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Once in a while the Antisocial Network research team runs across a freelancer writer's statement of such astounding dumbassery that it renders everything else in the content useless. By way of analogy, consider a political pundit who suggests that all undocumented immigrants (illegals, illegal aliens, whatever you want to call them) be told that if they don't leave in the next 60 days, they will become government property (a real suggestion, FWIW). Suggesting enforced servitude, also known as "slavery," ought to be enough to make all your ideas suspect, no? Well, freelancers say things that are equally as stupid sometimes – like eHow.com's Larry Parr, who held forth (for about ten bucks) on the subject of "How to Make Phosphorus" (now living at Sciencing.com).
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Now good ol' Larry (whose presence has graced this website before) did some research and probably did a good job of rewording the simple instructions he found at Instructables.com (not necessarily always good information, in our experience). Larry can usually be depended on to reword simple stuff without significant error... Where Larry screwed up, however, is in his introduction to the subject of phosphorus:
"Phosphorous was invented by accident by alchemist Hennig Brandt In 1669..."
Yeah, that's right: Parr thinks Brand (note correct spelling of surname) invented phosphorus. I suppose he also thinks Newton invented gravity (or momentum) and Copernicus invented the moon. No, Larry, you blithering dumbass, Hennig Brand didn't invent phosphorus, he discovered phosphorus in 1669 - it has existed since the Big Bang! |
| Sheesh: and eHow lets dumbass crap like this make it onto the internet: no wonder the site is a laughingstock... Hey: let's make eHow the Dumbass of the Day! |
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