# A serious question for Sam Stone on Factual Errors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881 "2021-12-11T12:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 98
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1941 "2024-02-17T00:01:15Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Eww! I **hate** BBQ flavored potato chips! > > I was open to trying them but not anymore You should definitely try the cricket flavored chips then. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1942 "2024-02-17T00:05:39Z")
Once again, leftist ideologues on the Dope are mocking Sam while ignoring the larger issues. What god-fearing, liberty-loving Albertan would voluntarily consent to being locked up in a 15-minute city with military goon squads constantly demanding to see his vaccine passport, forced to survive on bugs while awaiting the Great Population Cull. Vive la Résistance! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1943 "2024-02-17T00:07:53Z")
What if you covered the bugs with maple syrup or made them into poutine? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1944 "2024-02-17T00:19:31Z")
I’ve eaten grasshoppers at a Mexican restaurant. I liked them, but I was really really drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1945 "2024-02-17T00:19:38Z")
Insect poutine apparently [is a savory dish](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=163208989024454) (the “chapulines” added towards the end are grasshoppers). But it’s the chili cricket gravy that makes the dish. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1946 "2024-02-17T01:22:07Z")
It never ceases to amaze me that any discussion of food in a Pit thread will derail it forever. I guess that’s what you get for naming this forum “The BBQ Pit”. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1947 "2024-02-17T01:43:55Z")
The board’s appetite for derailments is a bottomless pit. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1948 "2024-02-17T04:00:34Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > I’ve eaten grasshoppers at a Mexican restaurant. I liked them, but I was really really drunk. You should’ve recalibrated your beer goggles. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1949 "2024-02-18T23:57:22Z")
So Sam gets it wrong, and falls for a sarcasm/speculative piece from some politician that is not from the WEF (As Sam told us, it was a quote from a founder, and it was not) and he only regurgitates what the misleading sources of information he uses told him about what to think about it. As Reuters puts it, after seeing the context that was omitted by the sources Sam used: [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2AP2SP/](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2AP2SP/) > VERDICT > > False. The World Economic Forum does not have a stated goal to have people ‘own nothing and be happy’ by 2030. Its Agenda 2030 framework outlines an aim to ensure all people have access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property. And then to that bit of info he replies that he was correct, because they are loony, and he knows what they meant, like a good conspiracy follower. > [@Why do people say the World economic forum is pushing socialist views?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-say-the-world-economic-forum-is-pushing-socialist-views/997610/65): > > For example, a serious panel on Covid vaccines is followed by a talk about how we could embed chips in people with syringes to track their carbon consumption, so naturally the covid vaccine is putting chips in people, right? Nope **Sam** , that is based on a conspiracy made up before: [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN28E26X/](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN28E26X/) > VERDICT > Altered. COVID-19 vaccine syringes could contain RFID microchips on labels, but they wouldn’t be ‘injected’ into the individual that receives the vaccine. A video containing this claim features altered and out of context footage. At least conspiracy guys do like to recycle their stuff… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1950 "2024-02-19T00:08:53Z")
Whaaaaaat?!?!? Sam falls for right-wing misinformation without questioning it. I for one am shocked, shocked I say. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1951 "2024-02-19T00:12:37Z")
It’s not his fault, the socialist Covid vaccine is putting liberal chips in people. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1952 "2024-02-19T00:15:39Z")
Of course! Duh! By the way, have you guys tried out Bing or any other outstanding Microsoft products? I don’t know about you but I find Microsoft to simply be the best. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1953 "2024-02-19T00:29:14Z")
You people don’t even read what I write before snarking at me, do you? I don’t hold to any of the beliefs you are assigning to me. In fact, I explained why some people believe such crazy stuf. But hey, don’t let me get in the way of your hatred. Haters gotta hate. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1954 "2024-02-19T00:52:08Z")
Here’s a WEF article where they caution **against** embedding a chip because it has let to tumors in some people. [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/microchip-in-your-hand-rfid-32m/](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/microchip-in-your-hand-rfid-32m/) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1955 "2024-02-19T01:02:35Z")
And once again… Believing a crap right-wing source and parroting it as gospel. A poster with integrity would look at the overwhelming evidence that they were wrong, wrong, wrong, and clearly state: “Oops, looks like I was wrong.” Of course not though. We have doubling down, wall of text, veering off onto tangents, and of course, the ever popular, you’re so mean to the right wingers. He does this Over and over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1956 "2024-02-19T01:06:44Z")
You. Were. Wrong. In. That. Thread. You misattributed a quote to the head of the WEF. You ignored the clear evidence that the sentiments written (by someone else) were actually a WARNING about what would happen, not an ENCOURAGEMENT. And then what? Do you say “oops, I was wrong, the dude did not actually say that, and nobody from the WEF actually wants that”? No. Did you actually read the factual evidence that others posted? I doubt it. Do you pledge to do better in future checking your sources? No. Do you get upset you were called out? Oh yes. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1957 "2024-02-19T01:07:22Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Here’s a WEF article where they caution **against** embedding a chip because it has let to tumors in some people. ‘How would they know that if they weren’t putting chips in people with the Fauci Ouchi? BingoMateCheckYahtzee LIBERAL!!!11!!!’ ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1958 "2024-02-19T01:09:01Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Did you actually read the factual evidence that others posted? Sam didn’t even read the factual evidence that Sam posted. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1959 "2024-02-19T01:16:35Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > You people don’t even read what I write before snarking at me, do you? I don’t hold to any of the beliefs you are assigning to me. In fact, I explained why some people believe such crazy stuf. > > But hey, don’t let me get in the way of your hatred. Haters gotta hate. The evidence shows that you did swallow the hate info out there for the first item, and you missed why is that the haters of the right did to mislead others about vaccines. So, still: get better sources you willful ignorant. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1960 "2024-02-19T03:54:02Z")
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