Out of Context Science is the latest and greatest amusing shiny shiny new thing on the sciencey web these days.
Basically, the idea is to take a line or short quote out of context from a larger piece -- a paper or blog post, say -- and see how ridiculous such a thing can be.
Here's a few:
One: We then observed the male's sexual behaviour for 15 min... such contacts were immediately recognizable from the females' 'startle' response
Two: they immersed 11 women up to their necks in chilly water, monitored their rectal temperatures, and compared the results
Three: But the alpha males in the center of the harem have it particularly rough
Four: Sharks have been around far longer, but still failed to invent the internet.
Five: the bloated hydrogen atoms behave just as quantum theory predicts
Yes, you'll have to go to the Out of Context Science site to find the links to the original sources!
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