How FAKE SCIENCE Can Fool You - Wisecrack Edition
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If you internet, you may have heard the rumor that coronavirus is caused by 5G technology, and you may have laughed at the people dumb enough to believe it. But here's the thing: we're all more susceptible to pseudoscience than we like to think. And there's a perfectly good reason why. Let's find out in this Wisecrack Edition: How Fake Science Can Fool You.
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Quick correction: The image of Pierre Duhem is actually Josiah Gibbs, an American scientist. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out!
Gibbs is still awesome
Thing is Duhem and Gibbs have lots of their work intertwined, as Duhem built a lot of the thermodynamics main corpus on the work of Gibbs. They are both patriarchs of thermodynamics... like the "Elders of the Internet"? Anyway, I think it's not big deal that you mixed them up!
Does youtube let you go back and edit after you've already uploaded?
U have my respects ... Amazing video 😍
Just completely skip 5G & adapt 7G... world 5G problems solved!! So, these folks are bitching about _slow_ Internet YET they go out & tear down the faster towers?!? Here's a 7G & 8G article:
www.technopediasite.com/2019/09/7g-and-8g-network-countries.html
This shows how important it is to have some basic scientific literacy. Most people still use the term "theory", when they really mean "hypothesis".
It's ironic how the humbleness of calling a well-supported hypothesis backed by evidence 'theory' instead of 'fact' is used as a counter by people who promote pseudoscience with such eloquently constructed 'arguments' such as 'iT's JUst a THEOrY'
well, the actual root of the word of theory does mean speculation, so if anything, science should update its terms to not intersect with laymen's
This....very much this....
@@nirobu The only reason that word was chosen was the expectation that any given model, no matter how well researched or evidenced, would eventually be made obsolete by one better researched and evidenced. Nothing is written in stone. Quite the contrary, Laymen need to be better educated.
thats generous, calling retarded ideas hypotheses.
The simpson summed up why correlation doesn't imply causation decades ago:
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn’t work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It’s just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don’t see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
That's not correlation, that's coincidence. The possession of the rock and the absence of the tiger simply happen at the same time for a single instance, they coincide. If the possession of the rock and the absence of tiger always happened together you would have correlation. If anything the Simpsons demonstrated that verification is flawed and falsification is preferred in science.
@@AxeltheD damn i wanted to restate the quote but you made a great point there
There's a reason Lisa says it's specious reasoning and not a false correlation.
I pay the Homer tax
You forget the most important part of that scene: **she takes the money**
There's where scientifically literate people go wrong, when they think that the other side (tm) is just stupid or evil. Instead of being just like them, with a different set of incentives.
Anybody who says stuff like "proved beyond a shadow of a doubt" is not a scientist.
Likewise "in the name of the science question everything"? Exactly that sounds like first postulate of pseudo-science... 'two plus two equals four' is among those stuff that are proven beyond any 'a shadow of a doubt' - as Flat Earthers can't be right ever, no matter to infinite questioning.
@Gerry C so... how would you prove 2 + 2 =/= 4? Is there evidence for doubt that exists?
@Gerry C then there is no doubt
@Gerry C well then the proof comes with the definition, without a shadow of a doubt
Anyone who says "proof" in a scientific context is full of shit, unless they're talking about mathematical proofs. Scientist don't prove things, they find evidence and make hypotheses and theories.
"pseudo science often preys on the fact that it's victims are well educated..." this speaks volumes to the problem at hand... it sounds right and we can see some past scientific notion we've heard about, so therefore the speaker must be right.
That applies to everything, when people are “well educated”, people would buy into whatever they say easily.
Clearly this audience must consider themselves well educated by now.
Feminism comes to mind.
Then all the more reason to be sceptical and take nothing on face value. Do your own research, but make sure the sources are credible and not some health food mom blog of opinions.
NEVER just believe something because is sounds convincing or logical, especially if it also sounds amazing or revolutionary.
Use common sense. If in doubt, read. Don't share any information you dont fully understand or can't verify.
And anyway, you can't consider yourself reasonably well educated if you dont display any understanding of doing valid research, imo. Anyone who writes blog ads encouraging people to try natural or homeopathic remedies before actually seeing a doctor is not someone I consider appropriately educated, let alone reasonably or well educated.
Its so easy to filter out some of the more obvious bollocks, that I often wonder if the people who don't do it are just doing it to ruin my day.
I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
This is great, because it recognizes up front that “stupidity” isn’t why people get this stuff wrong. Science is hard, and ongoing, and always contextual. Calling people “dumb” when they happen to be wrong is lazy and incredibly unconstructive.
Thanks Jared. Great work.
They may not necessarily be stupid, but they definitely qualify as lazy and unconstructive themselves
The onus being on everyone else to put in more effort giving them the benefit of the doubt is frankly unreasonable of a thing to expect
I don't know man. Why does a medicine bottle have plausible side effects if it's always supposed to work as it should? Why does some Cancer treatments get shelved in favor of the 50 year old chemotherapy which is the equivalent of curing infection with leeches?
I am just saying that in some cases private companies get to decide what medication is good for you but the public should never question it if they have higher standards as well?
No, but stupidity is making up pseudo-scientific claims based on absolutely nothing with zero evidence to back it up.
I don't know, I think most people, even medical professionals are just fucking dumb. Anyone is susceptible to psuedo science but that doesn't mean anyone is susceptible to becoming an antivax retard. Or believing 5g causes covid. This takes a significant amount of ignorance to believe and a lack of basic understanding and reasoning. Or in other words Room temperature IQ
I mean the video says that most "doctors" are not research doctors. Most get by in medical school by pure memorization. There are also plenty of bad doctors. A title doesn't qualify your intelligence.
The energy healing man's hand gestures bother me so much for some reason. It's like he's about to give a massage but just doesn't and it's so annoying to look at.
same lol.
I believe that uneasy feeling would be because of your espectatives being subverted
That's because he doesn't know how a massage is
Massage teasing should be a crime.
He just wants yoga pants ass in his face for 20 minutes at a time
Honestly doctors like this are like my DND character, intelligence 16 but wisdom 2
@Gerry C Maybe if there's a racial modifier that has a negative to wisdom? Nerds!!!! RACIST NERDS!!! Stay woke, fuckers!!!
@@sullyb23511 what the feck does Racial Bonus have to do with it? Clearly, they used point buy/4D6 to get that WIS 2!
@@sullyb23511 I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
"I know how to cast _fireball,_ but I don't know when to cast it."
Jared states, "We're never really taught to think critically about evidence" - sadly, this is true in secondary education, and probably applies to much of the coursework offered in post-secondary and graduate programs. I teach rhetoric and composition at the university level, and one our main tenets (student learning outcomes) is to teach our first-year students to think critically - to be able to evaluate and analyze evidence. We attempt to weed out bias and opinion in our program, and I believe an understanding of basic rhetoric should be taught in all secondary classrooms - probably around the 6th grade. And, if we expect students to grasp algebraic math, then they should be able to handle basic Aristotelian principles - dialogism and dialectic provides tools to question quackery and pseudoscience. The big problem is that public schools can't easily quantify critical thinking skills through assessment, so they teach to a test (scantrons) which only promotes rote memorIzation.
"one our main tenets (student learning outcomes) is to teach our first-year students to think critically - to be able to evaluate and analyze evidence. We attempt to weed out bias and opinion in our program" EXCELLENT!
So true. The world is changing and the stream of information is rapidly increasing. Applying critical thinking is becoming ever more important and should be taught in schools.
The need of our education system to quantify learning rather than to encourage it is why it's failing so many people. I love the work that Jared and the rest of the Wisecrack team does because it stems from and creates a genuine curiosity and love of learning.
The problem is all schools are communist indoctrination camps filling sheeples brains with lies about catastrophic global warming while the Earth is historically cold.
Well its not tge kids fault that their teachers arent smart enough to teah the kids right
Funny thing: I live on Svalbard, a testing site for 5G in Norway. It's one of the few places in the world where there is NO COVID-19
My town was also a testing site in Spain long before all of this and the main reason we have had cases is because we are close to Madrid
I thought only bears and scientists lived there
Interesting that even with 5G you couldn’t do enough research to realize the “conspiracy theory” that it spreads the virus was planted to stop any conversation about 5G before it begins and make it look ridiculous.
5G has not been proven to be safe.
It puts the life of children at risk and devalues your property.
Such a coincidence that while everyone’s life was deemed non essential, installing 5G all over my city was... And there’s no virus where they had already installed it.
mightytaiger did u not watch the video explaining why the 5g conspiracy is stupid, and their was no conversation about 5G causing corona virus because everyone knew that the claim was retarded also radio waves are like the least harmful on electromagnetic spectrum, and don’t do enough to cause cell damage.
@@mightytaiger3000 5g is great and you are an idiot...go back to living in a cave
His theory sounds like someone trying to explain Twin Peaks
So then there's this frog moth thing which is either a supernatural being named judy, or just Kyle Maclachlan...
Owls cause COVID-19.
Beans Febreeze Ha! There’s a new video out that blew my mind. It actually explains the entire Twin Peaks series (Season one and two and The Return and Fire Walk with Me) so simply using Lynch’s own quotes and opinions.
@@rini6 It was interesting to listen to, for sure, but yeah, can't put too much stock into it, or any "definitive" Twin Peaks explanation. The show being what it is, you'd always have to make some big assumptions and leaps in logic to formulate a coherent explanation. I don't think either Lynch or Frost really have one. Or maybe Frost does. And I know he put together some quotes to imply that there is a "correct" interpretation, but I'm still not buying it.
@@TehBurek "The show being what it is, you'd always have to make some big assumptions and leaps in logic to formulate a coherent explanation. I don't think either Lynch or Frost really have one." Nah man that's on you, all art is created with an intent, it's part of the fun to take your own meanings from something but to say it's difficult to comprehend so therefore there is no central meaning is plain ignorant. "I don't think either Lynch or Frost really have one" I mean, really, wow
Important to remember, "Most doctors are not research scientists and their training focuses on rote memorization not critical thinking or modern research techniques.......they think that just being armed with the facts in a vacuum will lead them to the right conclusion"
This is so wrong. I already commented on this but this is a thing I hear from people who are ignorant of medical training, the requirements to even be admitted to medical school or the process of making differential diagnosis. Most MDs have undergraduate degrees in the sciences and interpretation of experiments and scientific reasoning is tested on the MCAT. In addition many of the people pushing pseudoscience themselves have PhDs. The author of that Plandemic documentary is a disgraced PhD. The origin of the theory the hydroxychloriquine could help is another PhD with a history of manipulation of data. The harsh truth is that there will be incompetent people in most fields and that PhD or MD training are never a guarantee that there won't be liars and people who are bad at their jobs.
@@charleshawk4680 Since I, myself, have no medical training, nor have I studied any greatly agreed upon thing with any seriousness, I will concede that you are correct in your assessment. My disagreement is with this particular quality of guessing and not the field of medicine or those who practice it. My simple understanding observes that scientists and doctors very often change what they say is good or bad for you nearly every 20 or 50 years. And yet 2+2 has equalled 4 for quite some time. What I'm saying is that those who are so interested in correcting the less desirable aspects of life relating to the physical world and the physical body might be best off trying to discover perfect designs instead of guessing, however well studied that guess may be. Indoor plumbing is a perfected system, for example, and requires no more modification in its fundamental design. What I am advocating, however juvenile it may be on its face, is that the discovery of a "healing ray" (a perfectly designed substance or frequency that unobtrusively restores the physical body to its balanced state) would put all or most doctors out of business. Therefore, wouldn't it be safe to assume that all doctors with any sense of self-preservation would be inherently opposed to the discovery and application of such a device? And if a doctor is opposed to something that renders their services and many years of study unnecessary, isn't also safe to assume that they are not entirely concerned about the final health of their patients? In conclusion, I believe that those who are sincerely concerned about the final health of human beings should make their determinations as stable and sure as arithmetic principles and the designs that constitute indoor plumbing.
@@cerberuscrux963 REAL science is ALWAYS amenable to change in opinion (and fundamental paradigm) because the physical universe is nothing BUT change, including our perception and understanding (if I can use the term that loosely) of that changing universe.
Your desire for a sense of arithmetic certainty in the function and operation of the physical body is an illusion, a very powerful one, that (along with other fundamental errors) ENTIRELY rules out the possibility of variation in individual response, which while minimized in allopathic medicine, at least is not completely discounted. Is it POSSIBLE there is radiation that could essentially nano- and micro-operate at the cellular level to be "ideally" healing, in your "2 + 2" sense? Almost certainly, but we'll need a LOT more theoretical and technological development to access that
If "2 + 2 ALWAYS = 4" in all aspects of reality were a sumum bonum, you should be able to prove this easily by taking some gravel, dividing it in half, powdering one half and remixing it to get the original volume.
@@ticthak I suppose i'm more concerned about the world that I prefer to live in, instead of the world that is presented to me.
@Cupid and @Charles Hawk: I am trained both as a physician and as a basic scientist (I graduated from a NIH supported medical scientist training program with both an MD and a PhD in molecular biology), so I may have some insight here. Medical training is not just rote memorization. It also is not training in experimental design or especially deep critique of research papers. As some of my instructors openly admitted, much of medicine is simply pattern recognition, and frankly it is my observation that as the years grow between a physician and their training, the degree to which they rely on it versus formal scientific thinking in formulating a differential diagnosis tends to increase.
I understand that many physicians do have undergraduate degrees in the basic sciences. But as someone whose undergraduate degree was in biochemistry at a large midwestern state university, but who also worked on a research project for 3 of 4 years in a lab doing NIH funded basic science at that university; I can say my coursework taught me lots of things learned through science, but my lab work taught me how science is done. The MCATs tested me on the former, not the later. Yet critical thinking is taught in medical school and in residency programs especially in regards to differential diagnosis and evidence based medicine. They were where I was trained. The best programs try to emphasize and promote it. And yet eminence based medicine, where you are expected to parrot back what the people above you in the hierarchy say, often trumps science. Indeed, it is arguable that this is embedded in the culture of medicine (see www.medpagetoday.com/cardiology/cardiobrief/59481 and links it provides for some discussion of this topic). More discussion of it: consumers.cochrane.org/blog/eminence-vs-evidence thesciencebit.net/2018/11/03/the-triumph-of-eminence-based-medicine/ and the tongue in cheek www.thedifferentialdx.com/in-defense-of-eminence-based-medicine/
I encountered much of it during training, enough that it was a bit of a joke that there wasn't a right answer to a question, just a right answer for a particular person. And yet I can say that in general the people I learned the most from, and who were widely perceived as the best clinical instructors, did not promote or rely on it. While there is a degree of eminence based learning in science, it is generally far weaker. Physicians doing electives in basic science labs are sometimes shocked to see junior graduate students questioning senior faculty, and the senior faculty answering while seeming not at all surprised to be questioned. This is a strength of scientific training. And yet, scientific training is often deep but extremely narrow and too often basic scientists try to link their work to clinical medicine and do it poorly. Failing to understand its complexities and being overly simplistic in their presumptions. Many fail to understand much outside their own narrow field of experience, frequently overstating and grossly oversimplifying the relationship between their findings and the clinic.
And yet I have to disagree with the idea that physicians "think that just being armed with the facts in a vacuum will lead them to the right conclusion." They don't. They think their experience and pattern recognition will lead them to the right conclusions. When they are cognizant of the need to step back to more formal thought processes when the pattern doesn't quite fit or is likely to be distorted one or more the many cognitive biases in medicine, it often works quite well. Unfortunately, they often are not quite so insightful. Most of the time this just leads to the phenomena we are taught in training to avoid, such as no longer really thinking anymore about a patient's problems once a diagnosis is made. At worst it can cause them to embrace pseudoscience and woo, though this video describes a very extreme case.
Acabo de recomendar su video en mi canal, gracias por el gran trabajo. ¡A continuar por la ciencia!
I just recommended your video on my channel, thanks for the great work. Let´s continue for science!
I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
We need more people trying to explain instead of lazily shutting off people without trying, good job wisecrack!
SAME
Hugo Villarreal you got it backwards. people don’t just have the facts ready in their head in the case they meet some **fact** denier. thats why more people need to trust science and not be so gullible in the first place
it's a neat idea but *have you actually tried?*
@Chuck Kistler Cognitive dissonance is such a killer in America. We need to think critically!
I think we've been trying to explain for quite a long time and people still want the easy way of pseudosciente. If you read Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World it will sound like it was written yesterday.
We've been very pacient trying to explain. We're tired of explaining.
The ending of metal gear solid 2 is becoming a reality.
Same thought here, fellow mgs mate!
its the la li lu le lo
Hideo Kojima was largely inspired for alot of the story after reading Noam chomskys manufacturing consent, it was a reality when it was made, they used more sci-fi stuff to hyperbolize what was actually already happening
Yup
Really goes to show that video kojima truly was a visionary
Average person: Viruses, milk
Wisecrack: Virus juice, cow juice
orange juice
He gave someone untested medicine, without doing a check-up?
Hypocrisy thy name is... Well I forgot his name (not worth knowing anyways), but you get my point.
I think his name is Bob.
His name is absolutely worth knowing, so you can run for the hills if you ever end up in his office someday
His name is Bill kids and he loves Pizza.
I confess, I fell for Google smell and sniffed my screen. I've held this guilt for years now. Feels good to let go.
Wow thats hard to not mock. But it was harder to admit, so on behalf of yhe internet i forgive you. Go forth and surf the web in peace.
Smh
Its okay
I haven't heard of that, but given modern techno-sense technology (being able to verbally ask Google things, being able to log into computers and phones via facial and fingerprint recognition , etc.), what the title implies sounds very nearly reasonable. "If Google can hear us and see us, why shouldn't it be able to smell us? And if it can smell us, why can't we smell it?" I'll judge Flat-Earthers, Anti-Vaxxers, and 5G-Covid people harshly for ignoring science, but I won't judge this.
I just remembered the scratch-n-sniff stuff from my childhood. Remembering that, I'd have sniffed my screen, too.
I sniffed my phone when seeing this, it smells like fresh laundry.
As a physician, I can say that a lot of medical school is rote memorization. However, students are definitely taught scientific reasoning, the analysis of medical evidence, and clinical problem solving. Many have done research in undergrad. When a doctor goes off the rails, it just shows you that intelligence doesn't necessarily protect one from forming loose or delusional thinking.
As a medical student, I back this up. In fact I would go so far as to say that rote memorizing is not enough to do well and to truly excel you have to be able to engage in clinical reasoning.
Dr. Clarey is correct, medical school does involve some training in scientific reasoning. But as an MD/PhD., having been trained both as a physician and a basic scientist, I can say that the level of scientific reasoning taught to graduate students in the biomedical sciences is vastly in excess of and deeper than that that taught to medical students. This is especially true in regards to critiquing scientific work as well as experimental design. OTOH, scientists are often clueless about the complexities of practicing medicine and translating basic to clinical sciences. There is a reason that basic scientists often vastly underestimate the time and work needed to bring advances to patients. This disconnect between the cultures of medicine and science is a major reason why, in the U.S., the NIH funds the training of physician-scientists via Medical Scientist Training Programs.
Me: Watching a video that does a good job of defining the difference between science and pseudoscience.
CZcams: Glad you enjoyed that. Now, we think you'll enjoy this ad by the Epoch Times, which pushes pseudoscientific claims, and is run by a cult that frequently supports pseudoscience.
They are testing what you've learned.
The holy algorithm is once more looking after us.
Surprised their videos haven't been removed like that God awful Plandemic video
Argh, too true!
That happened to me too. CZcams blows it once again.
Omg lmao I was hoping someone would make a comment on that lol... I was so shocked that they actually had the audacity to show me that ad... reminds me of the time I was watching Secular Talk and a PragerU ad came on smh smh
It is I general rule that the further you get on the electromagnetic [EM] spectrum - the spectrum that radio waves are on - the smaller the wavelength and more dangerous it becomes, with gamma radiation at the end, and being the most dangerous.
Radio waves are near the very start of the EM spectrum and are so weak, that if radio waves could give us a deadly condition, then stepping in the sun - which emits infrared radiation, ultraviolet light, and regular visible light, all further on the spectrum than radio waves - would instantly make it feel like you were in Hiroshima at the end of world war two, or at the very least give you an instant and serious case of cancer (maybe a bit hyperbolic but you get the point). Bottom line, it's not 5g.
-written as I was standing in my backyard, in the sun, from a country with COVID cases and no 5g.
that only means that it is almost impossible to get cancer via the mechanism of ionization of atoms in your body. it is still possible to be harmed in ways we yet dont know and thats why we need more research on the matter, especially not funded by tele companies, since those papers seem to find evidence slightly different from other independent sources. Point is, most likely 5g is harmless in the short term but we dont know and we ve evidence suggesting some health hazards although minimum. We shouldnt let untested technology public especially when it is possibly harmful to the same people we re trying to serve. Obv the claim about covid and 5g is bs and i wont even touch it out of self respect.
Man your phone's brightness must be really good.
Yup. If you fear 5G you should be terrified of sunlight
@@Mayjuh Could you link those studies? The global consensus in the medical community is contrary.
Remember when people thought eating lead was healthy? Good times.
Seriously though, there is absolutely no reason to panic. If these technologies do cause any effects on our health it's almost definitely already happened and there is nothing anyone could do. We should just enforce proper testing of any technology.
Your picture of Pierre Duhem is actually Josiah Gibbs.
Pinning a comment. Thanks for pointing this out.
I can't catch that even if I wanted to.
_but covid..._
I kid :)
They just tested us wheter we really pay attention xD
This is a breath of fresh air. I have many hippy/new agey friends and am somewhat of a hippy myself, although I'm very much a rationalist and base all my scientific views on the scientific consensus. I've had many frustrating conversations over the course of this pandemic, often with people who watched a podcast with a respiratory docter or some such. My go to line is: 'if you disagree with most scientists on the science, you should strongly consider the possibility that you're probably missing something, even you found a few so called experts who tell you what you want to hear'.
Excellent and important video. It's a giant struggle communicating this to most people who are enamored by pseudoscientific claims. Even if you can explain the biases, validity concerns and how it's the body of evidence and not a single study taken out of context, even if you can manage to debunk their claims directly, the ardent ones will claim that scientists are in cahoots and that it's a conspiracy.
Uphill battle.
That Twin Peaks tapestry is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
BEWARE OF BOB
@@ts8404 TP is a dream world
Damn fine tapestry!
This is what we need right now. Bogus claims met with scientific analysis and explanation. Thank you!!
@@trevorjonathan4405 can you speak cohesively?
@@petermaximoff4598 sperg or trolling
Peter Maximoff “The Good Club” 2009 meeting where “the assembled billionaires discussed the crises facing the world... education, emergency relief, government reform, the expected depth of the economic crisis and global health issues such as overpopulation and disease” www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/31/new-york-billionaire-philanthropists
Peter Maximoff I have made it incredibly easy for you to follow the money -> www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2020/03/25/the-clairvoyant-elites-scenarios-for-the-future-of-technology-international-development-2010-report/ There is no hope for you if you cannot make sense of the primary sources I have posted
@@trevorjonathan4405 bruh I was just saying to speak clearly and not just post links lol
I haven’t watched wisecrack for a while because the voiceovers were always so blazingly fast that I frequently had to skip back. I’m glad you slowed down a bit because now we can actually let the words sink in. Keep up the good work 👍
Moral of the story: Take things with a grain of salt.
Watch people take that out of hand and say: do we really need oxygen?!?!?!
Also gonna add salt in my glass of water
We shouldnt stop at that, we have to fact check.
Does this apply to this Wisecrack video which is full of pseudo-science?
This just strengthens why I love Wisecrack. Such dialectical analysis, taking what the other side says and not to immediately say they are wrong but show where they came from, how they reach it, and uses their arguments and improves upon it to reach a more concise truth. Keep doing what you're doing. I love it.
Well he talked like he's trying hard not to call it all bs right away. I wouldn't blame him.
And adding the revoked medical license at the kicker, not a moment before debunking that guy's theories.
@@sharilshahed6106 That ending was *chef kiss*
@@prexp9026 I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
Oh god! Now I need to figure out if I'm too educated to fall for pseudoscience or not educated enough
I wanted to send love for understanding the Dunning-Kruger theory. I think the fact that you keep this level of scepticism towards your own beliefs generally makes them more rigorous.
@@rhyscooper3693 The Dunning-Kruger effect is trippy. "Am I knowledgeable or just overly confident about my own knowledge?"
In an advertisement for one of those online edu-tainment websites Neil deGrasse Tyson said something that will stick with me forever “One of the hardest challenges in life is knowing enough about a subject to think you’re right, but not know enough to know that you are wrong.”
I think, we cant, like wise crack said "we cannot know everything"(or something similiar) because there is too much info we need to know whether something is pseudoscience or not
@@ahmadnajwan1846 I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
this puts into words so much of what i think when people refer to science as something one quirky nerd does in a lab. Every time someone says that i'm going to refer them to this video.
I'm so happy this channel exists. There aren't a lot of smart objective pieces like this out there. Keep up the great work!
"Sadness aside" is such a mood 😂
We don’t even have 5g in Brazil and we are struggling to contain the pandemic
Bro, your 4g is evolving.
@@bazzfromthebackground3696 Our 4G isn't even as fast as 3G in other places.
I'm in Germany, we don't even have 3G
@@bolsaparaprincipiantes You shitting me, right!?
How dare you be logical...!
That is one heavy lifting 'oops' near the end.
Good fun.
I enjoyed it.
Thank you.
I'm SO glad you said "sadly" before talking about what is done to animals in laboratories. I've seen enough videos already that, when they talk about this, they simply mention it, as if it was the most normal and ethical thing ever.
Also, amazing video ❤
Are you going to volunteer?
Human lives>rats and chimpanzees
This shows why a “body” of evidence is the true value of science. Its not an individual having a eureka moment. Truth comes from the ground up through numerous independent experiments.
I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be). Mind if i do?
"If we dont stop gwyneth Paltrow, gwyneth paltrow is gonna stop us"
"Why d'you put needles in the woman's face Gwyneth?"
There's a goop born every minute.
Her smug, self-satisfied face sells gullible people bullshit posing as therapy.
I honestly hope we as a species move past anti-intellectualism
That's a nice thought. But even if possible (personally, I don't think it is) I'm pretty sure neither of us will live to see it.
That's only going to happen when even the astute can admit we've all been played for fools, and face our own credulity and fallibility as a culture
@@uncannyvalley2350 crazy person spotted
@@drakep.5857 gaslighting*
@@uncannyvalley2350 hope you find some mental help soon.
One of my favorite videos you’ve made, plus highly relevant in these times!
I think a good description of people who believe these claims are "smart enough to know I know something, but ignorant enough to not understand just how ignorant I am"
Lidesia1733 Or maybe instinctive people who are unable to properly articulate their concerns around the long term implications of mass vaccinations, rising inflation and decreased mobility of goods/services
Psychologists call this the Dunning-Kruger Effect: when someone has only a basic understanding of a subject, they often have no real idea how little of that subject they actually know, hence are vastly overconfident in their understanding of said subject.
Lidesia1733 yep. Dunning Kruger.
Its a bit of both. I got an antivaxer in my family and i am a pshycologist in training, she or her boyfriend is by no stretch of the immagination dumb. They and i who like to pride my self on my ability to sort shit out can quite simply fall for it if we dont have the neccecary knowledge to devern otherwhise. Critical thinking is hard and admiting when you made an error in judgement is even harder esphecially if youve acted upon it for years.
The phase, "knowing enough to be dangerous" comes to mind
is like moe when he say "LET'S GO BURN DOWN THE OBSERVATORY
SO THIS'LL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN"
Supporting you now on Patreon! Subscribed for the anime related content, became a patron for this particular video. Please keep the quality great. Thank you so much.
The music is so good that it's distracting by the equally good content. Love it
honey ive been coughing quite a bit and I'm starting to have a sore throat. Must have been that cell tower I drove by last night emitting sickness waves
What about the Wi Fi router in your home or your cell phone receiving signals?
don't be ridiculous it's the gay frogs emitting covid rays
Thanks, Wisecrack. You did a good job. Particularly, the difference between a research scientist and a clinician/doctor. They both require very different skillsets.
That boot to the face at "Koch debunked" was hillarious
I fell in love with this channel!!! Mainly the citation(!!!!) is amazing! Yes good job at doing that, back up what you present and be brave about it, luv you guys doing that!
This type of content is so so so amazing, it just makes me love the channel even more!
Woody Harrelson is really playing the version of himself from the movie 2012 lately
I'd say he is transforming into Woody Boyd from Cheers
Me to Cowan: "So what about the Black Plague"
Cowan: "S**t, um Aliens!"
This is an amazing break down. Thank you so, so much for taking the time to produce these.
"Nothing natural is bad?"
Is he a GOOP SUBSCRIBER???
4:50 and there it is!
Wisecrack is a glimmer of hope in quite a dark time right now.
Josh Hammond Must be REAL dark for you when the dudes known for ascribing over-signification to Superhero movies and cartoons for adult-children are guiding you through reality.
As always Wisecrack, some incredible stuff! It is so much easier to dismiss and call something dumb or idiotic, but that makes it all the more dangerous. Thank you for all of your thoughtful, talented work!!
11:53 As someone who left medical school, you are absolutely correct. I swear I knew some of the dumbest robots during my time there.
"Alternative medicine" backwards is "Give me your money".
I know it isn't, but it makes as much sense as alternative medicine.
@UCgZlKzO36YRjIo218IflGbg I'm sorry, What...?
Mainly because if “alternative medicine” really worked it would just be called medicine.
@@ElZamo92 Exactly!
amen
or in other words:
What some religious people say when they think they've found something that is true
@racer exile Now that you put it like that...
Jared’s hair looks like a wig from a Tim and Eric bit
Thanks for the work you guys are doing right now. I just cited your reality TV/documentary in my Documentary class manifesto paper too. I mentioned how the essayist mode is important right now and this videos are exactly proving why.
Hello from Ecuador! I appreciate how well researched and presented your show is. Thank you for respecting your audience. Jared you are the man 🤙
That Twin Peaks tapestry though. 10/10
You can choke on food, so if i never eat I'll be safe!
@sam mayne you can still choke on liquid, though. The best way if go food-free, you don't need to eat anything to live out the rest of your life, granted it's probably less than a week, but think of the choking!
That’s what these “trust the official narrative” dudes sound like.
19:01 Stop flipping us off man! XD (great video as always btw)
Much needed video right now. Thanks!
After all these episodes of seeing that blanket in the background, I have to ask. When are you guys covering Twin Peaks?
I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
Wisecrack has become a place for important PSAs.
Crazy how the world works some times.
I subscribed because of this video. Thanks for shedding light on the psychology of these beliefs. For those who can spot the pseudo-science, it gets difficult interacting with those who fall for the so called studies and evidence that is clearly nonsense.
This video is awesome. Especially when you go beyond the field of science and explain how it relates to the way the people try to get each other to accept their ideas in other arenas, such as politics, as well. Bravo.
"The whole world has gone to hell but how are you?"
I’m good. How are you? Think this should be they way we start conversation instead of all knives out first... doncha think?
now imagin people like that energy guy are running some countries...
oxi tocin trump the goat
Brazil, yeah.
oxi tocin Imagine even still, people like you will continue bowing down to government and asking for more!
India is full of them
I love the Twin Peaks quilt!
I'm super happy this channel is taking a very proactive and opinionate stance on belief formation, truth, and the philosophy of science. There is a void in the world right now for this kind of analysis, and a lot of people are literally afraid to do it. Thank you for being one of a few bastions of reason in our current information climate.
Watching a video about psuedo science, CZcams plays ad for conspiracy theory news feed. Thanks CZcams!👍
"Do not trust slam dunk youtube videos"
Proceeds to slam dunk Thomas Cowans credibility in the last minute.
But you trust the government
@@newalphacomicsandhistory He/she was pointing out that Wisecrack immediately used the tactic that they said not to trust. What does the government have to do with this?
I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
This is truly infuriating...thank you for delving into this!
Thanks for doing this video. From Ecuador, good work!
People from the alternative medicine industrial complex often abuse concepts of "vibrations" and "energy" in such a way that makes me wish that high school physics was a mandatory class.
Don't forget they love abusing 'quantum' to justify, well anything really!
3:59 The "double slit experiment" (and quantum mechanics) is often misinterpreted by pop culture and pseudo-science. Part of the uncertainty of observation with quantum mechanics is simply down to the scale of the things you're trying to measure compared to a photon. It's like trying to work out the velocity/position of a baseball by hitting it with a basketball and only seeing where the basketball goes. Also, in the process you have altered the path of the baseball by hitting it with another object. Now, the current opinion in quantum science leans more towards the wavefunction than complete determinism (pilot wave theory), but it has nothing to do with consciousness. The wave function collapses whether being observed by a sentient being or not, it's more about transmission of information.
I think you are mistaken. The Uncertainty Principle says that the uncertainties that come from measuring quantum objects is inherent to those objects. Even with ideal instruments, you cannot measure the speed and location of a quantum particle without ambiguity.
@@kindoflame I think both of you are right. I was a bad undergrad student and my memory on that is rusty, so I would appreciate if someone who works regularly on Quantum Mechanics comments here to correct but out of what I remember from Uni (Physics BSc) the Heisenberg Principle of Uncertainty stems from the nature of measurement itself - at its fundamental you can't simultaneously measure a position in a wave and its speed (as measuring speed itself involves a difference in positions, right?). Therefore you have to make a tradeoff - high precision in speed but position gets blurry, or high precision in position but then you can't look at speed. In the end, you always have a pair of variables that stem from this that always have an associated uncertainty (normally expressed as delta position * delta momentum > h/2 (planck costant)
Then you also have to take into account De Broglie's famous Wave-Particle duality, and so I would say it kinda goes as David said: at the smallest scale, you are using waves to measure waves, you have uncertainty on both and their interaction affects both, so whatever information you were trying to get you messed it up.
Anyway, the double slit experiment goes from far before quantum mechanics (Huygens time I guess) and its simply because when a wave reaches a hole that hole acts as a source of a new wave. In a double slit, the consequent waves interfere and generate interference patterns that can be explained geometrically and statistically. This is then used on Quantum Mechanics because of the wave particle duality.
@@kindoflame iirc, you can measure the velocity OR the position of an electron at a given time, but not both. It's been too long for me to remember if I'm even talking about the right thing.
On a simpler note, if someone tells me "because of quantum mechanics" and that person is not from a heavy Maths, Physics or Chemistry area, my bullshit radar goes wild.
@@kindoflame I was talking more about the "observation affecting the experiment" than the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle. You are correct that there is a limit of what we can measure, but I was making that analogy to explain "observation." By observing you must make contact (even if it's just a photon) with whatever particle you are measuring, thereby collapsing the wavefunction. Pseudo-scientists try to twist the definition of "observation" to mean being watched by a conscious observer instead of another particle just interacting with the experiment.
Awesome video. Congratulations on such well made material!
Thanks Wisecrask. You helped me get through a roadblock on my essay.
I remember I heard about that no touchy-energy-healy thing from Goop a while back and I thought it was cool *_at first_* because I thought "oh hey, I've always noticed you can kind of 'feel' someone when they're not touching you, maybe this will talk about whether that's air pressure, heat off the individual, or maybe something a little less understood about our sensory neurons"
And this guy just comes up and is like, "nah fam, energy waves. good vibes. powerful shyt"
lmao the great thing about what you said is that you had a theory developed and then when this this energy guru says something you still thought critically about it instead of accepting his position as fact. Usually people work backwards from their conclusion.
@@dwaine4488 that's something so unbelievably frustrating about today's day and age, how guilty everyone is of confirmation bias. We'd rather look for the one or two pieces of evidence that tells us we're right instead of accepting the mountains of evidence telling us we're dead wrong.
Anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, climate change deniers, shit's fucking everywhere these days man. It's god damn exhausting if you ask me
Love the video, very necessary & informative... Can we please do something about Jared's hair?!?!!!??!!!!!!!!! He's really handsome, he would be next level of he just did something with his hair! Do we need a Kickstarter or something?
I've always thought he's balding and doing a forward combover
Great video! You make a great educational service to society without criticizing anyone caught in this pseudoscience theory trap. Thank you, Wisecrack!
Thank you, this was a great video!! You and your team did an amazing job!
Finally, a video I can send in response to people sending me stuff about 5G, thank you Wisecrack, I don't need to explain so much now lol!
@@Niop_Tres thank you, my word suggestions fail me sometimes
Why argue from ignorance, why not research to find out if any of the suggested is actually reliable information
13:35 a 15º per hour drift.... That should have been the end of that lunacy. But no. We still have tons of flat earthers pumping out videos all the time.
@Matthew Eugene Rosa why all that free agression?
And no nobel prize would be awarded for something that has already been concluded. But don't let logic, reasoning, mathematics and scientific facts get in the way for the way you see things.
Go on, go out there, gather your evidences, build an hypothetis, test it and show the results. THEN let all the scientific community see what you found, test it and see if it holds true.
Best of luck.
Great video. One the most enjoyable vids of yours I've seen in a while.
10:55 "Look how sick my new trackpad is!"
I went to school for Exercise Science and Nutrition and worked in a research lab for years. My dad constantly shows me videos from some Doctor giving crazy nutrition advice and asks me my opinion. After I normally disagree with whatever diet fad this doctor is trying to sell my dad argues that I’m not a doctor. Thank you for giving me some peace of mind that there are plenty of whackos with degrees out there!
11:54 sooooo true. my bestfriend and I were both biology majors. After graduation she went on to the research field. She took some major crazy extensive classes. She would tell me OFTEN how fking dumb the pre-med students were in that class thinking that the class and research requirements she had to do would be easy. Some of them had no clue how cells work!!! The stories she would tell me made me face palm.
Love the “slam dunk” at the end
Wow..just, wow. I don't know where I would be without you, guys
Oh thank you for doing this. I am tired of this 5G people and SPECIALLY THE GOOP LAP
SAME
How about new theory that Bill Gates created this virus which is a hoax to forcefully vaccinate everyone with a microchip in it to control everyone, at same time kill half of the population and letting elitist control everyone by implementing lockdown and crashing the economy and letting communists invade the country at the same time virus is nothing but a flu and people are dying due vitamin d deficiency also it is end of times.
Ok I need a psychiatrist!
Bhandara Boys research agenda 21
@@CasperFiles1969 Yeah but in reality it's not Bill Gates but Steve Jobs, who is still alive. Together with Michael Jackson they created the virus to transcend humankind into light people and we can finally roam in the hollow earth next to our reptiloid friends.
Sometimes it's dangerous to spice up the conspiracies, because someone might even believe m(
@@jaredthelifeguard9865 yeah I forgot that one. Thanks mate.
If only everyone was as smart as this Jared dude. Seriously, the world would be so much better off.
Even half of him would do much to stabilize BS
Preach, brother!
One of the best videos from Wisecrack.
11:19 WOW. What a cool illustration!
"Robert Koch" is not pronounced "Robert Coke", more like "Robert Cough" which also makes his name a pun
It can be (and is) pronounced both ways in English
@@cg1906 pretty sure pronounciation of names is universal. english names are pronounced english, french names french, spanish names spanish and so on with no regard to the speakers language
For those who might not know: Koch means cook in german.
@@MrJonniman007 i mean. J in english is pronounced hard and in spanish its pronounced soft. Names like Jessica or Johanson can be pronounced both ways. Thats just an example, but yeah names have multiple pronunciations! Its pretty interesting!
@@cg1906 once a name is given though it does not change. when José from Spain visits the US his name doesn't become Josie. It's still pronounced the Spanish way.
"Doctors training focus on wrote memorization, not critical thinking" Savage and true XD
Is this true? My ears perked up when Jared said this, but did he offer any evidence? The doctors I know had critical thinking and clinical research as part of their medical school training, as well as in residency. Does anyone know of any evidence backing up this claim (that "[doctors'] training focuses on rote memorization, not critical thinking or modern research techniques")?
Is this something missing from some medical school training? Is it something that WAS true about medical schools in the past (Cowan finished his medical school in 1984)? I am very curious to explore this; Jared dropped a bomb and I want to know more.
I thought that nurses' and physician's assistants' training lacked critical thinking and research techniques because their jobs don't require the systemic understanding of the human physical system, but doctors are the people whose jobs absolutely do require critical thinking (nurses and PA's are not held responsible for medical decisions; doctors are). I certainly don't think having a medical degree precludes the capability to be an idiot, or to ignore your training, but it seems the claim that doctors aren't trained for this, systematically, is unsupported.
Evidence based medicine and critical appraisal started in the 90s I guess.
In other words, is it appropriate for us to criticize the institution of trained physicians at the same time we criticize wild claims made by a physician who has had his license revoked? Just seems to me that this video does a good job offering support for the latter, and offers none for the former. And I'm curious to see such support; maybe the next video?
Thank u for ur public service!! I know u refrain from calling some ppl dumb but the level of lack of critical thinking in some ppl is really dumb
This is great, awesome work!