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Gotta give him some respect for admitting he was wrong, and doing so several times. Everyone is wrong from time to time, but barely anyone can openly admit it.
99% of doing science is being wrong and being happy about it
99% of the time, I make up statistics
But do you put work into the fake?
I like to invent P-values and fabricate not only participants, but their consent waivers. I sprinkle around terms like Tasseled Cap, Eigenvector, ANOVA, MLR, Covariance Matrices, etc.
Some people make up stuff because they’re lazy. When my lies are complete, it would have been just as easy to do the actual work because I’m in it for the love of the game.
I do what most people say when they say “99%”. It’s still bullshitting. 🙃
Some science is just
- Well this makes sense in my head, so ill experiment to check and prove im right.
- Huh, weird results, not what i expected.
- Trying again with different method/testing criteria/focus
- Still not what i thought, why is this happening?
- Oh thats cool, it turns out that X is actually happening and its because of some completely different thing i had never considered before, how exciting!
I love this, I’m framing it somewhere
He’s getting more views on the “I was wrong” videos so I have doubts about his real motivation. I know, I’m very cynical.
99% of flat earthers are just trolling, I refuse to believe anything else
I don’t know the percentage, but I’ve been to a flat earthers/variety conspiracy convention. Unless all of them are pretty good actors, they’re all were very serious about their batshitery. It’s scary, really.
So did you set up a pendulum during the convention?
I was there with the pure anthropological interest
99% of them are in it for the community. The other 1% is in it for the views and followers.
This is a dangerous mindset. People can and do seriously believe in utterly stupid things like flat earth. The thing is, being a flat earther kind of ruins your life. Everyone you know who isn’t a flat earther (so, most people) thinks you’re a complete moron and have gone off the deep end, and good luck getting a job at a normal company if your entire online presence is promoting a belief in flat earth. It’s not really something you can do casually- it’s all or nothing.
That’s not a given, and the human brain has very strong aversions to admitting fault.
You’re right, I was wrong.
I wouldn’t say you’re wrong necessarily, just that prevailing indications suggest the opposite.
you can both be wrong
I wonder if I could become a big Antivax YouTuber but just leave in little oopsies to try and convince people subtly that I’m wrong.
And also add to that that this is more like escaping from a cult than it is merely admitting you were silly and wrong.
Isn’t there a documentary flat earthers filmed in which they debunked their own beliefs?
Beyond the Curve! Great doc.
I would also highly recommend folding ideas "in search of a flat earth."
It covers the actual flat earth claims in depth, but is very much about the culture, and why that culture exists.
the only documentary i know that has a twist in it.
Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History has a twist that Defunctland fans are still talking about four years later.
i assume that “it’s real” thing would have been more impactful if i knew anything about disney parks.
The documentary “Icarus (2017)” has a twist as well.
There are so many. Shadowland for example.
It’s a really good documentary because a lot of them actually want to be scientific about it.
But instead of following the scientific process of test->observe->draw a conclusion, they start with the conclusion and look for a way to prove it. And when the prof isn’t there, they simply say the test was flawed, and move on to the next test that will prove it.
It’s sad in a way. I don’t think, most of them anyway, are con man. They’re just misguided.
I will say, starting with a conclusion/theory is fine, but the next step is to do everything you can to disprove it. The more you and other fail, the stronger it becomes
Here’s two different excitements where they did just that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrGgxAK9Z5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFqmDazwb6Y
They display the sentiment of “if we fail this test (show earth is round) something clearly went wrong and it doesn’t mean anything and we need to try, try again, but if we get a different result just once then that conclusively beyond any doubt proves that earth is flat”
You can tell their intelligence rises over the course of the series because they go from portrait to landscape videos.
We need more people like that in the world
always nice to see a wholesome meme
Over just a few months makes me think it’s fake. But who knows. Things actually do happen.
i remember this guy, he is a pretty cool dude, actually, I think he went on Prof. Daves and they had a good conversation.
What about the other, the subtle cons, like we don’t have to take immediate action against global warming? (Not mentioning the more controversial ones.)
I think we’re pretty fucked on that front… You can just look outside to see the climate changing at this point
And our leaders can’t even bother to pretend we’re going to try to fix it anymore
But the economy …
Recently learned a delightful linguistic trick. Replace “economy” with “rich people’s yacht money”
We COULD do something about climate change, but what about rich people’s yacht money?
Universal health care would save lives, but what about rich people’s yacht money?
Countless other examples.
Yes, exactly. Stock market and other rich people schemes are doing great. When there was talk of the federal minimum wage going up all the Republicans were screaming about shit getting more expensive.
My wife and I make close to 90 thou a year, and we are barely scraping by. Food has skyrocketed
Imagine what the world would be like if the con artists pulling this stuff were pushing people to build libraries and educate kids.
I wonder what Chinese flat earthers be like:
A: 地球是平的 (地球 is flat)
B: 但是你刚刚说了“地球” (but you just said “地球”) (地球 literally translates to: “ball of dirt” xD)
There are two kinds of reality: the first is in the human head, the second is what it really is.
In general, we’re not taught early enough, if at all, to question both what we ‘perceive’ and the mental blabbering that makes up stories about it.
6 stages of denial.
Ain’t no Planet X coming cause ain’t no space cause ain’t no globe earth.
