The Bogdanoffs: The Trolls who shook Physics

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  • @LynxSolstice
    @LynxSolstice 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20269

    They asked me if I had a degree in theoretical physics, I said I had a theoretical degree in physics, they said welcome aboard.

    • @sultanofswingdrift3021
      @sultanofswingdrift3021 2 ปีที่แล้ว +309

      LOL good one

    • @Superplushbros3000
      @Superplushbros3000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +383

      haha i get that reference!

    • @toadinthehole8085
      @toadinthehole8085 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Great stuff.

    • @st20332
      @st20332 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@suprememasteroftheuniverse shut up you CCP bot, trying to destabilise Western societies through creating chain reaction arguments, and then leaving people with a sense of lingering stupidity and worry

    • @Divinemakyr
      @Divinemakyr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@st20332 You seem to be one of the fear-ridden conspiracy theorist guys.

  • @Tictacpanter
    @Tictacpanter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +787

    The Sokal paper is used in my university intro to writing papers as a demonstration of how an article can meet all the formatting and structural requirements for a publication- and mean nothing at all. It’s used as a bit of a warning to not be too wordy and have a real argument.

    • @thej3799
      @thej3799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Lol. Talk to me about words failing to address what they say screams from the top of a mountain "yo, im tone argument projecting I agree with this person but had to nuke something instead of restraint", k. Thx btw. while I can harness word strength, you show your hand a bluff and now folding in a spectacular bounce mate 🫶

    • @Tictacpanter
      @Tictacpanter ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@thej3799 hey there! I don’t quite catch your drift here.

    • @krodmandoon3479
      @krodmandoon3479 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@thej3799I can't believe you actually got someone

    • @jht3fougifh393
      @jht3fougifh393 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@krodmandoon3479 In their defense, this is a TH-cam comment section, not an academic paper.

    • @JeevesAnthrozaurUS
      @JeevesAnthrozaurUS 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thej3799 Now THIS is Podracing!

  • @marsantos536
    @marsantos536 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5698

    "this email spread like wildfire in the academic community" i love how a love for gossip is a pillar of all human interactions

    • @kalebb4
      @kalebb4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      humans are social creatures!

    • @BG101UK
      @BG101UK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@kalebb4 *Most* humans are social creatures! ☺

    • @kalebb4
      @kalebb4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@BG101UK What do you mean by that?

    • @enzoqueijao
      @enzoqueijao 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      @@kalebb4 Probably that most humans are social creatures.

    • @kalebb4
      @kalebb4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@enzoqueijao They emphasized 'most', implying that a small group of people would not be. But even the most introverted, antisocial humans rely on people, because we are a social species. Humans are not born with sharp teeth and claws to ward off predators, so we rely on one another to survive. This is deeply rooted within everyone, because, in the past, isolation meant death. Isolation nowadays can lead to depression, anxiety, feelings of loneliness and even suicidality. And isolation is often a symptom of disorders and abnormalities- its simply not healthy to be alone. Of course, this doesn't mean that *everyone* loves to engage in gossip, or that *everyone* would not think critically about spreading a silly little email. But humans are social.

  • @SlashCampable
    @SlashCampable ปีที่แล้ว +1948

    The twins dying a week apart is the final cherry on top of this weird story. Truly a pair for the history books. Not because of their significance, but just for how notably strange they were.

    • @orangejello3263
      @orangejello3263 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      People who are closed for most of their lives tend to die together, it's a whole thing. Most married couples die within the few years of each other no matter the age.

    • @WingMaster562
      @WingMaster562 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      ​@@orangejello3263my grandma died less tham a week after my grandpa dief

    • @micahslash
      @micahslash ปีที่แล้ว +57

      They didn't die; they transcended.

    • @kellenbigman
      @kellenbigman ปีที่แล้ว +36

      They seem like aliens that were stupid where they came from and decided they'd come here and be hailed as geniuses when in a twist turned out to be equally dumb here too...

    • @whyplaypiano2844
      @whyplaypiano2844 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@orangejello3263 My great grandpa has somehow managed to live 11 years without my great grandma. He's 88.

  • @ethanomcbride
    @ethanomcbride 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2091

    10/10 would’ve read the nonsense papers and pretended to understand everything out of sheer imposter anxiety

    • @AlexandLoki
      @AlexandLoki ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Then you would actually be an imposter though.

    • @fernando4959
      @fernando4959 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      @@AlexandLoki hence the anxiety

    • @dylanoonk6456
      @dylanoonk6456 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      i have pretty bad imposter syndrome (i’m a computer scientist) and i’ve certainly pretended to understand papers and whatnot that i didn’t but those brothers’ paper was like if someone whose only ever used a mobile phone was trying to explain the intricacies of low level hardware having only heard about it from pop culture.

    • @TheDeltaboss
      @TheDeltaboss ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's exactly what bad science banks on

    • @itsgonnabeanaurfromme
      @itsgonnabeanaurfromme 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@dylanoonk6456it's not impostor syndrome because you actually don't understand and pretend you do. Quite the opposite

  • @somecallmetim4490
    @somecallmetim4490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1675

    “The author should correct several typos in the paper. As an examle…” well done.

    • @ConnanTheCivilized
      @ConnanTheCivilized 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Yikes, I missed that twice!

    • @Huntracony
      @Huntracony ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@LuizAlexPhoenix Not in this context. Papers have much higher writing standards than an editorial note. It makes sense to spend some amount of effort correcting typos in papers, not so much in notes that'll only be read a handful of times. I wouldn't call it a criticism either, or at least not petty; the goal is not to make the author look bad, it's to have the typos corrected to make the paper better.

    • @mrshadowduh9394
      @mrshadowduh9394 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Isn't the "As an examle..." written here literally an example of a typo made in the paper? It's followed up by a comma followed by an "and" which would also make no sense until you realise that they are showing that the Bog Twins mixed French with English in their paper and wrote "and la". The people correcting them made no typo themselves.

    • @somecallmetim4490
      @somecallmetim4490 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mrshadowduh9394 it was a year ago, so I don’t remember it exactly. But I do remember it and would have made sure it wasn’t an example through context before laughing at them for it.

    • @None-Trick_Pony
      @None-Trick_Pony ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@mrshadowduh9394I thought they made a mistake. I reparsed the sentence, then thought it was the Bog Bros., but now I'm all fucking confused. The lower excerpt shown by Mr. Broccoli (#2) says "As _en_ example", which has officially caused me to retrieve my hat from the ring and throw in the towel.
      Now that I've retrieved my hat from the ring, I'm tossing it right into another one. You noticed something that really caught my eye. The most fascinating thing to me by far is the French-English et al. mistake, as it's deeper than you make it out to be. Et al. is short for et alia. "Et" is, of course, "and" in French, but _also_ "and" in Latin, where the phrase originates. The twins ended up translating their work from one language to another so poorly that they mixed in a third language. The only way I can conceive of this happening is a sort of variant of the Scunthorpe Problem, in that they translated all of it from French to English without exception, even the parts that _shouldn't_ have been translated, with the Latin "et" being confused as French; hence, "and al". Which I can only assume is the sequel to "You Can Call Me Al".

  • @teeks8713
    @teeks8713 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2978

    Seeing the result of that plastic surgery just makes me sad. I’m glad you covered that the way you did, acknowledging it without making fun of it. Body dysmorphia is a horrible thing

    • @elliottdresser9734
      @elliottdresser9734 ปีที่แล้ว +167

      I saw a picture of them prior to this video, and somehow managed to recognize them at the very beginning. It’s very sad though.

    • @mq5731
      @mq5731 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@elliottdresser9734 I think they look kinda cool....

    • @technoturnovers7072
      @technoturnovers7072 ปีที่แล้ว +179

      @@mq5731 see, the thing is, they took the features that made them attractive in the first place and had them exaggerated to the point that they were no longer attractive. Like, you have full lips and a well-defined chin; what happens if you exaggerate that chin until you look like a cheesy comic book character, and inflate your lips to be twice the size? doesn't turn out so well, it seems

    • @mq5731
      @mq5731 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@technoturnovers7072 At least they stand out in a crowd. Which for people like them, I think thats what they wanted anyway...

    • @Abigart69
      @Abigart69 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@technoturnovers7072 yeah its easy for the mentally healthy to think logically

  • @jenniferkeates
    @jenniferkeates 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2560

    Alan Sokal was a TA for one of my computer science courses in UCL in 2010 (don't quite remember which course it was, it was either Hardware II or Theory II). We didn't really knew he was at first, just that he was an excellent teacher, much better than our original course lecturer. He always explained concepts with alot of humour and boiled things down enough that undergrads could understand. I was so impressed by his teaching that I looked him up and discovered that he had a wiki article; after that, we asked him to tell us about the Sokal Affair in one class and he gladly sat us down and talked about academic honesty.
    In the end, we as a class literally begged him to teach the course instead of our original lecturer but alas, he said it's not something he can do. A huge shame.
    BTW, anyone who is thinking of studying at UCL: this is a common story in the entire university. Great connections to great professors, but absolutely terrible teaching faculty.

    • @drmodestoesq
      @drmodestoesq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      Ahhh...That's why we need more of these people to conduct online recorded courses. But, I understand that's no substitute for being in the classroom and asking questions.

    • @Skiddoo42
      @Skiddoo42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      @@drmodestoesq Nobody asks questions and when they do they are snickered at. It quickly becomes embraced as laziness because admitting to being terrified of showing one's ignorance is far more difficult. The cowardice is suffocating.

    • @ijemand5672
      @ijemand5672 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      know*

    • @sdaiwepm
      @sdaiwepm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same at most research universities in the US, e.g. UC Berkeley for sure.

    • @usernotfound904
      @usernotfound904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Did he have the over-the-top facial surgery yet when he was your TA?

  • @sammy135_
    @sammy135_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +576

    Hey, I know this is such a minor correction and doesn't affect the story at all, but I have to correct, Roland Hayes was a classical singer, not a jazz musician. It explains why Bertha would've been more drawn to him as he often sang songs in French, German, and Italian, and would go on tours in Germany and Austria. Jazz wasn't very popular among white audiences at the time and definitely hadn't made it's way over to Europe at the time so she probably wouldn't have been attracted to a jazz musician. Again, small correction in an otherwise well researched video!

    • @matttzzz2
      @matttzzz2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      "Well ackshwalley" 🤓

    • @SpiderMan-v9c
      @SpiderMan-v9c 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      ​@@matttzzz2shaddup

    • @VultureSkins
      @VultureSkins หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      @@matttzzz2”well, actually” isn’t a catch-all response to someone providing context or a correction. It’s for when people do that with an obnoxious sense of superiority

    • @bridget7539
      @bridget7539 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      ​@VultureSkins particularly when the correction is unnecessary, irrelevant, or actually wrong in and of itself

    • @robertmatch6550
      @robertmatch6550 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      When it is mis-spelled to simulate a preconceived posh accent, one may assume that an affect is intended in a humourous or otherwise light hearted manner. Well done, by jove!

  • @inkkilpatrick6220
    @inkkilpatrick6220 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1037

    i absolutely love the way you handled the topic of their plastic surgeries. Simultaneously treating someone's decisions about their body with the seriousness and respect expected of a biopic like this, and dismissing the issue of their bodies and choices about it as irrelevant to the story.
    I dont think it could have conceivably be handled any better, seriously respect that.

    • @whoareyoulookingfor
      @whoareyoulookingfor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      i scrolled down immediately after watching that part to leave a comment like this. my kudos as well

    • @chase6428
      @chase6428 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bruh looks like he got swarmed by wasps

    • @littlechickeyhudak
      @littlechickeyhudak ปีที่แล้ว +17

      yeah that was a chad move

    • @belle8732
      @belle8732 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      definitely a W and chad move. was seriously really surprised and pleased with the way it was handled

    • @placeholderdoe
      @placeholderdoe ปีที่แล้ว +36

      It’s really refreshing to see because even actual plastic surgeons on TH-cam and TikTok handle these things horribly, guessing if celebrities had plastic surgery, recommending plastic surgery, other horrible things

  • @jesserjzz1
    @jesserjzz1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4471

    7:07 - "They exist as a pair, a unit that does not make sense unless treated as a whole." - And they died from COVID 19, Grichka first and 6 days later his brother Igor. R.I.P... 😣 😖 😫 😩 🥺 😢 😭

    • @eltioputo
      @eltioputo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @@couchcamperTM I mean... It says so on their Wikipedia page so...

    • @FlyManChimera
      @FlyManChimera 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Good riddance

    • @Bassmasterwitacaster
      @Bassmasterwitacaster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      They didn't actually die. This is fake news

    • @jesserjzz1
      @jesserjzz1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +719

      @@Bassmasterwitacaster Yes I know. Theyr conscience was uploaded and they will live forever in the BLOCKCHAIN.

    • @OrlandoMGarcia
      @OrlandoMGarcia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      they died because they didn’t vaccinate against covid

  • @nyanbinary1717
    @nyanbinary1717 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4312

    As someone with an advanced degree in cultural studies, I can confirm that Sokal's troll paper would have fit right in to a journal like that. He even wrote an absolute meme of a title. I love it.

    • @tacticalpossum7090
      @tacticalpossum7090 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Could very easily happen in sociology and has been done before... and Im a sociologist!

    • @erikeriks
      @erikeriks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      You should dye your hair in that blueish rainbow color again, it compliments your glasses.

    • @nyanbinary1717
      @nyanbinary1717 2 ปีที่แล้ว +209

      @@erikeriks …what?

    • @Jane-oz7pp
      @Jane-oz7pp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +254

      @@nyanbinary1717 I think they're making a really sad reference to the whole "blue haired feminists in sociology" meme.

    • @erikeriks
      @erikeriks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Jane-oz7pp no I found her socials and know what she looks like

  • @zamor_da
    @zamor_da 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3574

    You are really inspiring me to write a hoax paper.

    • @Ryan-xq3kl
      @Ryan-xq3kl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      Dump it

    • @FancyNoises
      @FancyNoises 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Make writing hoax papers become a meme and a pastime 😎

    • @papalegba6759
      @papalegba6759 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      most physics after 1900 is a hoax.

    • @LauraBeeDannon
      @LauraBeeDannon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Like those dudes that changed Mein Kapf to feminist jargon and got it published?😆

    • @FancyNoises
      @FancyNoises 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@LauraBeeDannon HAA! I forgot about that one 😂
      Avi, and Grace: you have some great channel subscriptions 😉

  • @stevemrayz357
    @stevemrayz357 2 ปีที่แล้ว +300

    The funny yet sad thing is that in the same 10 years, they could have gained their Bachelor's, Master's then PhDs legitimately

    • @matttzzz2
      @matttzzz2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      That would involve studying, attending classes, assignments, etc. They just wanted to fuck around and get free PhDs

    • @HerbeyStudies
      @HerbeyStudies 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@matttzzz2bingo. They wanted the glitz and glamour and the prestige of a phd, without the effort

    • @badgermcbadger1968
      @badgermcbadger1968 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@HerbeyStudiesfrom the video one could almost think they genuinely thought their papers were good

  • @Kevin-cy2dr
    @Kevin-cy2dr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +472

    Man the drama in the physics community sounds much more interesting than the TV ones.

    • @drewfeld8483
      @drewfeld8483 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Drama is boring. It's too common and mundane, like most humans.

    • @elvingearmasterirma7241
      @elvingearmasterirma7241 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Oh you have no idea. You should check out the drama in the "body language" area. Oh thats fun

    • @elvingearmasterirma7241
      @elvingearmasterirma7241 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      ​@@drewfeld8483 and yet. Here you are

    • @em84c
      @em84c ปีที่แล้ว +8

      i love watching videos about drama in niche communities im not apart of. Ive been watching videos about knitting community dramas lately 😆 im so interested to know the physics and body language community dramas

    • @Septa7Seven
      @Septa7Seven ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@em84c same, I watched a long doc about yarn drama from the 2000s.

  • @jamesflames6987
    @jamesflames6987 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3635

    The problem is that being granted a PhD or being published in a journal doesn't mean anyone "agrees" with what you wrote or thinks it is correct, just that it meets basic standards for publication. If reviewers had to judge if a theory was actually "right" it would be impossible to have any debate in science.

    • @KingFluffs
      @KingFluffs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Same with "peer review". It means sweet fuck all but a confirmation bias, and most peer reviewed things that are taken as fact cannot be replicated so are untrue.

    • @FTZPLTC
      @FTZPLTC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      Yeah, it comes up in Broc's videos on Jan Schön, I think - a PhD is supposed to be indicative of an understanding of the scientific process, with the implication that you can be trusted when talking about those subjects. It doesn't mean that you'll be right - it just means that you won't be wrong through incompetence alone.
      tbh the big fuck-up here was the university delegating responsibility for whether someone got a PhD to any random unaccountable publishers they could win over, rather than just making the call themselves. As Broc said, if they'd just passed him with the shittiest possible grade, nothing would likely have come of it.

    • @mrporcupine4140
      @mrporcupine4140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The amount of times my teachers have had articles rejected because the reviewers thought the physics were wrong or some mistake had been made in the math is infuriating, and says otherwise.

    • @TheDavidlloydjones
      @TheDavidlloydjones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      No, James. that's not correct.
      Plausibility is one of the "basic standards for publication" that you correctly refer to.
      Incorrectness necessarily makes a paper unpublishable.

    • @jamesflames6987
      @jamesflames6987 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheDavidlloydjones Plausibility means it's possible. They can't judge absolute correctness, because no one really knows. There are debates in science all the time.
      So for example when the theory came out that the universe was expanding. You think that only got published when all the reviewers agreed it was 100% true? No. There were lots of arguments and counter arguments published. They won't publish something that is transparently erroneous. But judging it to be objectively correct it not their job and also impossible.

  • @Test-ru5xm
    @Test-ru5xm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1146

    “He bought???, dump it!”

    • @thathandsomedevil0828
      @thathandsomedevil0828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      LOL, I was wondering what they have to do with currency trading. :D

    • @middle-agedclimber
      @middle-agedclimber 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Not zis time, Bog!

    • @Gh0stPr0ducti0n
      @Gh0stPr0ducti0n 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@middle-agedclimber dümp üt XD

    • @bakkudeku
      @bakkudeku 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Rhee pänýck sohld? PÔMP EÏT AGHÉN!

    • @Rek-55
      @Rek-55 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ))

  • @musikSkool
    @musikSkool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3395

    This isn't a physics failure, it is a publication failure. It only becomes a physics failure if people start citing them as credit for some of their new physics discoveries.

    • @Aster_Risk
      @Aster_Risk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      Just like the Soakal hoax.

    • @shreycod4
      @shreycod4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +152

      I disagree, because it shows that no one even knows what other people in their field are talking about. Modern day academia is so fragmented and scattered that it is a bunch of smart people working in parallel with no overlap, towards a non-existent goal. 99% of this research is completely useless and only understood by, at most, a dozen other people globally. A quick look on arxiv at most of these dissertations and papers shows that most of them are just grasping at some niche that no one has yet explored, but can fill an entire paper's worth of gibberish.
      Shortly put, it is a huge circlejerk.

    • @musikSkool
      @musikSkool 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@shreycod4 Well, real research is done in secret by very rich companies. Very little of what gets published is out in the open for us to read, most of it goes into some wealthy corporation's safe and saved for later use by just their own engineers to try to squeeze a few more bucks out of their product. I hate to admit it, but all new science is now a rich man's game.

    • @KittSpiken
      @KittSpiken 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      It certainly isn't a failure, it's another ignored alarm on the sinking ship of peer review. It's been a joke for decades and hardly anyone seems to care.

    • @chrisfuller1268
      @chrisfuller1268 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's not a failure, as the poor quality/fraud was eventually discovered. If they had chosen earth sciences or biological sciences, their fraud would never have been discovered due to data rights.

  • @delphinidin
    @delphinidin ปีที่แล้ว +232

    "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander" actually means that everybody gets paid back the same way. Sokal, a physicist, had made sociology look silly by publishing a bad sociology paper, and now physics looked silly because the Bogdanoffs had published a bad physics paper. It's like saying, "What goes around comes around."

    • @thesleepydot
      @thesleepydot 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      thanks for the correction!

    • @Tannhauser62
      @Tannhauser62 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Currently, 155 people believe your correction, but it's not right at all. The expression means that the same standards should be applied in different circumstances. If, for example, a husband discovered that his wife was cheating on him, and embarked upon an affair himself, he could remark, "What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." It's a shame that lovely colourful idioms like this, until recently widely understood, are disappearing so fast. I know: language evolves, yadda yadda.

    • @delphinidin
      @delphinidin 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@Tannhauser62 that.... is exactly what I said it meant

    • @thesleepydot
      @thesleepydot 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Tannhauser62 well, thanks for the correction! now I know the real meaning :)

    • @imaboisir7227
      @imaboisir7227 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Tannhauser62bro said yadda yadda I can't believe this

  • @ajakethompson
    @ajakethompson 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I love how the phone call sounds at the end don’t go together. It vibrates like a cell phone but then the pickup sounds like an old landline. 32:20

  • @patriciaAmurray
    @patriciaAmurray 2 ปีที่แล้ว +710

    I enjoyed this video! I had seen other videos on the Bogdanoff twins but didn’t know that they were the grandsons of Roland Hayes. Mr Hayes was not a jazz musician; rather, he was one of the first African-American vocalists to tour Europe. He had a rich tenor voice and sang German lieder, other classical forms, and also Negro Spirituals. My grandfather was a good friend of his and his first accompanist.

    • @aj_aurelius5763
      @aj_aurelius5763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Thank you

    • @orangeants
      @orangeants 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      That's incredibly cool, it must've been wild to realize you had a connection to the matter

    • @jamey2326
      @jamey2326 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Did you just say the n word

  • @JohnSmith-zv8km
    @JohnSmith-zv8km 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3556

    Surgeons who are willing to do what was done to them should be subject to legal sanctions.

    • @jakubmalisz5741
      @jakubmalisz5741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +507

      It's all natural. They're are the next step in human evolution.

    • @Oscar97o
      @Oscar97o 2 ปีที่แล้ว +367

      I think they were suffering from saturnism because at some point they injected lead into their bloodstream to become immortal. Which, spoilers, didn't work.

    • @leonieromanes7265
      @leonieromanes7265 2 ปีที่แล้ว +151

      @@jakubmalisz5741 a shame they're now extinct.

    • @liloufoxx
      @liloufoxx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +225

      @@nvwssv8883 What?

    • @istyleonu
      @istyleonu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Why would you want that? That only protects insecure morons from making dumb choices that only effect themselves. What you are suggesting goes against the foundation of freedom. If some idiot wants to do something idiotic to THEMSELVES then they should have that freedom.

  • @VasiliyOgniov
    @VasiliyOgniov 2 ปีที่แล้ว +645

    Funnily enough, "Богданов" means "Given by a God" in Russian, where "Бог" = "God". They have a Russian roots after all. So I find it quite funny that title means literally "God.txt"

    • @djolivierastro
      @djolivierastro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Just like the best French standup comedian Mbala Mbala Dieudonné

    • @claida339
      @claida339 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      I'm sorry but I cannot get over the fact that the Russian word for God is the British word for toilets while the English word for God sounds exactly like the French word for dildo (which is gode). That's both accidentally disrespectful and frankly hilarious to me. Anyway, thank you for the info, I'm starting to learn Russian and that's a word I'll remember!

    • @Chronic.Pivoter
      @Chronic.Pivoter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@claida339, this can vary with dialect, but, uninflected, the Russian word sounds like [bo:x] (or "boh" if you can't read phonetic notation), so it doesn't sound the same as "bog".
      P.S. But yeah, in "Bogdanov" it comes before a voiced consonant, so there it does sound like "bog".

    • @claida339
      @claida339 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Chronic.Pivoter Ok, thanks a lot for this info! The book and audio app I have said that the little angle letter is pronounced "g" but I didn't know about this subtlety. I does make sense though. That was nice of you to take the time to explain it :)

    • @ShamelessDuck
      @ShamelessDuck 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@claida339 and the English "God" is Russian "year", "год"

  • @antonioberandas9610
    @antonioberandas9610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    I don't know if it was unusual back then, but nowadays it's pretty standard to obain a PhD by publishing papers in journals. It's called "cumulative dissertation" and a lot of PhDs are obtained that way. You publish ~three papers as first author, write a few pages connecting those papers, defend it, and you may be awarded your PhD.

    • @spaceisntgreen3578
      @spaceisntgreen3578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      phd speedrun when

    • @MSandPD
      @MSandPD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      yeah, pretty much exactly how PhDs in physics and astronomy are done in the US, as far as I'm aware. Staple together 3 first author papers as your thesis and graduate with your PhD. I was surprised by how much he emphasized in the video that that's not standard.

    • @QuantumR4ge
      @QuantumR4ge 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Phd By publication is not common in the field of physics in the modern day for the most part. Other fields its much more common.

    • @qewqeqeqwew3977
      @qewqeqeqwew3977 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Einstein wrote a cummulative dissertation.

    • @no.one.two.
      @no.one.two. ปีที่แล้ว +10

      As a PhD candidate in chemistry, even the ones that don't want to graduate through cumulative dissertation but instead though a monography have to have a few published/accepted papers as first author

  • @ityabean
    @ityabean ปีที่แล้ว +54

    The beat drop right at the end when revealing this was a 2-parter is CHOICE.
    Also, god do I love these documentaries. They're such interesting looks into aspects of academia and the scientific field at certain points of history. I've rewatched this and the Jan Hendrik series a few times.

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli  ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Thanks haha, I do love the music choice. Although what I've learned is that if you convince people it isn't a 2 parter, and act like credits are rolling, they leave and then never go watch part 2. Tried to make it clear in the future that there were future parts left.

    • @thesleepydot
      @thesleepydot 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@BobbyBroccoli oh noo that's unfortunate, but I gotta say, for the people who stayed, it really enhanced the experience. Such a twist! I kinda wish more people would pull a surpise second parter, because it's really a way of saying "oh, you thought we were done? Buddy, we're just getting started!"
      so at the very least i think you win some yoiu lose some :))

  • @igorbogdanoff5982
    @igorbogdanoff5982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3413

    Activate Quantum Immortality.

    • @middle-agedclimber
      @middle-agedclimber 3 ปีที่แล้ว +204

      What is ze next styep of your mastyerplan?

    • @angrycinnabon2956
      @angrycinnabon2956 3 ปีที่แล้ว +217

      @@middle-agedclimber Crashing this market...
      *With no survivors.*

    • @misterb.s.8745
      @misterb.s.8745 2 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      Just in time.. Farewell Grichka, see you in the quantum dump realm

    • @wizardofoz9803
      @wizardofoz9803 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @@misterb.s.8745 bruh, I learned it from you.
      F 4 Gricka, may he crash the markets with no survivors from Heaven

    • @bornanagaming3329
      @bornanagaming3329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Sacrifice Brother for Immortality

  • @StrangerOman
    @StrangerOman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +773

    Came for the memes, stayed for good editing, good choice of music and interesting story.

    • @richardbottom9843
      @richardbottom9843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@suprememasteroftheuniverse cringe

    • @koki-dm9rv
      @koki-dm9rv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      the editing doesn’t fit the subject at all and the camera makes me nauseous wtf are you talking about

    • @StrangerOman
      @StrangerOman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@koki-dm9rv Are you watching from PC or Phone? Could be our difference.

    • @autodidacticartisan
      @autodidacticartisan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yeah the production quality of this video is striking

    • @Vasily_dont_be_silly
      @Vasily_dont_be_silly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      50% of the video is pointless 3D graphics and 10-second silent shots with only music and zero text all over. That's nowhere near good editing

  • @ThisGuyAd.
    @ThisGuyAd. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1637

    When I was 15 I went to Paris with some friends. We spent a night walking down the seine to meet people. We ending up hanging out with Igor and his friends. He was a super nice guy. RIP to both of them 🙏

    • @joshualioi5144
      @joshualioi5144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      More stories more stories

    • @joshualioi5144
      @joshualioi5144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Moarrrr

    • @agoniaXdunya
      @agoniaXdunya 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@joshualioi5144 he sukkd him up

    • @mihaelmiles7184
      @mihaelmiles7184 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You have selfie with them?

    • @zaxmaxlax
      @zaxmaxlax 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@agoniaXdunya LMAO

  • @DenkouNova
    @DenkouNova ปีที่แล้ว +53

    That ending always gives me shivers. I speak French and I hadn't realized at first that the point is people have to translate the ominous calls using the closed captions to get the info that there's a part 2 coming. It's so good

    • @tagaway6173
      @tagaway6173 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well, even before I put the CC
      I figured it out by there being more Dominos pieces with more themes.
      And the "you got mail".
      (And because I knew they didn't fall into obscurity, but that doesn't mean everyone knows that.)

  • @allisonbrown1865
    @allisonbrown1865 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    not only is this really well researched, i feel like you also figured out how to communicate message board drama visually in a way that i’ve never seen before that’s really effective. amazing stuff

  • @SJDvalientes
    @SJDvalientes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +541

    I am all in for more deep dives into academic fraud; they make such good stories
    Thank you for making them engaging and accessible!

    • @amusedobserver6134
      @amusedobserver6134 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Look into string theory.

    • @BattousaiHBr
      @BattousaiHBr ปีที่แล้ว +3

      little did you know that after posting your comment this is exactly what he set out to do.

  • @brogansmith1342
    @brogansmith1342 3 ปีที่แล้ว +550

    Dude, brilliant job, especially at the end. It's been a minute since someone actually got me with a fakeout ending like that. Amazing work.

    • @ivy_47
      @ivy_47 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @Boxcarcifer So true!

    • @6-1-6
      @6-1-6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Boxcarcifer Preach

    • @6-1-6
      @6-1-6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Boxcarcifer Preach

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli  2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      so true bestie!

    • @6-1-6
      @6-1-6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@BobbyBroccoli He sees a world we cannot understand

  • @TheEulerID
    @TheEulerID 2 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    "but considering his existing fame and music career, the question remained; why bother now" asked nobody of Brian May when he went back to finish his PhD at Imperial College 33 years after he abandoned his studies to concentrate on a little band now know as Queen (by coincidence when I was in my first year studying physics at the place). He got his PhD in 2007, aged 60...

    • @worldcomicsreview354
      @worldcomicsreview354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Asking him "why bother now" was YOUR job, we all agreed!

    • @RadikAlice
      @RadikAlice 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Him, Milo Ackerman and a bunch of other musicians

  • @jonasghafur4940
    @jonasghafur4940 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    not partaking in making the mental struggles of someone who is, in the end, one of our peers a punchline is a genuinely kind move. Yet, this honestly just feels like a side not to what is one of the best videos I’ve watched on TH-cam. Good job!

  • @oganvildevil
    @oganvildevil 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Omg idk how many times I've seen this and only just realized Bobby gave us "a quick rundown" in episode one
    Nicely done monsieur broccoli

  • @Incramus
    @Incramus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +505

    This is absolutely incredible. Seeing you develop as an artist is an amazing thing to witness. My friends and I are all physics majors and we're obsessed with your videos. We're all going to different grad schools and are going to inevitably to drift apart, but whenever you upload, we're bound to be reunited for that magical half hour. Keep it up!!!

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli  3 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      This is so wholesome wtf

    • @DuskLegend
      @DuskLegend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      “Inevitably”
      Well, why?

    • @Richex112
      @Richex112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@DuskLegend death

    • @DuskLegend
      @DuskLegend 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Richex112 damn, i don’t even think he was getting at that

    • @Richex112
      @Richex112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DuskLegend no i asked

  • @theaeecs8004
    @theaeecs8004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Holy shit, I just came across your channel from the Schön scandal and this is absolutely hilarious as an electrical engineer attempting to go into research. I am currently focusing on photonics and metamaterials (mainly trying to go into research, and I'm finishing my B.S. this year and should be able to finish my M.S. next year), and it seems we might have similar interests. Keep up the amazing content!

  • @RealWernerHeisenberg
    @RealWernerHeisenberg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2128

    As a French scientist working in academia I can totally confirm all this is is true. And the institution didn’t do anything to correct this misbehavior from a minor university. Those B brothers are still PhDs from the French university despite their lack of scientific knowledge. And this is is precisely why France, a former leading nation, is drowning. I’m so sad.

    • @heldhostageplshelp
      @heldhostageplshelp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +254

      They bought the dip.

    • @truartist5379
      @truartist5379 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Writing like this should make you sick.

    • @igorbogdanoff5982
      @igorbogdanoff5982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      Bounjour Mr. Boulle, we got a new plan for you.

    • @vapeurdepisse
      @vapeurdepisse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I'm French too. That's definitely not the reason for the demise of French research... The reason is that funding had historically been coming from public sources, and this is drying up because the state finances are overburdened by the cost of our social net. Also there is systemic resistance in France about private money. The whole system is rigged against private investors due to socialist thinking. Engineers and scientists (like me) are leaving the country to join the private sector elsewhere, where the jobs are plentiful and the pay is higher. A lot of those who stay in French academia are coasting leeches that value their free time more than work. They are also afraid of living outside of France because they can't deal with paying for their own health insurance and retirement. To say that these buffoons have anything to do with the real problem is ridiculous.

    • @lightoo361
      @lightoo361 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Bon courage pour soutenir un doctorat à l'Ecole Polytechnique ..... je trouve leur raisonnement beaucoup plus cohérent que des théories aussi farfeuleus que la théorie des cordes (avec ces dizaines de dimensions hahahahaha) ou encore la gravitation quantique à boucle
      le concept de l'information qu'ils developpent est quand à lui très intéressant pour expliquer l'avant mur de planck !

  • @BenHawkinsvids
    @BenHawkinsvids 2 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    There's something almost beautiful about them being handed an out, saying damn you guys got us really good solid prank and them just doubling down on it being real

  • @berlineczka
    @berlineczka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    Honestly, the Sokal prank - whatever Sokal actually says about it - has proven him wrong. He tried to publish his nonsensical paper in several more reputable social and cultural journals, and non took the bate and rejected his paper. He only managed to get it published in a tiny, not well known and not widely respected journal that hardly anybody knew (I am a sociologist, employed at a university - and I NEVER even heard of this journal before the Sokal affair). He published a weak paper in a weak journal and claimed it a success and a reason social sciences/humanities are not real sciences. In truth, he did shitty humanities, and only managed to get in published in a shitty journal. That's a win for the humanities in my book.

    • @fess3932
      @fess3932 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I am sure this claim is not biased in anyway at all.

    • @berlineczka
      @berlineczka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@fess3932 His, or mine?

    • @jamiemurray6536
      @jamiemurray6536 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      In fairness, Sokal has always been pretty moderate on the limits of his claims. It was journalists, especially those on the right, that spun it as some huge critique of the humanities. For an in depth video on Sokal, I would recommend CCK philosophy’s video “Did the Sokal affair ‘destroy postmodernism’?”, which is briefly referenced in this video

    • @berlineczka
      @berlineczka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@max7971 I am not even a humanities researcher, so it's not really "we". Humanities do not "rule", all sciences are legitimate and deserve respect, grants, and a right to exist and research in peace. As for replication studies: the replication crisis is a problem of all fields of science (maybe except medicine, where replication is built in the process, and is the worst in psychology, arguably). Novelty chase is the cancer of the 'publish or perish' culture that dominate the academia nowadays. A solid paper of nothing new will not get you published, so it is not being done.

    • @mrroger-t6m
      @mrroger-t6m 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@berlineczka humanities Is not science, would be studying french be considered science? I don't think so, go back to study latin and looking through Plato's ass, or interpreting dreams but that's not science its just your own hobby

  • @AFExploration
    @AFExploration 2 ปีที่แล้ว +406

    i've visited their family chateau in Saint Lary, sadly it was in really poor condition with numerous holes in the roof and the brothers refused to spend money on it, but by the end they were pretty broke and chancing their way through life, not like that matters anymore, RIP Bogdanoff Freres

    • @oscardighton8580
      @oscardighton8580 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      if they just stuck to tv they would have been fine

    • @dkeith45
      @dkeith45 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @John S Which really says something about their intelligence. They spent big bucks tweaking their faces through surgery, but didn't care about having a sound roof over their home.

    • @michaelbarbarich3965
      @michaelbarbarich3965 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      @@dkeith45 "says something about their intelligence"
      They became internationally notorious, and lived lives that the vast majority of people couldn't hope to replicate if they were given a hundred lifetimes.
      Who needs an accepted, peer reviewed paper when you leave a trail of famous french actresses and literal princesses behind you?
      Who needs a watertight roof when people across continents mourn your loss and will remember your name decades after your gone?
      I'm sure you're a very bright guy, and your home is in order, but.... Who are you, again?

    • @dkeith45
      @dkeith45 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@michaelbarbarich3965 It's true, they are famous and their names and lives will be known for a very long time. I'm a nobody. And I don't GAF, lol. We all come to nothing eventually. Since there is no afterlife, it all comes to nothing eventually. When the time comes that our sun goes supernova, we and all of our history and all of our works will be wiped out forever and no one will notice our passing or will miss us. That is the cold hard reality.

    • @tulinfirenze1990
      @tulinfirenze1990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@dkeith45 Uuuuummmmm .........not here in Australia - I LITERALLY only heard about them yesterday when a FB post came up about these twin freaks who both died from covid. At first I couldn't believe what I was looking at - they are absolute MONSTERS and they will only be a BLIP in international news and then only for their hideous appearances.

  • @davidprice7162
    @davidprice7162 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    They both just recently died of COVID, aged 72. One in December 21, 2021, the other, January 3rd, 2022.

  • @henry-ch3hq
    @henry-ch3hq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    This is brilliant stuff. Your production quality is insanely high and the stories are incredibly engaging. Keep on rocking on.

  • @J3Puffin
    @J3Puffin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    You do Jon Bois proud - taking his format of high-quality graphics and insightful witty recounting far afield from sports into the how it’s made of physics with your own flair. Great stuff.

  • @mehmehmeh360
    @mehmehmeh360 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    4:50 "here's a quick rundown" Damn you I got the reference! You sly bastard!

  • @samuelbarham8483
    @samuelbarham8483 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The internet was not sci-fi in the 1980's -- in fact, in France it was the era of Minitel, which was an Internet service available in France, and operated by the French government's PTT. It predated the World Wide Web by about a decade -- founded as it was in 1982.

    • @DavidCurryFilms
      @DavidCurryFilms 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Minitel blows my mind. Apparently folks were still using it when it was decommissioned in 2009 🤔

    • @samuelbarham8483
      @samuelbarham8483 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@DavidCurryFilms I know, right? I was shocked when I found that out, too -- something like 10 million log ins per month still!

    • @takix2007
      @takix2007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@DavidCurryFilms 2012 ! It was decommissioned on June, 30th, 2012!

    • @claida339
      @claida339 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DavidCurryFilms (and I still miss it)

    • @RealtimeSeb
      @RealtimeSeb 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      3615 was cool

  • @Ai-immo
    @Ai-immo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    I've heard several times about this story in the french media, but never in such a detailed manner. Great work!
    Actually Luc Ferry, former Education Minister and personal friend of the B brothers was on TV just a few days ago expressing his condolences and taking the opportunity to defend their scientific work...
    The B brothers were often on TV, talking what seemed to me like pseudo scientific BS that I guess could impress the average Joe (that's consistent with they way they seemed to have approached their PHDs).
    This being said they were quite bright and they were pretty good showmen. But I just don't think they were real scientists...
    They are also other disturbing stories involving scams and document falsifications that you might want to consider to understand better who they were...

  • @tapewormer2043
    @tapewormer2043 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    It seems to me that for the faculty it was a problem along the lines of "how to get rid of PhD students who thanks to having money and free time won't quit even though their research isn't going anywhere".
    So if I understood well they granted one the minimum distinction at some drastic conditions (changing field) an the other they condition his right to reattempt the thesis to (supposedly) even more drastic conditions ; getting several publications.
    People managing to obtain undeserved degrees or undue praise has and always will be a thing and I can't imagine a perfect system that could completely prevent that from happening.
    On the other hand it think there is much to say about the publication world. When I was doing research it was my personal opinion that the academic publication system was in many ways defective by design and that it should completely be rethought. But I have left the academic fiel for a while so I don't know what's the situation about this issue at the present.

    • @CarTM
      @CarTM 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn, feels bad bro

    • @ekki1993
      @ekki1993 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah, it's the centuries-old problem of having money as a main driver in a fundamentally creative medium. People with money can pressure their way into PhDs, journals are pressured into accepting some kinds of publications (with results and "high impact") and there's always some bottom-feeder journal willing to publish anything for money.

    • @motunrayomomodu8528
      @motunrayomomodu8528 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly 😊

  • @fullcapsethan
    @fullcapsethan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    as a french citizen, it's always so weird to see them being talked about outside of french circles! your videos are delightful :)

    • @bup6340
      @bup6340 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I live in Germany and a lot of people recognize them for their faces, still.

    • @fullcapsethan
      @fullcapsethan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@bup6340 it's REALLY HARD to confuse them for somebody else thats for sure

    • @bup6340
      @bup6340 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fullcapsethan I couldn't agree with you more.

    • @AbuHajarAlBugatti
      @AbuHajarAlBugatti ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fullcapsethan 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛

  • @bazem
    @bazem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm always impressed with the storytelling and visual presentation in this channel. Congrats!

  • @Dong_Harvey
    @Dong_Harvey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    "Sauce" normally means source in meme parlance. However, a common phrase is also 'do you have the goods?', which also can be transitioned to the concept of the 'goods' being the 'source of delight' or subsequently 'the sauce'.
    Sokal was a 4chan shitposter when m00t was still posting shit in his diapers

    • @ianm1462
      @ianm1462 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Yeah the more I find out about Sokal the more I see how he was 20 years ahead of his time. And a BotW avatar at 70? How cool is this man

    • @Abyssalith
      @Abyssalith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The goods are the beans

  • @KingOfComedyXD
    @KingOfComedyXD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    fantastic and entertaining video. one of the best I've ever seen.
    RIP

  • @hiho9149
    @hiho9149 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Amazing work. I had no idea the details behind this meme of a human duo were this interesting. Great choice with the subject you talked about in the first 3 minutes, it got me hooked on the rest of the video which I may have otherwise skipped considering the length. You gained my sub, keep up the good work.

  • @romanesybel8956
    @romanesybel8956 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    As a French, my mom told me about them. I am way too young to have seen any of their shows but they are so engraved in the french culture.

  • @QuillC
    @QuillC ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The production, editing, writing, everything that goes into these videos, is some of the best on this platform. Seriously impressed with every single one of your videos, please keep it up.

  • @Tracequaza
    @Tracequaza 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    just wanted to say i really love your editing style. it's stylish but at the same time visually coherent, which i find a lot of channels i watch can't strike a balance between the two. your storytelling is also very well done, and i can tell you put a lot of research into this. best of luck with your channel, and great job on this video!

    • @SenisPucker
      @SenisPucker ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're probably aware of this by now, but check out the 'Pretty Good' series by Jon Bois here on TH-cam. The editing style of those videos inspired these ones, and they're also about interesting historical events and trivia surrounding semi-obscure fields. If you liked this, you'll love those.

  • @bruuh4216
    @bruuh4216 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Please keep such scientific-ish videos coming, the production is astonishing

  • @akrasia6693
    @akrasia6693 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Such an underrated channel. Keep up the great work!

  • @LillyDaughterOfAthena
    @LillyDaughterOfAthena 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    bro, you are smashing these videos out of the park. Absolutely stunning presentation!

  • @BrendonWilliams
    @BrendonWilliams 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That drop after "Let's go on a trip" is lovely. I've come back to the video just because I had that part stuck in my head. I wish it transitioned into a section that kept the energy going though.

  • @irradiatedsnakes
    @irradiatedsnakes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    got directed to your channel from a part of your jan hendrick schon essay being on jacob geller's video essay recommendation playlist, and i absolutely fell in love with your style (both in content and in visuals- but like, absolutely ENTRANCED w the visuals) immediately. cant wait to see more of your essays!! :D

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks so much! Glad to have you here

  • @willt9331
    @willt9331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Incredibly good video! I feel like I have a PhD in bogdanoff studies now

  • @madamerobots
    @madamerobots 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    What an excellent article about them .. I like the fact you were not as mocking and focused on their appearance that was star least interesting aspect of those brothers ..

  • @ScHaERX
    @ScHaERX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love that ending, love that atmosphere, what a great channel.
    Sincerely,
    Charlie Cauliflower

  • @mathiew_
    @mathiew_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Man, you can tell the animation has improved since this was released, and the overall quality has probably gone up, but the content itself is just as good. Can't believe how underappreciated you've been until the Ninovium video!

  • @edringo9442
    @edringo9442 2 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    I'm a professor at a major university. None of this is surprising . A large number of people with PhDs have no understanding of their areas of so-called expertise. The past nobility that a PhD may have required is gone. Fraud, non-innovation, and ego are far more the norm than the opposite.

    • @zarathustra498
      @zarathustra498 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Not to mention that the thesis are rarely read seriously. I remember my defence: out of 6 comitee members I had, 2 actually read it, 1 skimmed through while the rest you could tell thet had no idea what was the topic

    • @Jdrunnin
      @Jdrunnin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It is rather sad, it has become some accessory people can use to look smart

    • @worldcomicsreview354
      @worldcomicsreview354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      So now a PHD is more like feudal "nobility"? An unearned position of some privelege based more on who you know than what you know?

    • @Aim54Delta
      @Aim54Delta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@worldcomicsreview354
      Somewhat.
      I can empathize with this story a bit on multiple levels. I will say that I consistently score high in aptitude and intelligence tests and was brought up through gifted education programs in school. Either I was an experiment for what happens when a dumb person is told they are smart, or I am generally rather intelligent. I have a natural affinity to look at something, pick it apart, put it back together, and apply its principles to new problems and solutions.
      One would think I went on to a university, somewhere, received the highest accolades, and went to work for the best companies solving the tough engineering or research challenges.
      And one would be wrong. Several factors combined. First - information is easier to acquire via the internet. As a sponge for information and engagement in discussion, the internet is a far more indulgent (I use that word for a reason) means of exposure to information to consume and process. Why would I go into debt to sit through classes that string me along for months on what takes me a week of wiki-walking and backing it up with browsing primary research sources or discussions in a forum?
      There is a discipline factor - my math suffers because I lack discipline in it, unless directly pursuing a solution. I can learn and do the math, I just see it as a means to an end - a way of removing the guesswork from an intuitive grasp of the mechanics. And it also means that I can be very whimsical - if the information is not sticking, I do not labor away to try and make it stick. I back off and ponder it for weeks, months, or even years before returning to the subject prepared to jam information into the voids I have come to realize exist.
      It also means I do not come prepared with the typical ... Lingo ... Of a field. For example, if I enter into a discussion about the biochemistry in immunology, I will likely have people throw notable experiments or 'principles' at me which are not evident in a raw exploration of the mechanics. I will occasionally attach concepts to each other a bit haphazardly and while I still think they make a point, there is a valid criticism in my use.
      That said... I think my course is becoming the more normal one for those of higher intelligence. Unless one has the means to pursue a degree, the smart thing to do is to simply not go into debt for one. Even in countries where student debt is not an issue, the internet is full of awe and wonder for people who hunger for knowledge and problem solving opportunities. Universities are very slow, rigid, and boring. There is no less genius or ambition in the world - just look at some of the insane innovations in minecraft, factorio, or efforts to render Bad Apple, which should be classified as an SCP at this point. The thing is that universities no longer have the monopoly on higher education and the benefit of what they do offer is in conflict with the interests of people. I can go kick boxes in the back of a store without a master's degree. And you would be surprised how many people went through a lot of work to get a degree, which they never end up being able to utilize.
      My experiences in the working world generally show why. The world is run, currently, by politics and favors, not by actual results or any clear ambition. We would be better served by a demon with ambitions to colonize the solar system than by the types who pretend to wear the purest of virtuous robes. At least the demon would have a compulsory need to recognize a productive ends. Even a demon could be shown the math and the evidence which proves the inefficiency of tyranny and compel a respect for compassion, or at least the human need to have room for it. People who have already consigned themselves to the belief such principles are a virtue society must endure.... Well, you can't fix stupid.
      There is a growing caste system which consists of completely political lifestyles, independent from any productive reality, who believe they are properly guided. This has permeated many aspects of society - people who come to own businesses become deluded into believing they have acquired all relevant knowledge of the business. Managers who believe the only thing they need to do is hire the right people, but then want to over-ride those people in critical decisions.
      I have been in discussions with fields in industry where the main focus of many people is not to show off what they know, but to expose what the others around them do not know. In highly competitive social environments, it is harder to stand out. You can't easily prove yourself as smarter than others, especially if you aren't - but you can point out gaps in someone's understanding, or rejection of convention. The CEO may not know much about computer networking, but the guy confidently exposing the faults of others about their knowledge of networking probably knows his stuff. Even if someone is generally right, finding that way of trying to assert they still don't know enough is a way of securing position.
      Likewise, I have engaged in a number of discussions on various subjects where my own honest effort to present data and research has been met with accusations of word salad and the like. It is a general defense I have seen thrown up when someone does not want to engage in discussion.
      When I remove big words and go with little words and basic concepts, I get mocked for "not knowing" it as the complete jargon.
      We have reached a point where most of the intelligent and creative people in society have little political power to access the means by which to innovate, and as such are pursuing alternate means, despairing, or just disengaging, entirely.
      The ones who are going to universities are those who are following through on a political ambition, even if they don't fully realize it. A lot of people there just to chase a job, and when all that matters is getting the job, the honesty and integrity of the research goes out the window. More foolishness and evil has been done in the interest of 'just doing my job' than, perhaps, any other mentality held by humans.

    • @saddlepiggy
      @saddlepiggy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@Aim54Delta mans just wrote the Alan sokal paper of TH-cam comments

  • @hallosx2
    @hallosx2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    this is such an insanely well-produced video, i was curious about this whole event and you covered it excellently. RIP igor and grichka bogdanoff

  • @TurbopropPuppy
    @TurbopropPuppy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    this vid slipped under my recommendations radar so i rung the notification bell when i found it, something i haven't done with any content creator in like, literal years
    i really love your vids, hope to see more from you soon!
    side note: i often really struggle with following along with video essays without subtitles, so i really appreciate the thoroughness of the ones here

  • @BeepBeepYesPlease
    @BeepBeepYesPlease ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fyi - Roland Hayes was not "one of the first Black jazz musicians ever." He was a classical/operatic singer (tenor) and composer.

  • @davidallen8611
    @davidallen8611 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    no joke; the music on this channel is FIRE❤‍🔥

  • @evanmorhart113
    @evanmorhart113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    This is so good dude! I don't know how you find all the info to string these stories together, but you're incredible at it!

  • @ImBoredToo
    @ImBoredToo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I have no idea how I found this channel, but you are vastly underappreciated

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Legit no idea? Because it's super helpful for me to know how people stumble onto my videos

    • @pokedoodle
      @pokedoodle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@BobbyBroccoli Its just youtube algorithm I assume, if people are stumbling upon it from the algorithm, thats probably a good sign for future success :)

  • @gregmark1688
    @gregmark1688 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Referring to Foucault as using "dominoes" in keeping with the theme of your graphics sequences is a really nice thematic touch!

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli  2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      You are the first person to point this out haha. I even toyed with doing rigid body sims in Blender to animate a domino trail toppling

    • @jimsmith7212
      @jimsmith7212 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BobbyBroccoli
      Foucault pendulum precession depends upon latitude.
      Only if located at the axial poles would pendulums move a full 360° in 24 hours.
      At the equator a Foucault pendulum
      will swing back and forth and not precede at all.
      "A Foucault pendulum located at the latitude of Paris takes about 32 hours to complete a precession cycle. This means that after one sidereal day, when the Earth has returned to its orientation of one day before, the pendulum has precessed three quarters of a cycle."
      They also travel different directions in the Northern and southern hemispheres.

  • @xavierandradev
    @xavierandradev ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Both brothers died of Covid in Dec 2021 and Jan 2022. The were both unvaccinated.

  • @janbruggemann5636
    @janbruggemann5636 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Absolutely love the storytelling and camera direction. Very Jon Bois

    • @rebeccathumb9584
      @rebeccathumb9584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      did you catch that DUMBEST BOY ALIVE reference?

  • @AnthonyCapps
    @AnthonyCapps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    goddamn this channel is so good, thank you for this story

  • @zander2180
    @zander2180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Great video 🔥 I just wish you would have included more of their crazy quotes from the paper!

    • @BobbyBroccoli
      @BobbyBroccoli  3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I had a lot of trouble with that! The issue is that so much of is indistinguishable from the real thing if you're not used to reading dense mathematical texts. Like I did my fair share of advanced math in school but it all went over my head, the Foucault's pendulum line is probably the easiest to explain.
      You should check out John Baez's blog post for more info math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bogdanoff/

    • @zander2180
      @zander2180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@BobbyBroccoli Right on I was going to try and read it but it's all French and that's a lot to translate lol
      👍 & Subscribed.

  • @somedude2748
    @somedude2748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I never want off Mr Broccoli's wild rides

  • @LumosX
    @LumosX 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand our paper" sounds like a deliberate troll to me. What better way to rile everyone up than to continue trolling?

  • @TheLancerGreen
    @TheLancerGreen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just found your channel this week, both this and the Schon documentary are EXCEPTIONAL work and I'm glad to see dedicated research and clear analysis in an engaging format. I'm going to leave this comment on all 3 of the videos because I want to drive as much engagement for you as possible. Spectacular work and I hope to see more from you!

  • @SianaGearz
    @SianaGearz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    Holy shit they used to be so pretty before the "natural and not enhanced in any way" facial implants happened...
    In other news, Igor is now deceased as well. Could have been prevented, both of them, in all likelihood. How absurd, or how unfortunately appropriate.

    • @kaikart123
      @kaikart123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      They did not decease, they transcended leaving their mortal bodies. The end of time is near.

    • @_BangDroid_
      @_BangDroid_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kaikart123 You could make the same argument for everyone; what's absorbed of the goose is absorbed of the gander

    • @PictureProductStudio
      @PictureProductStudio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I am not sure those are implants or at least just implants, since it really does look like acromegaly, just made worse with attempts at correcting it. Acromegaly strikes at random in an advanced age and can make a person absolutely unrecognizable.

    • @EDcaseNO
      @EDcaseNO ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PictureProductStudio Maybe, but their hands look fairly regular.

  • @eigennat
    @eigennat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Lol “the dumbest boys alive.” There are a lot of people on this website inspired by Jon Bois, but I think you have got to be my favorite.

  • @AugustRileyMusic
    @AugustRileyMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You killed it with this video, great job!

  • @AzuriteCoast
    @AzuriteCoast 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic video. Appreciate the nods to the "meme culture" without going over the top or getting in the way of the subject of the piece.

  • @theferociousblue3945
    @theferociousblue3945 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your channel has such fascinating content and such high quality production, truly one of the algorithm's best finds. I'll keep it in mind to pass the recommendation to anyone I know who might be interested in the topics you cover. You deserve way more subscribers.

  • @jdiluigi
    @jdiluigi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Algorithm is finally doing me some good and recommended a couple vids of yours. Looking forward to vacuuming up the rest of your content as soon as possible. Good stuff my friend.

  • @Chipskate
    @Chipskate 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Loved the animated transitions. Had a kind of early 2000s feel

  • @Chino_Shorts
    @Chino_Shorts 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    23:37 “The Dumbest Boy Alive” clearly a Jon Bois fan which has to be a big inspiration to this channel.

  • @MoonlitWood
    @MoonlitWood ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:46 I don't know if you intended it (I imagine you must have) but I like that you integrated the "quick rundown" into this line. Innocent on first blush, but upon seeing part two, suddenly it takes on a whole new meaning.

  • @LachimusPrime
    @LachimusPrime 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm 35s in and already appreciating the production value!!

  • @DanielSantosAnalysis
    @DanielSantosAnalysis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    MY MAN BOBBY DONT FUCKING MISS
    Another fascinating video, excellent work my dude!

  • @Bitcoinjesus313
    @Bitcoinjesus313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I had NO IDEA these were real people. My mind is blown.

    • @tulinfirenze1990
      @tulinfirenze1990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yep - only found out about them yesterday here in Australia.

    • @MiniKodjo
      @MiniKodjo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I had no idea they were know outside France lol

    • @klausstock8020
      @klausstock8020 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look at them after all that plastic surgery, and you might revise your opinion on whether they are real humans or not.

    • @thej3799
      @thej3799 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤔 had a sister once. And didn't know of these guys. Eye to plastic hydrocarbon processed dial your face wtf I love yall if it makes you happy only be careful surgery can be harmful if not gone into with knowledge, and well... I never known yall, but physics is a sense, a lot of c3nts that surgery ain't cheap, iiin between lines reap so, you firmly invested in capitalism, a win for you throws a person on the street, but hey whatever right? Two yall only set things to the wrong time relative to all the time spent discussing your shit instead of advancing the fundamental limit of all man may know and I didn't know, shhhhh you know, i got some stories to throw down, I developed a philosophical background framework for an entire new gen to give without condition my love my understanding disrupting established ideas, yet sympathetic empathetic tie together ❤️ love and respect responsibility and thread back to ground establishing all of em red(what the colors about anyway, anyone? Lol thought so), but the absurdity to me is that I'm a gender nonbinary out of fucks and want simply to give the world lacking slacking acting all wack and from my tableting typos touch keyboarding said I designed something cool as icing cake distancing and plotting yet rather than mathing, tho words are mathing you simply unaware so, irony is what I say it is semantics and context are easy to bend to my will, and when I said years ago this will be something serious you know, they still have absolutely no idea, oh shit! Neither does anybody because the idea in your mind is a physically altered state of mind to not only know me but read this this.. hey 👋 so stop the disinformation. I don't care if you roast me but gently please and stop projecting anger and jealousy accept it and move past it and when you take all the shit I dropped on the world and have fun with it, or be serious with it remember you can't know me without the love associated with my stance on nearly everything, my mission is not to profit, but I posted here as a warning that I'm real, hard af, and these educated people fooled by asshole rich motherfuckes tricking you for luls, bruh wtf, you think I don't know all those dancing around all I know and freely gave out because conditions and love make as much sense as the hoaxes, goes to show it working haters elevating my words even if they entirely avoid a single mention oh wait...how he do that? It's now everyone knows can see disingenuous throws wild as I slide my balls right center left envelope the strike zone our biome we bout to exceed and while I wrote this thing people I love fucking up the only thing we gave to live on and it's getting pissed on angry hot, you know how much time got if we don't stop gaming flaming outright ignoring each other and hating why the fuck we gonna feel like saving each other... but I'm one person and happy with all those waking to wtf are you know doing, fuckin look out the window and the mental construct your mind critical eyes and you might be like sorry, and yeah ok but you still ain't doing somethiiing. -J3

    • @koolnqueer98
      @koolnqueer98 ปีที่แล้ว

      Okay Mister Gaylord

  • @tylerjacobs6278
    @tylerjacobs6278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    great video! incredibly high quality as usual. very nice Dumbest Boy Alive reference as well.

    • @rebeccathumb9584
      @rebeccathumb9584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      FINALLY I FOUND SOMEONE WHO GOT THE REFERENCE

  • @jasonjones7461
    @jasonjones7461 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "when the wry hits your PI from a real sneaky guy". That New York times headline is beyond funny 🤣. I read it then I recognized the cadence of it and read again and that is exactly the odd, blink and you'll miss it, kind of humor I love

  • @ericmememan4632
    @ericmememan4632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the reference to the other legendary forum post in ur script did not go unnoticed or underappreciated 🥰

  • @Andrew-qm5im
    @Andrew-qm5im 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Huge respect for you not dunking on them for their body dysmorphia!

  • @colamity_5000
    @colamity_5000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is really good. An interesting story told well, subbed.

  • @juancharovsky252
    @juancharovsky252 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    HOLY SHIT who knew there was something like this behind a random crypto meme. Amazing video.

  • @jaybingham3711
    @jaybingham3711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Excellent presentation. Nice visuals. Great pacing. I think the Brothers papers speak more to the issues of ever narrowing fields of specialization in physics (and science in general) and the need for more precise language to discuss nuanced issues in those fields. It's really not a difficult task to abuse such language after lifting it from where it belongs. And then claim it's just gobbledygook. Nowadays one is doing well just to keep up with the latest findings of a singular niche area of study.

  • @dirtybiology
    @dirtybiology 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Amazing video, subscribed !

    • @Herzfeld10
      @Herzfeld10 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      On a les mêmes suggestions à ce que je vois :')

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      @incongruous4 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @incongruous4
      @incongruous4 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Silvio Pley Madham i don't care. It's a vapid copy paste spam comment. All he is trying to do is siphon viewers over to his channel. Doubt he even watched the video