Pierre-Marie Robitaille Is Clueless (Sky Scholar Debunked)

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Published 2020-10-30
Keeping in the theme of debunking all kinds of cranks and con men in the realm of "alternate cosmology", let's add one more nutjob to the mix. Pierre-Marie Robitaille is a former radiologist who likes to pretend that he understands astrophysics better than astrophysicists. He doesn't. When he talks, he makes ridiculous claims and blatant errors that can be spotted by anyone with a basic understanding of physics and astronomy. Nevertheless, many gullible people speak about him like he's a genius, so I thought I'd explain quite thoroughly how he definitely isn't. If you're someone who has fallen for his lies, please watch.

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Research relevant to this video:
Using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect to discover galaxy clusters: link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S106377371902006…
More SZE stuff: arxiv.org/pdf/1203.4219.pdf
Planck results on Sachs-Wolfe effect: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2014/11/aa21526-13.p…
Use of CMB polarization to detect gravitational lensing from galaxy clusters: news.fnal.gov/2020/01/data-from-antipodal-places-f…
CMB lensing: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/375188/pdf
Planck results on gravitational lensing-infrared background correlation: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2014/11/aa21540-13.p…
More CMB lensing stuff: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/753/1…
CMB is not redshifted starlight: www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/stars_vs_cmb.html
An easy read on the CMB: medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-how-we-know-…
Study on liquid metallic hydrogen: arxiv.org/abs/1610.01634
The black hole image paper: arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1906/1906.11238.pdf
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More black hole stuff: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/729/2…

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All Comments (21)
  • @Chimera6297
    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."
  • @ihateroads7926
    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
  • @falseking989
    Divorce is hard. Especially when you’re divorced from reality.
  • @astroevada
    Pierre citing himself is literally just "Source: Dude trust me"
  • @JoakimKanon
    Pierre sounds like a flat earther without mentioning a flat earth.
  • Watching people get absolutely destroyed while I actually learn fascinating things is such a perfect form of education.
  • @mafarmerga
    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.
  • @Richard-bq3ni
    "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.
  • @Mor-tis
    "yo Pierre wanna come out here" "THE SUN IS ELECTRIC" "Just stay inside Pierre"
  • @EricBurns1
    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.
  • @jefflund5685
    "an onion of stupidity, that gets dumber with every layer you peel away". Best description ever.
  • @janus1958
    Having had many encounters the "I'm right, and the accepted science is wrong " crowd, I really appreciated this video.
  • as a physicist myself, you have no idea how happy this kind of content makes me lmao
  • @NoxaClimaxX
    “Duhhh… whoopsie! We not know how telescope work! UH-OH!” This had me laughing for a good ten minutes.
  • @metgath
    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?
  • 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
  • @LordJaric
    It is so sad that people feel so insecure that they have to delve into conspiracies just to feel special.
  • @johnboynb
    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.