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It seems Professor Dave has an online stalker. "Allegedly". Specifically this guy: "Dioplatonis / Ambitheus Carson P Lee".
In the video above, Lee demonstrates a bizarre ritual, supposedly derived from Crowley´s Thelema. He cuts himself and eats the blood, then rambles incoherently about five different things (but not Dave in this particular upload). In other clips, Lee claims to believe in Soulism, which at least initially was an ironic joke-ideology claiming that the laws of nature (including gravity) are inherently hierarchical and oppressive. This guy seems to take it seriously?!
Ooookay. Frankly, I don´t think this dying phoenix is a threat to much of anyone...
I haven´t watched Professor Dave´s one-and-a-half video on Israel, but I suppose I have to do so at some point. Just to confirm my suspicions that he is an anti-Semite who believes that Jews eat babies (or whatever). For now, here is the introduction:
>>>After mentioning Israel's genocide numerous times in other content regarding Christian theocrats, Peter Thiel's puppets, or figures like Avi Loeb, many people have asked to me to just go ahead and make a long-form video about my views on Israel.
>>>I had avoided this since I'm a science communicator and prefer not to make exclusively political content, but after a twerp named Destiny took it upon himself to call me a Nazi, I had an excuse to do it. So here it is.
>>>Israel is objectively committing genocide, Zionism is the vile ideology behind it, and here is everything you need to hear to understand exactly what Israel is, and why they are an existential threat to all of humanity.
"Zionism is a vile ideology" and "Israel is an existential threat to all of humanity". I see...
Eagerly awaiting the next round in the recent ("recent") drama between "Professor" Dave and Dan "Dedunking". I know, I know. I´m a sinner. As in guilty pleasure. Might have karmic consequences later!
Intressant inlägg från en av våra "ofrivilliga grannbloggar". Om det pågående UFO-kaoset i Förenta Staterna. Tänk Donald Trump, Avi Loeb och...Professor Dave (suck).
Orthobro maximus Jay Dyer takes on a certain Professor Dave in this relatively short clip. I assume Dyer is a young earth creationist, but it´s still quite entertaining to watch. And yes, Dave is drunk. He sometimes makes hours-long attack videos in which he consumes alcoholic beverages while dunking on alternative thinkers.
Not sure why *this* came up in my feed, to be honest, but there you go!
I had a *really* bizarre dream just now. Obviously triggered by watching a video featuring a certain Professor Dave. In the dream, Dave was narrating a video about a personal visit to a Hindu temple, specifically the "Ritvik" temple in Bangalore. He said that he appreciated the hospitality and respects the god (i.e. Venkateshvara) worshipped in this particular temple, while still considering the "Hare Krishna" to be "very far out" (the "Ritviks" are a breakaway faction from the ISKCON and still use the ISKCON moniker).
WTF???!!!
My dreamy mind was obviously combining wake knowledge of Dave´s extremely rude skepticism with memories of a "Ritvik" YouTube video showing a ritual from their Bangalore temple. The juxtaposition was almost insane. I mean, I didn´t know I had ironic dreams! Even more strangely, Dream-Dave said he was quoting *me* when describing the Hare Krishna as "far out". Well, they *are* far out, so I suppose it´s possible that I actually wrote that somewhere on this blog...
Maybe the dream had a secret message, but obviously not to Dave (who will ROFL if he ever reads this), but to me. I assume the message reads: "Respect all religions even those you consider far out, respect all gods even those you can´t or won´t worship yourself".
I admit that level of tolerance sounds very, very hard to accomplish. I mean, there are 10,000 different religions. Many of them reeeeeally far out. But there you go.
Background: Professor Dave constantly attacks mathematician and gadfly Eric Weinstein, probably for political reasons. Weinstein is allied with Peter Thiel, while Dave pretends to be a "leftist". Thiel is the man who "created" J D Vance. Since most physicists regard Weinstein´s theory of everything (known as Geometric Unity) as pseudo-science or "not even wrong", Dave can pretend to be a valiant knight for Science (TM) when attacking Thiel´s alleged errand boy.
Quantum physicist and science influencer Sabine Hossenfelder is apparently a friend of Eric´s, which may or may not explain Dave´s attacks on *her*. Are they also politically motivated?
In the video above, Sabine accuses Weinstein´s detractors of hypocrisy. Yes, Geometric Unity isn´t really a "theory" blah-blah but everything else in theoretical physics is BS anyway, so on that score, Weinstein´s speculations are neither better nor worse than those of everyone else "working" in the field! For instance, the guys who gave us string theory.
This might get really ugly really fast. Sabine, how dare you?!
"Professor" Dave attacks an unhinged Incel and conspiracy theorist who claims to have learned physics "intuitively". I admit watching this was a guilty pleasure. If Mr Farina only attacked people like this, I might almost start to like him. Almost.
How long does it take for a domesticated species of plant to turn wild again? Does this have any bearing on the question of when agriculture began?
Excellent and deep question — let’s tackle it in two parts:
🌱 1. How long does it take for a domesticated plant species to “turn wild” again?
This process is called feralization — when a domesticated species reverts to a wild or semi-wild state after escaping cultivation or human management.
⏳ How fast can it happen?
In some cases, feralization can begin within a few generations (e.g., 5–50 years), especially in annual plants that reproduce quickly.
Traits that are lost or reduced during domestication — like seed shattering, seed dormancy, or thorn production — can re-evolve under natural selection if beneficial in the wild.
Full reversion to a wild-type genome is rare, but feral plants often show:
Increased seed dispersal
Decreased yield
Resumption of natural defenses (e.g., toxins or spines)
📌 Example: Weedy rice (Oryza sativa f. spontanea), which evolved from domesticated rice and re-developed wild traits in only a few centuries (possibly faster in some regions).
📜 2. Does this affect how we date the beginning of agriculture?
Yes — feralization complicates the archaeological record of agriculture in important ways:
🧭 Here's how:
Early farming was likely intermittent, small-scale, and low-intensity.
If agriculture was abandoned for even a few decades or centuries, domesticated crops could go feral and vanish from the landscape and archaeological visibility.
This means that early domestication events could have occurred thousands of years before the earliest definitive archaeological evidence.
🔄 Agriculture as a long process:
Modern archaeology sees domestication as a gradual, multi-generational process, not a single moment.
Some species show pre-domestication cultivation — early humans planted them before the genetic signs of full domestication appear.
If early farming societies collapsed or moved, their plants may have reverted — making it seem like agriculture started “later” than it actually did.
🧬 Genetic evidence shows that domestication traits (like non-shattering ears in wheat or barley) accumulated slowly, and can be lost under feral conditions.
🧾 Summary
✅ Domesticated plants can revert toward wild forms surprisingly quickly (within decades to centuries), depending on the species and environment.
🧠 This means that early, failed, or abandoned attempts at agriculture may have left no clear trace in the archaeological record.
📆 As a result, the true origins of agriculture may be older and more complex than previously thought, with cycles of cultivation, abandonment, and re-domestication.
Would you like examples of specific plants (like wheat, barley, or maize) and how quickly they can feralize or re-domesticate?
Yes, all three. Also rice!
Great — let’s explore how wheat, barley, maize, and rice behave when feralized (i.e., revert from domestication) or re-domesticated, and what that tells us about the timing and complexity of agriculture’s origins.
🌾 1. Wheat (Triticum spp.)
🧬 Domesticated Traits:
Non-shattering spikelets (seeds stay on the stalk, making harvesting easier)
Larger grains
Softer seed coats
🔄 Feralization/Reversion:
Under wild conditions, non-shattering becomes a disadvantage (seeds don’t disperse).
Studies show that feral wheat lines can evolve partial shattering again within ~20–50 generations (500–1,000 years).
However, wheat is less weedy and does not easily naturalize without human help.
🧠 Implication:
Wheat domestication was slow, taking 1,000–2,000+ years, and could reverse partially if early agriculture was abandoned.
🌾 2. Barley (Hordeum vulgare)
🧬 Domesticated Traits:
Like wheat: non-shattering spikes, larger grains
Shorter dormancy, more uniform germination
🔄 Feralization:
Weedy barley populations (H. vulgare f. spontaneum) are common near fields.
Barley can hybridize with wild relatives, rapidly reintroducing wild traits like:
Seed dormancy
Rough awns (barbs)
Shattering
📌 Some barley reverts to near-wild form within <500 years when left uncultivated.
🧠 Implication:
Barley is more plastic than wheat, showing frequent gene flow with wild forms. This makes archaeological dating of “fully domesticated” barley complicated.
🌽 3. Maize (Zea mays)
🧬 Domesticated Traits:
Derived from teosinte (wild grass from Mexico)
Maize has:
Larger cobs
Multiple rows of kernels
Non-shattering seeds (fully dependent on humans to spread)
🔄 Feralization:
Maize is highly domesticated and does not easily revert.
However, teosinte-maize hybrids can arise spontaneously if maize is grown near wild relatives.
Some “wild maize” types in Mexico are likely re-wilded hybrids, but they don’t fully return to teosinte.
🧠 Implication:
Maize is an outlier — it’s so altered that it can’t survive as-is in the wild. But gene flow with teosinte can blur the archaeological record.
🌾 4. Rice (Oryza sativa)
🧬 Domesticated Traits:
Shorter seed dormancy
Non-shattering grains
Compact panicles (grain heads)
Reduced awns
🔄 Feralization:
Rice rapidly feralizes — a major modern problem known as weedy rice or red rice.
This happens through:
Escape from fields
Hybridization with wild rice (O. rufipogon)
Traits like seed shattering, dormancy, and red pericarps reappear in <10 generations.
📌 Weedy rice is genetically part-domesticated but behaves wild — showing how quickly selection pressure can undo human cultivation traits.
🧠 Implication:
Rice demonstrates how fast domesticated traits can be lost in just decades. This has serious implications for interpreting early rice domestication in East and Southeast Asia.
🧾 Overall Takeaways
Plant
Speed of Feralization
Key Points
Wheat
Slow–moderate (centuries)
Stable once fully domesticated; partial reversions
Barley
Fast–moderate (decades–centuries)
Hybridizes easily; common weedy forms
Maize
Rare, via hybridization only
Cannot survive without human aid, but gene flow with teosinte confuses the picture
Rice
Fast (within decades)
Weedy forms arise quickly; feral rice is a major modern issue
🌱 Final Thought
These examples show that:
Domestication is reversible, especially in early stages.
Many early agricultural episodes could disappear from the archaeological record within centuries, due to feralization.
Therefore, true beginnings of agriculture may predate the first archaeobotanical evidence by millennia.
Would you like a diagram or timeline showing how these crops evolved across time and geography?
Professor Dave sounds less unhinged than usual in this 4 year old clip, in which he attacks "quantum mysticism" or the misuse of quantum physics (or rather the pop version of it) to promote New Age spirituality, New Thought-like self-help and alternative medicine.
Deepak Chopra is prominently featured and so are the ubiqutuous crystals. Somewhat surprisingly, the budding cult leader Leo is still around on YouTube. I assumed he would be too uncharismatic to become the honcho of anything! Maybe a quantum effect of some kind?
If Dave had always been like this, I might even start to like him, but alas, I suppose the pitbull style was more lucrative...
So the only way to disprove Einstein is to go through the man´s garbage to find out what theories he discarded? I don´t know, it´s almost as if Albert was a genius or something...
Still, I support everything that sounds "common sense" so *of course* I like the idea that gravity is a force rather than...whatever Albie said it was. And the accursed math works, so scientific über-judge extraordinaire Professor Dave can´t say it´s pseudo-science, LOL.
Seriously, though, an interesting contribution (I think).
The insufferable moonbat Professor Dave attacks the crazy wingnut Candace Owens (who I think is a friend of the master provocateur Kanye West). The internet race-to-the-bottom at its "best".
Apparently, Candace´s latest revolution in science is the claim that space is "fake and gay" (just like the dinosaurs), although I´m not sure what that even means. Is she a flat earther? Personally, I see space floating above me every night and there are plenty of dinosaurs flying around me by day, so there´s that, but maybe the situation looks different from Ye´s bunker c/o The Event? But sure, the earth *does* look flat. At least in Kansas, LOL.
As for Davie, well, if you don´t want the wingnuts to talk about trans all the damn time, maybe you moonbats should stop promoting it all the damn time!
The Metatron calls out "Professor Dave". Here we goooo....
I have three problems with Dave. One: He´s a Woke Hamas-versteher. Two: He constantly (and I really mean constantly) insults people, including innocent by-standers in the commentary section. It´s beyond parody at this point.
Three and most importantly: He defends a kind of "party line" in which Science (TM) can never do anything wrong. Replication crisis? Predatory academic publishing? Scientists acting as gate-keepers for dogma? Corruption? Nah, none of that is real, comrade! He is essentially the Science Pravda. This presumably explains his unhinged attacks on critical scientists such as Sabine Hossenfelder or on dissident scientists like Eric J Lerner.
Aren´t we all obsessed by this truly outrageous character? :D
Professor Dave and Grayson Hawk discuss excerpts from the marathon interview with Chris Langan made three years ago by Curt Jainmungal on his YouTube channel. Langan, rumored to have the highest IQ in the world, is a somewhat controversial figure who developed a "theory of everything" known as the CTMU. It´s really a philosophical or metaphysical system. While I don´t get half of it, there does seem to be a broad family likeness with Whitehead´s process philosophy and Ken Wilber´s Integral Theory. Perhaps CTMU could be described as an evolutionary form of panentheism?
Grayson believes that it´s idealism pure and simple, but expressed in a more convoluted language. Think Berkeley. Both Dave and Grayson consider materialism and "scientific realism" to be proven once and for all long ago, so Langan´s model (in which consciousnes is primary) strikes them as downright kookish. It´s worthless as a scientific theory, despite using scientific-sounding language. And while claiming to explain everything in physics, the CTMU contains no math. It also postulates the existence of God (or as Langan prefers to call it: G.O.D.) The two skeptical debate bros further believe that Langan deliberately uses an obscure and self-invented Newspeak when describing his theory, making it needlessly difficult to understand.
True to form, Dave also cracks ad hominems! Speaking of which: note that the first section of the video deals with another drama: the "debate" between Dave and the Christian creationist Tour in Texas about a year ago.
Langan went super-viral a couple of months ago, when he was featured in an interview on the Daily Wire, an interview which apparantly has 11 million views to date?! Perhaps because the Daily Wire gave people the impression that "the smartest man in the world" is some kind of Christian. Personally, I suspect super-intellectual Hindus and Buddhists may find the CTMU more to their liking. OK, good luck with this material...
