{"id":3947,"date":"2022-03-15T02:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2022-03-15T02:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:20:47","slug":"charlatan-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/2022\/03\/15\/charlatan-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlatan Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To our Gold and Silver Level smAsh teAm members, thanks for supporting our efforts to advance science<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fellow which we\u2019ve included a photograph of is a charlatan who does not understand physics, cosmology, nor his own \u2018theories\u2019 (we placed this term in quotes because the idea that everything is electric is idiotic and counter productive to people attempting to understand astrophysics and cosmology). He does make cool looking animations which may or may not have anything whatsoever to do with reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018I don\u2019t want to talk to you anymore.\u2019 -Gareth Samuel, misrepresenter of science, charlatan, recycler of long disproven ridiculous hypotheses, and closed minded pearl clutcher posing as a scientist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the latest ridiculous video<\/a> from \u2018Thunderbolts Project\u2019, a pseudoscientific group who claims stars are anodes, cathodes, plasmoids, or any number of things they clearly do not understand, Gareth babbles incoherently about SGR A*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SGR A*<\/a>, pronounced \u2018Sagittarius A-star\u2019, is the massive radio source at the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. It\u2019s got gravity equal to millions of solar masses and is orbited by many blue supergiant stars<\/a> at hundreds of kilometers per second. Eminating from the Galactic core region are hundreds of very long filamentary structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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source: https:\/\/astronomy.com\/news\/2022\/02\/hundreds-of-strange-filaments-found-at-milky-ways-center?eid=fhetrick%40hotmail.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

None of this proves stars are electric, and Gareth repeatedly exposes the fact that he doesn\u2019t understand basic physics as I state in the YouTube comments section:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u2018electric universe\u2019 doesn\u2019t need debunking any more than the flat Earth needs debunking, but this entire \u2018movement\u2019 is an insult to science. It\u2019s disturbing that so many people get drawn into these unfortunate concepts. In 2022, it\u2019s as if you can preface any ridiculous notion with the prerequisite phrase, \u2018According to the mainstream\u2026\u2019, and people will just automatically believe your claptrap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what this is, by the way- egotistical, pathetic<\/em>, pseudoscientific drivel. These people (Wal Thornhill, Don Scott, Gareth \u2018Walter White Lookalike\u2019 Samuel, and the Thunderdolts crew) are not advancing science. They\u2019re holding it back and refuting all sorts of things from gravity, to particle physics, to astrophysics. DON\u2019T FALL FOR IT! They\u2019d be more accurate as astrologers, since the more people learn about reality- the farther from reality the \u2018electric universe\u2019 drifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To our Gold and Silver Level smAsh teAm members, thanks for supporting our efforts to advance science. This fellow which we\u2019ve included a photograph of is a charlatan who does not understand physics, cosmology, nor his own \u2018theories\u2019 (we placed this term in quotes because the idea that everything is electric is idiotic and counter … Read moreCharlatan Alert!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","pmpro-has-access"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smashomash.com\/smashteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}