In his view, the missing factor is that other animals don’t tend to “wrap themselves up in blankets and drink whiskey and smoke,” he says.

But what is they did?

John DeHaan, a forensic scientist, set fire to a pig carcass wrapped in blankets

Science!

Smoking causes spontaneous human combustion. Which means it is not spontaneous.

if i have to make one more "betterridge's law of headlines" (if a headline's a question, the answer is no) post them i will write a bot

no lol

Why is it that I cannot find a science community that actually posts good science?

I mean it could be argued that discussing the myth of spontaneous combustion, is in a way pop science for a lot of people and that's okay.

But I just can't seem to find a place that isn't saturated with either finger-puppet style posts, or completely overwhelmed with new "theories" that are actually just new, jobless phd grads who have to scramble to try to get funding and they're publishing bullshit to do that.

Whyyyyyy

The flame is the soul’s breath. The black smoke is the soul’s release. Ashes thou wert and art. May thy soul return to the great flame of fire. Látom.

Oh, I've seen that anime. It's a pretty good show, but a bit too much fanservice at times.