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What is your attitude towards cannibals?

This is genuinely ask.FM's question of the day. Way to pick a lighthearted issue on which we all have different opinions, guys.
Oh, and they're fine as long as they don't eat vegetarians or vegans. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Latest answers from Science Showoff

What's it called when you are like burning up but not actually sweating?

That is called 'being on fire'.
Is someone burning you at the stake for being a witch in the middle ages?

What is your goal for the next 24 hours?

If... I can just... recalibrate... the photon beam... to reverse the bosonic flow... I just... might... be able... to save the Earth...

What art form do you like best?

Science.
What do you mean "science isn't an art form"?
THAT IS SO TYPICAL OF YOU ARTS GRADUATES WHO RUN THE MEDIA. YOU'RE THE REASON WHY SCIENCE GETS SO MUCH LESS MONEY THAN TRADITIONAL ART FORMS. SCIENCE IS THE BEST FORM OF CULTURE THERE IS.

Is it possible to make a shirt catch fire using on potassium permanganate and glycerine?

Wouldn't "a match" be quicker? Don't go making this complicated.
Wait. You're not trying to destroy evidence of your terrible crimes, are you?
DO NOT BURN THE SHIRT. TAKE IT AND YOUR GUILTY SELF TO THE POLICE IMMEDIATELY.
I can't believe how many criminals this ask.fm account has uncovered. It's incredible.

Explain why DNA replication is semi-conservative? Please and thank you

The mechanism for DNA replication was originally suggested by Crick (who was very liberal and left-wing) and Watson (who was very right-wing). It's therefore considered one of a small number of important scientific discoveries to have been partly carried out by someone from the backward end of politics, and this is reflected in the way we talk about it.

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