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

Other debunks in this genre:
Debunking the SAFIRE Project:    • The SAFIRE Project Is Not Real Scienc...  
Debunking the Electric Universe:    • Debunking the Electric Universe  
Exposing Ben Davidson:    • Response to Ben Davidson  

Research relevant to this video:
Using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect to discover galaxy clusters: https://link.springer.com/article/10....
More SZE stuff: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.4219.pdf
Planck results on Sachs-Wolfe effect: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Use of CMB polarization to detect gravitational lensing from galaxy clusters: https://news.fnal.gov/2020/01/data-fr...
CMB lensing: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
Planck results on gravitational lensing-infrared background correlation: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
More CMB lensing stuff: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
CMB is not redshifted starlight: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/sta...
An easy read on the CMB:   / this-is-how-we-know-the-cosmic-microwave-b...  
Study on liquid metallic hydrogen: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01634
The black hole image paper: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/19...
Derek explains the black hole image:    • How to Understand What Black Holes Lo...  
More black hole stuff: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

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