The YouTube Expert Versus Actual Scientists

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The YouTube Expert Versus Actual Scientists

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The eternal struggle of scientific consensus vs. that one guy who did "research" on YouTube! While thousands of scientists spend decades in labs, publish peer-reviewed papers, and meticulously validate hypotheses, there's always that brave soul who watched a 10-minute conspiracy video and is now ready to declare the entire scientific community wrong. The beautiful irony is that the scientific method itself took centuries to develop precisely because human intuition is so often... spectacularly incorrect. Next time someone tries to disprove climate change or vaccines with "I saw a video," remember this meme and try not to laugh too hard at the statistical improbability that one random dude somehow outsmarted the collective intelligence of global research institutions.

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