If you're going to claim something is fake then I highly recommend you actually provide sources to back yourself up instead of this weirdly aggressive accusation based off of, seemingly, literally nothing.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's also just not how MRIs work. The magnet is on before the patient is in the room. They would be injured before the scan. The fda incident is likely heating due to eddy currents in non magnetic metal which is more in line with the injuries people sustain with their rings and shit when not removed. Like why induction stove has magnetic interlocks else wedding ring cuts finger off

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

So it's just another clickable lie, because of course it is, it's too perfect. I can't fact-check everything and it's a bad use of time if I have to.

I gotta get off of social media entirely, I can work with fiction presented as fiction but it's just an endless firehose of lies from people who think they have a god-given right to lie as much as they need to, on every platform. The AI thing is just getting started. I lost track of reality several months ago, and that's not supposed to be some sort of jokey joke.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

you can't prove a negative. How do you prove something didn't happen.

Read your own link, no attached image, no mention of internal hemorrhage, no mention of material. The misinformation post might be inspired by this but that image isn't real.

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

Last I saw was that the incident is real, but the image and associated text are not real. But can't remember where I read about this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

"Although MDRs are a valuable source of information, this passive surveillance system has limitations, including the potential submission of incomplete, inaccurate, untimely, unverified, or biased data."

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfmaude/search.cfm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Snopes says 🤷

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

No snopes says:

Although we couldn't determine with certainty whether this claim was accurate/authentic, we observed it had at traits often indicative of misinformation:

The account itself later referred to the tweet as a "shitpost," which is a post that is deliberately absurd, provocative, or offensive, according to Merriam-Webster.

Using the Internet Archive, we found the viral image in a since-deleted Reddit post from April 8, 2023. The post was titled "MRI to CT." The caption included in the post claimed the patient said they didn't have metal on them, but that the material inside the butt plug had metal balls.

The screenshot of the text wasn't included in the post. We could find no social media posts about the claims that came from anyone with the name mentioned in the text as the lawyer representing the person.

They further point out the fda report predates that post by 1 day so it could be inspiration for the joke or maybe real but no confirmation and then explain a bit about MRIs.

So basically they can find no primary sources, lots of evidence of a lie, but no primary source claiming to have made it up.

[–] sickpusy 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can always treat stuff as science fiction and enjoy regardless. What's the harm!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Increasingly large segments of society are losing their grip on reality. Distinguishing fact from fiction requires practice if it is to work when it matters.

Just look at OP asking me to prove a negative, something literally impossible.

[–] Meowoem 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a really fascinating thing, there was a type of person that obviously learned to get their knowledge from TV as a shortcut - like instead of learning about the subject they'd pick up what different characters on TV thought about it and adopt those opinions.

I think we have that even more now with people pretty much just going with the tone set by memes and internet comments - which they then amplify by paroting. This is incredibly true with politics now, actually talk to some of the people yelling about things and it soon becomes clear they have no idea about any surrounding information - and not just the obvious conspiracy theorist ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

idk about that. I'm a dumbarse, you're a dumbarse, I've worked with some of the most educated people in the world and they're also dumbarses.

Unless you've spent multiple decades on something your opinion is probably stupid

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A lot. Imagine antivax and flatearther use your argument when caught lying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man, I could be wrong but I swear the flat earth started as a joke like the whole "birds aren't real" thing. But it had a more intellectual thought excersizey angle like "tell me why the earth is round". I know for a fact that's how my earth science teacher used it getting into how to structure a testable hypothesis and the scientific method. I wonder everytime I see flat earth shit when exactly he had to retire that one. It's to bad because it was great then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, iirc Qanon start as a 4chan joke that got seriously bad too.