Pierre-Marie Robitaille Is Clueless (Sky Scholar Debunked)

Keeping in the theme of debunking all kinds of cranks and con men in the realm of "alternate cosmology", let's add one more nutjob to the mix. Pierre-Marie Robitaille is a former radiologist who likes to pretend that he understands astrophysics better than astrophysicists. He doesn't. When he talks, he makes ridiculous claims and blatant errors that can be spotted by anyone with a basic understanding of physics and astronomy. Nevertheless, many gullible people speak about him like he's a genius, so I thought I'd explain quite thoroughly how he definitely isn't. If you're someone who has fallen for his lies, please watch.
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[@Chimera6297]

his papers aren't peer reviewed. they're Pierre reviewed

[@legendscoringsomethingorth347]

*ba dum crash* I like the pun!

[@fawziekefli2273]

Wish I could give you two likes: one for the comment, and another for your name.

[@isupportchef]

hahah Gold! Like like

[@mirandalyneetestewart3083]

Ha ha, that’s funny.

[@jeremymcadams7743]

I took that pun pierresonally

[@rimjhimchakraborty9365]

Moral of the story: "Just because someone is an expert in one area of study doesn't mean they're expert in ALL areas of study."

[@Insane3OB]

Yeah a lot of idiots still don't know they're idiots even when they are an expert on one subject even multiple.

[@birthsonbluebell3654]

Like how Eric Dubay is not an expert on anything he attempts to talk about, but he is an expert on making money by lying.

[@fubar22v50]

I call it kanye west syndrome

[@rimjhimchakraborty9365]

@@birthsonbluebell3654 I just looked him up. Thanks for poaching my brain😭

[@birthsonbluebell3654]

@@rimjhimchakraborty9365 You're welcome. XD

[@ihateroads7926]

I nearly fell out of my chair when he started talking about pressure. Next he'll say you can't have length without a solid straight edge

[@ZygonesBzygones]

you can't have speed without a marble

[@falseking989]

Divorce is hard. Especially when you’re divorced from reality.

[@astroevada]

Pierre citing himself is literally just "Source: Dude trust me"

[@PhysiKarlz]

Citing oneself is okay, if done sparingly and the paper has been peer-reviewed. But yeah, we know Pierre is doing it the way you said haha

[@sutfolsemaj]

You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. I have the best data around. China tells me, they say "you have some of the most factual facts we've ever seen." Look folks, the scientists have bad facts that are no good and very bad. This is why we're wining and they're losing.

[@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too]

Pierre is right about one thing. Most scientists are living off legalized coercion and theft. Dave has nothing sensible to say about what he thinks is the the underlying motive for being against the establishment. For all we know Dave wouldn't make any pretentious nonsense if we lived in a society grown to such a level of honesty that we don't base it upon theft.

[@PhysiKarlz]

@@KZbin_Stole_My_Handle_Too Most scientists? How has this been demonstrated? Also, at least one plausible/sensible, underlying motive: wanting to be the one with the real information. Another plausible motive: to make easier money ("science" to support scamming).

[@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too]

@@PhysiKarlz By publicly known amount of money coming from gov't going into institutions where scientists work compared to number of scientists. Non of them are sensible. They who really want fame for coming up with the real theory makes a working model. There is no easy money to be made being a dilettante. The easy money are with they who take legalized theft.

[@Richard-bq3ni]

"How do astronomers prevent the sun from collapsing into itself" LOL, all those astronomers working around the clock preventing the sun from collapsing with their anti collapse machines.

[@dogwalker666]

They employ millions of goblins with scaffolding and duct tape!

[@NoOne-qi4tb]

No, yall are embarrasingly wrong, obviously it's the SCP organisation /s

[@ServantofBaal]

All those massive telescopes aren't actually telescopes; they're force field beams that hold the sun together

[@dogwalker666]

@@ServantofBaal ha ha that's good, robot tail might steal it.

[@ServantofBaal]

@@dogwalker666 As long as he cites me as a source I'll allow it. Have to protect my vital scientific contributions

[@dyslexicstoner2408]

Watching people get absolutely destroyed while I actually learn fascinating things is such a perfect form of education.

[@yvessimard2244]

I find it completely mesmerizing

[@ferrarisarecool7]

I'm loving it!

[@hoon_sol]

Then you should watch Pierre's reaction to this video, where he savagely obliterates Dave and his high-school level of physics knowledge.

[@RyanGhezawi]

@@hoon_solwow delusional science illiterate fuck who had no idea what Pierre was talking about and just took his technical jargon and word salads as valid response, stay in your echo chamber dumbass

[@punchyboi6915]

​@@hoon_sol cope-

[@Mor-tis]

"yo Pierre wanna come out here" "THE SUN IS ELECTRIC" "Just stay inside Pierre"

[@JoakimKanon]

Pierre sounds like a flat earther without mentioning a flat earth.

[@scamin441]

flat earth is just god and jesus playing galactic frizbee

[@petersvancarek]

He is into electric universe nonsense

[@Moonlight-ju4qi]

@The King of Nature Nah, they really do believe it to be true. Some don't but most do.

[@Montesama314]

Every one of these conspiracy fantasists and scam artists uses similar tactics, including ridicule of those who have followed conventional rules. "Working 9 to 5? What losers! You need to listen to my $2,000 business course!" "Round world? Pfft, stupid scientism. We know the TRUTH. Listen to my video for more!" Same old anti-establishment leaning to make the audience feel like they know secret knowledge.

[@petersvancarek]

@@DrWhom Yup

[@AlwaysANemesis]

You heard the man. The sun is a neon disco ball.

[@erasmusguy8289]

Solid liquid gaseous plasma disco ball

[@magicalpencil]

@@erasmusguy8289 that ball represents true united states

[@daltonr2830]

@Grandson Of Cherve disco is life

[@existenceispainforameeseeks]

i think i laughed at this a little too hard lol

[@georgemissailidis3160]

I gave the 100th like

[@EricBurns1]

41:55 The funny thing is Kip Thorne, with his own calculations, helped the artistic team for Interstellar produce a depiction of what a black hole would look like and it matches up with the EHT image really well. Gotta love that a Nobel prize winning astrophysicist helped out on a sci-fi movie.

[@cewla3348]

me when the astrophysics are correct

[@nasirsiddiqui7573]

as a physicist myself, you have no idea how happy this kind of content makes me lmao

[@deananderson7714]

Nice! what field are you in?

[@nasirsiddiqui7573]

@@deananderson7714 biophysics!

[@deananderson7714]

@@nasirsiddiqui7573 nice I’m hoping to go into the field of particle physics

[@thepapschmearmd]

As a doctor, this video is thoroughly embarrassing.

[@nasirsiddiqui7573]

@@jaydenwilson9522 you're not wrong in your assessment

[@metgath]

My favorite thing to ask when these people roll out the word conspiracy is this. Why would the Soviet Union, in the 70's, or China, in modern day, not blow the lid off of them? Why would political enemies set aside all their differences to maintain a trivial conspiracy?

[@ianw_xvi8784]

Yep. That is the one the Moon landing hoaxers can never answer. Well, there are a lot of things they can't answer, actually!

[@BrianBattles]

They're just pretending to be adversaries while their true masters are creating the New World Order.

[@bananian]

Because it's all theatre. All of them are actually communists

[@BrianBattles]

@Andrei Salvaleon Soylent Green?

[@belland_dog8235]

@@bananian No, they're not

[@janus1958]

Having had many encounters the "I'm right, and the accepted science is wrong " crowd, I really appreciated this video.

[@StoutShako]

I work with Fluoride Truthers... It's hell.

[@advorak8529]

@@StoutShako Rainwater and grain alcohol, protect your precious bodily fluids.

[@s-nonymous0273]

Same. I hate those who misrepresent science pushing a claim or agenda with an intention to deceive people. Not only it's harmful for the society, it's also harmful to our health.

[@mackdigest]

@@StoutShako what is a fluoride truther??? 😂

[@blakksheep736]

@@mackdigest Long story short, the people who claim that the fluoride put in tap water to combat tooth decay is uneccessary/harmful/causes cancer/causes bone decay/causes autism/unnatural/government conspiracy. Take your pick. They're all wrong.

[@NoxaClimaxX]

“Duhhh… whoopsie! We not know how telescope work! UH-OH!” This had me laughing for a good ten minutes.

[@uwqq2146]

Astronomer not knows how telescope works? (Supporting Real Science from Lithuania 🇱🇹)

[@franklinv69]

lmao

[@pridelander06]

10:44 😂

[@mafarmerga]

I have a Ph.D in Cell Biology. Please trust me to fly this commercial airplane. Now fasten your seat belts, put up your tray tables, and have no worries at all that we are about to die together.

[@dr.nebulanovae8398]

Damn, all those other airline pilots must be wrong. Where do I buy tickets for your flight? XD

[@felixchien1664]

I'm new to "professor Dave" but I don't see why Dave constantly derides others by appealing to their credentials when Dave himself isn't a professor nor trained in the areas he's debunking...

[@mafarmerga]

@@felixchien1664 "Dave constantly derides others by appealing to their credentials when Dave himself isn't a professor nor trained in the areas he's debunking..." Yup, there it is in a nutshell. I'm often reminded of Steve Martin's 'Grandmother's Song; ""Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent Criticize things you don't know about Be oblong and have your knees removed" BTW I actually DO have a Ph.D. in Cell Biology, but I do NOT have a pilot's license. So I trust those who do. But not when they question me about the function of the Golgi apparatus.

[@sergeysmirnov1062]

As a computer scientist I can confidently say that you can trust me to do that open heart surgery for you should you survive the cra- I mean totally normal flight.

[@mafarmerga]

@@sergeysmirnov1062 😆

[@jefflund5685]

"an onion of stupidity, that gets dumber with every layer you peel away". Best description ever.

[@jefflund5685]

@@K-R-I-Z-Z-O-L-O-G-Y lol Seriously?

[@markangeloporcare5289]

@@jefflund5685 yo who are you replying to?

[@zoobatzjr371]

Well thats just rude to onions. They run a funny parody news site. These guys can't tell blue from red if you labeled them.

[@grayaj23]

@@markangeloporcare5289 He probably replied to a comment spammer whose comment was removed.

[@KlausJLinke]

Remniscent of Fritz Zwicky's favorite insult _to refer to people whom he did not like as "spherical bastards", because, as he explained, they were bastards no matter which way one looked at them._

[@rachelfey]

"No professionals understand my work." Is always a massive red flag

[@ianw_xvi8784]

And when the people that do follow him turn out to be almost exclusively Velikovskian electric universe nutters, and creationist fruitloops, it hardly strengthens his case!

[@HH-ru4bj]

@@ianw_xvi8784 I got into it in the comments of one of his videos, and explained that a period of massive electrical discharging would leave obvious geological scares in our history. For instance why are some mountains sharp while other blunted, always situated in active or extinct fault zoned correspondingly, or where are the huge fields of fulgurites/obsidian like deposits, or distinctive layers or nitrate and nitrite bearing minerals, or what effect would such discharges have on living organisms, as the geologic record shows life predating many mountain features. Stuff like that.

[@ianw_xvi8784]

@@HH-ru4bj Even without that, their main problem is where did these discharges come from? They propose, as per Velikovsky, that Venus got incredibly close to Earth and Mars in the recent past! And that is when you know that you are not dealing with anything remotely scientifically possible. We are talking flat earth level stupidity here!

[@HH-ru4bj]

@@ianw_xvi8784 I agree, I think we are just looking at it from two different perspectives, or have different styles. Like abiogenesis, you don't need it to prove evolution is real, you don't need to know the cause to see the effect. So that's why I look for predictive evidence if we were to assume their care was true. The reason is they can and often do jump behind a conspiracy to account for why such info isnt known, but you can't hide the entire earth. They can claim the universe is fake, but then their worldview becomes so complex they can't help but contradict themselves. The thing about claiming burklund currents to account for stellar fusion, the formation of galaxies and such, is that it doesn't matter if you tell them the weight of evidence for more developed theories. They just don't care.

[@TheAIHandyman]

It comes from the sun, due to different methods, depending if your talking about cyclical micro-nova that happens due to space dust and fragments radiating the energy of the sun back unto itself, until it finally needs to release the pent up energy contained below the surface.

[@LordJaric]

It is so sad that people feel so insecure that they have to delve into conspiracies just to feel special.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

They're not in-secure ... they're over-secure

[@thomasdaniel100]

People need to feel relevant. It is sad and I feel bad for them. These beliefs are great example of a failed educational system in the USA. This should scare most level headed Americans as this failed system is our downfall.

[@johnboynb]

Lead poisoning. He's the right age to have survived leaded gas and perhaps all the lead in the shielding he was wearing pushed him over the edge.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

I'm shocked that I had not thought of that. Even if you're joking it's not totally implausible.

[@neonmenace1592]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Mr Beast proved the Earth is flat by putting two magnets on alleged opposite sides of the earth

[@mg-ew2xf]

It explains a lot of the behavior of olds.

[@joshdeleon4909]

@@neonmenace1592 hahahahah and one moron believed so ......!

[@time2bcoolYT]

@@neonmenace1592 you're probably joking but still that's not proof

[@bloomsux69]

i genuinely appreciate this man. nobody else on youtube seems to have as much contempt for these cro-magnons as Dave does. i love it.

[@bloomsux69]

​@@Mike-rm9bb bruh moment

[@alexalford7874]

@@Mike-rm9bb Pierre said the CMB was the ocean, and he said the sun was liquid metallic hydrogen without anything to back this up. This isn’t “pop science”, this isn’t a “fad”, these quacks like Pierre don’t have experiments, they don’t have mathematical models, and they don’t have theories which provide predictive capability. All they have is intuition. He said there’s no pressure without a surface. He said something as moronic as “the rule in the lab is that gas fills the void, so how does the sun keep a stable radius ?”, which is simply gravity.

[@bloomsux69]

@@Mike-rm9bb you seem like one of the cro-magnons i was mentioning, I wish Dave would take over lmao

[@danielt1337]

You gotta be Logicked!

[@OverlordOfNerds]

@@Mike-rm9bb Just change your profile pic, please. Don't disgrace Sir Isaac Newton.

[@hareecionelson5875]

Imagine being a radiologist (with all the speciality exams and all the work shifts you have to do to progress), and then packing it in to do nonsense. That's mental

[@XraynPR]

I'd genuinely say that Pierre might have had too much exposure to radiation, that might have negative effects

[@hareecionelson5875]

@@XraynPR hulk would have been a different movie if Bruce Banner just started talking nonsense after Gamma exposure

[@brettvv7475]

Liquid hydrogen metal? I'll see myself out..

[@masstv9052]

He's probably making more money off scamming people, than he would working for hospitals, without needing to do all the long shifts, and hard work. You would be surprised how much these cranks make off gullible people, religious people, etc. That's why you have megachurches, all these "professional" UFO-oligists, fake archeologists making up claims about lost ancient high technology that built pyramids or megalithic structures, and people claiming electric universe, etc, etc, etc. Just like right-wing grifters, these people make a lot of money and do way less work than they would in the professional field where they would have long hours, have actual peer reviewed papers, and be on committees, etc

[@imacanoli897]

Imagine a mechanical engineer, with no medical background, tries to argue that your practicing of medicine is a load of phooey. Then makes a bunch of wild claims that can't be substantiated. Some times. Its better to admit you have no idea what you're talking about than to broadcast your opinions across the web.

[@davee4318]

Just discovered your channel, and had honestly never heard of this Sky Scholar.... um, institution? But as someone who has always had an interest in astrophysics as a layman, and even held a deep admiration and respect for the men and women in this field I would like to say personally thank you for making videos like this. Whatever his motives may be, this guy seems particularly dangerous, because it almost seems like he spouts enough technical jargon to trick someone with no knowledge on the subject into believing his preposterous claims. His claim that CMB being a reflection from the oceans, being picked up by equipment pointed in the opposite direction is freaking bizarre enough, but his explanation of the sun-and not even understanding what plasma is- seems so far detached from reality, that it's like he's just making it up as he's going along! He must just be stroking his own ego at this point to a ridiculous degree, and I would almost pity him if he wasn't making such a concentrated effort to steer people AWAY from legitimate science and the pursuit of truth! Anyways, thanks again for this video sir, you managed to get one more subscriber, and re-sparked my interest in the subject.

[@Atylonisus]

I've never told this story before but i once interacted with a disgraced professor on my college campus. I can't recall his exact field of science, but I was attending some Physics courses at the time. As I left my seminar and head out to wait for my bus to take me to my next class, a man came up to me with a pamphlet. At my college it was not uncommon for evangelicals and other crackpots to try and disseminate literature + those awful Chick Tracts so I was expecting this to be much the same. When I boarded my bus I looked at tbe pamphlet and was surprised to see that it was supposedly penned by a PhD who once worked at my college. He claimed in this pamphlet that he was privvy to a series of "realizations" that would turn his field upside-down but ran counter to whatever standards existed. Essentially he outlined all his "eureka moments" and then revealed that the reason why he was on campus handing out his shit was because he had been fired from his position years ago. Literally the dude spelled out why too -- the PhD man wrote that he invited the head of his department to a family dinner, and basically shoved all his tin-hat conspiracies down the Department Head's throat while a captive audience. The PhD seemingly could not understand why he would be terminated for espousing crackpot theories while representing a State University in any capacity, and thus made it his vendetta to try and spread his "truth" to the students still attending. Have to say, I never saw that guy or his papers again.

[@DudeTheMighty]

"Anti-establishment narratives that make them feel cool and special" describes the paranormal phase I went through in high school. Glad I grew out of it, it's just a shame that it took... well, longer than it should have.

[@givmi_more_w9251]

The result is what counts. Young people don't mature magically when reaching the age of 18 or whatever the legal age of the respective state is. The fact you learnt and reevaluated your worldview sets you ahead of a large number of people.

[@albuseisenhorn3385]

But thats just part of growing up and maturing... least you grew out of it unlike a certain Pierre we all know

[@Jozie88]

You can be proud of yourself, because you grew out of it and are wiser and stronger person now. :)

[@raruther59]

I think the anti vaxxer jumping on this thread is missing the point to such a degree it’s comical

[@knivesoutbitch]

Feels fine. What is even finer is seeing obese antivaxxers posting on Facebook conspiracy theories about Covid - until they eventually get Covid. Then the prayer warriors come out in full force with horse paste pleading for help. Then they suddenly rely on science and hospital workers when their sickness progresses and they clog up the healthcare system on a ventilator for a month or so denying others help until they just fucking die

[@k9strike931]

I really am stunned that Pierre's debunk video had a lot of comments saying "Oh he built the MRI machine!" as if that's relevant to any of his claims. His works in radiology has nothing to do with his claims.

[@joshkar24]

he has a modicum of intelligence, or did, or what you would think would allow him to use critical thinking, but has either chosen not to or is somehow unable to in this area. So it is somewhat relevant to trying to understand this dude and his motivations.

[@wickjezek1101]

I have worked with dogs for 7 years. I'd consider myself well trained. Radiology? Heck no. And I doubt a radiologist has the sheer amount of knowledge on canines that I do. Intelligence just means the ability to learn, not that you'll be right.

[@duncanmcneill7088]

Surprising that it was actually Peter Mansfield from Nottingham University who won the Nobel Prize for the MRI scanner.

[@justinwyllie3359]

@@jsonjsoff And science has told him that his theories are factually incorrect and do not comply with observation. Science embraces theories that are correct and rejects those which do not comply with observation and fail peer reviews regardless of past accomplishments.

[@Antis14CZ]

That's the halo effect in action. "This is my favorite football player, of course he knows what the best shampoo is for me!"

[@ianw5024]

Just posted this on his channel; ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Let's have a wee delve into the litany of deceit and ignorance that is The Preacher's 'paper', '40 lines of -ignorance- evidence for impossible woo', or some such. Ref. [362] refers to the paper by Kosovichev and Zharkova (K & Z), about the seismic ripples seen on the Sun in 1996. Why does he reference that paper, but not use their Fig. 1? Instead he takes a figure (his Fig. 26) from a summary paper on the results so far for SOHO (2000). He uses it because that figure is not annotated nor described in any detail! He tells you that the bright regions are coming towards us. Nope. K & Z clearly state on their Fig. 1 that the opposite is true. The dark areas are coming towards us, bright areas heading away. As do any number of other captions to SOHO dopplergrams. You see, he doesn't want any mention of downward flows from the flare. And K & Z's captions to their Fig. 1not only state that the bright areas are moving away from us, they also show a plot of the downward velocity versus time! He really doesn't want you seeing that! He wants you to think that "the flare was produced when pressurised material was ejected from the solar body beyond the photosphere." We have known for a very long time that flares do not come from the photosphere! The magnetic fields that are most likely responsible for them do originate below the photosphere. Not, however, the flares. If magnetic reconnection is sending stuff up then it has to be sending stuff down. If it is sending stuff left, it must be sending stuff right. That is as far as I can dumb down magnetic reconnection for the hard of physics! So, nothing came from below, and the evidence shows that it came from above (and it wasn't God). Trouble is, the evidence that K & Z provided to show that was disregarded by The Preacher, as it doesn't fit in with his woo. He also fails to mention from ref. [362] that K & Z had predicted and modelled this phenomenon in 1995. Based on work from Wolff in 1972! He tries to equate the solar 'ripples' with transverse waves, which he claims cannot happen in a gas. Correct! Promote yourself to second bottom of the class! Problem is, they aren't transverse waves, they are acoustic waves! And helioseismology has seen them in subsequent 'sunquakes'. Big difference in sound speed between the 'surface' and the convection zone. It is just the typical crackpot tricks to deceive the uninitiated. No wonder he couldn't get it in a peer-reviewed journal. Other nonsense that I might get into are claims that the corona shows a rigid-body rotation. It doesn't. It varies by latitude and temperature (height). And that 'gases' (he means 'plasmas') cannot create a magnetic field! Can a plasma create a current? Do currents create magnetic fields? The whole 'paper' is a litany of lies, deceit, misinformation and ignorance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'paper' of PMR's that I am talking about is 'Forty Lines of Evidence for Condensed Matter - The Sun on Trial: Liquid Metallic Hydrogen as a Solar Building Block' It is complete sh!te, in a predatory, non-peer-reviewed, zero impact pseudoscience rag.

[@user-pw4qm9nc1y]

Thanks for posting this data Pseudo science stinks!

[@DderwenWyllt]

I'm from Whales and speak fluent Whalish, I have spoken to many whales, and they have told me that they are responsible for the cosmic microwave background, it's basically a song of sorts that retells the creation of the universe 600 years ago when the Whalish hero Owain Mordwr rose up against the evil entropy that had enslaved the universe. But during his battle he slipped and fell and his sword Caled-dwr (made of metallic water) was so sharp that when it fell into a neighbouring black hole it actually split the singularity at the heart of the universal black hole, creating what we know as the big bang in the year 1404. The whales quickly assembled the universe in a way that it would seem to be 10-20 billion years old as the knowledge of its youth could give the idea of impermanence and would curse all mortals with the existential dread that the universe is only 6 human lifetimes old and could blink out of existence as fast as it was created. Poe's law, mandatory winky face ;)

[@globally123]

Ia Ddiw

[@DderwenWyllt]

@@globally123 pa dduw

[@sw33t.angela]

"Gas cannot have internal radiation." ... > fills a chamber with a spark gap in the middle with hydrogen gas > creates spark in the middle > observes how the "gas" "internally radiates" energy outwards > walks away to bed and screams into a pillow

[@EvE-zenbymr]

must have been the wind!

[@ianb9028]

He performed this experiment but used Helium. His paper states “Sea me was Rite”

[@dodojesus4529]

@@ianb9028 ...seriously?

[@albuseisenhorn3385]

@@dodojesus4529 I mean pretty much - its the hey just trust me guys way of confirmation/evidence all over again

[@dodojesus4529]

@@albuseisenhorn3385 thats like saying the hindenburg accident couldnt have happened cause helium isnt flammable

[@MrArganath]

I went and checked the comments on some of his videos after watching this, and I'm just speachless. How can so many people openly declare this man as a prophet of "pure true science" and that "all the science is so corrupt". I just can't even comprehend how these people think and exist.

[@beta700a]

Just re-watch the end of the video from 44:52 Dave explains exactly how and why these people think and exist. Also, there is a psychological aspect involved that Dave didn't mention. When we critisize others, it makes us feel superior to people being critisized. It's just as simple as that. And the bigger the things that are being critisized, the more superior we feel. That's it - the feeling of superiority over others. That's the basis of ALL conspiracy theories and junk pseudoscience, regardless of the topic.

[@lylez00]

Could it be that our educational system is lacking?

[@TheCapitalWanderer]

those people need to go outside and touch grass and also experience gravitational force.

[@MagickalDistruction]

The only cure option in science comes from bad actors ignoring data to make themselves right (ie: eugenics, biased studies, or contraptions inflicting what is researched) but instead of working on that they would rather believe that gravity is fake 🤯🤯

[@MacLaw3084]

@@lylez00 maybe indirectly. but i tend to think it has to do with the emergence of the internet and how information is deseminated in the modern world. we were prepared as a culture for this type of nonsense. (edit) were not prepared*

[@Brunnen_Gee]

I wish I went to one of these high schools you mention. I went to a backwoods school in the 90's, and we were taught none of this (we didn't have chemistry either). But that's why I love channels like yours so much, I get to learn about things I was never introduced to as a kid.

[@draetonalimoffatt8780]

I'm honestly kind of sad that these videos require a "debunking", as someone who never did anything beyond a high-school study of general sciences, biology and chemistry, even I know it's complete BS when I see it. It blows my mind anyone follows these clowns. The people who attacked you for debuking flat earth blew my mind. They sounded smug as if you were an idiot for thinking the world isn't flat... It's the confidence in such stupid beliefs that really gets to me. They act as if they are complete pineapples.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

You see the issue is there are many people who dont even do highschool level science

[@nightmisterio]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIPVhamGbpqenJY

[@kurtjk01]

Yeah, I've been in two different oceans so far; and once in Maine in the Atlantic, and once in the Pacific in Oregon. Both of them were blisteringly cold; but they were both still *way* warmer than 2.7 K.

[@waaniyazahoor5837]

Did I ask

[@Dantalisman]

@@waaniyazahoor5837 was he talking to you?

[@markangeloporcare5289]

Damn, would love to sleep somewhere that cold

[@darricshhh]

@@waaniyazahoor5837 you did. by entering the comment section. kinda thinking this is what it is for: comments

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

I think you mean 2.7 K°C

[@bartonpaullevenson3427]

Congratulations on this one. Not only did you debunk a major crackpot, but you explained a lot of basic (and not-so-basic) science along the way. Incidentally, if Pierre were right that energy can only be transferred by conduction and convection inside a gas, Earth's atmosphere would be opaque and we would all be blind.

[@canbest7668]

That's what I thought! I actually not at all as I have no idea what you are talking about

[@Graknorke]

Don't these guys believe in the luminiferous aether, so they'd say light is still conduction inside gas.

[@joshuastrickland5264]

I always leave these debunk videos learning quite a bit...I do not think I retain much due to searching for obscure addresses...

[@Graknorke]

@@odd-arnedahle2173 why's that a problem? plasma still has mass.

[@bartonpaullevenson3427]

@@odd-arnedahle2173 No, Pierre is a crackpot. Dave is a scientist.

[@acombo]

Hey Dave can I ask why this video has almost two THOUSAND dislikes? Is it because of something you said or do they still believe pierre?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

A lot of butthurt toddlers.

[@ZygonesBzygones]

Pierre has a following. Most of them cannot coherently reproduce, in their own words, what it actually is that PMR is saying. Instead, they have some vague idea that PMR vindicates their own particular crackpot convictions. And many are contrarians that think every consensus must be a conspiracy.

[@corringhamdepot4434]

I remember correcting my physics teacher at school, by saying that there was an additional fourth state of matter called "plasma". After I read about it in a 1969 Year Book I was given at Christmas. No, I didn't go on to become a physicist. 🙃

[@codatheseus5060]

Don't forget Bose Einstein condensate

[@ZygonesBzygones]

this idea of 3 or 4 states of matter is old physics, which we have not discarded because it ties in with people's daily experience of water phases and open flames. but in modern physics, there are as many "phases" or "states of matter" to distinguish as one wants, because the studies now focus on what asymmetries there are and how they are broken the old-fashioned theory fits in nicely, as it should, as it is not wrong _as such_

[@cumcumcum148]

Reminded me of the time when i get into an argument with a teacher in middle school about silanes (similar to the alkanes but instead of carbon it is silicon) because I looked up some sources and I was right I think. But she said that i portrayed them wrong

[@cantopig9639]

@@ZygonesBzygones so would one be fair in saying that it's more so a spectrum with the "states" being extreme points on that spectrum

[@Raydensheraj]

" Looks like the ocean to me " - I'm dying over here...dying laughing.

[@planetearth2249]

Oceans don't exist, they are actually naecos /j

[@Vinny_Havoc]

I'm just dying. Faith in humanity failing.

[@NoOne-qi4tb]

Yes, It does look like the ocean... If the ocean looks to him like that, it does look like the ocean, though that suggests he has some serious problems with his sight

[@TechySeven]

Laughter is a good option, a good coping strategy at times. Pierre: "Looks like the ocean to me." Me: "Sounds like Pareidolia & Apophenia to me, SkyScholar MoonMan."

[@bulwinkle]

You can see that physics went straight over his head leaving a skid mark where his hair no longer grows.

[@crazyfriend50]

Its a cone shape for a hat that he wore all day at school a dunce cone

[@N3CR0T1C_V3N0M]

The saddest part for this gent is that he worked IN a university, meaning he could have just taken a quick jaunt down the hall or across the campus and had an actual conversation with somebody who could have explained this to him, saving him from becoming a walking fallacy, and avoiding the destructive trifecta of his job, dignity and credibility, all at once. Love the channel, keep torching these jesters!

[@typhvam5107]

That's wonderful if you assume the people across campus would have a valid and real explanation. He refuses the baseline because he thinks the baseline is wrong, so those people across the hall are not going to give him anything he can't find by opening a book, which he clearly has, and decided against, so its a waste of time to. Did Galileo go to the priests to ask them how is the sun rotating around earth? the idea is ludicrous to someone with that perspective. He is a massively accomplished individual with practical applications of theory, most of current astrophysics have very little validation and proof because our current technological state doesn't enable us to prove a lot of what is theorized, and likely wont for the next couple centuries. I'm not saying he is right, probably not unless he comes with better proof, but I would heavily caution against handwaving clearly accomplished individuals ideas simply because they go against the current dogmatic thinking, based on a youtuber who has no real accomplishments comparatively merely repeating whats in books. Explore the ideas, come to your own conclusions. His ideas will always be assailed heavily, not because they are necessarily crank'y, but because if they were to be true you would have to throw 50% of cosmology into the trash, along with careers, egos, legends, narratives, and everything that sits on top of it. This is not something anyone will be willing to do. Again, I do not think he is correct, but again, I, you, above youtube, might all be wrong. This needs investigation, not dismissal. Dismissal is not science, especially when its self-perpetuating.

[@ianw7898]

@@typhvam5107 _"This needs investigation, not dismissal"_ Nope. It is scientifically impossible crap that only exists on youtube. Would you like us to investigate flat earth while we're at it? This guy was an accomplished RADIOLOGIST. He majored in inorganic chemistry and zoology! He is physics-illiterate, and a creationist to boot. There is nothing the clown proposes that is scientifically possible. _"most of current astrophysics have very little validation and proof"_ Is a lie.

[@San_Vito]

@@typhvam5107_"He is a massively accomplished individual"_ What did he accomplish?

[@gfalexan]

You could same the same thing about communism or socialism but yet 3/4 of college campuses promote it and push it.

[@paulmahoney7619]

@@San_Vito He was involved in major advances in radiology which is certainly a good thing, just it's not physics and does not give him any qualifications in physics.

[@itskubi2491]

I've noticed the people who dislike your use of insults are (most of the time) the people that believe in whatever bs you are debunking which is hilarious keep up the great content! I know I'm late to the party

[@snaptrap5558]

So by extension of his argument, if you empty a bag of sand into space and it doesn't immediately condense down into an asteroid, then the formation of planets via gravity is a lie?

[@chiensyang]

Pretty much

[@HammersRComing]

Yes, except he didnt account for the fact that these objects are too small for gravity to matter XD

[@hoon_sol]

Not even remotely close to anything Robitaille says, but it's no surprise that the morons who watch Dave's channel don't understand physics.

[@elfy_642]

"how do astronomers prevent the sun from collapsing" I don't even understand why this is a question??? Astronomers are not space engineers lmfao

[@logitimate]

What he means is "how do astrophysicists keep the sun from collapsing *in their model*," i.e., "if their model is true, why doesn't the sun collapse?" Asking this incredulously is still wrong and dumb, but it's not quite as pants-on-head insane as a literal interpretation would make it.

[@elfy_642]

@@logitimate idk man that still sounds like someone with their pants on their head claiming to see god in the crotch seam

[@alocsx]

Professor Dave, Pierre-Marie made a response video, I don't have the patience or need to watch 40 minutes of stupidity. Do you plan to debunk that video or did you watch it and decided it wasn't needed?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Not necessary, he didn't even address the main points of this video. He's pathetic.

[@user-ph2ql2vg1d]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains or, as his followers say: "he was classy and a real gentleman"

[@dragoscoco2173]

@@user-ph2ql2vg1d He truly was.

[@razz9431]

I really love watching videos about science before sleeping, it‘s just so interesting to listen to someone who knows more than oneself

[@jakehccc1]

This Professor Dave has no credentials in science and everyone with credentials is according to his are Frauds. Tells me all I need to know about you that you have a high opinion of him. He doesn't have a degree and isn't a professor in anything period!

[@lucyla9947]

@@jakehccc1 Dave has a degree, not a PHD, but a degree in science nonetheless, and the people he is debunking have no relevant degrees in the field discussed, for example Sky Scholar here has experience in Radiology, not Cosmology so he's out of his field when he claims that all Cosmology is false. Dave however uses actual science to debunk his opponents, so his inexperience in a particular field doesn't matter so much as he's communicating what ACTUAL SCIENTISTS WITH RELEVANT EXPERIENCE say.

[@AdemOmerovicBA]

Me too. I watched Thunderbolt channels because they had narrator with very soothing voice.

[@LudosErgoSum]

I think some people may find Dr. Dave condescending, but seriously, these charlatans deserve no better. They behave whiny and shit on years of dedication from actual scientists so I see no reason to treat them with any respect in return.

[@oogieboo1]

While his confrontational nature may make it less likely for people who don’t agree with him to begin to agree with him, it also makes it more enjoyable for intelligent people to watch. :P

[@promethium-145]

@@oogieboo1 It seems like you're implying that someone can't disagree with Dave and be intelligent. I might've misread your comment, but I think it's an unfair assumption.

[@promethium-145]

@@daviddobronyi5490 I suppose haha.

[@oogieboo1]

@@promethium-145 when I said that, I meant in this video specifically. For someone who thinks through reason and facts, there is only one real side to this argument. I do see how my words could easily have been misinterpreted, though.

[@oogieboo1]

@@promethium-145 when I said that, I meant in this video specifically. For someone who thinks through reason and facts, there is only one real side to this argument. I do see how my words could easily have been misinterpreted, though.

[@prestokrevlar]

I'm cautiously optimistic about professor Dave's efforts to educate people who grew up without or were drawn away from such education.

[@twizz420]

To educate someone, they have to listen first.

[@thesaladballs]

@@twizz420 wise words. also, bong jovi lmaooo

[@UNSCPILOT]

It really is sad that a actual successful researcher like this guy can suddenly fall off into crackpot theories and forget how basic physics work. I'm a high school grad with no formal astrophysics training and a fascination with Astrophotography and even I'm sitting here shocked at his staggering mistakes. People that act like him make me worry/wonder if they have had some manner of nervous breakdown that caused a decline in their mental health that's gone undocumented/unnoticed

[@Ethelgiggle]

@@UNSCPILOT Yea especially coming from a field like radiology which has tons of physics in it compared to other medical fields. A friend of mine is doing residency in radiology and she has to study a lot of physics

[@beepbeepcasucha]

@@UNSCPILOT it seems like a couple of 'alternate' science folks have non science-related motives for hopping on the crazy bandwagon. If you watch Jubilee's Flat-Earthers vs. Scientists you'll see one of the flat earther's husbands didnt believe in the moon landing, she made fun of him, he was killed, she got into flat earth stuff. Not to psychoanalyse but people always look for things bigger than them to explain tragedy in their lives. I do it all the time lol. Just not...this higgy haga

[@giftedfox4748]

I remember being in middle school after reading a book about space and black holes, can't remember who wrote it or the title, but a teach came into the library and asked me what I was reading. I answered black holes, they are very interesting. She responded, yeah but you can't prove it so they don't exist. To this day since I saw that photo of a black hole I can be proud that I listen to the evidence well enough to believe they do in fact exist. That was almost 20 years ago.

[@StormsandSaugeye]

A teacher like that is a terrible example of a teacher. A teachers job is to inspire students, to pose questions to them, and to get them to think and learn new things through these methods. A teacher who says "You can't prove it, so they don't exist" is the reason why so many people do not enjoy learning.

[@mga5534]

“Pierre is just sad he isn’t recognised as a scientist” that’s killed me

[@merikmalhads1676]

When I keep telling people my biochemistry degree means absolutely nothing about my intelligence these are the kinds of people I think about as examples.

[@cd7002]

are you comparing your worthless degree to a doctorate?

[@matthewgordon3281]

"so if she weighs the same as a duck, she must be made of wood, and therefore..?" "She's a witch!" That is what Pierre sounds like.

[@Lumberjack_king]

Kinda sounds like game theory (the KZbinr) logic lol

[@neonmenace1592]

Best movie ever

[@Snowcat1970]

HEY, do not be insulting Sir Bedevere here!! His scientific progress went way beyond the work of his peers in their time!!! Remember the giant wooden rabbit used to conquer a castle of the vile French!! And his plans for a giant wooden badger!!!

[@amptaxman]

Maybe nobody noticed, but: Pierre speaks in a tone and cadence that people usually reserve for toddlers. He sounds like every children’s fairy tale on Audiobooks.

[@San_Vito]

He's French Canadian, English is not his main language.

[@vaedkamat484]

This sky scolar person was so convincing when I watched him I almost believed him but I am thankful for my current knowledge of science.

[@StormsandSaugeye]

The guy preys on people like you tbh. It's not really your fault though. Most people have a strong sense of wonder and want to have a good context of how amazing and mysterious this world we live in really is. But there's a problem of mundacity. That is, Science by nature reduces the unknown and mysterious to physical subjects that can be studied. But these guys use a that sense of wonder and then use the sense of fighting the man to get people to follow them. They don't actually care about your sense of wonder with the world. They care about the few dollars you can bring them.

[@MalfunctioningAndroid]

@@StormsandSaugeye that rare instance when I got nothing to add. Now that's a wonder.

[@nightmisterio]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIPVhamGbpqenJY

[@SPETSNAZZ87]

well, Dave kinda lied about a lot of his quotes and cut them. 10:15 he selected part of the Pierre dude quote of the COBE satellite and didn't let it finish till Pierre talk about the WMAP satellite which made pure sense SCIENTIFICALLY which is kinda a red flag. This is the original quote : kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmnPfISDer6Mgtk also names calling and insults are not the way ''scientists'' would argue with. which was most of this video.

[@rationallyjustified]

@@SPETSNAZZ87 right.. so literally every scientist that has studied this for years is completely wrong because 1 man with 0 knowledge of the subject makes unsubstantiated claims about said subject.

[@solknuckles2408]

I think it's extremely worth pointing out that this video, along with dissenting comments, are all relatively recent. This means that real people in 2021 with access to Google and a nearly infinite amount of educational resources... Are trying to convince the world that every single contradictory resource is objectively wrong for a reason that they couldn't even describe if prompted by questions

[@StoutShako]

Same as it ever was...

[@FarnhamJ07]

Shako is right, it isn't a new thing. It's just more visible. 50 years ago, you simply wouldn't have known about most such lunatics unless you met them in person and specifically discussed such things. By posting online, their craziness becomes a permanently published public record that's easy to share with millions of people across the world. I do think Google and the Internet have made it easier for people to get more deeply entrenched in such things though. It's a good tool for finding the truth if it's what you really seek, but it makes it easy to fall for your own confirmation bias, too. No matter what pseudoscience/conspiracy/whatever you believe in, you can easily find 'evidence' supporting it by searching online, along with refutations of the opposition. People that fall for such things already have unscientific thinking in the first place, though.

[@robertt9342]

It's not new, it's just easier for people to connect and mislead others. Before the Internet these people just rambled to themselves or ranted on street corners. The internet allowed these people to connect project the idea to others and give the impression that there many when there are only a few people who believe these things. This inturn helps convert other more easily deceived people into believing the nonsense, basically normalizing the ideas.

[@kuntyfucstik]

It's also worth pointing out that similarly hysterical morons also once devised a proof of witchery, whereby if a women drowned she was innocent, but if she survived she then faced the death penalty, for being a witch.

[@duck6100]

My absolute favourite past time is coming to your debunk videos, clicking "newest first" and watching you destroy some absolute crackpots. - A physics PhD student who is eternally grateful for your chemistry content, it's honestly helped me so much.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Rhodes, the con men you fell for on the internet are the scammers. Not the people who were trying to teach you physics at a university. Stop doubling down on your abject failure by entertaining pseudoscience just so you can feel better about being too dumb to learn physics. Or honestly, just admit that you are probably lying and never actually studied physics.

[@duck6100]

@@rhodes6840 clearly you weren't very good at astrophysics then 😅

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

@@rhodes6840 _"Really, I was once a Physics student"_ Yea, sure you were. _"could not accept the fantasy explanations covering the impossibilities"_ Funny way of saying you didn't understand anything. This sounds exactly what a flat Earther would say. You're using incredulity as an argument. You should watch the flat Earth debunk videos and read the comments where I'm sure you'll find some like minded friends.

[@user-ly6ms7oo7y]

Lol, Rhodes deleted his comments after he acknowledged that he was embarrassing himself.

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

@@user-ly6ms7oo7y Wow, he did delete them. But he was so confident. Glad I got some quotes from him before he left.

[@grayaj23]

Dr Bouman's ted talk (from before her PhD was granted) explaining how the image would be constructed is informative and explains the extent of the technology and theory that went into how the image of the black hole was produced. It's amazing and brilliant.

[@vvslavavv]

Dave, I'm stealing this one: "onion of stupidity that gets dumber with every layer you peel away" LOL

[@Atlas6355_]

Damn! Dave! You didn’t have to run over his carcass twice! 😂

[@pavel9652]

Dave stopped, put the gear in reverse, and ran over it again, next he ripped off the head and some limbs with bare hands, and beaten the rest with disembodied leg ;)

[@Atlas6355_]

@@pavel9652 🤣🤣😂

[@SuperTonyony]

Milhouse: "Stop it! He's already dead! Bwaaaahh!"

[@SamuelTrademarked]

Stop it! He's already dead, he's already deaaad!

[@tacticallemon7518]

i love how all these anti-science nutjobs boil down to “i don’t understand it, therefore it’s wrong”

[@thekwjiboo]

It's just a variety of "I don't understand X, therefore God", just substituting pseudoscience as their diety.

[@gaweinlautenslager7916]

Thank you, Prof Dave, learned something new with your mention and explanation about the sachs - wolfe effect. I try to keep informed, but have a day job, and not nearly enough time to keep informed about everything. These explanations you provide, give me more incentive to keep myself more informed. Love your channel and the effort to educate people.

[@tweetdriver]

Whenever I hear somebody say XX is just something that is beyond our capability to ever know, I think about this statement that appeared in a 1985 issue of Infoworld magazine: “ When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory.” - William Gates It is in dispute whether he ever said that, and he (of course) denies it, but it’s where my mind goes when people say never like that.

[@dokichokei]

When he said "gaseous plasma" I nearly shit myself laughing.

[@BenShepley]

I was waiting for him to claim it's a lattice of solid liquid Hydrogen plasma condensate

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

Same reaction here. 😂

[@kleanthis3193]

have you ever heard of gaseous metallic solid liquid plasma?

[@TechySeven]

Wouldn't surprise me if he attempted to claim [in excuse] that it's in a Quantum Superposition.

[@BenShepley]

@@TechySeven supersymmetric quantum superposition

[@BenWard29]

I wish someone would waste some of their time making a youtube channel to attack his work in MRI/radiology so he can see what it feels like to constantly be bothered to “answer the claims” against someone who won’t even take the time to understand your field of work.

[@XraynPR]

"Radiology is not a real science. Waves are made up. It's all just vibrations of the cells. The images are pure CGI, there's too much data in the human body, so we cannot see through it."

[@San_Vito]

@@XraynPR lol.

[@catpoke9557]

Taking a screenshot so I remember to make a channel like this.

[@nightmisterio]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIPVhamGbpqenJY

[@burner918]

I am loving these debunk videos and can’t seem to get enough. I stumbled upon your channel while searching for the history of physics - something I’m really interested in and after watching that series, I went on the the Deepak Chopra video. I can’t thank you enough for debunking these fools. Please, we need more.

[@nightmisterio]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIPVhamGbpqenJY

[@MarcosElMalo2]

I went to an open mic night and some older dude got up and read a 10-minute speech about homeopathy. At first I wasn’t sure to what to make of it. Was this going to be some kind of Norm MacDonald shaggy dog story? Was this conceptual art? I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the punchline or story twist. But no. It was just his story of his experiences with homeopathy, how it cured him of something, and the “science” behind it. I was fascinated. I had to talk to this fellow. He seemed well spoken and educated. I was dying to know how, HOW, how a molecule or particle could imprint itself on water, and how water could have memory. Never mind how this imprinting and memory had any curative powers. I just wanted to understand what he thought the underlying mechanisms were. First of all, his credentials: he was a computer scientist. Well, actually more of a computer engineer. Well actually, he was a computer programmer who self-styled himself as an engineer and (why not?) a scientist. And the man had very little understanding of basic chemistry. I didn’t seek to humiliate him (and he didn’t seem humiliated when he walked away). I merely asked him questions about water molecules. Near as I can tell, he had a very idiosyncratic understanding of the Bohr model, and he used “quantum physics” to explain how a non-water molecule could impart a “memory” on a water molecule’s electron cloud. I said, “So you’re using homeopathy to program water at the subatomic level”, and he clapped me on the shoulder and said, “Now you’re getting it!” It was at this point that a friend (my ride to the open mic as it happens) called for me, and I was able to extricate myself from a lengthy water programming lesson. Not all pseudoscientists are grifters, unless they’re just grifting themselves. This guy wasn’t trying to make money, he just wanted someone to listen to his ideas that were based on his lack of scientific understanding. I got the feeling he was a lonely guy who had hit upon an idea that he couldn’t let go of, but since he hadn’t really grasped chemistry or physics, he didn’t know how test his ideas (other than mixing infinitesimal amounts of things with water and seeing if they worked.)

[@ianw7898]

The difference with Robitaille is that his woo is religiously inspired.

[@lajmd123]

This guys main problem is that he has replaced observation and experimentation with reasoning by analogy. This is something stupid people do to apparently remove the need for knowledge with campy metaphors. It’s a classic move from an ignorant person desperate to be important. It’s really pathetic.

[@naota3k]

Pierre: Sees a blackbody radiator "is this ᵐᵒˡᵉᶜᵘˡᵃʳ ʰʸᵈʳᵒᵍᵉⁿ?"

[@crazyfriend50]

His brain is made of molecular caesium and if he gets more molecular water in it. He will explode

[@davidhand9721]

Have you thought about debunking Gavin Wince? He's obsessed with some equations he calls "the existics equations" which involve infinite series of continued fractions. He plays with arbitrary values and non sequitur added terms until he finds, e.g. the fine structure constant, then calls it a prediction. He then goes on and on about "three dimensional time" - one of which is actually the proper time derivative, but he counts it as a dimension - and comes up with all sorts of gobbledygook. He rages at high profile physicists as if they're his personal professional competitors. It's truly nuts.

[@ancapistan6378]

Hello Dave, in a more recent video Sky Scholar attempts to dispute the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and the Sachs Wolfe effect, have you seen it and if you did, any thoughts?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

I did not, and assume it is unbelievably idiotic and delusional, like all of his content.

[@victorlopez3024]

Designing the MRI machine is no small accomplishment . Why can't he just be proud of that and stop talking crap ? Thanks Dave for this very enjoyable post.

[@duncanmcneill7088]

Although Peter Mansfield of Nottingham University who won the Nobel Prize for inventing and developing the MRI scanner might have had something to say about that claim.

[@duncanmcneill7088]

@@jsonjsoff - and yet nowhere are his accomplishments mentioned here : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_magnetic_resonance_imaging P.S. I’m related to someone who was on Mansfield’s team and who received money from the patent - so I have a somewhat different perspective.

[@duncanmcneill7088]

@@jsonjsoff - it would be interesting to know what actually happened to him around 2001 . All the papers which he contributed to prior to that were MRI oriented and he was obviously a successful radiologist. I wonder what happened to make him think he was a competent physicist... Maybe Amir-Abduljalil knows.

[@firewilson8056]

He didn't design the machine.He is a medical technologist

[@nightmisterio]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIPVhamGbpqenJY

[@davidfl4]

Not only is he a charlatan, but he’s a boring one at that. Whole time the guy was talking I was like “what the 🦆 is this guy talking about?”

[@ejthedhampir507]

I love the new reaction style content you’re doing recently. Will you respond to his response to this video, perhaps in a reaction style commentary format? I’d love to hear your thoughts on his response, since it’s rather humorous.

[@Hank254]

The craziest part about Robitaille is that he refuses to defend his pseudoscience. If you rebut any of his statements on his channel, you are attacked by another pseudoscientist... Stephen Crothers. Crothers' idea of a scientific debate is to make ridiculous assertions and then insult you when you don't accept them. Engaging them in actual scientific conversation is a waste of time. At this point, I simply ask them to explain why Robitaille (or Crothers) can't get a degree in physics if they genuinely understand this material. Of course, that simple question is too much for them to answer :)

[@tsilarij-p3726]

Drinking game: - Take a sip whenever a jest towards Kent Hovind is made.

[@Forest_Fifer]

I'm not prepared for that...

[@KevD_]

A drinking game for teetotalers... Take a sip every time a Robitaille cultist comments on the science in Dave's video.

[@dafphtthedislikeupdater7836]

@@KevD_ that's a death wish!

[@pcbutler1971]

Ya, I think, just for safety sake, we should take a very hard look at MRI machines for dangerous errors…just in case

[@sweethysteria8737]

Not necessary, He actually knows something about Radiology He’s just clueless about Astronomy and Cosmology

[@TheDavi2001]

Professor, I must say, It is quite impressive that you not only take the time to produce such well researched videos, but you also read all your video's comments and even respond to many of them, thank you for your work, I wish most youtubers were like you, sir!

[@CTrunde]

This pseudo scientist is (was) a radiologist? How is that possible? He’s too ignorant to know science; how did he pass basic studies!

[@Kansika]

Because the way Dave represented his theories was supposed to make you think that. He's not addressing what's really being said but instead building easy strawmen and bashing them. While doing his own lab work, Dr. Robitaille started to question the way black body radiation and Kirchoff's Law was being used in physics, which got him interested in astronomy and the CMB. For this to be a real debunk I'd like to see Dave's proof of Kirchoff's Law. So far he has only spat out insults.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

To put it simply: He understood MRI stuff. Then he got too big for his boots and acts like his speciality in one field means he is an expert in everything else

[@daooffibonnacicats8247]

@@Kansika Which he didn’t publish for…some reason.

[@MrVincentTremblay]

I hope this puts him in his place, I don't need this guy being what people think of when they think of French Canadians

[@penguinuprighter6231]

Well at least he's from North Bay.

[@MrVincentTremblay]

@@penguinuprighter6231 that's still embarrassing!

[@penguinuprighter6231]

@@MrVincentTremblay Fair enough. I don't know a lot about North Bay but when I was about 14 I went there for a hockey tournament and an old lady billeted my whole team in her big old house. Maybe Pierre was close by.

[@joycey845]

Lol I swear every other French-Canadian I've met or heard of has Tremblay as their surname.

[@penguinuprighter6231]

@@joycey845 Mario Tremblay was very big with the ladies.

[@billcook4768]

Sure you’ve got “facts” and “science “” on your side. But a name like Pierre-Marie Robitaille just sounds authoritative. Much more so than Dave.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

He's joking, bud.

[@dogwalker666]

But Pierre does not have a TV channel named after him.

[@San_Vito]

Good point.

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

@Robbierobot574 _"Oh, my bad. I’ve seen so much stupidity that I can’t tell if someone is joking or they actually mean it."_ Been there. Done that. Sadly.

[@sissyfus6181]

@Robbierobot574 And that right there is Poe's Law!!! Without emojis or some other sign we have "seen so much stupidity that we can’t tell if someone is joking or they actually mean it."

[@LUSCIOUSDUNCAN]

the rhythm of Pierre's speech is so grating and repetitive. he says every sentence with the exact same cadence and once you notice it that's all you can pay attention to.

[@rusblock]

ugh & that grating whine in his voice

[@penguinuprighter6231]

Just pleading with the idiots.

[@erdoctor199]

I am floored at your ability to navigate so many different topics from evolution, physics, chemistry, archeology, anthropology, gender, psychology, sociology etc. You are a fantastic communicator and I appreciate your channel

[@toddpeterson5904]

At what point do we say that it is not ignorance that is the dominant issue with people like Pierre but mental health? He was once scientifically minded but now exhibits an inability to understand basic concepts. Even for a narcissist, this seems like cognitive decline associated with diseases like dementia, rather than just irrational beliefs

[@vksasdgaming9472]

Might be result of injury. Gary Busey is similar and saner case: life-threatening head injury leads to reduced impulse control without noticeable decay of mental aptitude.

[@smartalek180]

Maybe. But then again, there are people who are truly brilliant in their own little corners of scientific realms who are nonetheless galactically stupid when it comes to other areas of science. Case in point: Dr Ben Carson, who was, by all accounts, a genuinely gifted surgeon, credited w/saving the lives of many children, who nonetheless is an infamous evolution-denier (who also believes the Egyptian pyramids were hollow, and built to store grain). No "cognitive decline" there; he was always a religious nutcase, from day 1.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

@@smartalek180 true. Saying that it’s mental illness would be a disgrace. When everyone has completely different skills sets in this world.

[@DanteGaidenOfficial]

Who else filters the comments to newest just to read Dave’s amazing sarcastic replies lmao

[@tacticoolshaydes5349]

Its very amusing seeing idiots being idiots in youtube comments

[@Yourwaifuisntreal]

Guilty as charged.

[@sackedintheballs9508]

Hey Dave it’s so cool that you still respond to comments on videos this old. It shows just how dedicated you are to debunking peoples nonsense.

[@newperve]

"When he talks, he makes ridiculous claims and blatant errors that can be spotted by anyone with a basic understanding of physics and astronomy. " It's worse than that. He makes statements that even people with literally no understanding of physics or astronomy can spot. For instance "You can't make a picture with a billionth of a data set.". So if there is a dataset with 2 pictures of everyone on earth, you can't find the pictures of my family, who are less than a billionth of the people on earth? How about making a picture graphing some information about that family e.g. our genomes if the dataset includes everyone's genomes? Of course you can. The size of the dataset doesn't limit the minimum size of the dataset extracted from it. You need literally no science background to know this.

[@nightmisterio]

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[@bobblum5973]

Apparently the word "charlatan" still applies in this day and age. Pierre-Marie Robitaille lives up to a long line of practitioners of this fine art. It makes you wonder how he'd feel about astrophysicists talking about the fields of radiology and medical imaging.

[@RashBold]

*Facepalm* Robataille is an exemplar of Dunning-Kruger.

[@FixedKarma]

Senator Armstrong looking ass. "So you're an astrophysicist?" "YES!" "What are you're sources?" "I MADE IT THE FUCK UP!"

[@eyalamit5120]

That's an insult to Armstrong.

[@paulmahoney7619]

@@eyalamit5120 Yeah, at least Senator Armstrong is buff and has a definitive ideology.

[@PrettyLittle_Piss]

It's so crazy to think Pierre used the scientific method to specialize in a field so well that he made advances in that field. Yet, he didn't feel it was necessary to gain basic credentials in the field he wanted to critique.. is it arrogance? I honestly can't understand it.

[@matherman1111]

Maybe a variation of nobel disease? Its where scientists make advancements ans breakthroughs then participate in pseudoscience and become narcissists.

[@ktulipan7543]

Roubitaille saved ten thousands of life’s by developing MRT to a level today used by medicine and radiologists around the world. In order to do so he went to the limits of what we know about heat, radiation, microwaves and turned every stone over in the search of higher resolutions which were needed in medicine. He came to discover problems in textbooks in connection with Kirchhoffs laws and he worked years on the most important source of error in microwave physics: noice especially from water and humidity, and from lack of shielding. Pierre could just have retired and wait for the Nobel price but instead he applied his expertise to microwave physics in cosmology and he found exactly the same problems and patterns as in MRT. However cosmologists hated his discovery of their errors in the measurement in the microwave background. Coming to the possibility of solid state in hydrogen. I have studied X-ray physics at the former chair of Professor Roentgen in Munich. The possibility of condensed state of hydrogen has been a long discussed thing already at the time . Later I was guest at Cornell’s synchrotron led by Bob Batterman., and of course the same ideas and topics were exchanged. Neil Ashcroft was leading the solid state group. Hans Bethe was already retired but still joining the group for lunch in the cantina. The possibility of condensed hydrogen was universal among the top groups in the world. This is supposed to say that the world top physicists in solid state and scattering on solid state agree there is a good chance Pierre is right. Just today Ben Davidsson released an email by Neiil Ashcroft to Pierre exactly confirming this and also mentioning Hans Bethe. Hans is of course one of the great physicists of all times and he has virtually worked in all fields and in particular on solar models A perfect continuous spectrum requires a element structure similiar to those formed by carbon. Condensed matter physicists say hydrogen may form graphite and diamond like structures and there is a good potential that this takes place in stars. In cosmology it is ASSUMED for simplicity of model that phase transition etc play no role in many phenomena but Pierre is completely right to point out that in solar models we have to be careful and take into account all disciplines of physics. Pierre is s Great physicist We should pay him the deserved respect and this video should be updated towards more objectivity.

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

_"Roubitaille saved ten thousands of life’s by developing MRT to a level today used by medicine and radiologists around the world"_ Saved lives? If he invented the technology maybe but he mainly improved it. No doubt he was good when he stuck to radiology. This video does confirm that point if you didn't watch. _"He came to discover problems in textbooks in connection with Kirchhoffs laws and he worked years on the most important source of error in microwave physics"_ And now you've left reality completely. If Pierre really wants to take credit for this he simply needs to do like everyone else and prove it. Why won't he publish his findings I wonder? _"Pierre could just have retired and wait for the Nobel price"_ I'm sorry what? Nobel Prize? For radiology or cosmology? Either way I think you have a very low bar set for the Nobel Prize. _"Just today Ben Davidsson released an email by Neiil Ashcroft to Pierre exactly confirming this and also mentioning Hans Bethe."_ I'm sorry but why exactly was Hans Bethe referenced? Since he's been dead for a while I'm not sure using his name can be considered as backing anything Pierre says, not to mention it's pretty ghoulish and disgusting. _"Pierre is s Great physicist"_ What qualifies him as such? The rest of the world has a wildly different criteria for using that term.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Pierre is not a physicist, bud. And Ben is a cult leader. I'm sorry you don't have better judgement. There are no "errors in the CMB", as I spend about 20 minutes explaining in this video you didn't watch. Get some intellectual integrity, ok champ?

[@Forest_Fifer]

What he did or did not do in his professional career has no bearing on his understanding (or lack thereof) of cosmology. I wouldn't rely on a dentist to do brain surgery, but they've both studied anatomy so why not?

[@ktulipan7543]

@@NinjaMonkeyPrime I believe Hans was mentioned by Neil Ashcroft as Hans Bethe had initiated the discussion about „metallic“ hydrogen ( meaning those condensed states that resemble liquid and solid metals). Also Bethe had worked on solar models, including models that allow for circle processes instead of linear models that just burn hydrogen to helium. See the papers by Bethe and Weizsäcker. Everyone considered Bethe to be a legend and no one took his ideas light or absurd.

[@wyrmofvt]

@@ktulipan7543 ​ Even ideas by great luminaries like Bethe need to be put through their paces. I knew John A. Wheeler through my father, a great mind in gravitation, but his absorber theory is still not generally accepted, and other, perfectly serviceable explanations suffice to explain the lack of advanced radiation. Since Bethe's time, we've learned much more about the nature of "metallic" hydrogen and have learned that it does not exist except in intense pressures not present in the photosphere. Bethe wasn't really _wrong_ at the time to propose it, but it did turn out to be a wash when stellar dynamics came to be explained without metallic hydrogen.

[@naota3k]

If you took Pierre's "gas in a bottle" analogy another step further, shouldn't the Earth's atmosphere all blast away into space? It's a ball with some gas around it in a massive vacuum. So Pierre, why is it that the Earth has an atmosphere?

[@XraynPR]

because it's clearly encased in a glass dome? Right?

[@StoutShako]

I think he thinks electromagnetism is the reason... Don't ask me how that works.

[@spybird5870]

@@StoutShako it doesn't

[@grimblegromblethegnome]

Another point continually cited by flat-Earthers.

[@nightmisterio]

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[@alphablood6424]

I don't know if Dave already made a vid on this but I find it funny because the dude made a response video to it. To look into the comments and seeing people saying things like "your a true scholar" is just mind boggling

[@christopherhamilton3621]

This guy is the Ken Ham of pseudocosmology. Debunking him, creationists and flerfers needs to be kept up full blast. Go Dave!

[@___Zack___]

Nobody's going to talk about the guys measurement of data as "half a ton of hard disks" ? 😂

[@paintspot1509]

haha, such a pointless thing to say. I don't think I have ever heard a scientists say they have too much data.

[@dogwalker666]

I always quantify my data by tonnes of hard disks dont you? T.H.D. is the new SI unit! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@joshuahadams]

@@dogwalker666 what’s the standard HDD capacity and mass these days?

[@dogwalker666]

@@joshuahadams oh about 250g per quad.

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

I stumbled upon "Sky Scholar" while researching my next video. Almost as soon as the video started, I realized this was a crank. Thankfully, KZbin recommended your video which was more than the perfect antidote. Well done!

[@NapaCat]

+Launch Pad Astronomy: Pierre and his mentor have even harassed Dave via sending their followers after him. His mentor even created sock accounts to defend his protege and himself.

[@NapaCat]

Also, love your content!

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

@@NapaCat Thank you so much! As to your other point, I'm now wondering if any of his followers have seen my stuff. It would explain some of the comments I occasionally get.

[@NapaCat]

@@LaunchPadAstronomy Sky Scholar, real name Pierre, is taught by Ben Davidson, a former lawyer who now runs 'Suspicious0bservers' a branch of pseudoscience that Dave made a video debunking. For some idea of Ben, he has a tshirt saying 'eyes open, no fear'.

[@NinjaMonkeyPrime]

@@LaunchPadAstronomy Looking at the comments in your last video it seems you've hit the radar of the usual anti-establishment crew. Just look at the sub list of you're wondering. Chances are you'll see Thunderbolts Project for Electric Universe and Wal, Suspicious Observers for solar doomsday and Ben, Sky Scholar for CMB denial with Pierre, then a mix of Joe Rogan, crypto, guns, guitar and fitness.

[@Nightmastercool97]

What about String Theory, The Multiverse, Parallel Universe, Alternate Timelines, Hidden Demensions,; did you do any videos on those topics?

[@davidparker527]

"Sky" and "scholar" go as well as oil and water.

[@k9strike931]

Man the more I watch Pierre's response video, the more embarrassing it is. So many times in the video he just goes "I am correct" and "I am right, now let's move on".

[@noeckel]

I like how you turn lemons (stupidity) into lemonade (learning). That's the only way to deal with the sad state of affairs regarding misinformation around the world.

[@alexandruoprica3953]

what a hateful thing to say about lemons. why are lemons so vilified?

[@Bubbly_Dragon]

@@alexandruoprica3953 Some asshole through a lemon at my house and burned it to the ground. Now whenever I see them I just can't forget those moments of abject terror

[@amineaboutalib]

@@Bubbly_Dragon that's horrifying

[@Weretyu7777]

@@Bubbly_Dragon Was this person named Cave Johnson? Was he ranting about life and lemons?

[@twostate7822]

Pierre looks a little like George Costanza from the Seinfeld show. When he talks, the things he says convinces me he must be related to George. Pierre is the Art Vandelay of astronomy.

[@Schizniit]

Why do people have to invent a shadow government or devious scientists to be mad at? They could literally just be mad at the regular ole government! I mean I'm a bit anti-establishment, but I still like to keep up with science, especially astronomy