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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

There's 1 major problem with this. What if a poor person without health insurance finds this? What if someone picks it up off the ground and gets cured of rabies without ruining their life in medical debt? Won't someone think of the shareholders? How will capitalism survive if people start picking these up off the ground instead of paying $60k per pill?

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I see the raccoon and all I think is this.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago

Me looking at that rabioli

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

In my heart, I knew this comment would already be here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Came here to post exactly this. 🤣🤌🏽

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They dropped these in my mother in law's suburban neighborhood. In her back yard. With no warning. My dog found and ate one, so it had me googling what the hell my dog had just eaten and wondering if she was going to die. Luckily we didn't have any toddlers playing in the back yard.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Lucky as hell, your rabid dog would have fucked em up

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Did they really just cover the whole blister thing with fishmeal? I mean including the plastic?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Yeah the raccoons eat the fishmeal then peel back the protective backing, retrieve the pill and don’t wash it before eating it.

NO! Everyone knows those things are unopenable without scissors or a hammer or an RPG or something.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Those poor raccoons. I don't know what an autistic raccoon looks like, but these scientists should be ashamed of their... hmmm. I actually have no idea what the conspiracy behind animal vaccinations would be. Big science profiting just doesn't fit right.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago

I used to work in veterinary medicine, and there are plenty of vaccine conspiracies in the pet owning community. They cause everything from seizures, to allergies, to autoimmune diseases, and more, according to some of these people. Breeders are a huge contributor to this, which leads to plenty of arguments with vets and pets running around unvaccinated.

It's expensive to get litters of puppies vaccinated, and whackadoodle (I used "doodle" for a reason) theories are a great cover for why you are sending home a puppy with zero medical history outside of hand written worming dates. Unfortunately, it's harder to educate people when it's way cheaper to believe bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Damn you Bill Gates!!

[shakes fist at sky?]

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Babe wake up, new forbidden snack just dropped

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

More like free-healthcare just dropped!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Free healthcare and free food. Those raccoons are living like kings!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Thanks Obama

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

Yay! Street pills!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Literally from the sky as well

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If my pets are any indicator of attempting this with animals they'll gobble up the meal and leave the medication on the ground.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I snuck meds into cheese for my dog one time, and she is now forever suspicious of any and all cheese whether it's cubed, shredded, sliced, whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Peanut Butter camo unlocked!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

I mean unless rabies is completely eradicated you're still going to need to seek treatment immediately if an animal bites you unless you want to risk dying the most horrible death imaginable.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like a great way to evolve vaccine-resistant rabies

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

If you mean an Immune escape that is not a real problem for rabies because that virus has a slow evolution as you can tell from the fact that the same vaccines that were used in the 80s are still used today. Compare that for example to flu or Covid-19 vaccines where even two year old vaccine types are considered outdated and not used anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They don't mean immune escape. It's either an unclear joke or pseudoscientific bullshit based on a lack of knowledge around the immune system and diseases.