A French scientist was trolling completely trolled the internet by
getting folks to believe that a slice of chorizo was actually an image
of a star doesn't sound like it make much makes much sense does it?
But because of this trend of new images that we're now seeing,
he was able to pull this off.
Let's go to some details.
At the end klein, he's a research director at France's alternative energies and
atomic energy commission.
He posted this photo last week claiming it showed the closest star to the sun.
Is this quote, this level of detail?
A new world is revealed day after day.
He claimed that it was an image captured by the James Webb telescope,
which everyone's been talking about is to see these new Galaxies.
I think the latest one was the the pinwheel or whatever they're calling it.
So let's take a look at this star actually it's the closest star that's to the sun.
Look at all those dark red spots that would tell you
exactly the heat level of it if you were a scientist and
he followed up with this tweet even more so photo of Proxima centauri,
the closest star to the sun located 4.2 light years from you from us.
She was taken by the JWST.
This level of detail.
A whole new world is revealed day after day, as I mentioned.
So this tweet end up getting thousands of likes and
retweets before at the end revealed that it was actually just a slice of chorizo.
This is revealed it to everyone and have a good old laugh to himself.
Well, when it's time for the aperitif, I'm not sure I'm talking about cognitive
biases seem to have a field day beware then of them.
According to contemporary cosmology,
no object belonging to spanish cartoon theory exists anywhere but on earth.
Mm-hm, so everyone got upset.
No, not everyone. People actually were like, man,
I can't believe you got me.
I was like that too.
Here's one of those one person said like an idiot, I got screwed.
Same, another person applied.
The source was so credible.
Now Caroline,
that is where my problem comes because here's the last part of his explanation.
Klein told french news outlet at that point that his intention
had been to educate people about fake news online, adding that.
I also think that if I hadn't said that it was a James Webb photo,
it wouldn't have been so successful.
Now hear me out, He posts a picture of chorizo, it's pretty obvious.
It's chorizo. Once you know it is, if you look at it and
go, hey, this scientist that I don't know anything about posted this and
said that he's this world renowned scientist.
Even if you look him up, you're like, yeah, he is a scientist,
he may know this stuff.
He said it's from the James webb telescope,
a telescope that everyone is ranting and raving about.
So if you're the expert.
If you tell everyone it's from this particular telescope and
then after you fool everyone, it's fine, I get that part.
You want to fool everyone.
Have fun with a slice of chorizo.
Great, but then to go, you guys are so, so stupid.
If you would have just thought about it or maybe had access to the telescope or
maybe you're a scientist like me, you would have known,
I'm just trying to teach you guys about fake news online.
You know what you've taught us about fake news online, that you're part of it.
And then now we're trying to figure out who you can can't trust.
After they've given you credentials as the reasons why they can trust you.
I get frustrated by the people who believe Alex jones,
which has zero amount of expertise on anything that's where it's frustrating and
you want to teach someone about fake news online.
But if you're a scientist and you've been proven to be one and then you say,
I was just trying to tell you guys about fake news,
it's like I go to my accountant during tax season and he goes,
ha I've been doing your taxes 15 years, but I've been screwing you over.
Aren't you stupid?
No, you told me your tax person.
I see the diploma on the wall.
You have a whole business here and you've been doing my taxes for 15 years.
You've proven that you're reputable and now you want to flip it on me and say that
you're no longer reputable and I'm teaching you a lesson about trusting me.
Well, I've learned my lesson.
No one should trust this guy anymore Caroline.
Since apparently you said JR on this thing, I want to respond first.
>> I'm speechless.
I didn't all honesty.
I was so delighted by this chorizo story that I didn't really read the like
thing that he was like trying to make some sort of yeah, fake news statement.
Know that that's ridiculous.
I love I love this little experiment.
I did not really see that was like, sorry, I got a little loud know that you are so
passionate about this issue and we need more people like you standing up
to the big chorizo lobby that is clearly try see the shade in these comments.
>> First of all Carolina.
I can feel the sarcasm.
I mean, I go ahead.
>> Yeah, no, go ahead.
>> I do get a lot of where your anger comes from because there's an air
of pretentious nous of like, so
I'll also give a little bit of the benefit of the doubt.
I'm not sure how great the french to english translation was.
Although your french to english pronunciations were very like,
I messed Up on this one.
No, no, no, no, you didn't pronounce charcuterie.
Well yeah, that was spot on.
>> My wife talks about that all the time and every time she tells him like,
I don't know what that is.
I understand, I'll even even maybe disagree with you to the point Jr.,
because we've covered a lot of, just throughout the years of TYT.
And especially prominent people on the left of people who have
credentials expertise, a lot of different letters by the name like PhD, MA, etc.
Who then weaponized their credentials because they see how you can
do this on the internet for clicks and likes and attention and
then they weaponize that and then they drop a lot of their allure of or
their educational rigor, their academic rigor.
They dropped that in favor of whatever is the latest red meat they can toss
to an often right wing base.
And so I think you can often have times where you have someone who has prestigious
a lot of credentials, the credentials don't necessarily mean that
you are a person with informed opinions.
You express those informed opinions out publicly.
But if this if I take the benefit of the doubt that this professor was trying to
make an example about fake news, well you posted fake news and
you put that out into the ecosystem.
Who's to say that those people who saw that little pepperoni star thing,
what you're talking about, Like who's to say that they actually read the follow up
tweet and go, that was a fake thing.
That actually wasn't true.
Now maybe when it's this case of, okay this is human seeing a photo of supposed
star, it may not affect their day to day routines, but you take this out of that
context and put it into how people taking information, misinformation on the web.
Okay, I don't think he's making his case very well because then people don't
see that updated information, they get lost and they then go act out and go,
well, I saw this online, so it has to be true.
I think it's really dangerous in that regard.
I don't like the way he did it and it does give off that air of, I'm a scholar.
I know so much more than you.
You didn't spot the fake news.
How dare, how dashing, how quaint.
>> Yeah, it's some Randall.
I get it.
And by the way, yes, I'm sure many people felt, you know, head, but
it's it's it's the good part.
Obviously, it's a harmless joke, right?
No one got injured in the making and the slicing of this chorizo or
the taking of the picture, so I get it.
So yeah, I'm seeing people tell me to calm down.
No, I won't, not at all.
There is a I'm sorry Caroline, you come on the show and
I get to screaming at you and stuff, you know, it's great.
>> I well look, I I absolutely would have fallen for this.
I still think it looks a lot like a star, I'm not convinced that it even is chorizo.
I think it really is actually a star and he is still trolling all of us so
that you know, especially if you're like really far away and you squint your eyes.
Yeah.
>> Yeah, but you know what the best fake meat is.
>> Fine.
>> I'll give the dude one piece of credit if you actually ever seen any of the,
of the other images from this telescope that everyone's been talking about,
it looks nothing.
The kinds of images don't look anything like how solid that one is so fine.
Fine, maybe you should have known better.