I like Terry Pratchetts proposals for 'Retro-phrenology'. Basically, you decide the kind of person you want to be, and then some guys show up with hammers.
Dogs are more intelligent than people? FALSE!!! Cats are more intelligent than people! They live in peoples houses, don’t do didily squat, ignore people and sleep 90% and we let them do all that and we still love them. Cats absolute legends! Allegedly!
Sorry about this episode. For some reason I uploaded the advert-preview version we send to sponsors, rather than the final MASTERPIECE. What might annoy you: - It's a bit slower paced, some stuff I would have cut out remained in. - No background music. - No pre video teaser. - No post video clip. - Super LOUD "stinger" at the start. Fun.
_Read in Simon's "comment criticisms" voice:_ *Simon that's so unprofessional, we deserve better than this! You're a total knob prick! Let Danny and Sam out of the basement!*
This would only work well if Simon didn't know about it beforehand (or if Danny waited until Simon wasn't expecting it), but it'd be absolutely amazing if one day Danny just wrote an entire script that was JUST introduction, just to see how many pages in Simon got before checking the rest of the script or something to see when the "actual topic" began, only to see that it ended with Danny mentioning this very recommendation...
@@pert-smith no allegedly needed for this one. He was arrested and went to trial. Now if I said he'd "murdered someone," that would be allegedly as the killing was ruled to be self-defense (under some what dubious circumstances) but the fact that a man died isnt being disputed by anyone.
"We're not here to solve moral issues, we're just here to pass judgment on pricks" should be the channel's official slogan. At the very least, it belongs on a shirt.
I like the concept of retro-phrenology. Hit someone on the head in precise ways to adjust their personality, intelligence etc. (credit to Terry Pratchett)
hah, I remember ear candling... My cousin, who regularly visits psychics and is eager to hop on any new age trend, was touting the virtues of it and convinced my mom to hold an "ear candling party" My cousin didn't appreciate when I demonstrated that the same "gunk" appeared even when not inserted into an ear. She didn't speak to me for several years after that, which I was surprisingly ok with.
I want to see that. It's exactly what I think of ear candling, that the gunk could be produced without actually putting it in an ear, but that didn't happen with my one attempt. If I could work out the particular non-ear based conditions that create the same gunk, I'd share that to a number of people i know.
I too refused to participate in ear candling. Some idiot friend of an idiot acquaintance kept on and on and ducking on about it until I left the pub. It was one of very few new age things my grandmother didn't try ramming down my throat.
So my sister used ear candles for just cleaning her ears periodically. You can buy a pack of 2 from Walmart...and you are supposed to cut off the flame every inch. I was very skeptical and afraid! But after getting a bunch of random ear aches, thought it might help. (It semi did, but I still get them sometimes so probably not related) I was certain that the wax was from the candle itself! And I think next time I buy them.... I'll experiment and see. She never claimed anything about it but cleaning ear wax out. So no butt future reading there!
@@maeve_a Depends on what type of candle used. Some types of candle wax leave more wax that discolors to a yellowish to brown that looks like earwax to some people.
It's not new age. It's been around for a few generations, actually. At least here in France and the people who are fond of it don't care if it's fake they keep doing it anyway. Idk.
I have never seen that word spelled before for a second I thought you were being Nazi, if Germans didn't want their words to look Nazi they really went about it wrong way
27:25 I just want to point out that when police started using the polygraph as evidence, it's inventor was horrified as it wasn't meant to be an accurate lie detector, it was just a neat little machine he whipped up to see if it could tell if someone was nervous.
I’m 100% addicted to this channel right now, the entire formula is perfect, you’re conversing with the audience, Danny, and sometimes Sam all while reading a well written script that you can barely get through, I think you might actually have adhd or actually be on coca-cola 😂
Dowsing can genuinely cause harm, some professionals trust it as a way to "detect" man made objects under the ground in the hopes that it can prevent accidents which can end badly if someone hits a gas line with a backhoe.
There's loads of people who swear by dowsing round my way. I live in one of the wettest parts of the UK & you can't put a spade in the ground without hitting water, but sure, that little stick found it for you...
Like got his med licence revoked bad, so the Court of science found him guilty for falsifying data (the cardinal sin of science!) And a side of conflict of interest just for good measure!
@@caracrotalus yes, exactly!!! He's responsible for a LOT of illness and death since he completely falsified his data and thus convinced people that vaccines cause autism and even though this has been completely misproven, people still think he was right. He was LEGIT BAD.
Yep, his brand of bullshit is STILL causing problems today and its getting worse. As more and more people start believing that Vaccines are bad, we're getting closer and closer to having outbreaks of measles and polio again. Hell, its even already happening in some places where antivax wingnuts are especially prevalent.
Longer ago than that. My hippie-ish parents did this back in the 70's-80's. They also did low carb, vegan, fresh pressed juice, and home gardens back in the 80's-90's... it's funny looking back on that now. They were hipsters before hipsters were cool 😄
i'm an old hippy from oregon - the place where hippies go to fade away... ear candles are great. they worked really well and it's a property of physices of heat rising and carrying "debree" with it. your fireplace gets hot, boils sap and heat rises carrying smoke up and out. it's the same principal of the ear candle, takes a minute or so to warm the inside of the ear and establish the venting property. the candle must be, MUST BE made properly and i'm not going to go into it as its been awhile and people should do their own research and make up their own mind. it feels wonderful...warm and cozy. the proper mix of fabric and wax burns the fabric to a fine almost no ash and just blows away. we never had a problem but AFTER DOING MORE RESEARCH DECIDE FOR YOURSELF!! MY EXPERIENCE WAS MY EXPERIENCE AND I CANNOT SPEAK TO WHAT ANOTHER'S EXPERIENCE MAY BE.....
@@katrinamarina4692 I noticed when I watched my aunt do it, the inside wax looked yellow, & was partially sticky, unlike the thin white coating of paraffin on the candle...
@@DreAmeoba1 yes the inside of the "candle" would become coated heavily, depending, with a crumbly yellowish debris. different than just the candle itself.
@@LizRealGirlBeauty oh I watch the ads right the way through and occasionally click their links to make the advertisers pay the creators (and YT) because I want to suck as much money out of these questionable advertisers as possible
Well, yes...but also no. For example, there are a lot of plants with demonstrated medicinal effects which haven't made their way into "regular" medicine. To some extent, it's the "trying to drink from a firehose" effect. Doctors have so many pharmaceutical options available that there's small incentive to promote something for which the dose is hard to regulate and can't be bought at a local pharmacy. The flip side of that, of course, is that many people reject conventional medicine for something else "because it's natural" without understanding that "natural" isn't synonymous with "safe". The Toxic Reef Crab is so poisonous that natives historically used it for suicide. But, hey, it's all natural! Like...you know...cobra venom. If some extract of flora or fauna works as medicine, it's because it's doing what medicine does, ergo is potentially just as dangerous or worse. But there are nevertheless plants you can grow in your yard that have demonstrated efficacy as medicine. It's (in my opinion) always worth looking into things that are purported to be medicinal but you have to do it with a degree of skepticism and evaluate it by the scientific method.
@@itsapittie Unsure how serious @TheInternetHelpdesk was being, but their comment is a quote from a song, a video for which I've posted below. ruclips.net/video/KtYkyB35zkk/видео.html
Bonus phrenology fact: when Jonathan Swift died, a bronze cast was made of his skull so that phrenologists could study it after he died and (try to) figure out what made him so brilliant. They never figured out anything, but that bronze cast is still on display at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.
Simon, Please check on ETA... No reason..... Really, just check to make sure the chains it's attached to in the basement are extra solid... No reason...
I hope he's ok, or Sam and Danny will only have the boiler for heat. That would seem like enough, but Simon has never bought them clothing so they're wearing what they had on when Simon captured them. And it's been a long time, those clothes must be threadbare and full of holes. They need that extra bit of ETA to survive the winter.
I've met people who still bring up phrenology as if it were relevant, the world of political debates on the internet is a cesspool which will ruin your belief in human intelligence.
Either that or you just get to learn some psychology. IE the average person is pretty stupid. Which of course means that near half are more stupid than that. They then believe "wot me mate sed daan the pub" has equal validity to a peer reviewed medical journal article.
I always liked the idea of retrophrenology that was brought up in a footnote in a discworld book. Instead of feeling up someones skull to conclude personality traits from dents in your head, a retrophenologist is a troll with a big hammer that puts the necessary dents into your head
For further reading: "Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways To Cure Everything" by Lydia Kang MD & Nate Peterson It's filled with both information and snark. Great book.
@@TitularHeroine It was, at least, the name of a classic Klingon. Okay, he wasn't a doctor but he did floor Kirk with a backhand; that's gotta be worth something.
Smithers: Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago. Mr Burns: Of course you'd say that. You have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter.
I have a family member in the field of criminal defense. You would be amazed how many people will willingly agree to having their phones unlocked to determine where they were during a crime. Even after being explicitly told they don't have to, and it will be admitted into evidence. And it totally shows that yes, they were at the scene of the crime. Completely blowing their alibi and any chance of a not guilty verdict. So I can believe people would be willing to submit to a polygraph even when they are guilty.
Up to now I was convinced that Phrenology was just some kind of medical approach to massage, and I didn't understood why it got so much shit. Tks Simon&Crew to make me finally spend a few second on Wikipedia.
Well I seem to remember from uni that the worm experiment had some merit. Warning, long and boring explanation ahead. Firstly they were flatworms, not annelids (earthworms) which are very simple creatures with a bunch of biological quirks (such as being able to basically rearrange all their cells). They trained them to curl up when exposed to light (by exposing them to light then shocking them a bunch of times) then chopped the trained flatworms up and fed them to untrained worms. Those fed worms then would curl up significantly more often when exposed to light than non-cannibalistic worms. So they theorized there was some uptake of genetic material or an important molecule such as RNA that led to this across the digestive system. Of course flatworms have very simple digestive systems so large molecules could potentially cross the barrier. Not possible in humans at all so edible learning is still far off fantasy. Hope people enjoyed this and if anyone knows more than I do on this I'd love to hear it.
8:10 Hotel Rwanda is a great movie about the genocide that you should watch if you haven't already. Somehow my teacher got away with showing us it in class, but that's likely because he didn't give 2 fucks and knew the school wasn't gonna fire him anyway.
Effective education comes through informative use of movies imho . Maybe we were to young to appreciate all of it but, we had an art teacher at 8th and 9th grade who "made us" watch "Mad max the road warrior", "Terminator" and for many reasons a large diversity of movies like "Pretty in pink", "Citizen Kane", "Rick Kirby",and "Do the right thing". Among many other movies that we as a class had to analyze at length and listen to the teachers long, and in depth monologue evaluations Etc, but those were popular classes indeed. "Hotel Rwanda" would probably had made her list, but this was before the Rwandan genocide.
My teacher showed us Hotel Rwanda in grade 7 or 8 social studies. Same teacher also showed us a quite graphic anime about the atomic bombs dropping in Japan. Those were the good ol days (2006)
I am teaching my dog to speak via button presses. They cannot ask normal questions, but they can tell you what they want, even argue with you, huffs and woofs included. The fact they don't ask questions shows that they have less developed grammar abilities, but I would love to try giving a dog the grammar gene some birds and dolphins have.
1:08. That's the best part of the videos. The fact and learning stuff is good and Simon's presentation is adequate but the stuff sprinkled in is what makes these watchable. Give Sam a raise!!
Either a Blazer went in and edited the Steve Jobs Wikipedia in the last hour just to troll (wouldn't put it past any fellow OG legend) or Simon was actually right in remembering something about someone. Steve Jobs did choose alternative medicine instead of living.
Oh man, I'd forgotten ear candling was a thing. A very gullible relative was briefly a "practitioner" and for some reason a bunch of us got together at a great-aunt's house for dinner and candling. The procedure was about as awkward and uncomfortable as you'd expect, but exponentially more awkward as a teenager lying on my great-aunt's bed with a candle in my ear and half my family standing around watching. So, uh, thanks for dredging up that memory? Based on a sample size of roughly 8 or 9 people, and compared to no control group whatsoever, I can report that ear candling did not even placebo-effect any of us to better health or hearing. And that bit of random anecdata is probably a better-designed clinical study than the proponents of ear candling ever performed.
Simon, I say this with so much affection, and adoration for this channel, from the bottom of my heart, that was genuinely THE SMOOTHEST ad transition you’ve ever made 😂 I almost didn’t even realise....
On chiropractic medicine: Have you ever looked at the core tenets of chiropractic? It's clear pseudoscience. That said unlike other pseudoscience it's not entirely ineffective. The difference is it's not more effective than other therapies and it poses more risk. For a doctor who takes the hippocratic oath, and is legally bound to do risk versus benefit assessments for any procedure, one should never recommend chiropractic medicine, in my opinion. There are better alternatives, such as deep tissue massage, stretching, rolfing, Phyaical therapy, etc. These may also be applied by a chiropractor, but they should just leave out the pseudoscience.
Yeah...I use chiros. But...I have to sort out the quackery and find ones that are efficient at correcting specific subluxations. As I have hypermobile joints that sublux and even fully dislocate, and cannot always get them back in place on my own, a GOOD chiro is a necessity. They may spend the rest of their time just making people's spines make impressive noises and selling ear candles, but whatever...as long as they're there when I need them, because MDs suck at dealing with hypermobile joints and it's insanely expensive to go to an ER just because I coughed hard and put a rib out.
@@maeve_a Funny but I also have to use that same technique with 'regular' MD's. There are oaths and then there are oaths and the effectiveness of the oath is never put up to scientific scrutiny.
"We're not here to solve moral issues, we're just here to pass judgment on pricks." This has been my lifelong motto. Pretty sure we're kindred spirits, my boi.
Having pseudo as a prefix usually doesn't mean something good. For example, when I worked in the ER, people who would fake seizures for attention would be having "pseudo-seizures..." Sounds very sophisticated, but the reality is very different.
Wait just a goddamn minute. There was no post credit scene here? I sat through that exhaustive list of 3 names for nothing?? That's the best part of these shows, and you just leave us high and dry?
A family friend believes in homeopathy. He used to try and convince me but he stopped after I burst out laughing when he told me I wouldn't have to take my epilepsy medication anymore 😂
"elon wasn't playing with the cheat codes on" He grew up hyper rich and was part of the paypal mafia, google him and peter theil then blaze Danny, blaze hard
"elon musk didnt kill anyone" I dont know, Starman looked a little to life like to just be a mannikin, and chucking a body into space would have been the best way to dispose of a body
Oh man, when I was in high school I lived with a family that regularly used ear candles. My mother was curious what exactly came out of her ear and asked me to take it to school and look at it under the microscope. With support of my biology teacher, we concluded that it was pollen from the beeswax. I haven't allowed my ear to be candled since moving out of that house.
We have petrol stations yeah, where you fill the car up with petrol, but also services where there's like.. a bigger car park, you can fill the car up but also grab some food and a newspaper or something because there's some shops and fast food places.
@@ollieb9875 again that just sounds like a normal gas station to me... It's more uncommon that it doesn't have a little shop with snacks and drinks and cigarettes and beer and lottery tickets etc etc. In the USA most gas stations include a little convenience store.
@@patrickobrien5311 yes, quite right, a petrol station normally has a shop attached. You might be able to buy some food, drinks, chocolate whatever and also plastic fuel cans, windscreen washer fluid that kind of thing. The difference I think I was trying to make between petrol station and services is that as well as the little shop and petrol there may well be a café attached, toilets, and a McDonald's next door, a little chef maybe which is a shitty restaurant chain, these kind of things. 👍🍻 More businesses than just the petrol pumps and little shop 😁
I've definitely known people who were less intelligent than some dogs I've known. However, while the dogs were smart dogs my comment is more about those people than the dogs.
Homeopathy for a broken phone: Your phone screen is cracked from being dropped. The reason for the crack is a large impact. Therefore we'll make a little half an inch hammer with a tiny 0.1 gram head and hit the phone repeatedly until fixed.
I have to say it's nice to discover a more relaxed channel by Simon ( I watch Top 10) to see more of his natural personality rather than soley his fact base script. He's absolutely hilarious and very watchable. It's mad to hear him swear 😂 I love him even more now
This didn’t age well considering musks father just admitted to being in the illegal gems trade and that’s part of the money he inherited BUT NO CHEAT CODES it’s clear he’s just a genius and not at all an untalented money baby taking credit for other peoples work
When simon comes up with a business blaze including phrenology after you just handed in an assignment on the effect of phrenology and physiognomy on criminology in 19th century Britain 😂😂😂. You missed being referenced Simon
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Just here to again say that I love you Simon ❤️ 😍
10/10 for blaze. Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.
Love that new #ETA chanel
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@@SRW_ a german is telling you to say please. ,😘
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I like Terry Pratchetts proposals for 'Retro-phrenology'. Basically, you decide the kind of person you want to be, and then some guys show up with hammers.
every time I hear anyone talking about phrenology I think about this. He was a genius.
‘When magic is involved, one in a Million chances happen 8 times out of 10 . ‘
Dogs are more intelligent than people? FALSE!!!
Cats are more intelligent than people! They live in peoples houses, don’t do didily squat, ignore people and sleep 90% and we let them do all that and we still love them. Cats absolute legends! Allegedly!
@@philvanderlaan5942 this is why the slaughter should be aimed at those freeloading vermin
@@philvanderlaan5942 - Well, cats are certainly more intelligent than people who think there's an apostrophe between the t and the s in "cats".
Also, new shirt idea, "Trust me. I'm a pseudoscientist" 😂😂😂
Please!
Yes!! F*ck Gwyneth!! 😅
I would definitely buy this!
@@IntrepidFraidyCat me too!! I'd have to buy a hoodie cuz I live in the NW. But I'd wear it everywhere. Lol.
Omg yes please
Sorry about this episode. For some reason I uploaded the advert-preview version we send to sponsors, rather than the final MASTERPIECE.
What might annoy you:
- It's a bit slower paced, some stuff I would have cut out remained in.
- No background music.
- No pre video teaser.
- No post video clip.
- Super LOUD "stinger" at the start.
Fun.
_Read in Simon's "comment criticisms" voice:_
*Simon that's so unprofessional, we deserve better than this! You're a total knob prick! Let Danny and Sam out of the basement!*
I always watch until the last second of the video for the final scene of you doing ... whatever. I was sad that it was missing this time!
I love this format. Very entertaining, relaxed, and comfortable.
I thought the purge was starting when that stinger went. It was that loud and sudden.
Just one question: where did you get the amphetamines...?
This would only work well if Simon didn't know about it beforehand (or if Danny waited until Simon wasn't expecting it), but it'd be absolutely amazing if one day Danny just wrote an entire script that was JUST introduction, just to see how many pages in Simon got before checking the rest of the script or something to see when the "actual topic" began, only to see that it ended with Danny mentioning this very recommendation...
don't give him ideas ;)
*Dew it* 😈
Okay Danny, we're expecting this. Troll him for April Fool's or totally at random.
Danny, I will rescue you from the basement if you do this. or at least send you a care package of gram crackers snacks.
@@brainblaze6526 The real question is: who does the uploads and deals with the actual RUclips channel
Really wanted to hear Simon say “allegedly” after saying Elon Musk didn’t kill anybody.
Same, I anticipated it for a good few seconds
@@babelincoln2092 HAHAHHA I did say that originally. I cut it out ;D
His dad did interestingly enough though
@@KS-PNW allegedly?
@@pert-smith no allegedly needed for this one. He was arrested and went to trial. Now if I said he'd "murdered someone," that would be allegedly as the killing was ruled to be self-defense (under some what dubious circumstances) but the fact that a man died isnt being disputed by anyone.
"We're not here to solve moral issues, we're just here to pass judgment on pricks" should be the channel's official slogan. At the very least, it belongs on a shirt.
I would love that on a shirt
Yes please!
Take my money! 💰
Simon: "We're just here to judge people for being pricks."
Me: *smiles and sips drink*
don't forget to make fun of your wife SIMON!!!!!!
If I had even never seen this before, I would have fallen in love with Simon just for that.
Lol Kermit sip.
There’s a quote “why are we stuck in this quagmire of morals we’re not here to solve moral issues we’re just here to pass judgment on pricks”
I literally just watched that bit and came down the comments to upvote whoever posted it here.
@@computernaut me too!🤓
I like the concept of retro-phrenology. Hit someone on the head in precise ways to adjust their personality, intelligence etc. (credit to Terry Pratchett)
RIP
hah, I remember ear candling... My cousin, who regularly visits psychics and is eager to hop on any new age trend, was touting the virtues of it and convinced my mom to hold an "ear candling party" My cousin didn't appreciate when I demonstrated that the same "gunk" appeared even when not inserted into an ear. She didn't speak to me for several years after that, which I was surprisingly ok with.
I want to see that. It's exactly what I think of ear candling, that the gunk could be produced without actually putting it in an ear, but that didn't happen with my one attempt. If I could work out the particular non-ear based conditions that create the same gunk, I'd share that to a number of people i know.
I too refused to participate in ear candling. Some idiot friend of an idiot acquaintance kept on and on and ducking on about it until I left the pub. It was one of very few new age things my grandmother didn't try ramming down my throat.
So my sister used ear candles for just cleaning her ears periodically. You can buy a pack of 2 from Walmart...and you are supposed to cut off the flame every inch. I was very skeptical and afraid! But after getting a bunch of random ear aches, thought it might help. (It semi did, but I still get them sometimes so probably not related) I was certain that the wax was from the candle itself! And I think next time I buy them.... I'll experiment and see.
She never claimed anything about it but cleaning ear wax out. So no butt future reading there!
@@maeve_a Depends on what type of candle used. Some types of candle wax leave more wax that discolors to a yellowish to brown that looks like earwax to some people.
It's not new age. It's been around for a few generations, actually. At least here in France and the people who are fond of it don't care if it's fake they keep doing it anyway. Idk.
I find it a bit ironic that the pre-roll ad was about how you carry 20lbs of poop in your body and they have a cure for it...
The gentleman in that particular ad is certainly full of shit.
yeah the cure is going to the bathroom
@@rae17 😂
Same people who believe that if you swallow gum it's around for 7 years inside you, and not just passed like any other foreign matter
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I love how Simon now says allegedly on autopilot like some people say gesundheit or bless you when someone sneezes.
Person: _coughs_
Simon: Allegedly
I have never seen that word spelled before for a second I thought you were being Nazi, if Germans didn't want their words to look Nazi they really went about it wrong way
Or like a lot of streamers when they found the word "literally"
I prefer it to "you know".
@@ridanann I've never seen it spelled out either lol I thought I was too high to read for a moment
Simon "It's just people scamming money out of idiots."
Also Simon "Welcome to Business Blaze!"
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ALLEGEDLY.
“RIP James Randy…legend” something about James getting a bit of the credit he deserves starts my day right
Who was James Randy?
At "Sam doesn't write shit" I was expecting a caption to pop up saying "Speak for yourself, Fact Boy."
Sam makes the Blaze and DTU videos what they are. It's the icing on the "of the cuff" cold dead format🎉🎉
At this point, Blazing IS the business in Business Blaze.
Tru
Can't post the moon meme here. "Always has been"
Blazing Blaze, with ya boy with the blaze.
@@Travenspear8 "Mr Blaze"
Allegedly*
"Wait is this still the introduction? Oh good lord." Like button - SMASHED.
Yup, 9 minute intro
On Twitter, Danny had the nerve to suggest he would shorten the introductions. It was not well received.
One of the strangest experiences on RUclips is when you read a comment like this just as it's being said in the video. Fucking creepy.
Missed the long intro ❤️
Danny=LEGEND
Favorite quote of the week: “We’re not here to solve moral issues we’re just here to pass judgement on pricks!” 🤣🤣🤣
27:25 I just want to point out that when police started using the polygraph as evidence, it's inventor was horrified as it wasn't meant to be an accurate lie detector, it was just a neat little machine he whipped up to see if it could tell if someone was nervous.
I’m 100% addicted to this channel right now, the entire formula is perfect, you’re conversing with the audience, Danny, and sometimes Sam all while reading a well written script that you can barely get through, I think you might actually have adhd or actually be on coca-cola 😂
The Belgiums were not verry nice to the natives of the conge eather
“Laboratories of Lunacy” should be a metal band
I can see them having a prog metal sound with influence of prog rock, math rock, psycadelic rock, and grindcore because reasons.
Sounds more like an album title but I Def agree I hear prog metal periphery dream theater kinda vibes😮
Interestingly enough, GK Chesterton pointed out the issues with the lie detector test back in the 20's and people mocked him for it.
The "we're just here to pass judgement on pricks" channel.
With: Simon Whistler.
Love it. Allegedly.
Dowsing can genuinely cause harm, some professionals trust it as a way to "detect" man made objects under the ground in the hopes that it can prevent accidents which can end badly if someone hits a gas line with a backhoe.
There's loads of people who swear by dowsing round my way. I live in one of the wettest parts of the UK & you can't put a spade in the ground without hitting water, but sure, that little stick found it for you...
No "allegedly" needed for Andrew Wakefield. That guy was legit bad.
Like got his med licence revoked bad, so the Court of science found him guilty for falsifying data (the cardinal sin of science!) And a side of conflict of interest just for good measure!
@@caracrotalus yes, exactly!!! He's responsible for a LOT of illness and death since he completely falsified his data and thus convinced people that vaccines cause autism and even though this has been completely misproven, people still think he was right. He was LEGIT BAD.
Yep, his brand of bullshit is STILL causing problems today and its getting worse. As more and more people start believing that Vaccines are bad, we're getting closer and closer to having outbreaks of measles and polio again. Hell, its even already happening in some places where antivax wingnuts are especially prevalent.
Pseudo-vsauce is gold! Sam deserves an extra luckystrike this week!
This was gold and I went searching for another comment on it just to like it.
Fuck it: sam’s had a good year, go extravagant and give him three trays of ice for dinner. He deserves it.
Ear candling dates back to the ancient civilization of California hipsters.
This is definitely funny 🤣. I wonder when that culture started.
Longer ago than that. My hippie-ish parents did this back in the 70's-80's. They also did low carb, vegan, fresh pressed juice, and home gardens back in the 80's-90's... it's funny looking back on that now. They were hipsters before hipsters were cool 😄
i'm an old hippy from oregon - the place where hippies go to fade away...
ear candles are great. they worked really well and it's a property of physices of heat rising and carrying "debree" with it. your fireplace gets hot, boils sap and heat rises carrying smoke up and out.
it's the same principal of the ear candle, takes a minute or so to warm the inside of the ear and establish the venting property. the candle must be, MUST BE made properly and i'm not going to go into it as its been awhile and people should do their own research and make up their own mind.
it feels wonderful...warm and cozy. the proper mix of fabric and wax burns the fabric to a fine almost no ash and just blows away. we never had a problem but
AFTER DOING MORE RESEARCH DECIDE FOR YOURSELF!! MY EXPERIENCE WAS MY EXPERIENCE AND I CANNOT SPEAK TO WHAT ANOTHER'S EXPERIENCE MAY BE.....
@@katrinamarina4692 I noticed when I watched my aunt do it, the inside wax looked yellow, & was partially sticky, unlike the thin white coating of paraffin on the candle...
@@DreAmeoba1 yes the inside of the "candle" would become coated heavily, depending, with a crumbly yellowish debris. different than just the candle itself.
“Fat bottom girls make the rocking world go round” according to Queen.
And verified by Stallone's momma...
I can confirm. Queen told 0 lies that day
Allegedly
"We're just here to pass judgement on pricks!" Probably one of the best quotes yet
Ah yes, professional party guest
Party like the Workers Party. You can't kill the party...but the party can
"Danny, this is so long"
You know the context I'm putting this into.... *chuckle* putting this into...
Simon goes on rant about homeopathy
Ad server: here’s a homeopathic remedy
It's like all the get rich quick schemes on sensible finance channels and commentary channels
Take heart that they paid for those ads, since you're educated enough to know it's garbage you'll never be a customer, and they wasted their money.
@@LizRealGirlBeauty oh I watch the ads right the way through and occasionally click their links to make the advertisers pay the creators (and YT) because I want to suck as much money out of these questionable advertisers as possible
Like getting Prager U ads on creationist debunking videos.
Same...
Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works?
Medicine.
Thanks, Tim.
Well, yes...but also no. For example, there are a lot of plants with demonstrated medicinal effects which haven't made their way into "regular" medicine. To some extent, it's the "trying to drink from a firehose" effect. Doctors have so many pharmaceutical options available that there's small incentive to promote something for which the dose is hard to regulate and can't be bought at a local pharmacy. The flip side of that, of course, is that many people reject conventional medicine for something else "because it's natural" without understanding that "natural" isn't synonymous with "safe". The Toxic Reef Crab is so poisonous that natives historically used it for suicide. But, hey, it's all natural! Like...you know...cobra venom. If some extract of flora or fauna works as medicine, it's because it's doing what medicine does, ergo is potentially just as dangerous or worse. But there are nevertheless plants you can grow in your yard that have demonstrated efficacy as medicine. It's (in my opinion) always worth looking into things that are purported to be medicinal but you have to do it with a degree of skepticism and evaluate it by the scientific method.
@@itsapittie
Unsure how serious @TheInternetHelpdesk was being, but their comment is a quote from a song, a video for which I've posted below.
ruclips.net/video/KtYkyB35zkk/видео.html
@@thefunkosaurus the. most perfect. video. ever existing. I will never get tired of Tim Minhin's genius!
@@thefunkosaurus LOL! I'd never heard that before. It's hilarious! Thanks.
Bonus phrenology fact: when Jonathan Swift died, a bronze cast was made of his skull so that phrenologists could study it after he died and (try to) figure out what made him so brilliant. They never figured out anything, but that bronze cast is still on display at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.
I want to see RAID Shadow legend sponsor Simon while he's tearing them to shreds.
"RSL is sponsoring this, and they're still shit."
"It's free to play, and you get what you pay for."
Unfortunately if he took that money he'd have to do a proper ad read
Thank you Danny for making the script and thank you again for making it longer , much maple syrup love
Simon,
Please check on ETA...
No reason.....
Really, just check to make sure the chains it's attached to in the basement are extra solid...
No reason...
I hope he's ok, or Sam and Danny will only have the boiler for heat.
That would seem like enough, but Simon has never bought them clothing so they're wearing what they had on when Simon captured them. And it's been a long time, those clothes must be threadbare and full of holes. They need that extra bit of ETA to survive the winter.
Last video Simon said Danny is chained to a radiator. So its safe to assume ETA has been redirected to slave manager.
@@LizRealGirlBeauty
I was scared for a second that you were gonna say they were naked
"Sam doesent write shit!"
"Well im not gonna add music again then!"
Sam should write a script and let Danny fill it with memes.
@@davidmcgill1000 Danny's memes would all be about hating Heineken and loving Communism... it would be legendary.
Really impressed that Danny worked in the role of phrenology in Belgium’s part in the tragedy of Rwanda...
The Stalone family never dissapoints.
Stop! Or my mom will shoot
I've met people who still bring up phrenology as if it were relevant, the world of political debates on the internet is a cesspool which will ruin your belief in human intelligence.
Either that or you just get to learn some psychology. IE the average person is pretty stupid. Which of course means that near half are more stupid than that. They then believe "wot me mate sed daan the pub" has equal validity to a peer reviewed medical journal article.
When the standard gets lowered from objective reality to "deeply held belief", the results are entirely predictable.
@@gordonlawrence1448 that quote is from an famous old American comic. Can't recall his name of the top of my head.
I always liked the idea of retrophrenology that was brought up in a footnote in a discworld book.
Instead of feeling up someones skull to conclude personality traits from dents in your head, a retrophenologist is a troll with a big hammer that puts the necessary dents into your head
It's like eugenics, it comes back into fashion every so often.
For further reading:
"Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways To Cure Everything" by Lydia Kang MD & Nate Peterson
It's filled with both information and snark. Great book.
Thank you for the next book that I'm going to be reading 😁😎
And what an absolute super hero pulp action name too. Dr. Kang.
@@TitularHeroine I know right?! I immediately thought crime fighter/superhero
@@TitularHeroine It was, at least, the name of a classic Klingon. Okay, he wasn't a doctor but he did floor Kirk with a backhand; that's gotta be worth something.
Thanks for the recommendation! I love books like that.
Smithers: Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago.
Mr Burns: Of course you'd say that. You have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter.
Mr. Burns is the best.
@@christinebenson518 Monty has some of the best lines
😂😂😂
and have the Rolling Stones killed!
I have a family member in the field of criminal defense. You would be amazed how many people will willingly agree to having their phones unlocked to determine where they were during a crime. Even after being explicitly told they don't have to, and it will be admitted into evidence. And it totally shows that yes, they were at the scene of the crime. Completely blowing their alibi and any chance of a not guilty verdict. So I can believe people would be willing to submit to a polygraph even when they are guilty.
Up to now I was convinced that Phrenology was just some kind of medical approach to massage, and I didn't understood why it got so much shit. Tks Simon&Crew to make me finally spend a few second on Wikipedia.
Well I seem to remember from uni that the worm experiment had some merit. Warning, long and boring explanation ahead. Firstly they were flatworms, not annelids (earthworms) which are very simple creatures with a bunch of biological quirks (such as being able to basically rearrange all their cells). They trained them to curl up when exposed to light (by exposing them to light then shocking them a bunch of times) then chopped the trained flatworms up and fed them to untrained worms. Those fed worms then would curl up significantly more often when exposed to light than non-cannibalistic worms. So they theorized there was some uptake of genetic material or an important molecule such as RNA that led to this across the digestive system. Of course flatworms have very simple digestive systems so large molecules could potentially cross the barrier. Not possible in humans at all so edible learning is still far off fantasy. Hope people enjoyed this and if anyone knows more than I do on this I'd love to hear it.
I am just enamoured by the phrase "edible learning".
8:10 Hotel Rwanda is a great movie about the genocide that you should watch if you haven't already. Somehow my teacher got away with showing us it in class, but that's likely because he didn't give 2 fucks and knew the school wasn't gonna fire him anyway.
My teacher showed me that film too, it was all very copasetic, nobody objected.
Effective education comes through informative use of movies imho . Maybe we were to young to appreciate all of it but, we had an art teacher at 8th and 9th grade who "made us" watch "Mad max the road warrior", "Terminator" and for many reasons a large diversity of movies like "Pretty in pink", "Citizen Kane", "Rick Kirby",and "Do the right thing". Among many other movies that we as a class had to analyze at length and listen to the teachers long, and in depth monologue evaluations Etc, but those were popular classes indeed. "Hotel Rwanda" would probably had made her list, but this was before the Rwandan genocide.
We ended up watching that in Religious Education, don't ask me why lmao
My teacher showed us Hotel Rwanda in grade 7 or 8 social studies. Same teacher also showed us a quite graphic anime about the atomic bombs dropping in Japan. Those were the good ol days (2006)
Simon, you need to start marketing a Business Blaze brand of condoms and on the tip, it should say "Certified Bell-end".
we love a person with class who appreciates the exquisite subtextual nuances of the 'analrapist'.
I am teaching my dog to speak via button presses. They cannot ask normal questions, but they can tell you what they want, even argue with you, huffs and woofs included. The fact they don't ask questions shows that they have less developed grammar abilities, but I would love to try giving a dog the grammar gene some birds and dolphins have.
"Oh God this is just the intro?"
- Simon Whistler in almost every Business Blaze
"The cheeky science behind the ancient art or ass reading..." brilliant
Braille is an art form...
always happy about a new blaze, always a bit sad when it is over. BRING US EPIC BLAZES!
1:08. That's the best part of the videos. The fact and learning stuff is good and Simon's presentation is adequate but the stuff sprinkled in is what makes these watchable. Give Sam a raise!!
I just realized that to do his job, poor Sam has to watch and listen to Simon without what makes the vids enjoyable to watch. Poor little guy.
the McFlurry flinging across the screen had me in stitches
Either a Blazer went in and edited the Steve Jobs Wikipedia in the last hour just to troll (wouldn't put it past any fellow OG legend) or Simon was actually right in remembering something about someone. Steve Jobs did choose alternative medicine instead of living.
“... oh dear lord is this the introduction..” Simon, the entire video is an introduction
I'm leaving this channel to auto play for my dogs while I work, they're already acting like they have a coke problem
Oh man, I'd forgotten ear candling was a thing. A very gullible relative was briefly a "practitioner" and for some reason a bunch of us got together at a great-aunt's house for dinner and candling. The procedure was about as awkward and uncomfortable as you'd expect, but exponentially more awkward as a teenager lying on my great-aunt's bed with a candle in my ear and half my family standing around watching. So, uh, thanks for dredging up that memory?
Based on a sample size of roughly 8 or 9 people, and compared to no control group whatsoever, I can report that ear candling did not even placebo-effect any of us to better health or hearing. And that bit of random anecdata is probably a better-designed clinical study than the proponents of ear candling ever performed.
The thing that draws my to this channel is not the random talk or the intro's but the topics truly regarding the true sketchyness of humans.
Surely the wildest pseudoscientific claim would be that Simon runs on coccaine and not food like a normal human? 😂 "Allegedly..." 😅
Breatharians might be the peak of pseudoscience. They believe they need only air and sunlight to live.
What if Danny keeps making the scripts longer so he & Sam have more time to dig the secret escape tunnel in the basement?
It's not often we watch a RUclips channel where even the add read is entertaining, love these episodes!
I agree
there are very few ad read that I actually watch
You want entertaining ad reads? Trust me, check out theinternethistorian's ad reads. I swear I watch some of his content JUST for the ad read
Simon, I say this with so much affection, and adoration for this channel, from the bottom of my heart, that was genuinely THE SMOOTHEST ad transition you’ve ever made 😂 I almost didn’t even realise....
Simon: “My wife is a graphic designer”
“Her new squarespace website looks so much better than her old one”
Bit of a diss hey. 😂
On chiropractic medicine:
Have you ever looked at the core tenets of chiropractic?
It's clear pseudoscience.
That said unlike other pseudoscience it's not entirely ineffective. The difference is it's not more effective than other therapies and it poses more risk.
For a doctor who takes the hippocratic oath, and is legally bound to do risk versus benefit assessments for any procedure, one should never recommend chiropractic medicine, in my opinion. There are better alternatives, such as deep tissue massage, stretching, rolfing, Phyaical therapy, etc. These may also be applied by a chiropractor, but they should just leave out the pseudoscience.
Yeah...I use chiros. But...I have to sort out the quackery and find ones that are efficient at correcting specific subluxations. As I have hypermobile joints that sublux and even fully dislocate, and cannot always get them back in place on my own, a GOOD chiro is a necessity.
They may spend the rest of their time just making people's spines make impressive noises and selling ear candles, but whatever...as long as they're there when I need them, because MDs suck at dealing with hypermobile joints and it's insanely expensive to go to an ER just because I coughed hard and put a rib out.
@@maeve_a Funny but I also have to use that same technique with 'regular' MD's.
There are oaths and then there are oaths and the effectiveness of the oath is never put up to scientific scrutiny.
We're here to pass judgement on prick's... Epic
"We're not here to solve moral issues, we're just here to pass judgment on pricks."
This has been my lifelong motto. Pretty sure we're kindred spirits, my boi.
Indeed, it’s much easier to just say “I’m personally not into it” than to endlessly argue if things are “morally wrong”
Or anyone who doesn't march with the masses
this should go on a t-shirt
A 9 min intro. Bless you Simon, you Absolute Legend
Dear Sam, Loved the opening slam on Apple.
So Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth is a polygraph kind of?
I love Simon but if I hear that business card story one more time...
Don't you dare insult HRH Simon Whistler 🤣
New shirt-
Front: I don't solve moral issues.
Back: I judge bellends.
Or just smaller print underneath.
Shut up and take my money
I'd buy it.
Someone once told me if I used a certain herb when I had a cold, the cold would only last a week. “That’s how long a cold lasts anyway!” “Oh.” 🤦♀️
Having pseudo as a prefix usually doesn't mean something good. For example, when I worked in the ER, people who would fake seizures for attention would be having "pseudo-seizures..." Sounds very sophisticated, but the reality is very different.
7:10 - Chapter 0 - Phrenology
9:10 - Chapter 1 - Genetic memory
15:15 - Mid roll ads
17:30 - Chapter 2 - Physiogony (body reading) + rumblology
21:45 - Chapter 3 - Ear candling
25:25 - Chapter 4 - Lie detector
Thank you
Wait just a goddamn minute. There was no post credit scene here? I sat through that exhaustive list of 3 names for nothing?? That's the best part of these shows, and you just leave us high and dry?
That was a Doozy, Factboi. Onto the rest of my daily SimonTube 🤙🏼
I’m just now watching futurama for the first time and so now I get the references I never got before.
A family friend believes in homeopathy. He used to try and convince me but he stopped after I burst out laughing when he told me I wouldn't have to take my epilepsy medication anymore 😂
"elon wasn't playing with the cheat codes on" He grew up hyper rich and was part of the paypal mafia, google him and peter theil then blaze Danny, blaze hard
I don’t even read the titles anymore. I watch the whole thing and don’t know what tf is going on, but I fkn love it nonetheless.
I've heard if you actually buy Simon's stickers they take the negative energy out of whatever you put them on. That's why they're so expensive
*allegedly
I thought it was just all the cocaine residue.
I slap a couple on my butt cheeks before I go in for my rumpology reading!
Stallone missed a prime opportunity to call her pseudoscience Asstrology
Pmfs
Welcome to 'What were we talking about?' with Simon.
"elon musk didnt kill anyone"
I dont know, Starman looked a little to life like to just be a mannikin, and chucking a body into space would have been the best way to dispose of a body
Look up his dad's murder case if your bored sometime. Interesting stuff, dark AF but interesting..
Oh man, when I was in high school I lived with a family that regularly used ear candles. My mother was curious what exactly came out of her ear and asked me to take it to school and look at it under the microscope. With support of my biology teacher, we concluded that it was pollen from the beeswax. I haven't allowed my ear to be candled since moving out of that house.
In America we just call those Gas Stations, Simon
We have petrol stations yeah, where you fill the car up with petrol, but also services where there's like.. a bigger car park, you can fill the car up but also grab some food and a newspaper or something because there's some shops and fast food places.
It's a truck stop or rest stop on a highway in America. Or you know, a gas station.
@@ollieb9875 again that just sounds like a normal gas station to me... It's more uncommon that it doesn't have a little shop with snacks and drinks and cigarettes and beer and lottery tickets etc etc. In the USA most gas stations include a little convenience store.
@@patrickobrien5311 yes, quite right, a petrol station normally has a shop attached. You might be able to buy some food, drinks, chocolate whatever and also plastic fuel cans, windscreen washer fluid that kind of thing. The difference I think I was trying to make between petrol station and services is that as well as the little shop and petrol there may well be a café attached, toilets, and a McDonald's next door, a little chef maybe which is a shitty restaurant chain, these kind of things. 👍🍻 More businesses than just the petrol pumps and little shop 😁
Love the McFlurry that flies across the screen. Sam, you never fail to make me laugh.
From 8:09 onwards is the best rant in a while !
Truth spoken like a lunatic, that's my wheelhouse
you've never met my service dog, he's is definitely smarter than alot of people I have met!
Does he shit in a toilet and make his own food?
He can take orders and has spatial awareness, that’s German intelligent I guess.
I've definitely known people who were less intelligent than some dogs I've known.
However, while the dogs were smart dogs my comment is more about those people than the dogs.
Agreed. My two boys rank much higher than more than half the population hands down XD
@@Vic.Toria. hands.
Who exactly have you been meeting?
The "Pseudo-Vsauce" business card made me spit out my coffee. So, thanks for that.
Homeopathy for a broken phone: Your phone screen is cracked from being dropped. The reason for the crack is a large impact. Therefore we'll make a little half an inch hammer with a tiny 0.1 gram head and hit the phone repeatedly until fixed.
Business Blaze Simon is my spirit animal.
I have to say it's nice to discover a more relaxed channel by Simon ( I watch Top 10) to see more of his natural personality rather than soley his fact base script. He's absolutely hilarious and very watchable.
It's mad to hear him swear 😂 I love him even more now
This didn’t age well considering musks father just admitted to being in the illegal gems trade and that’s part of the money he inherited BUT NO CHEAT CODES it’s clear he’s just a genius and not at all an untalented money baby taking credit for other peoples work
LMFAO "psudoVsauce"
The irony here is that I just started watching Michael again and I just found out about Ding.
Dong whatever.
Hmmm... I'm lost. What happened?
@@austinparker5053 on the card, it's quick but it says "Simon Whistler PsudoVsauce"
Yeah. I just about lost it at PseudoVsauce.
When simon comes up with a business blaze including phrenology after you just handed in an assignment on the effect of phrenology and physiognomy on criminology in 19th century Britain 😂😂😂. You missed being referenced Simon
I am a psych student there is a whole chapter on psudo sciene
25:45 Simon performs a no shame, in front of the camera, epic pick-it-and-flick it. LEGEND.