Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.
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15 replies on “Don’t worry about those giant intelligent crabs…”
I’m not sure which part I found funniest, the baby crab that solved the Rubik’s Cube, or the queen crab that will be paraded down Times Square with all the crowds and flash photography. Hilarious!
Hilarious! But:
Linky, please? I’m just a glutton for brain-scorching stupidity.
AoA. ‘Nuff said.
Good stuff. I love the onion too. Did you catch last night’s science segment on the daily show?
Of course, certain antivaccine advocates seem to think that this parody has something to do with vaccines
That is probably the anti-science tone of the comedy (more of a parody of the anti-science mad scientist creates mutants movies, note to AoA: These are not documentaries). Remember, they have trouble seeing complexity in anything. Their answer to complexity is that it must be a conspiracy – nothing could be so complex that it wouldn’t be immediately clear to them, unless it is due to a conspiracy. Everything beyond the Teletubbies level is a conspiracy to some of them and maybe that is giving them too much credit.
Then there is the whole DSM-IV multiple diagnosis disorder problem they seem to have.
Excellent parody. I’m afraid I laughed out loud when I saw the gag about the hostage at the end of the video.
Not enough! I want them to go on and on. I want to see the whole story. This was just a tease.
The crabs will revolutionize our worldview!
Those crabs are gonna work for scab wages and take ‘merican jobs.
Well..maybe if the next time I get a vaccination the stuff in the syringe gets up and solves a Rubik’s cube, MAYBE I’ll start to give some credence to this “let’s worry about the vaccines more than the vaccine-preventable diseases” stuff.
Oh boy, who’s gonna tell PZ Myers that the cephalopods may not have a chance?
He gave the world crabs…
With a nod to Robster, it is unfortunate that Kwell is no longer available. With the potential for an infestation by those crabs, one needs the strongest medicine.
I love their choice of mathematicians too.
Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.
Funny stuff. Although if AoA likes The Onion so much, perhaps they’ll like this too: http://www.theonion.com/content/magazine/using_the_internet_to