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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 07:18 PM
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Science disproves vampires, can it also disprove homophobic conspiracy theory?
Edited on Thu Oct-26-06 07:20 PM by ck4829
"Legend has it that vampires can be repelled by garlic and killed with a wooden stake, but a fresh take on the popular myth carried out by a University of Central Florida physics professor has debunked the possibility of such creatures using a bit of simple math.

Professor Costas Efthimiou, attempting to draw attention to a public literacy campaign, formulated a simple math equation. The math works as follows: At the beginning of the year 1600 the human population was approximately 540 million. Had the first vampire bit one person a month beginning that year, there would have been two vampires by February, four by March, and so on. After only two and a half years the entire human population, according to simple math, would have become vampires. There would be no more humans for vampires to feed on by the year 1603."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005299379

Now for the debunking of the conspiracy theory.

Numerous RW'ers claim that gay people 'recruit' people to join them.

Now gays have been with us since the beginning of humanity, so if gay people have been recruiting since the beginning when God created everything or whatever you believe in, then eventually everybody would be gay, right?

I guess that means a LOT of people are in the closet.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-26-06 07:47 PM
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1. The vampire debunking is full of holes.
For starters, why exactly is the conversion rate one per month? How about: vampires rarely convert their victims, the rate is actually one per decade. Secondly there seems to be an assumption that no vampire ever gets destroyed. Suppose there is a vampire destruction rate that matches, approximately, the creation rate. Suddenly by adjusting these made up variables for the mythological vampire, a stable state ensues and the whole experiment, as ridiculous as it is, fails.

There is no evidence for the existence of vampires, consequently one does not need an exponential growth rate to abolish their reality. Likewise, if somebody wants to assert that there is a homosexual conspiracy that is converting otherwise straight people into gay people, they need to provide actual evidence of this conspiracy's existence before we need to debunk it. Until then it is just a myth.
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