Science comes one step closer to solving The Question

[akashiver]

How did I miss this earlier?

Mathematical proof proves Vampires Can't Exist says Scientist

I think The Onion's Response is adequate for this situation, but vampire fans are pointing out that the "not all who are bitten turn into vampires" principle should also throw a wrench into his calculations.

Whatever.

Comments

[arcana-mundi.livejournal.com]

That skeptic is a sanctimonious boob who doesn't understand how impossible it is to prove a negative, especially with regard to things like UFOs, vampires, and unicorns. The lore always accomodates.

But how does this bring us one step closer to solving The Question?

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

I love the Onion.

[gollumgollum.livejournal.com]

On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911

What, did he go around and count??? That seems like an *awfully* specific number there, especially considering how sketchy the census was in certain parts of the world at the time.

His population estimate sucks, therefore he's wrong. End of story.

Yo.

[lyceum-arabica.livejournal.com]

i just like the fact that the guy's research is debunking popular myths, to promote 'literacy' (?) and that current levels of belief in such things are 'dangerously high'.

ok.

so the anne rice novels, whatever your personal opinion of them was, were in fact *books* and the people who got a bit too involved in them, did in fact need to be fairly highly literate in order to do so... i mean, i assume you can substitute in your own more abstract difinition of 'literacy'... but i really feel that if you're a highly capable reader then you're literate.

and what exactly is the 'danger' here? too many people shopping at hot topic?
(shrugs) gah. the math's not even good... if he actually wanted to say something worthwhile he ought to look at disease control modeling and not ignore the 'not everyone turns' point or any other of the potential varients. this is something you'd expect a high schooler to come up with after learning about exponential functions, to impress his friends at the lunch table.