See Trump Denialism Debunked By Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson 

We live in the age of stupid

I knew we were going down "the wrong path" when we elected Trump instead of a qualified president...

Me top.I thought IT was extremely dangerous.We live in svart times

That was certainly a decisive moment. Chilling with a hint of 1984.

​@@raidermaxx2324 agreed, though IMHO the last two POTUS were elected because more people voted against the other candidate rather than for a particular one...which if true is sad in another sense.....¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dumb and Dumber is based on my life.

Proving that the volume of available information cannot compensate for lazy thinking.

George Carlin, Think of the "average voter", fifty percent of voters are dumber than that!

And I believe trump has led the way to stupidity. First and foremost.

It's quite scary really.

Religion and politics are based upon tribal instincts which aren't amenable to reason and logic.

Covid has been the biggest test with people believing all sorts of nonsense coming from governments and ratified by the media that are meant to be holding governments to account.

ONLY IN MURIKA..... Time to wake up for THE Americans, who still have a few functioning neurons!!!!!

It was hard feeling like it was reliving the tdump years all over again.

@@domiro8156 Unfortunately several other countries are suffering because of political illusionist who serve corporations by either distorting facts or outright lies. England. France. Canada. More

I gave you a like. So please, don't be mad at me for saying, I hope you're not related to Ted Nugent😁

See, this right here hits the nail on the head. Society has somehow gotten twisted into this absolutely asinine belief that one loses all credibility if they make a mistake or are proven wrong about something (never mind the _staggering_ preponderance of examples to the contrary). Science does, has, and (gods, I hope) always will continue to EMBRACE being wrong. Because in order to BE wrong, it means someone ELSE got it RIGHT! A fundamental tenant of scientific method is, when proven incorrect, we REEVALUATE OUR POSITION! This current culture of sheer terror of being proven incorrect - being LIABLE for making the best decision or coming the best conclusion with the information available at the time is NOT going to encourage all the perfect, infallible people who have apparently been in hiding this whole time to come forward, seize the tiller, and lead humanity to salvation! It will breed a generation of the species too scared to speak up and do the things that need to be done, whether it offends someone, or they get later proven to be wrong about _A_ fact (they themselves received, it having been presented as gospel), or find themselves sued into oblivion, or "cancelled" by slathering moron in the Woke High Command! Can you imagine if Churchill had been too afraid of being labeled "anti-German" or "nazi-phobic" to do his part in WWII? Albeit: a temper-tantrum-throwing Hitler with his panties in a bunch screaming about "axis-shaming" DOES make for a pretty vivid mental image (quick shoutout to the social justice warriors out there still looking for a mascot: don't worry. You can say you're using it ironically. We'll totally get what you meant).

more like we shouldnt let govts make laws based on incomplete science the next einstein prolly died from DPT1 in the 80s or 90s

I'm not even mad at him for mangling the software engineer's mantra, because he makes such a valid point with it.

It's a documentary of America.

@@simonelliot3712 "Idiocracy" ? Yes, it's a documentary.

@@CraftAero Yes, I'm aware. It was as relevant then as it is now. However, here, I was making a snarky remark, implying that "Don't Look Up" was the documentary ... because, well, America.

The tipping point was the election being stolen from Gore. He was our last best hope of handling climate change.

Spoiler Alert! Idiocracy has somewhat of a happy ending compared to don't look up. But the elite do get eaten at the end of the latter. If we could just do the ending now before the comet, that would be nice.

I've been screaming about Trump since he first showed up in the 60's/70's. he was a total a$$ then, bigger a$$ now.

Hard to grasp, he was visible a long time. How can anyone with even partial smarts miss his douchebaggery? Even with the sound off?🤣

Interestingly, this devolution of critical thinking skills seems to coincide with the rise of the very thing we were told would lead to human advancement....the internet. I remember using "gophers" to download and read a document about CERN (from a Swiss site) and wondered how quickly the advancements would come. Forty years later we have people "making facts" to suit their own needs. Because of course we did.

I agree with you @Ms Maddie, but I would say it's not entirely the majority population's fault because a lot of factors that influences the minds of said population. We have a lot of disingenuous media outlets telling outright lies for financial gain or political power, you have public education doing the bare minimum to teach children how to develop critical thinking, and also have people's bias-thinking of being willfully ignorant because they are indifferent towards new information and suffers from cognitive dissonance. (Maybe the last reason I listed is a personal choice, but you understand what I mean)

@@picklepeppers6983 Excuses, excuses and MORE excuses....... instead of... at least... considering some form of action....

@@domiro8156 - Whether those things I have listed are excuses, those are the reality some people face.

Oh my, don’t say “critical” or they go on a rant about CRT but stop them in the rant, ask them the definition of Critical Race Theory. The majority can’t tell you, one they make up something bogus that they actually believe. It’s insanity.

I actually pity you - for choosing to mingle with people of substantially less intelligence and insight. That is the way COVID, herpes, and other such treasures become pandemic.

just another from a long line of losers at msnbc

Just common sense you play the odds it's not rocket science.

@UCgWr87nUt4UEZoysh4YqijA I fear you are correct.

I don't trust anything that lib's. say when they believe in "pregnant people". (btw, only biological women can be pregnant). LET'S GO BRANDON!!! F*** fauci!!! MAGA!!!

​@@timdybala7127 DON'T LOOK UP,

They STILL won't get it. GO!! Constitution!! GO Darwan!!!

@@timdybala7127 See everyone, this dolt is the quintessential Trumper. Willfully and arrogantly ignorant. This is the dotard this movie is all about.

Couple that with the old proverb, "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots" or Jonathan Swift's "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it" and you have a recipe for the exponential decay of wisdom.

Asimov predicted this decades ago

Wisdom is not about knowing, it's about understanding that you don't

Jewish space lasers. I rest my case.

Because wisdom is learned in schools books and now we are burning the ones that actually teach us what not to do as society thats what those fascist want

I found yelling abuse at those GOP style redhaatters in the movie helped...a lot!!

When it comes to climate change the biggest obstacle to carbon free energy is the left's opposition to nuclear. Many liberals pride themselves on their scientific literacy and critical thinking skills. Yet they don't notice Neil's misinformation. The man works hard to make his material entertaining but doesn't bother to check it for accuracy. He is a source of bad math, wrong physics and false history. Don't sprain your arm patting yourself on the back for your critical thinking skills.

@@HopDavid You are right in part..Nuclear is a big part of the answer, However when scientists were realising the potential, Thorium, a hugely safer option was rejected for Uranium, as the use allowed the production of more Nuclear weapons (as Nuclear weapons we now have could destroy the earth a hundred times over!) With what we face Nuclear is a real threat because if electricity fails from social breakdown and the temperature of the core rises. Boom, and the world has many reactors (Around 50 in France alone!)

@@charliebrandt2263 I'm a huge fan of Sorensen and his molten salt reactors. Indeed there are nuclear designs that reduce radioactive waste. The waste from thorium reactors has a lot of close isotopes to fissionables used in weapons. So it's a lot harder to extract weapons grade fissionable. So the design mitigates proliferation problems as well. China is putting lots of R&D into thorium reactors. But not us. And there are safer designs for uranium reactors as well. Many modern reactors are moderated with water. If the chain reaction goes out of control and the water gets hot, it evaporates. And thus the chain reaction ends. Chernobyl was moderated with graphite.

@@HopDavid And, Hollister, you had to turn a scientific situation into a political one. I'm a chemical engineer. I also believe that we each have choices. You would probably call me a "leftist," however, I don't have opposition to nuclear power. One more time, you've stated something which is not based in reality. The paradox is that is what the movie is actually talking about.

Because the non believers who they are very afraid of will tell them not too👿🤷‍♀️👿🤷‍♀️

Cause it's propaganda garbage just like MSNBC is

@@flex8707 You're whom the film is made for!🤤😂.Even though you don't get it, Don't support fascism😉

@@lbthingsstuffmore9513 Don't waste your time talking to him, he is already dead to meteor impact. MSNBC said there was a meteor, so of course it couldn't be true. And now he's dead, so I guess we'll never know the true story... It all disappears into a vague fog of ambiguity, just where conservatives like it. Can't profit off of ignorance with knowledge trying to get in the way, gotta delegitimize it

@@cosmosofinfinity it's all good! They need to be told! You never know, maybe they'll actually think. (Hoping) 💜

I don't frequently view RU-vid so didn't see this until it popped up after I watched the TED Talk "The Pursuit of Ignorance". While reading your comment it reminded me of something I said to my son 5 yrs ago, after Trump took office. That I'd always known that we had some folks in this country that didn't have their heads screwed on right but I was stunned to realize just how many don't think rationally. I had same thoughts as you, like surely they'd been to a Dr. So why did they listen to politicians over the CDC in regard to Covid? Are they gullible, ignorant or desperate to be led by others? I can't comprehend it.

@@patiencecole9786 40% of Americans believe that the Earth is ~6000 years old, was created by God in 6 days, and that Adam and Eve and the Great Flood were real. Getting that many people to believe something so ludicrously opposed to every field of science requires indoctrinating them from a young age into the beliefs and simultaneously teaching them that logical thought and changing your mind are bad things, that "faith" is the best way to approach reality.

50% of the US, believes in angels. The other 50%, have a brain.

This is how I like my NDT, not with seriously unfunny b-list comedian "Chuck" with the super white android teef!

Sagan was a great scientist, educator and author. He is missed.

Carl Sagan is my daughter's idol, and Richard Feynman is my husband's frequently quoted scientist.

@@carbul8163 There great idols to have. And there's hope they were Americans.

Degenerates who wanted to destroy civilization. Get new heros.

Quoting Huxley hahahahahaha. You can't be more any ironic if you tried, and to quote the economist who would have called out whats happening today tyranny as well. You love your servitude, has he predicted.

Study these guys' lives a little; they are not role models--more like degenerates, as someone else said. Seriously, get some new heroes.

@@black_eagle But Trump is a good role model? lol

@@Unlucky-Dube How is quoting Huxley ironic? And how would Keynes call America a "tyranny"? By what measure?

No. How about _you_ listen. _Men have choked to death on COVID denying COVID, cursing their doctors._ *WE ARE NOT GOING TO CONVINCE THESE PEOPLE OF ANYTHING EVER EVER EVER EVER!!!* They are the enemy. And they will get us all killed.

To EXAMINE ONESELF AND ONE'S PRESUMPTIONS CRITICALLY.

You mean get dumb people to listen, you can't get a Trumper to listen, I don't even think they care if they or the world dies , the last thing they want is medical care for all, because God forbid it might help people,

LOL, because your science can't stand up to basic scrutiny? How insanely awful, the literal inquiry of empricism requires it, if you are a scientist you are an awful one, to think you need to suppress evidence, information and investigation. Shame on you

@Unlucky Dube Are you a flat earther? You obviously don't know science. Without science, you wouldn't have the device you made your rather dumb reply on. Without science, you might not even be alive today--your progenitors might have died of a cut on their hand, or dysentery, measles, scarlet fever, etc. You certainly wouldn't have cars or lights or refrigeration.

2 out of 3 comments attacking you so far. The term "alternative facts" seems to have triggered them. Hardly a controversial thing and you didn't say that scientists never get any thing wrong but there's certain things that are known and agreed by all scientists without psychological issues. Something like carbon oxidization in the presence of more oxygen at a rapid rate creates heat which creates a chain reaction AKA fire but some would even object that statement.

What are "alternative facts"? Does every problem have only one solution? Only the vaccine will help? Should there be no consideration of natural immunity or health/benefit ratio? Disregarding data that does not align with a political agenda should not be part of the scientific method. PS: My wife, two kids, and I had Covid during Christmas. It was a cakewalk, and our immune systems are likely better off for having it.

@@andrewmcallister8312 the thing about conflicting information is that it's still the experts that are most suitable to review that information and how it was gathered. We get "alternate" facts when peopl hold up an extreme minority view and call it supressed information when it's really just an outlier that doesn't even necessarily have any merrit. Science is elitist in that it is a mereitocracy. What an expert in a subject thinks really does weigh heavier than what a scientist in another field thinks. All this said, with the alternative facts as Trump used it wasn't even a question of facts but rather his and his supporters not wanting to believe the only facts on the table so they made up their own, just to keep ignoring those same facts on the table. The issue of science being skewed by financial interests is not as big an issue as you might think. Sure financing is a decider for what research gets done but any bias is always accounted for and there are plenty of government run universities and foundations that fund basicly whatever research you want to do. I had long discussions about the subject with climate researchers at uni and I had to begrudgingly agree in the end.

I'm more likely to believe at that point they would have seen the rock in the sky, and claimed it was proof that the opposition are trying to scare them.

They thought the snow in Texas was sent by Democrats, remember that when they were trying to melt snowballs with lighters saying it was proof. Deluded

@@bluecheesehasmoldinit I'm Scottish, I was a mixture of amused and confused. Like seriously wtf? Omg they're actually serious! 😆😆😆

@@bluecheesehasmoldinit I feel you. It's like some terrible reality show until you remember the weirdos are real

"Most people don't know this, but the Middle East has some of the largest oil reserves in the World"

"Puerto Rico is an island, surrounded by water."

Yeah I really appreciate how he knows exactly when to just zip it and let a guest flow but also when to jump in and be like, "eh you need to clarify/support/explain this a bit more".

It's hard to get a word in edgewise with NDT.

I came here for Neil. I don't normally watch MSNBC or any mainstream media. Maybe I'll check out Ari more.

@@falkorornothing261 Ari and Mehdi are pretty awesome.

@@sempressfi I like Medhi also 👍

Narcissistic gaslighting on the level of Dalia Dippolito

I bought guns directly because the people i knew who were right wing went crazy, embracing violence and glorifying murders. My stance on guns changed drastically. Liberals need to arm up.

Yes. 99-1 is NOT 50-50.

@@fionaanderson5796 Fox News : Don't let the libs determine if you should cross the street or not.

@@thewolfdoctor761 Yes because if you listened to the liberals, you might live longer. Like in Canada with their longer life expectancy.

Who’s the, “We,” that knows anything with that level of certainty though? Neil DeGrass Tyson, who also said, “as scientists who work in labs.” Vetting complete. Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering recipient, Bill Nye “the science guy,” has no more education or insight into geological science, psychology, or biology than many of you, but either believes, like you, like fundamentalist Christians believe their doctrines, because they’ve been told by a person presented as authoritative, like a priest/pastor, like a news anchor, a handful of shill scientists, doctors, and ‘science guys,’ who hold similar degrees to my own. This is a tactic, like using big words is, repetition alone is the most effective tool they have, but the one that gets me is a marketing gem they hook you with. If they tell their target audience that they are superior in edu and/or intellect to the “lesser” others (in this case it’s presented as hillbilly MAGAtards), your ego will easily buy into it. Say that there’s a Govt agency or politician who’s lies or corruption start to come to light. They plant an agent who is playing the role of the hillbilly magatard that they’ve made you think exist en mass rather than the reality of a few cringy fringe idiots, and they will have him bring up that controversy, only it will be presented as the most crazy and ridiculous stretch of a wild theory and bonus if they can add the Sky Daddy God element into it, and it’s effective in making people think that they know what we believe, they already heard it from hillbilly MAGA and had a good hearty chuckle w Rachel Maddow that also served as a soothing ego rub. There’s always a few boomers who come in w their grifts and their religious dogma once they see energy gaining somewhere. The left has their fair share of embarrassments too, but we aren’t projecting an overlay of that fringe element onto you all and then judging your entire party based on that. This is a well oiled influence machine that succeeds in feeding you every fallacious reason to dismiss a person’s opposing idea (source, education, appeal to authority, appeal to majority, dismiss the straw man (hillbilly MAGA) argument, dismiss it over its source). The point is, you have a million ready made reasons (excuses) to condescendingly dismiss an idea without ever actually listening to or engaging with the actual idea in good faith of debating with intellectual honesty. If they can’t get you to avoid discussion altogether, they know that they’ll lose you to the other side, it happens a lot. Climate change, for instance, is earth’s status quo. We have grand solar maximums and minimums depending on the earths wobble and magnetic north. Periodically, the earth’s poles flip, and this can cause serious immediate changes and also long term climate shifts like Antarctica going from tropical to a frozen tundra, oceans become deserts, sea levels rise and fall, making islands out of the tops of mountains and volcanos once large land masses (South Pacific islands/ Hawaii, Egypt’s fertile lands to dry remnants.) This will always happen, people will always migrate when it does, therefore, no one ever has or ever will keep a land forever, even if it was all agreed apon. They (scientists) first said the earth would cool, then heat up, their predictions got so Butt blasted for being si wrong for like 20 years that they started calling it climate change, then they aren’t wrong when the climate changes, one way or another. Some scientists, who you won’t see on TV bc they are actually researching the data, say that if we are the cause of these changes, then it’s too late to change it no matter what we do. Others, think as I do, that it’s the height of hubris to think we could have that much effect on the earth. It’s an organism, we are not parasites we are a part of the system or else we wouldn’t be here. If we were harming the earth in any significant way, the earth would send its version of white blood cells out to take care of the problem, maybe like a person with lice shaves their head and let’s the hair grow back minus the lice. I don’t know for sure, but neither do they, and many will say what they are told to say bc they won’t be a big shot on tv if they decided to change their opinions. The entire system is rotten and it needs to be rebooted altogether

@@morningafternoonheadshot6741 Just an FYI the former PRESIDENT only has a bachelor’s degree as well

In all the time you've been watching Neil you haven't noticed he often gets it wrong? He is source of bad math, wrong science and false history. He gets away with it because his audience is clueless in these subjects.

@@HopDavid haven't you noticed he and a couple other billion here on earth are humans and as humans we are not always correct .. Things evolve change right before our very eyes so yesterday's info is not right for today .just remember i do not go to a mechanic for a heart attack . i will put my trust in people who have schooling in what i ever i need for that particular need but by all means go do you. Me on the other hand will go on living my life .

@@chrislopez5737 I'm not talking about cutting edge science theories that are modified as hypothesis are tested and data is gathered. I'm talking about basic science. Stuff taught in high school or freshman physics. I'm also talking about history. Tyson's stories regarding Bush, Ghazali, Newton and Copernicus are false. Mostly stuff he has made up. Although some of his false history is stuff he's repeated from other fiction writers.

@@HopDavid cool cool i see what you are saying .. Thank you

In fairness, the WSJ piece came out 23 December, not the end of January. That said, the piece argues that the Elon Musks of this world will make money even as the world ends. And that isn’t just a stupid remark. It is profoundly immoral.

Tyson will tell us gravity falls off exponentially with distance. Or that artificial spin gravity scales with angular velocity. And nobody blinks an eye. Someone with critical thinking skills will make it a habit to check claims to see if they're supported by evidence. And yet Neil's wrong math, bad science and false history generally go unchallenged by his clueless audience. When it comes to climate change the biggest obstacle to carbon free energy is the left's opposition to nuclear.

When the exception is now the rule, even when science is well founded and established understanding is minimized. The world scientist are aghast that their data is invalidated due to commercialization, religious dogma, apathy, and tribalism is more relevant. Scholars, sages, philosophers, probably turn in their graves if they could hear. See the movie and you will be bombarded with so much of today's belief systems that you may want to stop the madness and bury our heads. Brave it out and try to let it all sink in. Scary and possible only if we don't do the due diligence and experience some of the issues and characters portrayed.

@@HopDavid citations?

@@DocBree13 Don't hold you breath - just saying...

@@DocBree13 He has nothing to back up his statement as they are nothing more than deeply held personal opinion. And we all know how valuable personal opinion is.

I started watching it but couldn’t finish because it was too f’ing realistic. Every cringey reaction to the comet news was a direct hit.

WHy does CERN want to quantum tunnel through the higgs field?

@@Syncrotron9001 To get to the other side.

Gopher hole

regarding your statement-"You almost kinda can't make this stuff up."...you mean like the 2011 movie, "Contagion" and how it is almost EXACTLY like the 2019-present covid-19 situation?

Well, a certain segment of today's people don't understand that Orwell's 1984 was written as a Warning; they are using it as an Instruction Manual!

well, the Trumpists are as awake as they care to be...and they`re fine with that...good luck to them

I'm not sure they'll get it.

@@farmer6722 so let the deluded continue to be deluded? How does that help? Don't pick on people whose ideas differ? Even if THEY ARE WRONG? That's exactly why the USA is in this mess. People have been lied to by conmen and there's no consequences.

@@farmer6722 It wasn't the ideas that are a problem. It's the faulty reasoning.

SM AMEN!

He had the same opinion on voting too.

@@alanheyes694 Exactly. "Why didn't they stop counting when I was ahead?"

"It will be gone by Easter".

One of the many stupid quotes from Frump. The problem is the many ignorant American doesn't get it.

@@heyoou sad part is they probably will never get it til its way too late.

That would be a great idea, except the modern GQP would use it as a template to follow rather than an allegory of ignorance and mediocracy to be afraid of and to guard against.

The sad thing is it's a pretty crappy movie. Great concept, lazily written movie. I think if they knew what kind of impact their title would have had in pop culture, they might have spent more time on the screenplay.

@@christopherhughes8402 Heh

@@generalyellor8188 Yeah it's done like a pine-apple express type comedy. The dire message is lost among the irreverence a bit.

He literally said don't trust what you see. Trust what we say. Different situation ofc.

Trump must have the smoothest brain the world has seen.. smooth smoothie brain..

Unfortunately it goes a lot deeper than that, the US scientists and medical people also did something almost equivalent until recently. It took them literally more than a year to realise that the US wasn't requiring quarantine or any significant measures when compared to Western Pacific WHO region. They also failed to recognize that Americans will fight anything, it happened way back with HIV. Even after men with guns stormed the Michigan State Capitol building it was seen as , it's just a handful of radicals. Evidence can be right in front of you but biases and hubris mean you can't see it and I am talking about highly qualified people who in a different environment would perform far better. Or another way of putting it the US's covid 19 response had systemic failures, so far you actually only got one thing right and completed and that is the supply of vaccines but you still can't get enough people vaccinated and now have the worst death toll of any wealthy country on a per Capita basis. American exceptionalism could also be called big , powerful and arrogant.

@@annoyedaussie3942 "Americans will fight anything," goes back to the Revolutionary War.

No such thing as a covid19 test. Its a lung cancer screening test designed to trigger on detection of exosomes and human chromosone #8. I am kidding of course lol. Who would believe such nonsense?!

I agree...except...it hasn't just been the 'past five years'. This sort of thing has been a present for nearly (if not all) of 'human history'. So far, we have been collectively intelligent enough to overcome it, marginalize the doubters, and continue to move forward. The problem is that it has accelerated and faced with the next set of obstacles to overcome it is now entirely plausible that WE (as a species) ultimately fail. The only 'bright spot' is that life has , and always will, 'find a way'......so even if our fate is to be left to fossil records and future archaeological digs, life itself will persevere.

@@michaelbeelby1995 No, it hasn't just been for 5 years and it also has not been in America for all of its history. The stupidity we are witnessing in our country now is a legacy of the Reagan administration: Our present problems started after Ronald Reagan's FCC abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable, and balanced. It has been this singular act that has really served to create these self-serving loudmouth talk radio personalities and their echo chambers that have divided the country and continue to disseminate lies and promote chaos with the goal of causing the people of America to lose faith in our democracy and our institutions, including the media, that prop up that democracy.

Why would you need a reminder. You freaks haven't shut up about your feelings for literal years.

Trump's space force is up there.

Longer than a fiver!😂 Decades!

infuriating because it unfortunately mirrors our current reality. *Both Infuriating and extremely sad.*

I couldn't keep watching The Handmaid's Tale because it gave me the feeling of that's where we're headed.

@@RadianHelix Yes! That's brilliant and so true! Those newscasters in Idiocracy...

I'm scared to watch it...I don't like to be that frustrated!

it was Hollywood roasting itself "okay can we get a selfie of me under the approaching asteroid?"

Yep.

Unless you like your comet with extra death

Ya the Film is Propaganda to be force to have your Government rule over you instead a actual partnered citizen democracy.

Political idiots emboldened by their supporters.

@@roboparks How so?

Science-Denial and the crazyness of treating Goverment and Science as if they were Identical and the Same are giant Issues thar erode Society. In a mere YT-Comment, i could never do this Topic Justice, but please, be my guest: Professor Dave, Sci Man Dan, Joe Scott, Wisecrack and basically all Flat-Earth-Debunekrs (as Flat Earth is a direct and well documented Result of Goverment-Distrust on crippling levels) are available on YT. Please dive into it.

I don't trust anything that lib's. say when they believe in "pregnant people". (btw, only biological women can be pregnant). LET'S GO BRANDON!!! F*** fauci!!! MAGA!!!

@@timdybala7127 This isn't a left vs. right issue. It's an acceptance of reality issue.

@@timdybala7127 - you're down to one brain cell and it misfires

@@timdybala7127 everyone knows a biological woman can give birth. So can any other female animal in the world. So whats ur point brainwashed Trumper.

@@timdybala7127 is this a side effect of the livestock meds?..

Love the film but don’t love having to explain it to stupid people. Some just don’t get it

Yes, very current.

@The One Oh, do tell. Tell us all about it. Put your cookie down and wipe the crumbs off your mouth.

Go figure, right? Although... 98% of people are not. Reasonable and complete, that is. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

He is great, they are great, your comment is great, my admiring your admiration is great. Thank you Jesus.

@Arsene Lupin III Untrue. Passionate people make great scientists.

@Arsene Lupin III Aw, you’re sweet 😊 Though, I’m probably old enough to be your mom.

@Arsene Lupin III Well, I stand corrected! You're four years older than me. Appreciate the offer, but I don't date or seek romantic relationships whatsoever. I'm happiest and healthiest on my own 🙂

@Arsene Lupin III Why do you think I can cook? And thanks 😊 but I’m a lone wolf 🐺

🎯

You mean rated or rating? Cause ratings are in the tank.

Watch Jimmy Dore

What do ratings even mean in 2022? And what do you mean when you say "top rated"? If the show is drawing 1.3 million viewers, then how successful is it, really?

Yes, ... like Trump wants to go nuclear with the hurricane...

Murica!

That's right Buster. And I got 2 words for you:"Smith" and "Wesson"!

I like that one!

Exactly!

same as the word 'faith' means not knowing and not wanting to.

J M Although I respect Nietzsche, I've never fully embraced this point in particular. The point seems to be its own rebuttal as you have to believe what he says about what belief is in order to agree with him. I think belief is and must be applied to every step of development no matter what the developmental area is in question. When we learn a new scientifically sound fact, our belief in the result; in the objective truth of what we see is still required in order for the finding to be publicly viable. I think there are other..more sociologically based reasons for the denial of objective truth and that is what is exploited in life and in this film.

Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see Translation: Faith is the acceptance of what is not demonstrably and of what is demonstrably not true, making faith the most dishonest position it is possible to have on any subject.

9:36 Holy crap that scene is scary. Not because of the comet but because ignorance could literally destroy us.

Watch Jimmy Dore

Do you believe that you can catch and spread covid even after being vaccinated? If so why are people being mandated to take an experimental vaccine in order to work? Believe in science.

@@Kick_Rocks You can spread it, but it's mitigated according to a recent study by UK Health Ministry showing 70% efficacy in prevention of symptomatic infection, meaning less viral load, meaning usually less transmissibility. Vaccines also shorten duration of illness, which shortens window of opportunity to transmit. There is nothing "experimental" about it when hundreds of millions have taken it with extremely rare and minimal causal-linked adverse side effects. No logical reason to assume long term side effects are possible from a vaccine whose ingredients are gone from your body after a month either. We need mandates AND massive fines for unvaccinated who endanger others' lives.

@@VesperAegis You are a Fascist. The vaccine does not prevent you from becoming infected. We all know that. Punitive measures are authoritarian.

Earth is an Oblate Spheroid -Neil Tyson

Neil's fans sprain their arms patting themselves on the back for their scientific literacy. And yet they don't notice when he botches basic math and science. Tyson is a source of wrong math, bad science and false history.

@@HopDavid so recommend some right sources then......

@@HopDavid So who or what sources do you recommend to people?

It starts with teaching children to believe in fake things, and then they grow up thinking that imaginary things are real; that believing is more important than knowing.

@@farmer6722 It depends on what you mean by "worse." Cases are a lot worse now, but deaths are not.

@@farmer6722 Yes, Because of the Vaccines! Try asking a 5th grader to explain it to you, Bless your heart🙄❗

@Jock Young actually, the deaths are worse now because almost ALL of them could have been prevented by simply getting the vaccine, AND we COULD have almost been DONE with this pandemic. BUT NOOOOOO, there are just enough people out there who bought into and CONTINUE to buy into the bs politics that NEVER should have happened.

People lost family members and still denied it. No hope

@Roberto Vidal Garcia well said. People would rather die then admit they’re wrong. So weird

No.

Science-Denial and the crazyness of treating Goverment and Science as if they were Identical and the Same are giant Issues thar erode Society. In a mere YT-Comment, i could never do this Topic Justice, but please, be my guest: Professor Dave, Sci Man Dan, Joe Scott, Wisecrack and basically all Flat-Earth-Debunekrs (as Flat Earth is a direct and well documented Result of Goverment-Distrust on crippling levels) are available on YT. Please dive into it.

"Amazing film". No, it really wasnt, sorry. I WISHED and i WANTED it to be good but it was surprisingly bad.

I totally understand your feelings, I had to turn it off because it points out the mass of illogical people in this country that are susceptible to the lies.

You describe modern life , i try to laugh through the tears too. :-(

It's a simplified scenario because with a comet strike it's just straightforward physics, no muddy modeling of living systems involved. On the other hand, if its the size of Mount Everest, we can't do much about it anyway.

So typical. Economic growth is sky-high, pay is up, unemployment is down, stocks are up (ok, not so much over the last few days, but they’re way up overall). Somehow Republicans can always spin all of that as bad news whenever they want, and of course the mainstream media falls for it. These are never enough when there’s a Democratic president.

Does Neil confer understanding? Many of his stories and explanations are wrong. Does his audience notice? No. So, no, he often just adds to their confusion. But he delivers his misinformation with a smooth, confident voice. So his audience is left with the impression they're better informed. When it comes to climate change the biggest obstacle to carbon free energy is the left's opposition to nuclear.

@@HopDavid I've never heard Neil do what you are referring too. But Im always open to listen, if you have any link or source to share? I am interested in what you are referring too. Cause every time Ive watched Neil explain science its alignment is spot on with current scientific discoveries. Neil is very careful not to confuse or mislead. he has dedicated his life to bring science to everyone.

Agreed, which plays into him being one of the sexist men alive!

@@HopDavid Wait who tf on the left is opposed to nuclear? I can tell you with a lot of confidence none of the left leaning people I know in person are, they have gone on rants about it.

@@NotAce25 The first version of the Green New Deal advocated by Ocasio Cortez and Senator Markey called for phasing out all existing nuclear plants and nixing the possibility of building new ones. The most recent version allows for continued existence of existing nuclear power plants. But if it includes building new ones, I'm not aware of it. According to ABC News. Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power and shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy was first taken by the center left government of Gerhard Schroeder in 2002. Angela Merkel reversed her decision to extend the lifetime of Germany's nuclear plants and set 2022 as the final deadline for shutting them down. Angela Merkel was seen by many as the new standard bearer of liberal democracy since the election of Trump. And now Putin has Germany and much of Europe over a barrel. Europe remains addicted to Russia's natural gas and Biden as well as Europe are in a vulnerable position if Putin invades Ukraine. I'm happy to hear that you as well as other liberals are ranting for nuclear. Did Cortez and Biden get the memo? How about the greenies in Europe? I believe we need to do something about climate change. I'm all for solar panels on every roof. But trying to shift to a carbon free world with no nuclear is already becoming a disaster. A disaster that increases Putin's power and will likely get Trump re-elected.

I don't believe you.

Doomsday theology. Take your pick and.

I like the Message but the movie was just bad in the objectivel terms how you measure Quality; stuff like Editing and Story and Plot Holes and all such. BUT WHATEVER. I just wanna say: Science-RU-vidrs literally are bravely fighting against Nonsense. Not just against one of the most ‚crystalized forms’ of Anti-Science: FLAT EARTH. But against much more. Please, people, go and seek some out; support ‚em.

Exactly. People conflate belief with facts (knowledge). The two are not interchangeable. And its done for the basest of reasons. As if to create a separate reality.

@@gladtobefreeagain7375 - Yep. People have been devolving even though science has been evolving.

The boards they hold up have the same colours, even the same font as the Trump signs.

As I recall, Trump literally said “Don’t listen to the media”, another match.

@@jeffinkhobar5711 "When there is a poll that is bad for me, I say it's fake. When it is good for me, I say it is the most reliable poll ever made". He tells his cult right in their faces "I will lie about ANYthing to make myself look good", and they simply say "Great! We only want to hear good news from our new messiah!: Burn the books that do not tell us America is the best!"

I guess really the first of this ilk was _The China Syndrome_ , though it stayed within the industry. It didn't involve politics.

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Update: I watched the movie, it was pretty heartbreaking to watch the world leaders bow down to corporate power and waste their one chance to destroy the comet. However the message I take from the way Leonardo DiCaprio’s going out having a thanksgiving dinner with his friends and family, is death is inevitable and we just make the most of the time we have left.

Look beyond the US, and even beyond the former Pres within the US. The whole world got their act together fairly quickly, record time for vaccines, implementation of lockdowns, social distancing, mask wearing, and materials for these donated or sold cheaply by countries to other countries. Our species has actually done very well, despite the recalcitrants.

@@barryschwarz what does your comment have to do with the statement you are replying too??

@@cantlos3 The comment was about how terrible national leaders are and the people assigned to mitigate an oncoming disaster. My reply was to counter that. National and state level leaders and the people assigned to deal with COVID have done remarkably well worldwide. Even the people under Trump did better than Trump. I think what's happened here is 2 Americans, you and the original commenter, have decided this conversation can only be about America. But even America had some success stories (like helping get a vaccine in record time).

@@barryschwarz oh i got it, your a troll and immediately had to post an oppositional view to a random comment…nice work!

@@cantlos3 Nope, I think there is reason to be optimistic about our crazy species and I posted that. Dunno what you're up to, but I think the accusation you just laid on me reflects on you, too, eh?

If only Al Gore hadn't made that movie.

@@pdcdesign9632 If only anyone on the right were even capable of making such a movie

Agreed - you know what you call "alternative medicine" that actually works? Medicine.

Actually I have to disagree. There is no alternative truth. Period. There are alternative facts. The ones you discover and build into your models to describe the world. The most prominent I could think of is the discovery of Galilei that the earth is not the center of the universe. To the people at that time it sounds like an alternative truth but it was an alternative fact. As more and more scientists agreed on that fact it became the truth. It's just a minor flaw in your argument but I think it's essential.

Exactly. So stop watching MSNBC.

The problem is determining what the truth actually is.

@@TheKobiDror Uh, NO this is VERY incorrect - because we learn new information does not mean there are alternative facts - it means what we thought were facts WERE NOT. We were WRONG. Meaning those were NOT facts - they were incorrect based on incorrect information, period. A fact is a fact regardless of your knowledge of or understanding of it. Because you incorrectly think something is a fact does not make it a fact - it makes you WRONG.

But it wasn't 100%, so... 😉

That lost 2.2% means his entire opinion is invalid and garbage and completely misguided from top to bottom and just liberal propaganda Hillary's emails Hillary's emails Hillary's emails

The blasphemy is that They didn't confer with God the almighty who knows. And if this is what is that is it What is to be!! /s

I fear the same can be said about faith. God won't protect you from natural disasters or human ignorance but that doesn't stop people from following the lord.