I am the second author of the paper you talked about at 7:10. When this was brought to my attention, I was shocked. We scientists tend to ignore all the pseudoscience stuff, but maybe we should pay more attention in the future. We work so hard to educate the public, but these conspiracy pseudoscientists are undoing our work. Thank you, Professor Dave, for taking your time to debunk the conspiracy theories. And just in case there is any confusion, our paper is about clouds in the interstellar medium, and has nothing to do with any of the doomsday BS.

I fell for his schtick for 5 years... I turned my brain off for 5 years because his rhetoric sounded good. Thank you for this video, Dave. I dropped his channel immediately and started to get back into my love of weather and climate with legit sources.

Thank you so much for this. I am not as smart as most of the commenters here...just a bit above-average IQ. I was a Paralegal for years and have followed Ben for many years. I also have anxiety disorder (probably from working with lawyers) and recently have been looking to max out my bank account, sell my home (a block back from the ocean in FL) and move to CO because of his "work" on the magnetic pole shift. I've been terrified. I know my post will serve to give some here a chuckle - unfortunately it's true. I say all this to say THANK YOU for this! Ben recently attacked me in his comment section (...and I use to monetarily support him...) because I mentioned my fear and thoughts on "what's the point" of living through something like the pole shift he is describing. He really let me have it and basically called me a coward. I have always wondered why he brought children into something like this if he really believes it. You have helped me see the light and literally taken a weight off of my shoulders. Again, thank you!

Not even in my 30's yet but lived though atleast a dozen of these predicted "end times". Can't wait for the day when I tell my kids their dad was tough enough to survive 20 apocalypses.

Wow, a lawyer who twists the truth to suit his own ends. Who'd've thunk it.

Media literacy should be a required subject in all schools

Imagine rolling a die, predicting you're about to roll a 6, and screaming "I WAS RIGHT, I WAS RIGHT!!!!!" at the top of your lungs when you do after 9 attempts.

This isn't the only wacky "theory" out there claiming that the Sun is going to blow up soon. Two things that do interest me though are the weakening magnetic field and coronal mass ejections. The magnetic field has weakened by 10% in the last century and a half, and this weakening is accelerating. I am curious about your thoughts on a scenario where a powerful flare/CME (similar in strength to the Carrington Event) hits Earth while it has a weakened magnetic field

My favorite thing about your videos is that the more severe someone threatens you, the more you mock them 😂

“Suing people is how lawyers do science” has to be one of the greatest quotes of all times, well done sir!

I subscribed to Ben’s channel and found it interesting. As for being a minion or a dooms day prepper…no. I live in the PNW where a 9.0 earthquake is “past due” according to “scientists”. This quake will destroy everything west of Interstate 5 and take out the infrastructure for Washington, Oregon and Northern California according to “scientists”. A friend assigned to FEMA told me it would take at least three months for them to establish any kind of rescue after that happened since it would take out the ports, passes, rails and roads. I asked about the construction battalion at Ft. Lewis. He told me “All their equipment is overseas, they just have the broken stuff there.” I have read the congressional report on what an EMP or CME would do to our grid which states a prediction of a 90% fatality rate in one year. Given the current administration’s actions which seem to be increasing the risk of the EMP possibility why wouldn’t one try to prepare for all of the above? Look, Ben just might be a narcissistic whack job. I agree that people shouldn’t belong to a cult but as the saying goes “Even a broken clock is correct twice a day”. Auroras are being observed at lower latitudes and there is a history of the earth’s magnetic poles shifting in the past. When it will happen again? Who knows? But big earthquakes and CME’s (or God forbid a EMP) will happen and the government isn’t going to save you. As for the chem trails? There are discussions on messing with the atmosphere to cool things down. Why? When a volcano goes off and dumps trillions of tons of things like carbon and water into the atmosphere does man actually think we can change things? Is bro g told what to do by a teenage Dutch girl any diff than what Ben is doing? Look at all the “minions” that believe her. How about all the politicians that tax the shit out of us over “Climate change” only to skim funds off like Al Gore did when he started the Carbon Credit scheme in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange? Bottom line is people are easily controlled by fear and always have been. Red Pilled, Blue Pilled or Black Pilled, everyone wants a new drug and no one has a patent on bullshit. Be it pseudo scientist or politicians people are going to fall for something and as Lincoln said “It’s a lot easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they have been fooled.” Thanks for your video, I will be more skeptical of what “scientists” (real or pretend ones) present in the future. I have to go and call my son who recommended your video to me and thank him. It shows I did a good job raising him and for that I am proud.

I watched a couple Suspicious Observers videos and was intrigued, but then Ben came on and showed his face -- and I immediately distrusted him. Something about his eyes. I may not know all there is to know about science, but I DO know people. So I started researching and found what you outlined: He cites papers but the papers often don't say what he claims. Further research then led me here. Well done, thanks.

What I think is interesting is that he claims to work with NASA, while NASA is usually the go-to villain of conspiracies

You are wrong. You said none of his minions would even listen to your video…. I was one of them. Subscribed back in 2011 and I have been following since. WAS. All I can say is THANK YOU!! I was sucked into his bull like he says the sun is going to suck the life out of most of us. This video is over a year old and I would love to hear an update video from you in what has happened since then. My husband was a surgeon and a smart man. He was easily turned by Ben, which is sad because he went in a prepping spree… spent all of our retirement setting up our home and lives to survive the doomsday predictions then took his life. People like Ben can be very dangerous to even learned men and women. He talks so fast, and since none of us are physicists and can even follow what he is saying, we buy in. THANK YOU for slowing his speak down and explaining it. Sad… so very sad. You HAVE turned a minion away. I suspect I’m not the only one.

Glad I found your channel before I fell down the rabbit hole too far. Thank you. Lesson learned.

The first video I saw was his prediction of doomsday coming in 2046. I suggested that his prediction might be as bad as all previous predictions that have so far been wrong. I actually got a response from him stating that his prediction is correct because it’s based on scientific data. My response stated his data may be skewed to follow his narrative. I have not had response since.

I have been following him for so long, and this video helped a lot. You donno how it feels to watch someone daily, think about the things he say all the time, literally just like a cult, and the relief that you feel when someone takes you out and shows you the way. Thank you.

I can't believe he bragged about getting 1490 out of 1600 on the SAT. If you're going to brag about your SAT scores to an actual scientist as a way of trying to boost your own credibility, they should damn well be perfect.

Wow alot of testimonials in the chat about Prof. Dave helping them to see the charade. Awesome. It's not easy to admit you've been tricked, but it happens to everyone in one way or another. Especially since honest folks tend to think that others are honest, like them. Be wary of people who tell you everyone else is lying, in my experience, they think that because they have no remorse for lying.

I orginally found your channel while trying to understand the concepts of general and organic chemistry. You are a gentleman and a scholar! I have been doing geology at a professional level for years and only recenlty become "hip" to some of the science quacks on youtube - I've made efforts at combatting the disinformation, but here's one of my favorite science educators doing uncomfortable thing of bringing down a quack (with science) while enduring the heat of their followers. Thank you. By the way, I recently came across the channel of Bryon Cook, Geologist. He presents odd features found out in the field and explains, step-by-step, how a geologist describes "what happened" using Geology, Physics, and Chemistry as the guideposts of his thinking. He doesn't say it, but he is also providing the scientific alternative the unscientific quacks. It is a labor of love, and most scientists are too busy to deal with the so-called "peanut gallery". Thanks again, Dave!

"I don't have friends. I don't have hobbies." I don't think it was necessary to include that. We could have extrapolated that on our own.

*"I don't have friends. I don't have hobbies."* Wow. What a shocker, we are all so surprised by that magnificent revelation...

Jeez I need my sunglasses, cause the roasting is insane.

Man I could use a re up on this. Just had someone talk at me for 30 minutes about stuff peddled by them.

My older brother peddeled this crap to me a few times, as I have no formal training in physics or any major science field I dismissed it. But I was born into a science family, my old man loved the science field, mainly astronomy and engineering ( probably what gives me my love of Architecture) and would always teach and show me different scientific breakthroughs made in these fields. Sometimes we step outside and watch satellites fly past, tracking them with star watching programs we had back in the 2000s. So when my older brother tells me that my father, who has worked in a science institute for his whole life, doesn't understand science better than this one guy on the internet... I'm a little skeptical. And this channel, Suspicious Observers is a name I remember him showing me content from, way back to almost 4-5 years ago after I left high school. So it's been kicking around for quite some time, and not only in the US, we get this all the way down in Australia. This shit not only makes people less educated by creating a false foundation of 'irrefutable' knowledge... But it rips families apart. It destroys relationships. Decresses mental aptitude And makes you a laughing stock to anyone who actually knows what they are talking about. You hear stories about this shit. It happened to my family... My old man doesn't talk about it, but I know. My older brother gave him about 3-4 full length pages of wacked conspiracy theorist crap, listing off almost every single one you could think of. Solar flares creating earthquakes, Jets spraying the sky with chem trails, secret oligarchs... ( he wasn't stupid enough for flat earth... I think...) just pages and pages of crap from the internet that he looked up while stoned out of his fucking mind. My old man cried that night, something I've only ever seen him do once before when grandpa passed... Like he had failed as a father.

Ive been following Ben and his videos for a few years now. Lately he's got me so spun up about the upcoming magnetic flip that i started to cruise amazon for things to prepare me for the "Big Event." After watching your video, i unsubscribed from his channel and subscribed to yours :). Thank you sir.

This may be a long comment as I reacting as I watch! Damn.. So I have been watching Suspicious Observers for over a year now. I do think that solar activity has the greatest impact on earth next to the moon due to its proximity. I'm about 2 minutes into your video, and the manner in which Davidson communicated with you via email is extremely immature and beyond uncalled for. It is one thing to speak immaturely such as in his "salt streams," which I view as humor more than anything. It is another to communicate directly with an individual that way. I fully acknowledge that I am prone to cults because I was raised in one (Pentecostal Christian) and later fell for vegan propaganda in my early 20s which has taken me over a year to heal from. I at least never donated or spent money on Davidson, but I do feel like I have wasted a lot of time. 5 minutes in, and I am disappointed to see that Davidson completely misrepresented the paper concerning radiation prior to earthquakes... I also appreciate the point you made about physics and how one can only extrapolate so far. I remember as a child in the Pentecostal cult, which is a doomsday cult faction within Christianity, I used to be terrified of the Rapture. I would have nightmares of the world coming to an end. The pastor swore up and down every year that we were close to the end and that Jesus was returning, but we were still alive every year. And yet this pastor had nice cars and guilted the congregation into giving him more money. I'm 16 minutes into this video now. I just wanted to say thank you. I've unsubscribed from Suspicious Observers and will not entertain that man anymore.

You mean I'm not going to die in an earthquake caused by a ball of plasma fueled by nuclear reactions almost 100 million miles away? Whew. Dodged a bullet there.

Well. Shit. I got caught up in that. Definitely my fault for never pulling those scientific papers to verify... Thanks for these videos.

"Snakeoil slinging sociopath"... Nail-on-head!

I started watching Ben about a month ago, but was glad I came across this video before I wanted to share his videos with friends. Feel a little silly for believing all that BS for a month. Really appreciate the clear eyed take on Ben's shenanigans Dave.

Thank you Prof Dave! About a year ago Ben's channel came up in my feed and I started watching in the mornings. When the fearmongering got deep, I became a Suspicious Observer of HIM prompting me to do my due diligence that I, in retrospect, I should have done initially. Found you and you confirmed my suspicions! Thank you!

Hey, for real thanks for making this. In hopes of not heaping shame upon myself I will come out and say I needed to see this. I feel extremely foolish and embarrassed for letting that particular brand of fear grab me. Anyone else who was on the edge of that rabbit hole, it’s ok to step back, we all let ourselves slip and get caught up.

We should be educating our children to be careful to maintain healthy skepticism, equally, both towards the things that seem dubious... And, more importantly, also towards the things that seem to reinforce our worldview and comfort us. We're already suspect of words we disagree with... We need to remember how easy it is to be deceived by things we don't think to be suspicious of.

Thanks for organizing all this together. I first heard him speak on Bright Insight's (Jimmy Corsetti, who I am now questioning what his motives are for having Ben Davidson on his show) livestream and thought he was *trying* to sound scientific/credible & even making things up. Your video is a good reminder not to blindly trust what you see/read online, even if they cite sources. If it's important to you, read the sources and see if they corroborate w/ what speaker is saying.

Ben is getting ready for another kick starter. Observer ranch. Basically he is going to make his followers pay to build him a survival bunker.

Wait, let me get this straight... You help me pass Human A&P Exams AND tar and feather frauds on the internet?? You just became a real badass in my book You are what I consider a Champion of Science.

Ben is unhinged in his live casts, chastising the viewer for asking questions (in a Q and A, mind you) Hes angry and egotistical to such an extent hes like a living meme at this point. Used to love the guy. He lost it

"You think this is a game? 🤬" He sounds like an angry 12 year old.🤣

There was an earthquake off Alaska Ben seemed to have predicted the day before it happened a couple months ago (I was in awe), but then I saw that Alaska has had 972 earthquakes this year, so I guess that it would be a pretty safe bet, that there may indeed be an earthquake somewhere near Alaska tomorrow.

Wait, the lawyer sent threatening emails that are clear evidence of him intimidating you? Huh, guy sucks at physics and law.

About 10 years ago , I used to listen to Ben's daily reports, I was a bed ridden, captive audience, extremely sick and looking for causes for my fluctuating symptoms. There did seem to be a correlation between how bad I felt on a particular day and the activity of the sun, but when you are desperate for answers, when there aren't any, you will grab on to anything that provides a sense of order in the chaos. But I was never part of his cult, and drifted away when I recovered. It was his recent appearance on a podcast I currently watch which brought me here, looking for alternative information. I always did find his doomy, gloomy predictions unsettling, wondering how much truth was in them. Thanks, now I know. The thing about these kinds of personalities is that it doesn't matter how intelligent or educated you are, they are very good at reaching a person's core vulnerabilities, and using what they find in a self serving, manipulative way.

Prosser Dave, you are literally saving peoples lives!

I know this video is a few months old now, but I've watched a couple of your debunks of pseudoscience tonight, and hadn't realised how bad some of these scammers are. While I love your astronomy and cosmology videos the most (loved space since I was about 5yo), please, please keep exposing these "snake oil slinging scammers" (too nice a phrase, but it does have a nice ring to it). It needs to be done, and you do it exceptionally well.

his channel legitimately made me get anxiety attacks for months so thank you for this.

If he was a smart lawyer he would not have said anything to the effect of "it only took me 4 minutes to find where you live" this is a vague threat and can still be tried under the law. In addition, he always seems bad shit insane and should probably be disbarred for malpractice.

Thank you Dave for pulling me out of cynicism and helping me to maintain skepticism in a healthy manner. 🙏

He's not dumb. He's a con artist, and you'd better believe he knows it. He's a grifter.

I wish to say, at the outset, that I am NOT a scientist (although many people in my field have been). I hold several degrees in philosophy, including a PhD from Princeton University. And yes, I subscribed years ago to SO, primarily because I liked the graphics Ben uses in his videos. Recently, since he started the "next-end-of-the-world" business, i.e., the micronova that he predicts is coming "soon", I've started looking at him, well, "suspiciously". A great deal of the people in his comment section are obviously frightened to death of that "future", and want detailed information as to when, exactly, that is going to happen. Ben never pins it down, except to say it will be somewhere in the near-future. I do not like being part of a doomsday cult. Thankfully, I've never contributed a cent to him. Right now, he is starting what can only be described as a "compound", in the desert southwest. Of course, many people have contributed great amounts of money to this effort. Based upon what I've seen, I believe that he knew that getting a law degree was a mistake, on his part. He needs to purchase multicolored robes and build a "Church of Ben" ... using other peoples' money, of course. Thank you for this video, Professor Dave. I have unsubscribed from his website, for when I asked him for the scientific data supporting his hypotheses, he merely suggested I watch his videos. I suspect that many of the downvotes on this video came from Observers. As an official "heretic", you can readily understand why I will continue to keep my location and true name secret.

Glad I found this after only wasting about 2 hours of my life listening to Ben. This has been eye opening, thank you.

Professor Dave, I find myself almost too embarrassed to drop a comment, but you deserve to know that the time you spent on this helps some people. My brother sent me down the rabbit hole that was S.O. a few months back. He even gave me the book lol. I was skeptical as I seem to be about most things, and looked for a good counter argument. Found this video, spent a few hours checking other opinions and sources on him. Not a lot out there and non of it was good. Then I gave some of your other debunks a view. And that's why I owe you a thanks. I can fully accept that I have become very distrusting of the federal government, and I don't see how that isn't deserved honestly, but i had not realized just how much BS I was starting to listen to. Your right, conspiracy does become addictive or reflexive at least. "I'm not mainstream" was really all any of these crackpots had to say to get me to at least hear them out. And sometimes a question or two would stick that I was smart enough to conceive of, but not to answer....or at least I wasn't going to invest the time and effort to do so. I never bought in very far, but apparently far enough to cast a shadow of suspicion on everything I had to take on faith. Looking through your debunk list I was embarrassed to see how many I had wasted consideration on. It was really the Nikola Tesla Dynamic Theory of Gravity that started my brother and I down a road of stupidity a good 10 yrs back. And today I learned my final lesson from that, being completely illiterate is safer than being slightly intelligent lol. The whole road started with "magnetic magic", "Dielectric Universe", "Plasma Universe" and somewhere along the way I was questioning if moonlight was cold. Keep up the good work sir, some students need a nudge back out of wanting to believe it is all much more simple than it really is. Thanks!

gotta love how youtube doesn't show dislikes on videos like his anymore :)

Im one if the mupppets that bought his pdf of the book because even though i have a science degree i found his pace too fast and i needed to digest the info. Thank you for your work. I feel soooo stupid now.

I just saw someone on reddit cite Ben and came to KZfaq to look him up. Your video was the first to pop up, which I think is fantastic 😅

I just went to their channel and asked “Is this a cult?” Some by the name ‘Nebulosity’ replied: “Define cult. Definitions vary” 😂

The more often i watch your different debunk videos the more i can clearly tell that the first video usually is you patiently trying to explain why the con man is wrong while the more often they challenge you to debunk them the more you literally wipe the floor not with their head but with everything they have including their soul 😂 Someone has to do push the liar back to reality and i am glad you’re doing a good job at it 👍🏼

Update: It looks like Ben's little empire is imploding and he's looking for ways to keep the corpse alive by making some big changes. He put out a video on June 1st 'The Coming Changes to Suspicious Observers'. Here are some of the "Changes": Starting his own Trailer Park for his 'observers' to meet, rent campers and do "science". It's going to be called 'Observer Ranch, probably because his acolytes can watch each other getting fleeced, that's if any are dumb enough to go there. Getting rid of the App because: 1. It doesn't make money! 2. The 'Developer' is unresponsive and unwilling to continue working on it as: (a) The App is so specialized it requires adjustments for every new model of phone that comes on the market. (b) The App is so specialized that it's like having a hundred Apps that all require monitoring and updating. 3. He hates the App. 4. The App wasn't something he wanted to do in the first place and he blames Onio Saiyan for making him do it, then for leaving him all the work to do and going back to Thailand. 5. He's looking to offload the App and from the sound of it and looking for a sucker to buy it. The SusObs.org website is going away along with his minion's subscriptions to it. His Amazon store is also going bye-bye on June 15th. Dismal or no sales. The last 10 minutes are a rambling monologue referencing his phantom 'Peer-reviewed' papers. Some babel about Neptune and Pluto, Earth magnetic Excursion, solar micronova, and a general rant about how the Universe is going to get you. He also goes into full David Miscavage and David Koresh mode about surrounding yourself with like-minded lemmings who truly understand you. Pass the cool-aid, please!

So glad I came upon your channel instead of the one my neighbor asked me to watch. He gave me a book by Ben Davidson and began telling me all that you're outlining here. I read about 1/4 and decided to watch the video....but you popped up! Thank you for the thorough debunking. The neighbor is no idiot, so it just shows you how people can be pulled into these, even if they seem to be level-headed.

I actually was watching his channel, but I thought he was a bit arrogant. When I looked at all the merchandise he was selling I knew he was just in it for the money. I also noticed the papers he showed so quickly that they couldn’t be read. Magician’s trick.

I got sucked into pseudo science stuff at one point. I think the problem is that everyone wants to be an explorer, but the frontier of science is so utterly inaccessible to the everyday layman. I'm talking about where the real discovery is happening. You need a doctorate and to dedicate your life to a subject. So when these con-men come out the wood-work and propose that there's a new frontier, a new adventure, something you can be a part of, you want so badly to believe it, that you forego sound reasoning for anything that sounds like reason. I don't blame people for falling for it, but I thank the stars for people like you who shine a light in the valley of snakes to help guide people out of it. My advice to anyone is this: if you want to believe in magic, then get involved in some fantasy stuff, like D&D or Star Wars or something. I promise you its just as satisfying, there's much to explore, things to discover, communities to be a part of, and a way to escape... but most importantly, you know that its fiction.

You've heard of "Better Call Saul" now get ready for "Bend the truth ben"!

I realize this is an older video, but what do you think about Randall Carlson? His body of work gives archaeological and geological context to this ~12,000 year cycle. Also, Douglas Vogt has thousands of hours of material and you summarized to 1 minute. That is just about what you accused Ben of doing.

Ya but its fun to troll that slimy lawyer on his youtube channel comments. Try it you will feel better.😊

As a kid i believed this is what would end the world in 2012 until i saw a comment saying if the planet was real and on a collision course with us, we'd have seen it in the sky with the naked eye about that time. I still thought the world was gonna end but I didn't believe in nibru anymore lol. I was a silly child

Add me to the list of people who quite literally stayed with his channel for months trying to decipher his baffling bullshit. Boy he can talk. Thank you.

Damn. I've never seen a half hour long KZfaq burn before. Ha. 👏 👏

Next time Ben does one of his so-called Q&A chats ask him if he is a physicist and what his credentials are you will be permanently kicked out of the chat room

Just got caught up into all this 3 days ago, I’ve been stressing and my mental health deteriorated very quickly. Thankfully a friend showed me this video and I actually felt a weight lifted off of me. I hope to others stressing and panicking they find hope and solace.

“The app saved his family from starvation, I suppose.” Classic! 😂

"if you don't know how to establish the statistical significance of your predictions, then you might read up on such matters in a textbook" He fucking killed him

"i'm not some pinball playing beta male bitch" is exactly what a beta male would say. and i think those threats to doxx you and send people to hurt you might be a crime, depending on where you live.

0:40 This guy is not 35, at least not mentally. And it is completely obvious how narcissistic this guy is, saying he “just grinds.” You are a literal child. I’m a child, and even I can tell that. Ben Davidson, you narcissistic man child, stop threatening Dave. Your threats are baseless anyway, you can’t sue him for “lying,” even if he actually wasn’t telling the truth. If you try suing him, it won’t work lol. Dave, keep up the great work. You’re doing the scientific community a huge favor. I’m glad that I can still hope it’s not all pseudoscience BS when I hopefully join it one day.

How many nuts can you fit into a fruit cake before it stops being a fruit cake and becomes a nut roll? Because this guy has all the nuts.

Wow he really took adavantage of my add and anxiety. I’m 15 and suffer big anxiety so I watch most of his videos thinking he is filling me in but I’ve always felt that the stuff he says sounds just so unbelievable. L thank you for showing me this video. Honestly I haven’t watchhed his videos for at least a week and I’ve felt much better. I can’t thank you enough I can finally focus more on my basketball and my life

* He libeled you on Facebook, not slandered, slander is spoken, libel is written. It's also an offense that you can take civil action on, if it has had any impact on you.

Never understood the logic of people like Ben. "Mainstream scientists are wrong so you should listen to me". Meanwhile: "Hey look guys, my shitty non-peer reviewed psuedopaper has been cited by this NASA spinoff, I'm so cool!". You cannot win with these people.

It's funny really I am pretty sure I am also a member of the large and growing group of people who have been abused by Ben for calling out his EU horseshit. It happened a few years ago now. I wasn't sure it was him but the comments from PDE here and others has made me more and more sure it was Ben I was threatened by in voice chat in a debate stream one night. Idiot - check, obnoxious - check, threatening check, avatar for the low-end of the Dunning-Kruger scale - check.

“Because suing people is how lawyers do science.” Lol!

after reading the comments it seems multiple people have literally killed themselves (and others have attempted suicide) because of Suspicious0bserver. when can we get the authorities involved? this is serious.

Glad I found this before I fell too far down the rabbit hole. I've been trying to decide how I feel about the fellow and what he says. I have gone to look at the papers he flashes on the screen or links to, and they sort of support some of what he says, but many parts seem to not fit. Thought maybe I just wasn't understanding what I was reading... thanks for the eye opener here. Seems that you are showing the real receipts - and it really is all about money. You need to do an updated video on this to get it back out in front of people, at the top of your channel. Seems that he has been very busy lately, creating a lot more fear and money making opportunities. Your first video did not slow him down.

The fact that you can anger people this easily by just disagreeing stil gives me questions how are we still alive today. Also Ben straight up acts like a man child.

I have literally never heard of most of the people on this channel that prof Dave debunks cuz I live under a rock but reading the comments I see a lot of people who fell for it and have been awakened by content like this and I just wanna say to those people, thank you for keeping an open mind. Theres nothing wrong with exploring a topic especially if it interests you and it seems like there might be ground breaking information contained. You're not just some idiot, because you have the capacity to adjust your mindset when presented with better or more accurate information. And it takes a lot of courage to admit that you were wrong, especially on the internet. Lord knows I'm not exactly an authority on scientific advancement in any field myself yk? But welcome back to reality, with much love and support, and I refuse to ridicule anyone who comes out the other side. You can join us in laughing at those who are Aggressively Dumb. If you actually read this, love ya and have a great day :)

Did you debate him? I'd love to watch that?

Thank you Professor Dave. I was a fan of SO, and became skeptical when he suddenly started going nuts on the exact events of his doomsday, and going seriously in depth to the point I asked, "wait, he's concluded everything, why isn't anyone else concluding the same?" And then... Yeah... Total BS haha.

Thank you for your research and analysis. 👍 KZfaq started to suggest Ben's videos to me, perhabs because of my interest in real footage of volcanic and seismic activity. I became suspicious of his flashy presentaion of papers and diagrams. Now I got a better understanding of how easy it might be to fall into the rabbit hole by a slight push of KZfaqs algorithm. Makes your work in science communication even more valuable.

You know, there’s a trick to see through pseudoscience that works the majority of the time. What would disprove it? If the explanation is so broad and vague any observation or experimental result could be used to support it and nothing could disprove it, it’s probably pseudoscience. This isn’t perfect since it can be hard for some very complex, cutting-edge physics, but for the typical pseudoscience peddler they deal in phenomena at least somewhat comprehensible to an informed layman who can understand fairly simple things like Newton’s Laws.

Great analysis as always! I hate to nitpick, but you slightly misinterpreted one of the papers at hand. The sentence highlighted at 11:33 is actually saying that there would still have been a downward trend WITHOUT anthropogenic effects (just a smaller downward trend), NOT drawing a distinction between TYPES of anthropogenic effects.

12,000 year cycle that also supposedly caused the Younger Dryas according to him yet that was what, 12,900 years ago? Seems it's almost a thousand years late for this 'cycle' to start again. 😂

How epic is it that Yuan Li, one of the authors of the papers cited here, happened to watch this video and then state in the comments that Suspicious0bservers is full of shit? (I'm paraphrasing Yuan Li, of course.)

One of those papers was written by my prof, they thought it was hilarious

How do you explain family guy cutaway gags for shock value

Damn thats a lot of ellipses in 1 email, trying really hard on that anime villian monologue.

Why do all these doomsday prophets deny the actual event that can cause an apocalypse

Weekly video highlights @ 27:14 "For your [earthquake] predictions to gather serious attention, you will need to both show statistical significance and publish in a peer-reviewed journal. I am trying to help you by emphasizing those facts." - Dr. Jeffrey Love (USGS) to Ben Davidson (KZfaqr)

8:58 let us pay respects to everyone who has died by going near their fridge

I haven't watched either of these people yet but I love how this guy is like "the science papers i found disprove this guy". $cience can never be wrong, stop having any additional thoughts. Because we obviously have such a great grasp on reality.. we just can't figure out why everything is going the wrong direction. Better keep doing the same thing

I can’t help but feel bad for people without scientific backgrounds who fall for these scams. This illustrates why science literacy among non-scientists is so important. I think people who find genuine science to be difficult tend to gravitate to pseudoscience because it gives them a false sense of understanding while simultaneously fulfilling their urge to be defiant. I can only hope more people will be honest with themselves and understand that it’s ok to not know something. Don’t take the shortcut to pseudoscience, but put in the work to understand how we’ve come to know so much about our world. Trust me, you’ll be happier for it. Thanks for the great content, Dave.

This is just a question I've wondered after seeing so many of your videos, Dave: How do you have the mental endurance to deal with all of this? Not only debunking a new cult leader every month, but responding to comments on tens of videos every single day. I am just shocked and impressed that you can mentally withstand all this. I would probably implode from stress or something else just because of how much there is and how idiotic they all are. Regardless, thank you for doing this. I don't know many people with your level of stamina to be able to do this day after day for years and that is definitely to be commended. Amazing job, and I hope your career only prospers further.

Ben and Wall are performing a great service to people like me. Having realized how naive I can be due to lack of good education. I am now determined to fix this problem. Thank you Professor Dave.

The saddest part is the failed disaster app, since even if it worked, it couldn’t. Plenty of people stay in the flight paths of hurricanes and other more readily predictable natural disasters because they don’t have options available to them. Can’t afford to leave work, and possibly waste a tank or two of gas, not too mention motel/hotel costs to safely ride out a storm. You just board up the windows and pray for the best.