark and an ice cream cone and a closely matched line graph