r/ConfidentlyIncorrect - Pseudoscience 101 

"show an autistic person who is unvaccinated" show me an anti-vaxxer who would actually let their child be tested for autism

Confidently incorrect is just people who got corrected and then hated getting corrected so they dug their heels into the mud 💀

Pretty sure the whole "being born by c section isn't being technically being born" is literally a plot point in Macbeth for a prophecy

fun fact about dragonflies: they are THE apex predator of the insect world, they have the highest rates of success for hunts. they legitimately are just so perfectly designed they havent had to change.

My brother was sleeping so I turned my volume down, but when that lady started asking why average Joe's don't find dinosaurs, he drowsily murmured, "archaeologists have to negotiate with farmers all the time" and went back to sleep.

"Show me an autistic person who is unvaccinated" ME ! Well I had to get vaccinated as an adult because my parents were antivacs but I can assure you that I always was autistic 😂

Unrelated, but apparently, I used to eat onions like they were apples when I was a kid. Onions are seen as a super food in my culture so my dad was like "HELL YEAH, SHE'S GONNA BE A MARINE AND A PROFESSIONAL BOXER LIKE ME!!!!!!" I was neither and am rather fragile health wise.😂

I like that the lady first wonders why we are not finding dinosaur bones everywhere, then proceeds to tell why by presenting info about how fast bones decay, and finally asks how we even find any bones if they should decay so fast. Like there is no head or tail in that talk.

It's sad that the stereotype of bisexual people being promiscuous/polyamorous (not the same thing, but) is still alive and kicking. My two best friends are both bi guys and they're both single. Does that make them asexual/aromantic now?

“Sunshine isn’t toxic sunscreen is”, proceeds to show how lighter skinned people used to dress to protect their skin and eyes before sunscreen and sunglasses were invented. 🤦‍♀️

as a Bi person I am sick of people thinking I cheat a lot/date multiple people at once. I can't even date ONE person

From a quick check; clarified butter is just when you melt the butter and remove the remaining semi-solid bits that sit at the bottom of the container. You don’t have to add oil, but apparently it does change the smoke-point because the chunky bits smoke easier, so removing them can help.

If you genuinely believe that 100% extended unfiltered sunlight is good for you and has no potential drawbacks, I cordially invite you to stare directly into the sun for a few hours. No breaks, no squinting, no putting your hands on your forehead to cast a lil shade. Just have a full on staring contest with old man Ra. See how it goes. If you notice that you don't see too well after a couple minutes, that's just the healthy sun rays purifying your retinas. Keep going. Its working

Fun animal fact: Underneath their stripes, zebras have black skin. This solves the age old question, zebras are black with white stripes 😂

39:49 That Venn diagram can't be a circle, they don't believe in curves.

29:50 Just wait till this guy finds out about Horseshoe crabs. The pinnacle of evolutionary perfection.

"There is nothing more frustrating than leaving a conversation with a stupid person because they're beyond saving, only to see them think you gave up because they're right."

"Nationality does not cancel out dyslexia" 😂 I just remember a Colombian man freaking out about "do you say Col-uhm-bia or Col-oom-bia? You say Col-oom-bia? NO." It carried on and was one of the most entertaining moments of my life.

The older I get, the more I reaffirm the realization of why so many elderly folk all end up as wratchety old cranks. The intellegent ones get fed up dealing with too many idiots over the years; the "smarter" ones, are so set in their ways looking down their noses at the "stupider" ones & it leaves everyone irritable.🤷‍♂️

most conspiracy theories can easily be broken through by asking "what would the conspirators gain?"

"people who are autistic are closer to a higher plane of existence" yeah, have you ever seen us given a task, then given another task and allowed to listen to music? We basically turn into task gods

"If we weren't meant to take in all that UV we would've evolved better filters!" I wonder if she knows brown eyes (which are typically considered better at handling UV exposure) are a dominant trait...

clarified butter very much is a thing. It's basically the butter but without the proteins that get burnt way more easily, so kinda only the fat part. Usually you heat up the butter slowly until it seperates. Some of the protein parts float to the surface and become a foam-like stuff that you can skim off (i think it's whey), the others sink to the bottom of the pot (iirc that's mostly casein) and water well..evaporates. If you skim off the foam and slowly pour the rest out of the pot to not take the solids on the bottom to the new pot with the clear liquid, you got "clarified butter" in the new pot then. Might add, "clarified" in this case is not meant in an...esoteric way, but literally - clarified butter when heated is a clear liquid (it becomes solid when cold, usually wiht a consistency similar to margerine) that pretty much looks like any common vegetable oil.

2:20 this dragged so many young men down the "anti feminist" rabbithole a few years ago (like 8 years at this point). Im glad i got out of there before i became a complete ass, and now i try to help other people who are falling down conspiracies.

I had the same bisexuality argument with my classmates when I came out. They were CONVINCED I had to have a girlfriend and a boyfriend at the same time or otherwise how could I call myself bi? In a similar vein of things, one of them (thinking I was a satanist) asked me if I believed in god and when I said no, he triumphantly stated "so you beleve in Satan!". I said no again, he was confused. Obviously if I didn't believe in the one, I had to believe in the other. I can see how for some it can be hard to wrap their had around things on the scale of an entire planet or microorganisms too small too see, but how to be confused by stuff on a simplicity level of "I like fish and I like cake, but I don't always eat them at the same time" is beyond me...

"Show me an autistic person who was not vaccinated." Show me an autistic person who doesn't drink water.

That "too" guy, I have actually experienced something similar. Guy was trying to gatekeep what "hobby" meant to exclude things that were "unproductive" and said that it was the definition (pretty much he didn't like that people said reading, video games or watching movies were hobbies). So I showed him the screenshot of the definition with the list of synonyms to show that he was wrong. He argued it didn't count because it was "some random Google source" so I i pointed out it was sourced by Oxford Languages, do he argued that its different from Oxford Dictionary and doesn't count, so I showed him the page on Oxford Dictionary, again he said it doesn't count because its just one source, so i looked up more dictionaries including Merriam Webster, he said it still doesn't count because i included synonyms and "synonyms don't mean the same thing", so i sent him the definition of synonym and he finally just went on a full rant about stupid liberal millennials changing what words mean. It was a great laugh, thing is I'm 31 and he wasn't that much older at 42, he just had a stick up his butt that everything NEEDS to be "productive" or its a waste of time.

as an autistic person, can confirm, am in touch with a different reality. it's nicer there, no reddit idiots.

was anyone else expecting the "chickens are mammals" argument to be " chickens have breasts therefore mammals"

Onetime, I was arguing with a friend as a child over whether or not fish are animals, I realised halfway through that I was wrong. I continued to argue out of embarrassment, and I convinced them that fish are not animals. I live in constant fear of that being brought up.

I love the “Why haven’t you or I dug up a bone.” Beyond all the other issues…how much digging do you or I do? I’ve never in my life dug deeper than like 1 foot. Also one thing I think the education system doesn’t explain well. Fossilized bones are not actually just the bone, it’s like absorbed calcium and shit sort of replacing the bone with rock (I think)

Another note on the biological species definition is it also falls apart with a lot of plants. A good example of this is pitcher plants of the same genus where you can get fertile hybrids between many different species. It's always neat to see a name tag with 5 different species listed on it all condensed into one fertile hybrid that can eventually continue the chain of hybridization.

That snake-baby was the octopus-alien-baby from Men in Black 1. The scene was so adorable. People out there are really out of their minds, when they claim vaccines cause anything.

As a part of Danny Gonzalez's Greg, it was satisfying to hear Greg and Craig in the same intro.

"Critical Thinking" Translation: "I want this to be correct and nothing will change my mind."

My cousin was an antivaxxer (mostly because of her awful husband) and didn't get any of her kids vaxxed, 2/3 of her kids have autism, and the other has ADHD. One also got the measles when she was 3, could have died. She has since gotten divorced and the kids are fully vaxxed now. To be clear, they were diagnosed with autism & ADHD years before they were vaxxed.

Clarified butter is a real thing. If you've ever heard of Ghee, that's clarified butter. Clarified butter is butter that has no milk solids left, which makes it much harder to spoil compared to normal butter which would go bad pretty quickly in hot places.

The thing is, bone doesn't survive long at all just like that woman said. That's why we call them fossils, because they're not bone. Basically the bone that was once there slowly got replaced with rock. So fossils are rock, no longer bone. It's an extremely rare process, but still common enough for plenty of discoveries to be made by average people. There are areas where fossilization is far more likely to occur, there is a huge bias in the fossil record. If you've never found a fossil, you just aren't looking in the right places.

14:38 as a brit, i think people need to learn this defintion: UK = Northern Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland Britiain = England, Wales, Scotland (a singular island)

This whole thread reminds me of a quote from mark twain "never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"

The whole radiation stuff is so funny. Most of those people probably have some old-ass unshielded wiring and lead pipes in their house, run a microwave every day and then get scared of the wifi format.

"How did you get this answer? Show your work" "LOL. No." If only I knew I could have used this in school.. 😂

We need to start inconfidently correct, where people come out of nowhere and say the right thing but they have no idea.

19:32 Not to be pedantic, but I'm a culinary student, so I feel like I have some grounds to speak on this. Clarified butter is made by separating the milk solids (the natural sugars in milk) and evaporating the water content. This leaves you with, functionally, pure milk fat. You don't add olive oil to it, and it's not what this guy says it is, so he's still wrong, but it is very much a thing. Most of the mother sauces, and many soups call for clarified butter. Removing the moisture and milk solids helps it keep longer too.

On the Autism post: there has been some WILD misinformation going around lately. An acquaintance of mine shared a Facebook post that was very similar to this one, full of weird views that sound innocent but are actually harmful, as well as outright disinformation. At one point it literally said that Autistic people were from another galaxy. And of course this acquaintance would not listen to me when I, as someone who is actually Autistic, pointed out everything that was wrong/harmful about her post. On one hand I can laugh about it because of how utterly ridiculous the entire post was (my first reaction was literally to ask my mum: 'Did you know I am an alien from another galaxy?'), but on the other hand the idea that some people actually believe this dehumanising stuff is very concerning.

Fun fact about computers: graphing calculators you use in school have more computing power than the ones we used to help us land people on the moon

As a Montanan, the woman questioning fossils makes me laugh.

I'm a third party comment moderator for some companies posting things on Facebook and Instagram. I could fill this entire subreddit with the amount of confidently incorrect people I see on the daily. We also have a dedicated "conspirary" tag. This job makes me lose braincells having to read all the arguments. The thing about the algorithm making small conspiracies gather everyone together made me feel better about it though. Like, I know it happens, but having it be told like that helps a lot lol. It's true I haven't met anyone with opinions and beliefs like the ones I see on there.

Clarified butter (or ghee) is a butter product. You heat it gently until the milk solids (casein and whey) separate from the other components, and some water evaporates, you end up with basically just grease / fat after straining. It is lactose-free and therefore the sugar doesn't burn and char. The smoke point is also higher. Thanks for coming to my ted talk

I remember my brother coming down and asking me if chickens were mammals or reptiles. He was 14 at the time and upon me telling him they are actually birds, there was a 5 second pause before he just said "I am going to bed, my brain has melted." He has graduated from uni this year with a physics degree. He joked that it was clearly never gonna be biology XD

Last week I told my dad that the opposite of literal was figurative which somehow devolved into him insisting that literal means taking a book at face value and that it can't be applied to anything else like talking. When I pulled up the dictionary definition he said that 'they've changed it like they change everything to fit their agenda' and wanted to see the definition from 5 years ago which I don't know how to get?? It was just infuriating 😑 Could he be wrong? No, it's Big Dictionary that's the problem 😭

My mom called me up a couple weeks ago asking me to change her RU-vid settings so she wouldn't get so many sad videos of abused animals. I had to explain how the algorithm worked and how it's not a setting that I can change. Thankfully, she understood the method of how to get RU-vid to stop suggesting stuff like that

My personal alien theory. They visited us before, but found out how stupid we are. So they left and never came back.

Hi Click! I bake and cook a lot, and I can tell you with 100% certainty that clarified butter is indeed a thing. The guy in the reddit post was actually pretty close to getting the definition right, however, the process of making clarified butter is much simpler than he makes it out to be. Making clarified butter requires you to heat up butter in a saucepan, just enough for it to melt, but not enough for it to start boiling. The milk solids will be extracted from the melted butter and rises to the top of the liquid, where you can scoop out said milk solids with a slotted spoon. When you've scooped out the milk solids, you're left with the butterfat, which is usually known as clarified butter in the culinary world. No oil, no extraction of the fat, it's quite literally just melting butter.

a good thing to say about dinosaur fossils is that they aren't actually bones, they're sediments that settled in the same place in the rocks that the bones took up, but then the bones decayed, allowing those sediments to make fossils, which is why they are still around today.

The best part about comparing the lighthouse to the moon is that lighthouses use mirrors... so both use reflected light.

it feels like we're reaching a point where people with english as their second language are getting better at it than people who learned it from the start

The kid who takes a bite of an onion to prove it’s an apple sounds like something one of my siblings would do

9:05 Me breaking in cold sweat, seeing how this can easily backfire and inspire cancer denial.

45:56 His laugh here kinda sounds like the J. Jonah Jameson laugh from Spider man 2, I love that😂

The crazy thing is this isn’t the first time I’ve heard someone use “baphomet is trans so trans is satanic” Baphomet is hermaphroditic. They have features of both sexes. This is not the same thing but they think it is comparable enough to make a whole thing out of. It’s hilarious

The scariest thing is that someone decided that such level of education is acceptable for society

14:15 I did a similar thing as a child. I was absolutely convinced that a tomato was an apple, as for days I begged my grandmother for it, when she finally gave in, I immediately threw it to the ground after one bite.

33:09 Even Homer Simpson understands the concept of things not being to scale, as shown when he proposes a parade float where Superman battles Godzilla.

Ha! I did the maternity joke! To get child support, we had to get a paternity test. They tested the baby and myself. So, when they went to swab me, I said, "I don't mean to be doubtful but he slept with SO MANY women, I just can't be sure if the baby is mine." There were some confused faces for a moment before they busted out laughing. It cut the tension I was feeling

You know what? I'm with the guy on frunk being a misspelling of trunk. Because if that's not true then I have to accept that I live in a world where somebody thought the word FRUNK deserved to exist and that they shouldn't be ridiculed forever for coming up with it.

11:46 wikipedias definition:"Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating apprehension of such contact. Battery is a specific common law offense, although the term is used more generally to refer to any unlawful offensive physical contact with another person. "

I've met 3 flat earthers in person. One worked security where I was working. Another was a maintenance guy working at the Austin Texas Tesla Gigafactory. The third was a rando I ran into and for some reason sparked up a conversation with. Each of them brought up the topic, otherwise I wouldn't have known.

Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

I love how the bones person said we can't use bones for evidence that dinosaurs existed because they don't survive longer than 20 years, yet their own evidence are supposed bones and pictures (which are photoshopped but alright) of bones, and one dude with a growth syndrome which meant he didn't stop growing and died very young because of that. He was not a giant, but just a human with a growth disorder.

41:50 This got so bad that I took off my glasses to rub my eyes. If it hurts, stop doing it. If you can't avoid doing it , then get some protection. Shoes exist for a reason.

I think you were looking for the term _infinitesimal._ It's the word for the amount in a limit that is approaching zero. It used to be the term for the smallest number that is greater than zero, until that concept was proved to be indistinguishable from zero.

the "serpent DNA" thing had me literally laughing my ass off, and then you showed the picture and I lost it completely because it's the baby that Will Smith's character delivered in the movie Men in Black lmfao. It's crazy how you can literally not tell a difference between these people's honest beliefs and potential trolling because the things they DO believe are so off the wall bonkers

Clarified butter is actually a thing. Its made by melting regular butter and then skimming off the froth that floats on top. It’s typically used to make dipping sauces for things like lobster, shrimp, and sautéed veggies. Adding olive oil to just regular butter raises the smoke point (the point at which any given cooking fat burns). Olive oil has a higher smoke point than butter, so by combining the two, you can still get a lot of that yummy butter flavor while sautéing, without risking burning the cooking fats and thus ruining the dish.

I think the suspension of a rock was meant to prove the earth’s spherical shape, as it would act as a pendulum. Fun fact: this is actually how Galileo figured out the circumference of the earth, using a chandelier and his heart beat as a timer

We should encourage these people who say sunlight is good for your eyes and skin to follow their own advice and then they can enjoy the fruits of their labour.

I’m always so fascinated by these confidently incorrect people. I spend so much time googling things before I make an assertion on the internet.

Clarified butter is definitely a thing. You get butter and melt it in like a big vat. The water evaporates away, some protein floats to the top and is skimmed off, some protein sinks to the bottom and is left behind. The end product is a butter that has a much higher fat content and smoke point. No, you do not add oils to it. Also, did you hear about that one goalkeeper that booted the ball from his goal all the way across the pitch straight into the other goal? Just an impressive thing.

‘Autistic people get overstimulated because they are more spiritually enlightened’ is the funniest wack nonsense I’ve heard in some time and I’ve been watching Click roast conspiracy theorists and bad parenting while I work for some time today

The kid eating an onion to prove its an apple is a fighter. He'll be the kind of troll on the internet to say something like "your video is crap" and when asked to make a better video, he would actually make one of the best videos in human history only to disappear from the face of the internet.

I think we often forget that kids 3+ are using the internet. Since children are a descent portion of the population (around 20% in my country ), it means a good portion of discussions online are adults losing their minds by engaging with children. Can you picture how that would look in real life? Ps: And then you have adults that are just damn.

The best part about the final post is that the religion of Baphomet and the Knights Templar was actually very against indoctronation. They strongly believed in letting people come to their own conclusions and were especially against pushing children into a specific religion. So the poster saying that they were 'indoctrinating' kids just showed how little they'd actually read about the subject.

1. They decay pretty fast 2. They get buried extremely deep so it's fairly unlikely you just happen to find a dino bone 3. They can get preserved well enough that the decaying process is slowed or just stopped

The fossil argument is absolutely hilarious. I personally have 3 small fossils (2 teeth from aquatic creatures and a small rock with several imprint fossils) My uncle used to just collect tons of fossils he'd casually found along beaches and such

The funniest thing about the plumb bob is that you can _literally_ use it to show how the Earth is rotating. Hang it over a large bowl of sand, so the tip barely scrapes through the sand, then pull it up and let it swing. It's pendulum axis will slowly start to rotate.

38:20 Bonus fact about fossils: she's technically right in that bones/tissue *don't* survive for that long in most conditions (save for the occasional specimen that died somewhere in the permafrost - i.e. where it's below freezing year-round - or it got stuck in something that essentially seals it from bacteria like amber/tar/etc*). What *does* happen is that under much more common conditions (though again, not all the time, otherwise yes, we would be swimming in bones), bones can get buried in places where the soil composition is such that it retains the shape of the bones as they decay, and it happens so gradually that other nearby minerals trickle in and fill those gaps - so what you're left with is basically a very slow equivalent of taking a bone, pouring stuff around it to make a mould, and then pouring stuff into the mould to make a replica of the original bone. You'll see simpler versions of this in things like imprint fossils (where it was just the mark left by a shell, leaf, etc. in clay or a similarly suitable material that was preserved), or even in present-day times if someone leaves a footprint in a place where it doesn't rain very often. So yes, not actual dinosaur bones (hence why if you feel one it might feel more like stone than bone), but also not artificially made as part of some massive conspiracy to hide slightly different types of bones, and still a good representation of what the original looked like.

So much of this boils down to people that psychologically double-down on their incorrect opinions. Just like the kid eating the onion, they would rather die than ever admit they were wrong...

In school we went to a former lake where tons of nautilus could be found. Everyone got a hammer and chisel and we could wander around and explore the area. In the end we were allowed to keep the fossils we found! It was such a beautiful experience to me. Still have my little souvenirs, hehe

You have a nice theory about aliens Mark, but I personally think the aliens came, surfed 30 minutes the internet and ran away as fast as they could and THAT'S why we don't find them.

as an autistic person, I'm choosing to take "in touch with a higher dimensional world" as a compliment

I love how confused he looked when the vaccine was called a bio weapon

31:00 Gränsvärde is literally just limit in english

I'm a pansexual whose been in a monogamous relationship for 10 years. I find all sorts of people attractive, but never plan on acting on it.

The one about never being born because of a c-section is interesting, because it reminds me of Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Macbeth was prophecized that he will only be brought down by a man that wasn't born by a woman, so he felt safe until a man born through a c-section came to avenge his father. The scene went a little bit like this: - Hahah, you can't defeat me, I am destined to be defeated by someone who wasn't born by a woman! - Jokes on you, my mother had a c-section! - Holy shit I did not think about this nooo *dies*

10:03 Well, there's a whole thing in the play Macbeth where Macbeth needs to be defeated by a man not born of a woman. The line is, "from his mother's womb untimely ripped". So, by Shakespeare's definition, they wouldn't be born.

I'm a thinkin' that chikky who doesn't think we find dinosaur bones/fossils everywhere isn't really the type of person who would get her hands dirty enough to look for herself. I found several as a kid because I used to play in the gravel pits with my friends.

This is terrifying. Also, don’t ever think that clever educated people are immune to this stuff. I have a family member that is totally down that anti vax conspiracy rabbit hole. And she was the most beautiful understanding critical thinking person I ... knew. Now we are all pretending that we all weren’t vaccinated when we’re around her. And absolutely everything sets her off. I think 20 minutes is the longest I’ve gone without setting off a “conspiracy” rant. Sigh, I really miss my friend.

27:10 as an autistic person, I can confirm that my senses are extra sensitive and that’s part of the problem. I can’t eat spicy food or even particularly flavorful food because I’m so sensitive to the taste. I can also feel whenever I have a loose thread on my clothes. It’s overwhelming

I’m realizing that some of these people dig in their heals actually remind me of my mother: if she gets into an argument, she will never admit she was wrong. If presented with information to completely debunk her, she will never give you something like “Huh, okay I was wrong”, the best you’ll get out of her is “whatever”, not even an apology. I would bet that at some point these people realized they were wrong, but they will do anything to avoid actually admitting that.

I've seen a "frunk" before. One of my customers (I do people's online shopping and curbside pickup) has an electric truck with a frunk. It was really weird when I first saw it, but having all that extra storage must be great (If I recall correctly, the batteries are actually along the bottom).