View Full Version : Nerds arguing about no-poo
Lilli
January 15th, 2012, 07:12 AM
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/oheif/claim_shampoo_is_harmful_to_you_hair_and_the_no/
If you have not been to reddit before, it is a news/discussion aggregation and ranking site. The main demographic is young nerdy men. I always find it entertaining how they only believe what has been in a science-y study! Every single person who does no-poo and loves it could go there and tell them how much better their hair is now and it wouldn't budge them. Ah, to be young and sure!
Amber_Maiden
January 15th, 2012, 08:21 AM
haha. Love how it's an argument!
Nae
January 15th, 2012, 08:48 AM
Why do I feel like I could have seen this conversation on an episode of "Big Bang Theory?"
I think my favorite part was when one of the mods said, "Ok, everybody, let's try this again, but with citations this time!"
No speculation here!! So adorable in a totally nerdy kinda way.
Long_hair_bear
January 15th, 2012, 09:06 AM
Um, wow, really?! Do what works for your hair, nerds, not what science says works. A lot of peeps like no poo. I'm a cwc gal myself, but if no poo works for someone else, have at it I say. :D
Mommyof4
January 15th, 2012, 09:11 AM
I find it "interesting" that most of the comments on that thread have been deleted... lol..
Mannaz
January 15th, 2012, 09:57 AM
Why do I feel like I could have seen this conversation on an episode of "Big Bang Theory?"
I thought the same... And the title made me :D
Freckled.Thing
January 15th, 2012, 09:59 AM
I saw this on reddit the other day too. I think that their sense of scientific curiosity is great and that r/science is an incredible resource for leaning about any number of topics. I also think that it makes perfect sense to ask a question like this there. But I guess I might be biased as I am both a nerd and a redditor. Not to mention I believe more in science-y studies than in anything else. :shrug: To each their own.
I find it "interesting" that most of the comments on that thread have been deleted... lol..
Just to clarify, mod's delete anything that they think is layman's supposition or that is not sufficiently scientific, so that's why so many responses are deleted. They're just trying to make the website an accurate and reliable resource for people.
PixxieStix
January 15th, 2012, 10:21 AM
Wow that was a fun read, thanks for introducing me to that site, I might be browsing around there quite a bit. :D
spidermom
January 15th, 2012, 10:39 AM
I check out claims made here against available scientific data. Nothing wrong with that!
islandboo
January 15th, 2012, 11:43 AM
I find it "interesting" that most of the comments on that thread have been deleted... lol..
That's the mods. In that subreddit, they have a fierce policy of retaining only comments that are directly relevant and non-anecdotal.
ETA: oops, sorry; Freckled.Thing already explained that :o
Synnovea
January 15th, 2012, 12:00 PM
What's wrong with science?
LissaJane
January 15th, 2012, 12:23 PM
Hahahaha. Wow.
I love this. Someone needs to point them to this forum.
Lilli
January 15th, 2012, 01:45 PM
What's wrong with science?
Nothing is wrong with science, but science is not the only way to know the world, or to know "truth." The thread I linked to is a perfect example: science shows that shampoo couldn't possibly be damaging and no-poo is pointless. The anecdotal reports here on LHC might as well not exist to the redditors.
Science is useful, as long as you know its limitations, biases and misuses. Scientific discoveries and truths have also been very, very right... right up until they became obviously wrong. There are some people who reject all science and some people who reject all non-science. Both are equally foolish epistemologies. What is more interesting, at least to me, is to look at any question from a variety of viewpoints and use the conflicting answers those viewpoints provide to tease out useful answers.
I do read on reddit occasionally, have an account, and sometimes provide answers even, but the near-monolithic bias for what they perceive as real, truthful science makes me chuckle. They're very, very young. :)
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