Pierre-Marie Robitaille Is Clueless (Sky Scholar Debunked) 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He should lose all credibility just for saying "kelvin degrees" and then not even noticing it after editing the video and uploading it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I dont know a lot about astrophysics, but I dont pretend to.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for calling these people out

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4:18 Wasn't the Background Radiation like 300k years after the Big Bang? I learned this in the 10th grade. 4:52 oh it is

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

I completely tune out when someone says “we are told” or “it has been said.”

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

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

So, if cosmology, which is a branch of astronomy isn't science, I think we can also say that radiology, which is a branch of medicine isn't as well.

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

Prof Dave, you are really amazing and knowledgeable, and you are a pleasure to listen to, thank you very much for explaining in clear terms all of your scientific knowledge, it shows you have studied and researched a great amount for your videos.

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

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

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

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

I know this is old, but I can't help but comment anyway. It's about Pierre's idea about gasses always expanding to fill a container. One of the many problems with this is that it assumes all gases weigh the same. But they don't. Natural gas is lighter than air. If you release it, it will rise. Expand some, sure, but it rises. Gasoline vapors are heavier than air. They sink and pool in a similar way that water would. This is why fire codes don't allow gasoline storage below grade. The vapors can accumulate in the lower level and ignite. They do not fill up any container. They tend to pool, like water.

First Element in periodic table is hydrogen

i found his channel today while looking up some CMB lectures and was disappointed how high his videos were in my search results. Watched a few videos and several things pricked my ears and eventually got bored of listening to all his weasel words. I also find it curious how little criticism there is of his channel in his own comments. Rarely see such a ratio on any of my frequented science channels (without, I suspect, intervention & deletion)

Is this where Tour got the idea of shouting "CLUELESS!"?

Thank you so much Dave for this excellent debunk.