@@THE_funnyalt Northern ireland isn't in britain mate thats just false. Most Scottish people consider themselves Scottish and only Scottish so shut your gob. Mong
Factory farming is starting to kill off wild birds en-masse, how about antibiotic resistance too? I think about that biological soup full of antibiotics sitting under salmon farms, nice.
the introduction of lead into gasoline could also be mentioned. lead-poisoning, even in small amounts, could have some effect on intelligence. Someone somewhere calculated an estimate of the total amount of "iq" lost due to the release of so much lead into the air, and it was massive. A huge setback for millions of people, and the effects are still present today, all due to one inventor's idea of adding lead to the fuel.
A fun side fact is that the inventor leaded gasoline is also the inventor of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which were one key component, which led to the destruction of the ozone layer.
@@lomiango The ozone layer was not destroyed. The industrial production of CFCs started in the 1920's, causing an average reduction of the ozone layer of 3 per cent. Fortunately, chlorine has “natural enemies” as well, such as methane (CH4). Thanks to them, the natural ozone layer could recover over 50 years, as long as CFCs are no longer used on a global level.
I just love the idea of a large team of doctors with the best equipment, looking at a guy smoking 90 cigarettes a day. All scratching their head “ what could it be?”
@@L.internet8 I have story-papers (like comics but with written stories) aimed at kids and teens from 1902 that make it pretty clear smoking will "ruin your wind". Tobacco companies might have said their brand wasn't bad for you, but nobody was buying it. Still want Malboro, Rothmans and John Player liveries back on F1 cars, though.
Most of the doctors involved were probably raised under the assumption that smoking was healthy. Doctors used to recommend cigarettes as a cure for migraines and stress disorders, schools used to teach kids that smoking was important to attain good health, and almost every sporting event, movie and TV show was sponsored by cigarette companies with slogans like “the cleanest cigarette available” and “makes you feel great”. Assuming that cigarettes caused cancer and heart attacks in the 1950s would have been like assuming that eating fruit and lifting weights gave you tuberculosis. Culture was just so heavily obsessed with the idea that cigarettes were healthy that it seemed impossible that they could be the cause of any cancers or cardiovascular problems.
The ballot that Theresa LePore designed was called the "butterfly ballot" because of the names appearing on two sides of the paper. As a result she was nicknamed Madame Butterfly. So this chain of events was literally the Madame Butterfly effect!
This story is unbelivable. The irak war, clima change and a lot of horrific stuff in the middle east was because of bush. A president who won because the democracy failed/ not all votes were counted
@@assholio I can’t believe the sun was in the exact angle for you to see the light spectrum like that in a truck stop bathroom! That really is glorious! Username checks out 🤣🤘
Quality stuff, makes me think. Despite the mild existencial crisis, hope to see more. It's simply fascinating how so many problems can be blamed on one thing.
@@Ttegegg It's that piece of can that boost the British Navy to its maximum power. You shouldn't undermine the importance of logistics. We Vietnamese won the war not by forces but by carefully planned logistics, both against the US and France. I do think there is a stretch too. It is the rubber transporting part. I feels like there is risk involved so I wouldn't contribute the can food to it.
@@cloudynguyen6527 nah more on the napalm, is not like it directly leads to the destructive device, say like the gunpowder or a scientist who accidentally helped cause the worst event
Well, if I may put my few cents into this. If nation other than GB were the world naval power they maybe wouldn't have overthrow South America's rubber production or they would have built their own rubber industry somewhere else. And thus Japan wouldn't have created a catalyst for experimenting with rubber. And I think that would be enough to postpone the invention of napalm after the Vietnam war. Or maybe not
Not really. He complains about people eating sugar instead of fat but his own healthy eating info says to eat low levels of fat and sugar. Basically obesity increased because people ate food that contains more calories, due to an increase in fat and sugar. Also fat has more calories than sugar so replacing fat with sugar would reduce calorie consumption and obesity levels.
Pain. Am really sad for the woman who did everything right and people still didn't believe her. We all had this happen to us but this is another level of pain
@@kimberlywebster6057 “BuT wItH wOmEn In ChArGe tHeY WiLl sTaRt wArS bEcAuSe ThEy ArE sO eMoTiOnAl” Except, all major wars have been started by men…. And it’s called “the Cassandra effect” you *know* something bad is going to happen but can’t stop it because no one believes you. It’s about a princess of Troy. The Greek god Apollo was struck by her beauty,and provided her with the gift of prophecy, but when Cassandra refused Apollo's romantic advances, he placed a curse ensuring that nobody would believe her warnings. Cassandra was left with the knowledge of future events, but could neither alter these events nor convince others of the validity of her predictions.
A little fun fact about what he said on 27:24 the canned food that was provided for that expedition was later found to contain high does of lead which cause lead poisoning, that’s because the Royal Navy decided to buy their canned goods for the voyage from the lower bidder hence the lead
My favorite is the Soviet radar operator that prevented nuclear destruction. Radar picked up clouds as incoming missiles. Brave man took a second to think before firing back. "If they attacked there would be more missiles". I can't remember his name but we owe our lives to that man
Stanislav Petrov, I believe. Soviet satellites designed to detect US missile launches mistook sunlight reflecting on snow in South Dakota for the launch plumes of ICBMs. Petrov refused to follow the doctrine of instant retaliation, and… well, we’re still alive.
@@tesmith47 Cuban Missile Crisis. The B-59, a Soviet conventionally-powered submarine, was being harried by a US Navy force consisting of an aircraft carrier and 11 destroyers. Depth charges were dropped in an attempt to force the B-59 to surface; the captain, unable to communicate with Moscow and believing that war had broken out, wanted to launch a torpedo with a 5-kiloton nuclear warhead at the American force. His political officer agreed, but by chance the B-59 had a third officer aboard, also of captain rank, and because of this all three officers had to agree for the torpedo to be launched. The third officer, Vasily Arkhipov, did not agree. Eventually the B-59 was forced to service because its air supply and batteries were running low; after making peaceful contact with a US destroyer, the submarine contacted Soviet command and was ordered to leave the area. Just months before the Cuban incident, Arkhipov was executive officer on the nuclear submarine K-19, which suffered a radiation accident (cf. the film "K-19: The Widowmaker"). Arkhipov stayed in the Soviet Navy, achieved the rank of vice admiral, and died in 1998, aged 72.
The x-raying of pregnant women reminds me of a memoir titled "Stitches." The primary event was the author's surgery to remove throat cancer when he was an adolescent. The cancer was caused by his radiologist doctor father regularly dosing his head and neck with x-rays to try treating his asthma and allergies.
@@Tiosedan yes, but I was referring to the video. the people using xrays back then didn’t know all the harmful effects they cause. This could be similar with light therapy in the future, we might not know the long term side effects now. Just a thought.
Saying that the discovery of particle physics is unlucky seems arguable, on top of that even if Rutherford didnt end up discovering it someone else probably would have
This is somehting so fundamental to nature it would have been discovered. It might have been after the war and prevented deaths there. But then we enter a purely hypothetical timeline and can't say it would have been better. Radiation, the idea an dknowladge of atoms has given more benefit than people realise. It shaped the modern idea of chemistry, without the confirmation of atoms most of the current systems for measuring compounds wouldn't really be as advanced.
@@ThePLAYER1888 You missed the whole point. The bomb saved lives during the war. Instead of a costly invasion the war was cut short many months, or even years. The bomb allowed the soviet union to be tamed, for a while and ensured freedom to some countries, since they weren''t allowed to dominate the entire Europe after the war. The bomb saved lives!
@@sababugs1125 (following his logic) the invention of canned food delayed the invention of napalm. If the rubber hadnt been brought to Indonesia the allies (or anyone else needing to use rubber on an industrial scale) would have experimented with synthetic alternatives and invented napalm even before WW2 to meet their demand. On top of that I am fairly certain access to healthy, nutritious food that canning brought to millions far outweighs the comparatively small damage napalm has caused (ignoring the convoluted logic that directly ties one man's way of canning food to rubber production in Indonesia)
Man, time is such a weird concept. From the present looking back, the gap between 1945 and 1955 feel like a minor span, but 2013 feels like centuries ago from the present
As Einstein famously said, time is relative. To me, 2013 feels like yesterday, but the gap between 2020 and 2023 is enormous. Those 3 years feel like the length of 2010 to 2020
@@broodjekaas820 it's relative to age I think. The 4 years I spent in high school felt longer than the 4 years in college and those 4 years at college feel longer than the 4 years I spent at my first job. In other words, up until 2020, every meaningful 4 year gap of time felt faster and faster as I got older. That trend reversed in 2020 for me where the last 4 years have felt insanely distorted. How that we are in 2024, the years 2020 to 2022 felt extremely long and the "speed of time" in 2023 and now 2024 feel like they are back to light speed. It's already March, friends announcing first and second babies, New jobs etc. Peoples lives are back on track and that speed of change has returned Im remembering trips in 2021 that I took that genuinely feel like 10 years ago, meanwhile the trip I took in 2012 feels like yesterday. One of my friends doesn't even remember one of the star gazing trips we both took last year
people see thier own life spans as unending messes just barely organised by our understanding of time and dates, all the while ignoring the value of the time before themselves. 1780 and 1790 are right next to each other but 2010 and 2020 are worlds apart. Interesting, is it not.
7:38 I think calling it a blunder isnt justified. The monumental Effect it had on Physics heavely outweigh the 2 Atomic bombings, as a considerable chunk of our day to day life relies on this discovery to begin with. We should rather be glad it happened
RU-vid is the place where nuance is forced to die. Nuance is begging for your help and getting none. If you have studied this, you could give nuance just 5 minutes of your time, and say why and not in black and white language, because that hurts nuance too.
The study of particle and plasma physics eventually led to the development of the field of solid state physics and semiconductor electronics. None of our modern technology would be possible without it. Omitting it in this video is not just an oversimplification, it's a straight up misrepresentation of the topic.
These sort of people think nuclear power is automatically bad, too. "Muh Chernobyl (badly-designed reactor), Muh Fukushima (cost-cutting design and disaster of unforseen scale)" Yeah, well, how about muh entire planet every day, which is what fossil fuels are harming.
@@juan-ij1le That’s like saying that the Haber process was bad because it was used to make explosives. The world u live in was built by particle physics and Haber.
@@participatoroftomfoolery _it was less so an accident and more so a invention sold without a care as to the consequences_ according to this, it was very conscious ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IV3dnLzthDA.html
It might be more well known. But go walk down a US city street and ask strangers if they know what's killed more people than anything in history. I'll bet below 50% know it's leaded gasoline. Plus he took a shot at Trump so I won't be watching anymore of his videos anyway.
17:37 Fascinating how the tobacco industry slipped under the radar while scientists and gov’t were arguing over fat vs sugar. Devious and evil, yet brilliant.
The tobacco industry has lost countless trillions of dollars in the past 75 years. To say they slipped under the radar is a gross misrepresentation of historical fact. What actually happened was nuclear testing across the country created a rise in cancer cases and the government decided that the industry made so much money, they’d be the fall guys bc they could take the hit. Smoking isn’t nearly as dangerous as the government and its doctors want you to believe.
@@richardtherichard26 holy shit, the level of cope is insane. It's a proven fact that marlboro and other tobacco companies were bribing doctors to publish research that benefits tobacco
These are crazy. But by far the most insane, most tragic blunder in history, if not THE turning point in history, was the story of Henry Tandey: Henry was a private in the British army during WW1. He had served nearly the whole war, and in his memoirs, he said the war had changed him drastically. Seeing death every day made him become desensitized, and if it meant killing the enemy to save his or his comrade's lives, he gladly pulled the trigger. BUT, as the war raged on, and the final days were realized, at the battle of Paschendale, Henry was tasked with observing the trench near a small town in France. After a brutal struggle and intensive shelling, Henry witnessed a lone german soldier crawl out of the trench. He was rugged, bloodied, and tired, and it looked almost like he had accepted his fate staring down at Henry, and Henry with his rifle held at him, lowered it. He saw shooting a man like that was inhumane, he looked as though he had no chance to survive, so why kill him then? He'd later go on to go home, live his life rebuilding, and becoming a husband. Decades later, Neville Chamberlain, in an attempt to prevent a second world war, visited Adolf Hitler's parliament. There, he spotted a painting of the battlefields of Passchendaele, and there stood a lone British soldier, almost glorified. When asked who it was, Hitler replied, "That man came so near to killing me that I thought I should never see Germany again; Providence saved me from such devilishly accurate fire as those English boys were aiming at us." Henry, in a single moment of sympathy and humanity, had become the man who changed humanity and history forever. That fateful day, Henry Tandey, a single private in the British army of millions, had spared Adolf Hitler.
According to the laws of the Weimar Republic, Hitler should have gotten the death sentence for his coup in Munich in '23. But this was in Bavaria, so he got only 5 Years in jail and luxury treatment. So theres that as well.
I'd argue that it was very possible for someone else to take up Hitler's mantle given the circumstances and cultural zeitgeist in post-WW1 Germany. Hitler was merely a figurehead for these sentiments and actions to make manifest. Never forget that behind Hitler was a massive group of terrible men who made it all possible. I don't think it's unreasonable to claim that another different figurehead could have very well been found and/or rose to power
That fat segment was very validating. My parents always taught that fat was good for you and I and my family were made fun of for it growing up. I'd even argue about it with my friends in middle school, lol.
@@MaxTedium not only have we survived two and a half million years with whatever fat we could get in our diet we have thrived. Get over yourself and try waking up on the right side of human potential tomorrow morning. I know this is going to be hard for you but please try.
@@lestatangel what's your point? Humans historically weren't thriving, they were starving, I doubt they gave a shit about the macros they were consuming. My point isn't even demonizing fats, my point is that no food is just blanket "good" or "bad", not fats nor carbs. The only truly proven factors related to health are not being overweight and exercising regularly, as long as you are doing these it won't matter much were your calories are coming from (provided you don't suffer from any medical condition)
@@MaxTedium I'm 5 ft 10 140 lb full head of long black hair almost to my waist 65 years old and in perfect health. Meat has always been a large part of my diet. Sugar, I barely touch it in any form. That's pretty much my point.
That napalm one is definitely stretching the concept. Attributing the development of napalm to the patent for canned food is like attributing literally anything else to canned food. But other than that this video was very interesting.
However, you can attribute a lot of things to canned food. Inventions and ideas have always acted as catalysts for developments in world history that lead other developments, just how we can attribute the invention of silly putty to this tinned can mishap, as a lack of rubber during WWII led to the invention of it. If your belief is that napalm eventually would've been developed, sure it probably would've, but it wouldn't have been developed due to these particular circumstances.
@@Df-sl4henapalm is a unique invention in that it uses rubber However similar things to it have existed such as cauldrons of burning tar being used as a weapon in mid-evil times or the supposed Greek fire (which is not entirely implausible as Greeks were thought to have a form of plastics) Or even older, clay firebombs filled with burning pitch. The concept has honestly been around for so long it is very VERY hard to say it's a uniquely American thing. Napalm is a terrible weapon, however it's use was relatively short lived, and I feel agent orange would have much worse lingering effects. There are any number of weapons that have done far more lasting harm than Napalm. That doesn't mean that napalm is a good thing, that just means napalm isn't the absolute worst thing Lastly. The Atomic bomb could also be put in a "this could be worse" category. A single one killed 100,000 people (in its upper estimates). That pales in comparison to various bombing raids and artillery bombardments during the world wars. The Atomic bomb is scary not because it killed more people than ever before, but because it kills so efficiently. Where before Armies were needed to kill millions, now you really only needed 5 guys, an airplane, and a bomb to kill.
@@n8zog584 I'll have to disagree with you on the atomic bomb argument. As just because the number that have been killed by the atomic bomb are currently "minimal", the countless more that can possibly come will beg to differ. (Not to mention the culture shift that occurred as the world moved into the atomic era has had drastic impacts both economically and socially).
James Burke definitely seems to be the inspiration for this video. there's an episode of James Burke's _Connections_ called "Eat, Drink and Be Merry" which talks about how canned food led to the invention of the rocket. (That episode is known for the perfectly timed rocket launch in the background as he's talking. Well worth searching out.)
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For the canned food one, I'm surprised you didn't talk about the Franklin expeditions in more depth: those explorations of northern Canada you talked about ended with every member of the expedition dying because of poisoning from their canned food.
Also when he started talking about rubber, I genuinely assumed that it was the Japanese invasion of southeast Asia that was the blunder, since they would not have done that if those colonies did not have any natural resources. This in turn caused them to attack the Allies. When he mentioned gasoline that's when it hit me. Like a freight train.
This is basically James Burke’s connections for the 2020s. I absolutely love it. How long until a production company picks you up for a full Netflix/bbc series?! Amazingly well put together video and engagingly presented. Happy New year britmonkey!
Could you please do a video on positive butterfly effects? I’m sure there’s less well known examples but I’m kinda having a crisis seeing all these things that have hurt our world and the quality of life for our generation starting from small or short sighted decisions and that seem insurmountable now thanks to stubbornness and corruption from those above us. Great video however.
I think your missing what should be the real message here- human beings are not the perfectly designed creatures that religious creation fantasy makes them out to be. The human mind was not designed/ has not evolved for the purpose of seeing or even recognizing truth or reality. Quite the opposite.
only example i could think of is probably the nazi doctors. They conducted lots of cruel experiments that im sure helped push investors into putting more money into researching more surgical techniques.
I think quite a large and underrated butterfly effect was when the Republic of Genoa sold Corsica to France. If Corsica remained a Genoese colony, Napoléon Bonaparte, who was Corsican, would have never become a French Revolutionary general and therefore never risen to power in France. Even crazier, if Napoléon was somehow elected Doge of Genoa in this alt timeline (which would be unlikely, as no one from the colonies was ever Doge), Italian unification could have happened a lot sooner but under the Genoese rather than the Savoyards
As a scientist, it´s important to remember that people can manipulate or exclude certain data to make their studies reach basically any conclusion they want. And since we usually start a thesis with a pre-conceived idea/theory, I have seen many great minds go down the path of confirmation bias rather than admitting their theory was way off the mark, basically seeing what they want to see in the data while ignoring the elephant in the room (And let´s not forget that some ignore them on purpose or never intended to do a proper study, just try to prove a theory for the sake of monetary gain)
@@thelastmanonearth2631 i would disagree. I doubt people have been learning much from anything these days. What have "scientists" been so extraordinarily wrong about recently? I'm going to presume your referring to the corona virus- and you're confusing government messaging with scientific consensus. Being as the virus is novel, there is no scientific consensus. The ADA is a govt. agency which has lost much of it credibility thanks to it's own mixed messaging and the corruption of the Trump administration. The virus is real- just not as dangerous as officials make it out to be. Unless your overweight and especially if you're obese.
@@thelastmanonearth2631 All right, steady on. Just because there are scientists that misrepresent their findings doesn’t devalue the profession as a whole.
@@cosmologicalturtle9528 incorrect. The cowardice of the "good" scientists says everything. The moron blaming Trump - who was already out of office before the vaccines even dropped - is another indicator that science is no more scientific than religion, and is followed with the same blind fervor. It's ALL just theology, one way or the other.
@@youtubesucks5080 To be fair, he did specify that we can't really attribute all the problems of climate change as a result of Bush being elected, because we don't know what would've happened if Al Gore was.
Brounker lying to admiral harman to end the pursuit of the Dutch after the battle of lowestoft is quite a rabbit hole for a “interesting blunder that creates what ifs”
@@degeneratemale5386 so no further rabbit hole than a great deal of ships escaping or would this have led to the other Dutch wars because I was trying to read further.
@@2manyballfaces had the Dutch ships not managed to escape, the war could’ve ended there with a English victory. It’s possible there might not be two more wars, and the English wouldn’t have needed to build a bigger navy. Meaning England might never of had its famous royal navy, and who know how much that might change things
In my opinion, the largest, most butterfly effect blunder to ever occur was by Leopold Lojka, the chauffeur of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his assassination. On that day the motorcade Ferdinand was in was bombed, with the device nearly killing him. Once the motorcade arrived at the town hall, they decided to visit those injured by the bombing earlier that day in hospital. To discourage further attacks, the governor of the town (who was also the motorcade) decided to take a longer, alternate route on the way to the hospital. This information was not communicated to Leopold Lojka or the other drivers in the motorcade, so when Lojka took a wrong turn, following the more direct path, the governor shouted that he took a wrong turn. While reversing to perform a u-turn and go back onto the main road, Lojka accidentally stalled the car with an assassin sitting in a nearby sandwich shop, who was there by complete chance, taking his chance to shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, killing him. The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand would start World War 1, which would start World War 2 due to the instability in Germany after the treaty of Versailles. The aftermath of World War 2 as well as the development of nuclear bombs would lead to tensions rising between the US and the USSR, kicking off the Cold War, including many proxy wars from the Cold War like the Vietnam War and the Korean War. The total deaths from these wars totals over 100 million, all because one man took a wrong turn
All of this was going to happen with or without that assassination, the elites made sure that happened to trigger the chain of events, and if it that didn’t happen another would of taken place
Exactly wqhat TheSpecialJ said. Everyone in europe was already expecting a huge war. The empires were bursting at their seams, the powers wanted to have a big war.. it would have happened either way, probably not much different than what we got. The treaty of Versaille is completely to blame for Hitlers emergence. The first time the Nazis were up for election they got like 2 or 3 percent of the vote. In times of economic hardship people always choose the extremes. And the treaty did exactly that.
This dude put small dashes of meme culture and humor in his videos while also being really informative, 10/10. Hearing a random ass everywhere at the end of time song caught me off guard lmao
16:00, and it’s not from everywhere at the end of time (EATEOT), it’s from AEBBTW, it’s libet’s delay, you might have confused it with libet delay from stage 3 of eateot
Thank you so much for highlighting the errors of Ancel Keyes! I've been trying to tell everyone about his mistake since I first found out about it four years ago. Even now the NHS still doesn't seem to know this and is STILL pushing the antiquated food pyramid! For covering this subject alone, I've subscribed! Thank you again!
I would say sugar is still being pushed because its addictive as fuck and only destroys lives slowly, so its consequences can be blamed on other things.
I still remember being flabbergasted about suggesting 10-12 servings of bread everyday. I always new that was too much. And now with the research findings on trans fats and how corporations have been saturating fats to make calories less nutritious and more filling and how they attempt to cover up this process, we really need to research and come to our own conclusions about diet and what things big companies and governments are pushing on us.
This video is full of inacurracies and shortcuts by Portarying keyes as responsible of the excessive sugar in industry nowadays and health problems. His work is respected in the medical field and has lead to the meditteranean diet which is basically mainly full grain carbs, vegetables and lastly meat and fats. Why? Because population with the Mediterranean diet has excellent health, that's what keyes observed and studied. (mediteranean = southern france, italy etc, Another example? Japanese diet known for it's outstanding number of old living people , that lives in good health most importantly. Their diet? You guessed it: mainly carbs (white rice, wheat noodles for ramens dishes etc)), secondly vegetables, and a bit of meat and fats (porks, fish etc). Now do you also want a example of fat heavy diet? Mongolian diet: made mainly of meat, fats because of their nomadic (active) lifestyle (they dont eat a lot of carbs because theyre nomads). They have one of the worst rate of heart disease and strokes in the world, with terribly low lifespan. Overall the biggest mistake this video makes is to not makes the difference between simple sugars and healthy carbs. Lastly , health organizations do not recommand eatin everything in equal amount it would imply eating as much protein as carbs which is NOT recommanded. Mediteranean diet has been ranked as one of the "best diet overall" although i dont like such expression by US news and reports and many other health organizations in the world typically in europe (france etc). This mediteranean does NOT recomanded eating as much carbs as fat as proteins, there's still the pyramid that came from keye's work : 1) whole grain carbs 2) veggies and fibers 3) proteins and fats
@@yulian7435You bring up some interesting points however we can sit and cherry pick diets of certain countries around the world all we want, there are countries that eat a lot of carbs, and live for a long time, and there are countries that eat a lot of animal products, and live for a long time. There are many factors that lead to the longevity and low heart attack rates of people around the world.
I don't know why, but I had always assumed that Wilson was an American particle physicist. I'd hardly described his cloud chamber as a blunder, though.What a good job he talked to Rutherford, a nice illustration of the importance of communication for the advancement of science, or indeed any endeavour.
The history we haven't experienced yet (the future) will have to decide if the invention of nuclear energy will outweigh the dangers (mass death, radiation, waste, accidents...) and implications (cold war) of the atom bomb and nuclear reactors. Just like conventional batteries (cobalt slavery, environmental problems with extraction and disposal), i fear it has held us back for progress on hydrogen energy.
@@brmbkl Don't forget all the Nuke waste that will Outlast every nation known to Exist and will likely be a Problem for future people thousands of years later. We literally have plans on how to tell those Future people that this Nuke waste is bad. 😅
Nuclear energy is unbelievably safe. Radiation is at its minimum, mass death from nuclear energy cannot happen unless a reactor goes into a meltdown on purpose. Nuclear waste is easy to discard of and is the least of our worries, and nuclear accidents happen in parts of the world with relatively uneducated people being in control, or the land itself is not suitable to hold it up.
That story about doctors not wanting to admit that they are wrong and they are hurting people just makes my blood boil. Sure, doctors are crucial to us, but not wanting to admit you could be wrong? Too fitting to recent events. Too relevant. You sir, have my attention. And my subscription and like.
@@VitaeLibra I appreciate there's at least someone who doesn't immediately want to start an argument about *that*. Though I'm unsure to how you deem his statement to be false. Sure, if you interpret his statement to be either more than just about the pandemic (e.g. politics) or interpreting this to mean that the general way in which things were conducted was *entirely* wrong, I would also agree that an argument against that could be made. But in the way I interpreted it, I see it as very fitting, as in my country (Germany), it was even publicly admitted that things were done wrongly. Not entirely, of course, but certain things. And it certainly had something to do with doctors not admitting that they could be wrong and that whatever they were talking about could have negative side effects, which was always stated to be entirely false, but in the end, turned out to be true, to a non-zero effect.
It seems like you might not accept evidence that's contrary to what you already believe and this may have skewed your perception of what could have gone wrong over the past few years. Just wanted you to be aware! Have a nice day!@@VitaeLibra
The reduce the history of particle physics and quantum mechanics to "it produced a bomb" is so incredibly simplifying. And to portrait the the cloud champer as *the* nucleation point for it's discovery leaves so much important stuff out.
It's an extremely simplified view of it, to the point I'm not sure it has any meaning at all. So what if this guy hadn't created a cloud chamber? Given that in science, everyone stands on the shoulders of giants, it seems rather likely that someone else might have created one or one of the other ways of examining radiation and particles would have been found. Maybe not that year, but likely soon. Things would have played out differently, but it's not like particle physics would have just stayed in its infancy or would not have been explored at all.
That's the point.... The butterfly effect is actually the culmination of many butterflies flapping their wings, but each part is essential in the current hurricane created
@Yi McShin Not really. What's suggested here is: "Change one little thing and all of history after would be totally different", and I'm saying that it's not really like that, instead it's more like "change one thing and lots of things after it would be slightly different but they'd still all go in generally the same direction, because you only changed one thing, not the whole environment that made that thing likely to happen"
@@SpaceKebab The problem is that the whole framing of the video suggests that if these things had not happened at the moments that they did happen, all of the stuff after it would NOT have happened, because that's what presenting them as CAUSES implies - and that's highly debatable with some discoveries in science. Had they not happened that way, they likely would have still happened, but slightly later, because the groundwork that made them possible was already there, and the whole chain of other stuff that followed may still have happened, if slightly differently. Just look at the many examples of "parallel inventions" in history, where people have independently from each other come up with very similar technologies because they both built up on the same body of existing knowledge. If you take an event that produced a discovery necessary for another event away, but that following event likely still would have happened anyways, can you really call the original event the "cause"?
I’m Vietnamese and the end of Burning Soup was… haunting, for a lack of better words. I kept waiting for you to delve into the napalm part, but I suppose letting the facts sink in was just as effective. I remember studying about the Vietnam War and the effects pesticides and napalm has on Vietnamese people, even after the war ended. Horrible burns, deformed people, and much more. History textbooks had their restraints, but the occasional TV segments had journalists paying the victims a visit and you get to see the damage on people that are still moving, breathing and living in the present day. It’s so horrible you wish no other human being should suffer the same fate.
The Vietnam war can be argued to be one of the top three worst things the US has done. We shouldn’t have even been there in the first place since it was a colonial war/revolt war between France and Vietnam. I mean we we’re actually friendly with Ho Chi Min during the Second World War.
Regarding the Painful X-Rays section: Something a little similar happened in the field of obstetrics. In in the late 1840s, before John Snow closed the cholera-laden water pipe on Broad Street in London, before Louis Pasteur's experiments, Ignaz Semmelweis was trying to improve maternal mortality, specifically from puerperal fever. Births assisted by midwives had significantly lower mortality rates than those assisted by doctors. As it turned out, the doctors were usually coming directly from an autopsy to deliver the baby. Semmelweis made doctors wash their hands in chlorinated lime water between the autopsies and the deliveries. Mortality went from 18% to 2.2%. Doctors were so offended at the idea that they were not clean, offended that they should have to wash their hands, that they ignored him and continued to let countless women die entirely preventable deaths. All because of blowhard machismo nonsense.
It's always the ego that blinds people from accepting the obvious truth. I spent a couple years using an exercise i had read that Aleister Crowley practised to alter his perception and subvert his ego. Simply for a period of time during the day, several times a week, do not think about yourself in the first person. Consider yourself simply as an unknown creature, with no name. No personality. No point of view. Nothing. It's not easy to exist for several hours in that frame of mind (you obviously have to be away from most other people during that period) but you can exercise, take a long walk, etc... Definitely had the desired effect on me. Screw the ego. The ego is not to be trusted doing our thinking.
I'm confused by it cause Google searches all say that X-rays on pregnant women don't increase cancer chances, but zhis video says the oposite. Hpw can that be?
@@HopeRock425 I am no doctor, however, it is of my understanding that X-Rays focused on the woman's body (arms, teeth, feet, etc.) will do no harm to the fetus; however, X-Rays focused on the belly (and thus, directly aiming to the fetus) can and potentially will cause birth defects, even more so during the sensitive stages of development. It is also good to keep in mind that ever since the start of medicine, medical procedures have advanced unimaginably, thus making it safer nowadays for x-rays to be performed, if they are to be performed out of necessity.
I just want to bring up something I view as a butterfly effect I thought was interesting. Back in the 1920s, Byron Carter was killed by the hand crank used to start cars, this lead to his friend Henry Leland having a starter you push with your foot created, the first car it was used in was Leland's Cadillac Model 30, problem with the model 30 is that it ran lean, basically what this means is that fuel was over combusting and leading to a piston knock, this lead to him reaching out to Thomas Midgley Jr to create something that would cause it to stop knocking, he tried ethenol, but it was expensive, he tried tullurium, but it was pungent, he finally settled on tetraethyllead, tetraethyllead lead to numerous deaths, generational IQ loss, birth defects, and illnesses. The death of one man, not only lead to the death and illness of many people due to an attempt to try to do some good, but it also lead to one of the most significant global environmental disasters in history. Coincidentally, in the 70s, the EPA regulation to remove lead from road fuels also lead to the death of the classic muscle, and one of the biggest oil protests in history. Just wanted to share, thought it was kind of interesting.
That is indeed very interesting, i never heard about these connections. I wonder how much the overcompensation for accidents or mistakes has made the situation even worse, because instead of people being educated on how not to be dumb, people try to make the world as dumbproof as they can as a legal defence. On a side note, the english language sure is dumb
@@UltraProchy I think that's the biggest thing, I don't think people understand the implications of their actions until it's too late sometimes, because it's just not possible for us to calculate every possible scenario that would lead up to the end of this story. Something interesting that I've noticed, and I'm going to use the scenario of losing loved one, because I have a pretty good understanding of it at this point. When someone loses someone, I've noticed that their initial response is to provide "If" statements, "if I had been there." "If he/she would have left just a few minutes later." "If I had just been there to remind them to take their medicine that night." People always rationalize their losses, and they think that things could have been different, but the reality is, things are how they are, and there is nothing that anyone could have done to change it because it's what time demanded. If not for Byron, it could have been someone else that lead up to this scenario, eventually the inactions of one will lead to the actions another.
UH, no, running lean isn't over combusting. It's higher than optimal oxygen content. That is a function of the fuel delivery system, carburetor or injection. The lead allowed higher compression ratios, more spark advance. It has nothing to do with fuel/air ratios
@@jamesharmon3827 Yes.... It is, but I'm not going to argue with you about it, because judging by your contrarian attitude based on the other comments you've posted to others, regardless of what I say to prove it correct you'll say I'm wrong, the internet has shown me that people such as yourself will disagree or argue regardless of proven factual evidence.
I think it's very strange that leaded gasoline was not banned due to environmental and health effects but rather due to it damaging catalytic converters
The sad part about the Rubber one is the fact that The Vietnam War (the war napalm was prominently used in after its discovery) was started after the French were pushed out of North Vietnam, thus losing their rubber plantations. All of this, because of a single patent.
I know a man in my church who served in Vietnam, hoping to hear good efforts he accomplished. He told me that the war was run by rubber companies. Talk about buzzkill.
If Truman had followed Roosevelts policy and not let the French back into Vietnam none of that would have happened. What do your expect from as man who dropped two atom bombs on a defeated country rather than listen to his generals who advised against it!
The butterfly effect is good for pointing out what-ifs and thinking of alternate histories. That said, using it to "blame" someone is both incredibly awful and a complete misuse of what the concept entails. The point is that we can't predict it either, so it's an unreasonable standard to think of it in practical terms.
Agreed. Blaming one person for the creation of weapons 50 years later is nonsense. The way this world works, someone would either figure out the same weapons or others equally as destructive. It's what humans tend to do.
The butterfly affect you are referring to is something created by Hollywood for fun plots and it’s a complete misunderstanding of what the term actual means. When the term was originally coined by a meteorologist with the name Edward Lorenz it discusses how small inconsequential events can cause large under lying affects on weather systems. Put more simply that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could set off a tornado in Texas.
No one's blaming anyone, just pointing out how things happened. It's a silly Video, it's not putting the blame for Bush's entire shitty run on Theresa. Heck, he even says it multiple times. He even points out good things that happened. Thinking this video was made entirely to blame awful shit on one person is the kinda black and white way to think that honestly makes shit worse for everyone.
This video was so well done and informative. This is the EXACT type of video that carries RU-vid every day. This should be recommended to everyone everywhere. Thank you so much for this phenomenal content and teaching me a bunch of stuff i didnt know. This video could not be any more up my alley. I absolutely ate up every single morsel of this video
So that "glory" rainbow thing at the beginning...if anybody has ever wondered what one visual looks like on an acid trip...it is exactly that...Its so hard to explain in words to someone thats never tried it, also I'm not condoning any drugs use, but that picture totally captures what the aura-like visuals I experienced looking at others in a party. Totally worth mentioning.
I don’t think those blunders were that bad. The worst was probably that blunder with sugar it was really avoidable. The canned food blunder probably even saved more lives than killed. Entertaining Video. It’s crazy how impactful some decisions can be even hundreds of years after they happened
The problem wasn't the invention of, it was about who was in charge of what. Dr Doll being famous enough to shut down Steward's investigation, the french way of making patents, the unhealthy diets. They are all because of shitty human behavior (greed, envy, pursuit of fame, pride, gluttony) and yeah they saved lives and whatnot but they wouldn't have been so bad if the people in charge did the right thing (also in the diet case the Dr accepted bribes lol)
an interesting fact about the heart attack study: the placement of each country on the graph depends more on the country's criteria for qualifying a heart attack than the average person's diet
You want to ignore a major aspect of humanity. How hubris and ego undermine our capacity to reason properly. That is the history.of human behavior. The positive things are also important- but we don't learn as much from them.
The first one caused way more incredible leaps in our technology and positive effects on our modern society than negative effects of the atom bomb. It was absolutely not a blunder and this video completely misrepresented the importance and benefits it provided.
@@samg131 while I mostly agree with you- it is in no wise a universally agreed upon opinion. The argument that the accumulation of modern technology has not been an absolute positive for the human species is buttressed by the high levels of deep dissatisfaction many people around the world claim for themselves. While I may not be one of them, my level of happiness has almost zero relevance to all the fancy gadgetry that's available to me. The positives and negatives mostly balance one another out- as far as I'm concerned. There is too much blind trust in comp. tech. doing all functions of govt. and society when the inevitability of hackers, computation errors, power outages, etc...guarantees future breakdowns of every facet of our lives in one way- or at one time- or another, Voting is a perfect example. With paper ballots we're guaranteed to have an auditable election, if one is necessary-instead of fully electronic, where any number of snafus could render an entire election cycle unknowable. (You can add to that the fact that russian hackers -and undoubtedly other interests- have fairly easy access to our election systems and have yet to act on it-an inevitability, knowing geopolitical history and human nature. Having access to the internet is undoubtedly the greatest addition to modern life- yet the loss of newspapers and newspaper reporting that has accompanied it has thrown us almost back into the dark ages- where, despite the knowledge that's at our fingertips, the bulk of society is now more ignorant and conspiracy minded than ever before.
How true. As a Radiographer,from the late 70s, I saw the reduction of irradiation of pregnant women via pelvimetry. This was an X-ray with a measuring device to determine if the mothers pelvis would allow the head of the baby to pass through. These were done on most births. Yikes! Ultrasound was just starting up as well as Computed Tomography. We used lead aprons to shield pregnant bellies as the 80s progressed Great story, thank you!👍
Political science student here, I would like to correct a major mistake in your last part on climate change, specifically regarding the Kyoto protocol. It is true that Clinton signed the protocol, however it was as a simple gesture and the treaty was never even presented to the senate as the senate had already voted unanimiously in rejection of the Kyoto protocol, and the treaty could therefore not be ratified. When Bush teared up the treaty, he simply removed the US signature. Tearing up the treaty was symbolic, but it made no legal difference to the US policies on climate.
Also, even without being a member to the Kyoto agreement, the US went ahead and made more progress in lowering emissions than many of the countries that remained members.
i just wanted to inform you (if you didnt already know) that the website "medium" copied your video WORD BY WORD in their article "the butterfly effect". literally WORD BY WORD. considering your video came out before the article did, i'm assuming, they plagiarized your work and not the other way around. I'm not sure if youre aware of this or if you are connected to the website in any way but if you are not: hope you know now. the "funniest" part is, that the whole article is kept behind a pay-wall. so they are literally making people pay money to read your script lmao
I was under the impression this video was about actual blunders, and not cases that degrees of separation apart from a terrible event, invention, or policy. If that is the formula, then a person who walked in front of Princess Diana's car, which forced her to go inside the tunnel she would crash in is one of the worst blunderers. Something just doesn't sit right.
Right...this video has more in common with the (amazing) tv show "Connections." Early 1990's. About how one seemingly unrelated inventions/decisions had incredible impact down the line. The canned food "blunder" - was using lead solder. This doomed the exploration voyages of the Erebus and Terror amongst many other mass lead poisonings. Will never know how many potential geniuses turned out to be idiots because of this lead.
Well in all fairness, at the beginning the guy practically said it was abt the butterfly effect, which doesn't involve direct mistakes which is what you said you were under the impression of this video being abt
Learning that a capable hardworking female doctor researched the correlation between x-rays and leukemia and was overridden by a male doctor with a greater reputation is infuriating. My mother had leukemia as a child and knowing it very well could have happened because my grandmother got an x-ray after a study had been out for THIRTY YEARS is beyond infuriating. Her having leukemia ruined many aspects of both their lives to this day.
It had nothing to do with sex. There were plenty of renowned and celebrated female scientists. And many of her opponents admitted she did outstanding work, but they felt her conclusion was false. Additionally, if you rewatch the section, she was in a new and untested field of science. Nevermind, there is some issues in her paper. She was linking correlation with causation. Grant it, she wanted it to be stopped for additional studies. She didn't explicitly say that x-ray equaled high cancer per say. So given these elements, and natural bias due to the widespread treatment if X-rays and even a man would be boned. Not everything is sexist.
@Crillian Marvin So u don't think that there is at least a small bit of chance that the majority of society took the other guys work as truth despite it having no controlled variable because he was a man with another achievement? Just because other women had achievements in their fields doesn't mean every man during that time or even women believed a woman more than a man. Also, no, not everything is sexist, but discrimination against a sex does and did happen. Ignoring that or taking that into consideration is quite foolish.
Now, I consider you the best youtuber. Just pure knowledge with no bs. Content-densed videos with insightful knowledge . Literally better than majority of the movies, podcast or Netflix shows. Whenever you upload video, I sit down and enjoy it fully with some snacks. Keep the videos coming.
Christ, the LaPaul woman and her ballots just gave me the biggest feeling of regret and dread. Have never gotten it in that perspective before. Horrifying.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Its been a while since i learned this so sorry for the lack of details but im the process of getting my degree i learned of a sort of floatation device that could recycle emissions in the air and essentially cut the load in half in a localized area. I believed each unti would cost roughly 4 million to make at the time of learning about it (2020) and they could be used as a sort of net for long-range emissions defense. Seemed simple enough to implement, but its a matter of drive on the governments behalf - who have something to gain from emission-producing outlets. I will look in my notes and see if i can find more details to leave you with but it’s definitely worth checking out
I feel terrible for her about the hate she received, if this video shows anything its that anyone can end up doing something that has unforseen negative consequences ! And it's not like she did it intentionally or new what the consequences would be
I think that the one about diet makes great sense as to why it was a huge blunder, but it’s sounds so silly to say that the invention of canned food was a blunder just because it eventually enabled someone else to invent napalm years later. With this logic you could create any narrative about why any human invention is a “HUGE BLUNDER”
It’s definitely one of the more insane things I’ve ever heard because the rest of them are fair (if not abit of a reach) but that one is just nonsensical.
Beautifully written and created video - well done sir. Reminds me of the old 70s BBCTV programme - James Burke’s connections. Definitely time for a relaunch I think! Well done
The interesting thing about smokers is that in studies almost every single one of them have low fruit intake, which has been hypothesized as a notable portion of the increased health risk. There just isn't enough smokers that do eat a lot of fruit to test it properly lol.
The canning bit is one of the best pieces of content I've seen on YT. Subverts your expectations so many times. Excellent writing. The video as a whole was super original which gets harder to find all the time. It is hard to believe this is a 1 man operation. Keep it up and thanks 😀
It's also entirely ridiculous. The idea that rubber production would be confined to Brazil if the French had access to canned food is ludicrous with a better patent system is extremely weak. History shows that attempts to block export of technologies, including plants, for protectionist purposes simply don't work.
My mom grew up in a household that owned and ran a shoe store in the 50's - 70's, and even that little shoe store in central Wisconsin had an X-ray. Her and her siblings and friends used to go downstairs in the shoe store and X-ray each other all the time to play. It wasn't until it became literally illegal that they finally got rid of it.
17:54 He's not wrong. I remember attending a school field trip to Catalina Island off of Long Beach, and came to notice that people didn't say "Hello!" to each other when passing by. I was raised by my parents to do so as a sign of courtesy and respect, especially to elderly people, who occupied most of Catalina. I remember saying "Hello!" or "Good morning!" when walking past the locals, and they would simply stare back at me with incredulity or confusion. About a week passed and suddenly people started doing the same without a serious expression on their faces. It's honestly sad that time has progressed so much that people have forgotten to at least smile at each other without receiving it as being creepy, or at least wish each other a good day as fellow people. It honestly made me wonder at times if I was raised incorrectly or did I have the wrong idea. I still greet people in the States whenever I see them, but the accuracy in that statement really hits hard.
bro that’s so funny that I saw this comment. I literally live on Catalina, it’s HILARIOUS how you think a school trip is enough time for you to get a scope for people on the island. I definitely think people greet each other and casually smile at each other here way more then long beach or anywhere else i’ve been in in SoCal. With that being said, yeah your right I don’t go around saying hi to every single person I pass, I feel like my voice would hurt from all the people. That’s kind of the reason why it’s kind of reserved for either people you know or people you maybe make eye contact with or have any other casual interaction while walking by. But honestly with this mindset, I’d love to see you walking around at peak tourist season saying hi to everyone you pass, like what?😭 would probably get annoying after a while for your own sake!
Do yiu know how many people you can see at any given moment? Being viet at a simple house party is more than enough, having to bow at every single elder. Now imagine that on a much larger scale. How fun does that seem?
I see literally nothing of blunder in your first example. It's a good thing he showed the photographs that would later advance physics to what we know today.
I appreciate the genuinely scholarly tone of this video but you’re axe-grinding. (1) Hanging chads: both R and D were going back and forth about hanging (one corner not perforated, or two, or even three) chads and even just perforated ballots. The FL Supreme Court put an end to that and there’s no reason to think one party would definitively win the 2000 election over another so they chose a standard, stuck with it and the rest is history. (2) This issue is not directly addressed, but I’ll remind everyone that the POTUS before Bush had at least one legit shot to take out the perpetrator of the 9/11 attack. (3) This is my opinion more than anything, but I would choose saving 900k American servicemen lives over 250k civilian lives 100/100 times.
#0: I'm surprised it's not been talked about >Some dude is driving in Sarajevo in an open-top car, in 1914 >The driver makes a wrong turn >The dude and his wife are murdered my assassains. *>someone else explain what happens next*
35:50 God dammit, this is a mistake! At least dont put fission reactors at the background when talking about increase in pollution. That sends the wrong message across
Honestly, this is too random and silly. Blaming the weather guy for atomic bomb is just stupid, and blaming the inventor of canning process for Napalm (and all the deaths caused by it) is ridiculous.
@@Natalie-ez1zc the outcome wasn't... God knows what would have happened if the sides would have been different. I still don't get how the Russo-Japanese war didn't escalate to Britain and France...
And then Archduke Franz Ferdinand wanted a sandwich from the exact café where his already-attempted assassin was also having lunch. Gavrillo Princip took another shot he never should've had.
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A mountain in England...? Which colony they took it from?
It's absolutely outlandish and insane To put all this blame on the United States, And literally I did not hear the word China or India a single time. And it's not the responsibility of the united states to be the caretaker of the entire world. I hope that the United States wakes up. And we start to adopt isolationist as policies. Because we don't need anything from anywhere. We would be totally good 100% on our own.
This video hits. If anyone wants to try and tell you that one persons actions can’t or won’t make a difference. You might even do it whether you know it or not.
Anyone with even a causal knowledge of history understands the Nuke bomb saved hundreds of thousands of Japanese and American lives. Learn history people. It’s important
The first one being listed as a mistake is pretty ridiculous. Particle physics would have progressed in any case. It's not like if the cloud machine was never built physicists would have just thrown up their hands and say "oh well, better stop studying all this particle rubbish now chaps, we can't see them so they probably aren't real".
My favorite concept with historical oddities and what ifs, is that if you change something 100 years ago it is entirely possible, even likely, that every single person born from that moment forward is changed.
Haha I know what that’s like bro but you have to be careful, that stuff used to happen to me all the time and I realized alcohol just isn’t for me since I couldn’t stop once I started.
14:45 "...people didn't want to admit their doctors were wrong. People trust doctors. They're figures of authority. [...] Meanwhile, doctors don't want to admit they're hurting people. They become doctors to do the exact opposite." The past few years have shown how relevant this is, even though many people won't want to admit it... which confirms the quote.
Let me guess... you're talking about Covid. Listen man, look at all statistics, the populations that died the most of Covid were the ones not taking the vaccine.
Thank you for going over the horrible nutrition studies that have effected America for a long damn time. Hell even I was taught the food pyramid and had to learn that it was wrong. I hear Europeans all the time making fun of america being so obese like it's our fault and I hate it so god damn much having known about it for a while.
There was nothing wrong with his study really, and britmonkey misrepresented what happened. More the issue is how simplistic food guidelines are which lead to Americans replacing fat with processed foods which are just as bad for you if not worse. Ancel key's reccomended a completely different diet than what people ended up eating: A Mediterranean diet, replacing high fat non fish meats with veggies, fruits and complex carbs. Not processed garbage.
@@maddiekits Processed foods aren't "just as bad" - they're considerably worse. How about all that wonderful corn syrup? They put it in everything- sweet or not.
@@maddiekits processed foods? That's such a vague term that literally most food is processed food. Hell, you could count peeled fruits as processed foods.
I know alternate historyhub already cover it but I think my personal biggest butterfly effect was Teddy Roosevelt and taft fighting each other for 1912 US election which caused Woodrow Wilson win and you know, almost set all path of hell in 20th century (even untill now). I'm surprised you're not included it
The US staying in the Kyoto Protocol would have done literally nothing for the climate. All it would have done is accelerate deindustralization, and shift manufacturing to India and China faster. Would have made more sense to blame 9/11 as the attacks distracted US politicians long enough the tensions rising between the US and China diffused for them to become the world's manufacturing hub using the shittest coal vs America maintaining its dominance or shifting to Mexico as their factories switched to natural gas.
