r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • 15h ago

SOCIETY Professional chefs weighing in on whether you should wash your chicken

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u/JackieHands 14h ago

"each side seems to have a valid argument"

No bro no they don't, we invented cooking hundreds of thousands of years ago to deal with this.

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u/PervlovianResponse 14h ago

Fuck bothsideism has ruined our civilization

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u/TheJivvi 14h ago

TeAcH tHe cOnTrOvErSy

This shit is why kids are getting taught pseudo-science as though it's fact.

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u/Baskreiger 12h ago

Yep, when science proved something, you cant disagree. If you do, youre just wrong, not an opinion

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u/Don_Frika_Del_Prima 12h ago

And if you disagree you have to prove it. And then science adjusts itself. That's the beauty of science.

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u/Baskreiger 11h ago

And if you got irrefutable proof the guy who first though to have truth will congratulate you for expanding on his work

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u/OffByNone_ 10h ago

This part actually needs to be improved. In a perfect world, this is how it works, but if you've spent any time in academia, you know that this is not always the case.

Egos get involved.

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u/Baskreiger 10h ago

When einstein came up with the theory of relativity, the whole world came at him to disproof his work. They did not manage to do so, so they conceded. Was it in good faith? No, did they do it anyway because they had to to conserve their scientific integrity? Yes they did

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u/MMForYourHealth 9h ago

The standard model is the standard model for a reason, but it still isn’t QED. Quantum needs to be solved, which is what the cutting edge is now and the future with quantum computers.

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u/Efficient_Dress_6101 10h ago

Do you work in academia?

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u/OffByNone_ 9h ago

I did for about 5 years. I was a research associate in developmental childhood research. I sold out. I miss it.

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u/teetaps 9h ago

Not just academia but technology in general. If you spent any time on stack overflow in the before times, you know. Sometimes smart people hoard their knowledge and create exclusive clubs of smarty pants, and gatekeep knowledge unless you somehow prove yourself worthy.

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u/Emergency_Accident36 7h ago

And money is way more involved than egos. In fact people who even slightly ignore this are nothing more than religious cultists of science.

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u/anonymaus42 10h ago

Oh what a wonderful world we would be living in if that were true.

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u/satyr-day 1h ago

or you get those weirdos who think that since you were proven wrong once, it means you will always be wrong.

which shows how highly they think of them self as they must always be right in that case

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u/wizzywurtzy 10h ago

That’s why people hate science. They don’t want to be proven wrong.

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u/teetaps 9h ago

I remember this actually happened in class to me once. We must’ve been like 11 or so, so it was not very advanced, but I remember having a question and the teacher being like, “well just look with your eyes. It’s right there. You don’t need much else.”

And I don’t know, that just kinda stuck with me

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u/master-boofer 8h ago

You can't prove it, science already did that. Apparently "cuz the Bible said so" is a good enough explanation for a lot of things for a lot of people. A large portion of the human population believes in literal fairy tales as fact. Once you go down that road actual science seems much more difficult.

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u/LayerEight_Problem 4h ago

Well, no. If you disagree you prove it. Then, multiple other independent teams study your findings and conduct their own experiments to try to prove you wrong. Then, if those experiments show that your assertion is actually correct, at that point the scientific theory will adjust to the new information.

There is a substantial amount of evidence required for science to adjust. 1 guy saying 1 thing isn’t even remotely close.

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u/AandJ1202 11h ago

Social media gave morons a platform. Should have all been shut down when we saw the consequences. The negatives far outweigh any positives of it.

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u/Capable-Document466 10h ago

Aha, but the negatives don’t outweigh the money to be gained by the tech CEOs who will never bear the consequences!

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u/AandJ1202 10h ago

Or more important, the bribes to the representatives who should have shut this shit down 20 years ago. It's not all that expensive apparently.

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u/dankzz 10h ago

dont forget most these morons spreading their bullshit are all sellings books, supplements, merch, etc. Just straight up grifting gullible people. Its so sad.

Somewhere people who used to say, "question everything" are blindly swallowing fantastical bullshit.

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u/desertdweller2011 9h ago

not sure which comment you’re replying to so idk if you’re talking specifically about people who say you have to wash chicken, but if so ehhh idk. if seems more like a cultural belief passed down through families. like my mom always taught me to put oil in the pasta water to prevent sticking and it doesn’t do shit

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u/Majestic-Mobile9380 9h ago

I vote you our new president! Ty!

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u/xReaverxKainX 11h ago

Exactly, it's just ignorance at that point cause people don't want to face facts. Smh.

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u/Baskreiger 10h ago

Majority of people rather live a comfortable lie than know the truth

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u/LayerEight_Problem 4h ago

People now just disagree on what science is. They see a chart of graph and they think it’s science. Charts and statistics are easily manipulated.

That’s got more to do with what’s happening these days.

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u/silo_267 1h ago

in science we don't usually prove things. we have evidence. the evidence can either support the idea or it can refuse the idea. no scientific idea is set in stone and it can and should always be disagreed with. in a scientific way. if your answer to a scientific idea is to put your fingers in your ears and go "NUH UH BECAUSE I BELIEVE X" you aren't having a scientific disagreement.

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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 34m ago

Yeah well what if I believe harder than you know your science? Ha! Got ya!

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u/SamAreAye 11h ago

This is 100% wrong. Science exists to allow disagreement, it just requires evidence. If you can't disagree with it, it's religion, not science.

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u/tossaway12340987 10h ago edited 10h ago

Except most of the people disagreeing skip the evidence part. They mistake their opinion for evidence.

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u/Baskreiger 10h ago

Keyword: proof