Pierre-Marie Robitaille Is Clueless (Sky Scholar Debunked)

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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[Chimera]

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

[rimjhimchakraborty]

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."

[falseking]

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

[ihateroads]

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

[astroevada]

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

[Richard-bqni]

"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"

[dyslexicstoner]

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

[AlwaysANemesis]

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

[JoakimKanon]

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

[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.

[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.

[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?

[swt.angela]

"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

[nasirsiddiqui]

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.

[janus]

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

[rachelfey]

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

[DderwenWyllt]

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 ;)

[EricBurns]

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.