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Howdy friends. In this video we begin our deep dive into the prolific misinformation TikTok account run by Filip Zieba. Filip posts content discussing the worst takes on just about every pseudoscientific topic you can imagine. From pyramids to antarctic civilizations to hollow earth to lost advanced ice age civilizations. Parroting most of his work from more notorious psuedohistorians like Graham Hancock, Filip doesn't have too many new theories, but laces all of them with a layer of personality that is rarely seen from other creators. In this video we begin our dive into his channel by tackling his claims about antarctic civilizations, hyper diffusion, the Bosnian pyramids and much much more. So sit back, relax and get ready for some good old fashioned "googledybunking."

CITATIONS AND REFERENCES:

1. https://anthropology.msu.edu/anp364-fs19/2019/11/08/post-4-hyperdiffusionism-and-the-pyramidiots/
2. https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2017/11/fuente-magna-bowl-not-cuneiform-not-sumerian/?utm_source=www.google.com&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Google&referrer-analytics=1#google_vignette
3. https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2016/09/ask-near-eastern-professional
4. https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/why-is-celtic-pronounced-two-ways-keltic-or-seltic
5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772775/
6. https://slate.com/technology/2014/12/the-last-time-the-arctic-was-ice-free-in-summer-modern-humans-didn-t-exist.html
7. https://www.bbcearth.com/news/when-dinosaurs-roamed-antarctica#
8. https://earth.org/antarcticas-floral-awakening-how-climate-change-is-transforming-the-continents-ecosystem/
9. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2148-5
10. https://eos.org/science-updates/an-unbroken-record-of-climate-during-the-age-of-dinosaurs
11. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide
12. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/05/09/diary-disputes-byrds-polar-claim/cee54121-58bb-4689-909a-205f21cc3e1e/
13. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/antarctica-pyramid-not-quite-geologists-say/
14. https://archeothoughts.wordpress.com/2023/11/08/there-is-no-new-evidence-that-gunung-padang-is-a-24000-year-old-pyramid/
15. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mystery-of-bosnias-ancient-pyramids-148990462/

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Hi, everyone. The author here claims a couple of things I'd like people to check out:

1. That European countries are generally reluctant to endorse gender reassignment treatments due to insufficient evidence

2. That there are no large scale studies / reviews that find good evidence in favor of gender reassignment treatments

Thanks in advance!

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What do we make of this one?

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What can we make of these claims?

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What do you guys make of this?