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* FakeInteractivity: The "audience participation round" in "The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize", in which Bobby asks and immediately answers a pair of questions in order to draw attention to the historical bigotry of the Nobel awards.
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* FakeInteractivity: The "audience so-called audience participation round" round in "The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize", in which Bobby asks and immediately answers a pair of questions in order to draw attention to the historical bigotry of the Nobel awards.
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* RevealingCoverup: It's pointed out that the entire reason the Bogdanov scandal has a detailed Website/{{Wikipedia}} article is because the twins attempted to [[RetconTheWiki vandalize their existing page]] in order to make themselves look better.
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* RevealingCoverup: It's pointed out that the entire reason the Bogdanov scandal has a detailed Website/{{Wikipedia}} article is because the twins attempted to [[RetconTheWiki [[RetconningTheWiki vandalize their existing page]] in order to make themselves look better.
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* RevealingCoverup: It's pointed out that the entire reason the Bogdanov scandal has a detailed Website/{{Wikipedia}} article is because the twins attempted to [[WikiVandal vandalize their existing page]] in order to make themselves look better.
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* RevealingCoverup: It's pointed out that the entire reason the Bogdanov scandal has a detailed Website/{{Wikipedia}} article is because the twins attempted to [[WikiVandal [[RetconTheWiki vandalize their existing page]] in order to make themselves look better.
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* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: Parodied with the "Four Horsemen of the Bogpocalypse", a label Bobby applies to four academic writers and professors who directly supported the Bogdanov twins and their work.
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* RevealingCoverup: It's pointed out that the entire reason the Bogdanov scandal has a detailed Website/{{Wikipedia}} article is because the twins attempted to [[WikiVandal vandalize their existing Wikipedia page page]] in order to make themselves look better.
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--> "He claimed it was standard practice not to keep written logs - which is not true, first of all - who the fuck is this man not keeping logs of his once in a generation breakthroughs?"
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--> "He claimed it was standard practice not to keep written logs - which is not true, first of all - who the fuck is this man man, not keeping logs of his once in a generation breakthroughs?"breakthroughs?"
* RevealingCoverup: It's pointed out that the entire reason the Bogdanov scandal has a detailed Website/{{Wikipedia}} article is because the twins attempted to vandalize their existing Wikipedia page in order to make themselves look better.
* RevealingCoverup: It's pointed out that the entire reason the Bogdanov scandal has a detailed Website/{{Wikipedia}} article is because the twins attempted to vandalize their existing Wikipedia page in order to make themselves look better.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: Jan Hendrik Schön is noted as habitually having this problem with his scientific work, dating back to his time in school. Whenever an experiment produced results he didn't like, he would fudge the data to line up with what he wanted. Even after he was caught and admitted to altering the data, he still continued to claim his results on organic transistors were valid and could be proven by further experiments.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The SSC. It was theoretically capable on operating at a higher voltage than any current or planned collider, as well as outright being larger, but Bobby reveals that combo of voltage and size would greatly hamper its luminosity. So it probably wouldn't have been much more effective than its competitors, which were much cheaper to build.
* BaitAndSwitch: Bobby pulls this when talking about the competition for the SSC location, making it look like all the factors lined up in Chicago's favor...before revealing that it was going to be located in Texas, and then showing the one factor that made Texas's proposal superior.
* BaitAndSwitch: Bobby pulls this when talking about the competition for the SSC location, making it look like all the factors lined up in Chicago's favor...before revealing that it was going to be located in Texas, and then showing the one factor that made Texas's proposal superior.
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** In "Ronald Reagan & the Biggest Failure in Physics", it's outlined how Reagan's support for the SSC program was based heavily on a desire to outdo the efforts of CERN in Europe in term of discovering new subatomic particles. The nationalism associated with the project caused issues with raising international support and funding further down the line.
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** In "Ronald Reagan & the Biggest Failure in Physics", it's outlined how Reagan's support for the SSC program was based heavily on a desire to outdo continue outdoing the efforts of CERN in Europe in term of discovering new subatomic particles. The nationalism associated with the project caused issues with raising international support and funding further down the line.
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* MemeticBadass: [[invoked]] Gets discussed. When Website/FourChan took interest in the Bogdanovs, they quickly were turned into this, being depicted as immortal beings who had full control of the world financial markets and could crash peoples' investments on a whim. However, this came with a side of racist traits (particularly antisemitism) also being applied to the twins.
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* MemeticBadass: [[invoked]] Gets discussed. When Website/FourChan took interest in the Bogdanovs, they quickly were turned into this, being depicted as immortal beings who had full control of the world financial markets and could crash peoples' investments on a whim. However, this came with a side number of racist traits (particularly antisemitism) also being applied to the twins.twins, leading Bobby to warn against these memes.
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* MemeticBadass: [[invoked]] Gets discussed. When Website/FourChan took interest in the Bogdanovs, they quickly were turned into this, being depicted as immortal beings who had full control of the world financial markets and could crash peoples' investments on a whim. However, this came with a side of racist traits also being applied (particularly antisemitism).
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* MemeticBadass: [[invoked]] Gets discussed. When Website/FourChan took interest in the Bogdanovs, they quickly were turned into this, being depicted as immortal beings who had full control of the world financial markets and could crash peoples' investments on a whim. However, this came with a side of racist traits (particularly antisemitism) also being applied (particularly antisemitism).to the twins.
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* SockPuppet: As the title suggests, "The Twins who Terrorized Physicists with a Sock Puppet Army" is full of the Bogdanovs using an array of them to make them seem like they had far more support than they did. Most of them were clumsy and could easily be traced back to the twins.
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* SockPuppet: As the title suggests, "The Twins who Terrorized Physicists with a Sock Puppet Army" is full takes account of the Bogdanovs using an array of them to make them seem like they had far more support than they did. Most of them were clumsy and could easily be traced back to the twins.
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He got his start primarily releasing video game based content including reviews, but gradually switched his focus to covering major scientific controversies and fraud, detailing the culture, politics, and personalities that led up to the incident each video or series covers. As of 2023, he has entirely moved to science based documentaries (which he terms "broccumentaries", and has made it his full time job.
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He got his start primarily releasing video game based content including reviews, but gradually switched his focus to covering major scientific controversies and fraud, detailing the culture, politics, and personalities that led up to the incident each video or series covers. As of 2023, he has entirely moved to science based documentaries (which he terms "broccumentaries", "broccumentaries"), and has made it his full time job.
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* FakeInteractivity: The "audience participation round" in "The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize", in which Bobby asks and immediately answers a pair of questions in order to draw attention to the historical bigotry of the Nobel awards.
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* NonSequitur: A lampshaded example in "The Bogdanoffs: The Trolls who shook Physics".
--> "Also, there's nowhere else to fit this into the script, but Alan Sokal's profile picture is of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]] and I just really wanted to include that."
--> "Also, there's nowhere else to fit this into the script, but Alan Sokal's profile picture is of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]] and I just really wanted to include that."
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Jan Hendrik Schön getting recruited for Bell Labs in the first place is framed as this. The Bell Labs team specifically approached the university department headed by his supervisor looking for a new assistant, and the two candidates said supervisor named before him had prior commitments and could not travel to the United States.
--> "So let me be clear: he got lucky. He got ''absurdly'' lucky."
--> "So let me be clear: he got lucky. He got ''absurdly'' lucky."
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Bogdanov twins increasingly came off as this, making multiple basic fundamental scientific and mathematical errors in their continued arguments to defend their published papers.
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Jan Hendrik Schön kept no records of his transistor research, physical or digital. This played a key role in the investigation that got him fired.
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[=BobbyBroccoli=] (real name: Kevan [=MacKay=]) is an online critic, video essayist, and documentary maker.
He got his start primarily releasing video game based content including reviews, but gradually switched his focus to covering major scientific controversies and fraud, detailing the culture, politics, and personalities that led up to the incident each video or series covers. As of 2023, he has entirely moved to science based documentaries (which he terms "broccumentaries", and has made it his full time job.
His [=YouTube=] account is [[https://www.youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli here]], and his Nebula account is [[https://go.nebula.tv/bobbybroccoli here]].
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!!His work provides examples of:
* ContrivedCoincidence: Jan Hendrik Schön getting recruited for Bell Labs in the first place is framed as this. The Bell Labs team specifically approached the university department headed by his supervisor looking for a new assistant, and the two candidates said supervisor named before him had prior commitments and could not travel to the United States.
--> "So let me be clear: he got lucky. He got ''absurdly'' lucky."
* HighTurnoverRate: Highlighted as a major problem that plagued the leadership of the SSC, as people kept quitting those positions due to the stress of being caught between the rapidly inflating cost of the project, the demands of the government officials above them, and the stubborn independence of the scientists working under them.
* LensmanArmsRace: Multiple examples get detailed, albeit being played out between rival nations' scientific research groups instead of military forces.
** In "Ronald Reagan & the Biggest Failure in Physics", it's outlined how Reagan's support for the SSC program was based heavily on a desire to outdo the efforts of CERN in Europe in term of discovering new subatomic particles. The nationalism associated with the project caused issues with raising international support and funding further down the line.
** In "The man who tried to fake an element", leftover rivalries from the Cold War with the Dubna Russian research lab are part of what caused Berkeley to go out of their way to hire Victor Ninov and overlook the issues with his supposed discovery of new elements. [[spoiler:The ending reveals that although Berkeley and Dubna started working together, they now had a new rival research group based in Japan.]]
** In "The man who faked human cloning", South Korea's economic struggles led them to try to stake a claim in the field of stem cell research in a time frame where the U.S. under UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush was balking at such research due to moral objections, leading to the enormous political and media support Hwang Woo-suk benefited from.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Bogdanov twins increasingly came off as this, making multiple basic fundamental scientific and mathematical errors in their continued arguments to defend their published papers.
* MemeticBadass: [[invoked]] Gets discussed. When Website/FourChan took interest in the Bogdanovs, they quickly were turned into this, being depicted as immortal beings who had full control of the world financial markets and could crash peoples' investments on a whim. However, this came with a side of racist traits also being applied (particularly antisemitism).
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Jan Hendrik Schön kept no records of his transistor research, physical or digital. This played a key role in the investigation that got him fired.
* PrecisionFStrike: This was the normally calm Bobby's response to finding out Jan Hendrik Schön did not keep any written records of his research.
--> "He claimed it was standard practice not to keep written logs - which is not true, first of all - who the fuck is this man not keeping logs of his once in a generation breakthroughs?"
* SockPuppet: As the title suggests, "The Twins who Terrorized Physicists with a Sock Puppet Army" is full of the Bogdanovs using an array of them to make them seem like they had far more support than they did. Most of them were clumsy and could easily be traced back to the twins.
* TechnoBabble: The breakdown of the Bogdanovs' papers revealed they indulged heavily in this to hide that their papers were mostly nonsense. As Bobby puts it:
--> "The conclusion that most seemed to draw, even if they weren't 100% experts in the subject matter, was that all the vocabulary and buzzwords were real, but arranged in such a way that had little to no meaning."
* UnwittingPawn: In the conclusion of "The Twins who Terrorized Physicists with a Sock Puppet Army", it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Bogdanov twins themselves were the pawns of Moshé Flato's plan to get revenge against French academia by letting them get doctorates, a plan which was carried out posthumously by his partner Daniel Sternheimer. Being outsiders to the scientific community, the twins had no clue that this was going on.]]
He got his start primarily releasing video game based content including reviews, but gradually switched his focus to covering major scientific controversies and fraud, detailing the culture, politics, and personalities that led up to the incident each video or series covers. As of 2023, he has entirely moved to science based documentaries (which he terms "broccumentaries", and has made it his full time job.
His [=YouTube=] account is [[https://www.youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli here]], and his Nebula account is [[https://go.nebula.tv/bobbybroccoli here]].
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!!His work provides examples of:
* ContrivedCoincidence: Jan Hendrik Schön getting recruited for Bell Labs in the first place is framed as this. The Bell Labs team specifically approached the university department headed by his supervisor looking for a new assistant, and the two candidates said supervisor named before him had prior commitments and could not travel to the United States.
--> "So let me be clear: he got lucky. He got ''absurdly'' lucky."
* HighTurnoverRate: Highlighted as a major problem that plagued the leadership of the SSC, as people kept quitting those positions due to the stress of being caught between the rapidly inflating cost of the project, the demands of the government officials above them, and the stubborn independence of the scientists working under them.
* LensmanArmsRace: Multiple examples get detailed, albeit being played out between rival nations' scientific research groups instead of military forces.
** In "Ronald Reagan & the Biggest Failure in Physics", it's outlined how Reagan's support for the SSC program was based heavily on a desire to outdo the efforts of CERN in Europe in term of discovering new subatomic particles. The nationalism associated with the project caused issues with raising international support and funding further down the line.
** In "The man who tried to fake an element", leftover rivalries from the Cold War with the Dubna Russian research lab are part of what caused Berkeley to go out of their way to hire Victor Ninov and overlook the issues with his supposed discovery of new elements. [[spoiler:The ending reveals that although Berkeley and Dubna started working together, they now had a new rival research group based in Japan.]]
** In "The man who faked human cloning", South Korea's economic struggles led them to try to stake a claim in the field of stem cell research in a time frame where the U.S. under UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush was balking at such research due to moral objections, leading to the enormous political and media support Hwang Woo-suk benefited from.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Bogdanov twins increasingly came off as this, making multiple basic fundamental scientific and mathematical errors in their continued arguments to defend their published papers.
* MemeticBadass: [[invoked]] Gets discussed. When Website/FourChan took interest in the Bogdanovs, they quickly were turned into this, being depicted as immortal beings who had full control of the world financial markets and could crash peoples' investments on a whim. However, this came with a side of racist traits also being applied (particularly antisemitism).
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Jan Hendrik Schön kept no records of his transistor research, physical or digital. This played a key role in the investigation that got him fired.
* PrecisionFStrike: This was the normally calm Bobby's response to finding out Jan Hendrik Schön did not keep any written records of his research.
--> "He claimed it was standard practice not to keep written logs - which is not true, first of all - who the fuck is this man not keeping logs of his once in a generation breakthroughs?"
* SockPuppet: As the title suggests, "The Twins who Terrorized Physicists with a Sock Puppet Army" is full of the Bogdanovs using an array of them to make them seem like they had far more support than they did. Most of them were clumsy and could easily be traced back to the twins.
* TechnoBabble: The breakdown of the Bogdanovs' papers revealed they indulged heavily in this to hide that their papers were mostly nonsense. As Bobby puts it:
--> "The conclusion that most seemed to draw, even if they weren't 100% experts in the subject matter, was that all the vocabulary and buzzwords were real, but arranged in such a way that had little to no meaning."
* UnwittingPawn: In the conclusion of "The Twins who Terrorized Physicists with a Sock Puppet Army", it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Bogdanov twins themselves were the pawns of Moshé Flato's plan to get revenge against French academia by letting them get doctorates, a plan which was carried out posthumously by his partner Daniel Sternheimer. Being outsiders to the scientific community, the twins had no clue that this was going on.]]
