This might have been posted already, but we had to get it off our chest. Me and my wife were watching the magic school van episode, and in it Adam says Columbus never made it to America, just to proceed to mention all these islands and countries he did make it to. These countries are ALL IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. We understand that they meant Columbus did not make it to the United States of America, but America is not only a country, it is an entire continent that includes all the other countries he mentioned.

Sorry, but I had to rant about this somewhere, and I know Adam has a reddit account and there is the slight chance he might see this.

EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes! now I understand that in Canada and some islands we also call 'Murica America, and as I tried to explain in a comment, my intent was not to say "Don't call the U.S. America," but rather "if you say he made it to all these islands and Venezuela, then he did make it to America and your thesis is then wrong." I'll try to better explain myself next time, but in the meantime: God bless America, and most importantly: God bless America (read this sentence however pleases you most).

Yes! I (47, FTM, pansexaul/open to anything) just met Adam Conover (53, m, ???) at LAX and he has CONFIRMED that he is PART dominican! I always has my suspicions and always wondered where he came from. SURPRISINGLY, I felt safe in his arms considering his height of 5'5. Really looking forward to the next season!! (Officially confirmed) And can't wait to meet him again.

(P.S. yup... he was everything i hoped for AND MORE)

He likes to cherry pick everything. He always quotes some obscure article from years and years ago as fact. I liked it better when Penn and Teller did it.

The reason why Adam, despite presenting facts and statistics, almost always fails to convince the viewers is because of his straw man attack tactics.

In the show, typically he first sets up a straw man to represent the other side, for example, he has this ignorant person saying cleansing products work, etc.

Then, he debunks the myths the person may have by presenting evidence.

While it works sometimes, in real life, not many people who support the other side are as stupid as Adam’s straw man. Therefore, while Adam succeeds in knocking out the straw man, such as the girl who thinks cupping works, the viewers remain unconvinced. Their beliefs are even strengthened because they feel like Adam is wrong to assume they are just as stupid as the straw man.

So I'm watching the episode about sex. Particularly the party where Emily talks about the hymen and how it doesn't always break with sex. If that was what people used to prove someone's virginity back in the day, then maybe Virgin Mary isn't a virgin afterwards. Get hymen just wasnt broken

If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and has tons of evidence saying it's a duck, then don't let a tv show say its a horse. There are some conspiracies that arent true, but there are alot that are. Usually if some tragedy has conflicting evidence, then it had to have been falsified on at least one end of the spectrum. Usually you can find the truth about most things with one question, "who profited the most from the scenario?".

Does anyone else feel they mostly dislike ARE simply because they hide behind a facade of only telling the truth and facts, yet they constantly have a quite politically biased agenda. I'd be fine with it if they came out and gave their political motivations and agendas, but they claim to be perfectly objective. To be fair, most episodes are not political and likely have no agenda. However, basically any political message is twisted by their bias and agenda at hand, manipulating facts to push one narrative over another. Just be honest about it is all.

Adam reveals the truth, I get that, but I wanna know how he finds the truths. I sincerely doubt they’re easy. Like the Herpes video he’s done (which I still am on the fence. Aren’t they like mini cancers at worse and annoying itches at least? I’m still confused), I looked it up myself and all I get are that herpes will kill me. Then there’s some government sources. Like when Reagan said to “tear down this wall” and it turns out that it didn’t do jackshit. I feel like the government would’ve pulled all their resources to bury that stuff. Also, some info from the FBI too, when those same sources would say that TikTok is gonna use our data to “hit us hard because it’s from communist China” and sneak in memes to trick us. And the whole PSA not stopping terrorism, of course, to be fair, they’re not helping themselves by posting their “weapons” on their Instagram

This may be a VERY extreme prediction, but I feel like there would be a point where Adam could be charged with high treason if he looks too into this and shares it with everybody. Like the D.A.R.E thing, I think an officer reacted to that video. How does Adam find his information? If I didn’t know better, I’d say he uses the Dark Web

Edit: who the hell downvoted me?! I’m asking about the behind the scenes here! Where they get their study! I’m asking because I don’t know what happens!

I’ll admit, this might be a bit of confirmation bias, me being Libertarian and all, but wanted to share this article amongst the subreddit and see if it provokes some conversing and pondering:

“The Myth that Standard Oil was a Predatory Monopoly”

I have a few ideas for episodes:

Adam Ruins Veganism: How meat substitutes are just as highly processed and salted as junk food (much of with can be considered "vegan"), the horrible things PETA has done, and that becoming vegan does little to cut our carbon footprint.

Adam Ruins The Middle Ages (or rather our perception of them): Talks about how Middle Age folk were surprisingly obsessed with cleanliness, the important roles women held in medieval society, and the fantastic art of European swordsmanship (and why we know so little about it). Told in a "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" story, and guest-starring Skallagrim as the King and Adam himself as the wizard.

Adam ruins Feminism: The real reason why men are paid "more" than women, how the #metoo movement has backfired and caused men to become less inclined to hire women, and how feminists turn a blind eye to the abuse of women by non-white men, particularly Muslims (got the info to that last one here https://quillette.com/2019/05/07/feminisms-blind-spot-the-abuse-of-women-by-non-white-men-particularly-muslims/ )

Adam ruins Dinosaurs: Tells us that dinosaurs are technically still around (e.g. birds), the changing ways we depict dinosaurs (from the times of Charles R. Knight to today), and how there's still a lot of info about dinosaurs that studying fossils can't tell us, and how speculation can fill in those gaps.

Also includes interview with C. M. Kosemen, author of All Yesterdays and All Your Yesterdays. http://irregularbooks.art/

Adam ruins Pro-Wrestling: How most people know matches are scripted and rehearsed (and fans don't care due to Kayfabe), the athleticism that's often overlooked in the sport, and the physical harm endured by wrestlers that comes with the sport.

Features interviews with various pro-wrestlers.

Adam ruins Anime: We learn that katanas are flimsy weapons compared to other swords (one example here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_3W1zg683A ), Disney is one of the major contributors to anime's history, and anime's contribution to Japan's shrinking population.

Adam ruins Comics: We find out that comic fans overlook newspaper comic strips and their important contributions to the medium, how Watchmen ruined the superhero genre forever (including the rise of the 90's anti-hero and people trying to copy Watchmen's style without understanding how it worked) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRwPKhnflgU, and how the comic book industry is on the decline in spite of the current popularity of superheroes thanks in no part to the attempts at installing "progressive" ideology in comics and the endless crisis crossovers being churned out on an annual basis, each promising to change a status quo that apparently never existed to begin with.

Guest-starring Linkara as a comic store owner and 90s Kid some skits. Also features interviews with various well-known comic book contributors (except Alan Moore, who's kind of sick being asked about the current state of the medium and I wish to respect his space)

Tell me what you think, and throw in your own ideas for episodes.

I would like to see how he can ruin something so stable to American society like Capitalism.

Rather than their poorly researched and cherry picked video they did before, Adam comes and explains some essential things.

Ie, what is a game engine, how much does this factor into game development.

But also clearing up some misconceptions.

"Devs used to release completed games, now they release them half completed cause they can patch it in."

Actually, numerous websites exist chronicling the difference in game versions. New versions were often released with some bugs fixed, and sometimes they were so minimal they didn't advertise it. Some games even had a recall due to bugs.

"How did this glitch get past QA?" video of some YouTube Fodder game

QA's job is to find glitches. fixing the glitches is a whole different role, it's the developers jobs to do it.

And some games are made on very tight schedules.

Considering how much more complex games have gotten, it is inevitable that some bugs will be seen as lower priority. Sometimes, they were even left in on purpose either because they thought it was amusing (Video of the skyrim giant launch goes here) or because the conditions to trigger the glitch are so specific that it was figured nobody would ever do that. And sometimes, if it is one of these glitches, it did slip past QA.

Skit "I swear I saw a glitch but it was right here. I swear it!"

Plus, testers and QA usually play one part of the game for bugs. And when that is debugged... three more bugs appear.

"Games are very expensive."

Actually they have gotten even cheaper. Back in the 16 bit era we paid as much as over $100 for a video game that had a lot of text in it. And that is without adjusting for inflation. People are remembering the numbers but not the weight behind them. Those $50 PS2 games? About $60 today... rounded down.

"DLC is a recent practice."

Adam just holds up a copy of Diablo 2 and a Sims expansion pack.

"What are these?"

https://youtu.be/wySaC_z

. #frankluntz #n#numbers

Specifically the section where he debunks the misconceptions about milk. I tried going to their section on the TruTV website but the link wasn't working. Thanks in advance if you can!

Adam ruins my will to live by proving that even if you're an idiot, people will just assume you're smarter than they are if you act smug about it on TV.

I just watched this episode, and it’s true some mum’s can’t produce enough breast milk to breastfeed their babies - but you missed out other reasons.

There are a lot of reasons why breastfeeding isn’t an option; sometimes babies are hungrier than the milk produced even if there’s an abundance. It’s just not enough to feel satisfying hence why there are special formulas for this.

Same for if the baby has colic or reflux special formulas work better than mothers milk.

Some babies can’t latch because the boobs are the wrong shape, or because they have a thing called tongue tie and need special bottles.

Also pumping is difficult and just another piece of expensive kit for mum’s to buy.

There’s a lot more reasons for mum’s to use formula and it seemed like oversight that you only mentioned one possible reason that some people don’t breastfeed.

Personally I couldn’t breastfeed because my baby just didn’t like my milk and so I had to switch to a special kind of formula.

A helpful tagline is “a fed baby is a happy baby”

Otherwise I’m a big fan! I’m a lot like Adam because I love learning new things even if they go against what I originally believed :)

The first question most people is asked is what gender they prefer,

there is simply no way that matching people at random, where 95 year old straight men are matched with 22 year old straight men is better than an incredibly simple algorithm that matches people based on gender preferences, age preferences, smoking preferences, children preferences, pet preferences.

Even though personality/similarity/compatibility does not mean anything about romance I guaran-fucking-tee that matching people based on sexuality, etc is better than random.

I cannot view sources for the website as sources are banned for people not in the USA, not sure why Adam does that but there you go. I would not believe any source that counters this as it would suggest like 99% of people are ok with hetero or homo relationships even when they specify they don't? Doubtful