 Oh hoi hoi and welcome to the video. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we are going to talk about the SCP Foundation not being real, conspiracy theories, and a few other topics that are associated with it. So let's get started. So first of all, I did a video about nine months ago. It was in August of 2020 called the SCP Foundation in the Real. It's one of more popular videos and it's something that constantly gets new comments, at least from time to time. Let's not call it constantly. There's a series of comments that I absolutely think, unfortunately the grammar is bad for most of them, but for all of them. But I think it really illustrates the problem with the SCP Foundation Israel conspiracy theory and that's what we're going to call it because that's what it is. So the first comment is we all know the SCP Foundation is fake but we like SCP stories and this is fair. Most people just like the stories or they enjoy from time to time role playing that it's real without actually believing it's being real. But then of course there's the next three comments and this is in time so it was I'm looking at these in recency so this literally was that comment then human being is the most stupid ever made in the universe imagine we alone live in a big universe and there are no one else wake up people these things might not sound real but it exists and then another comment well you can't say it's not real because you don't know either so yeah you don't know because if you didn't what's the proof and then finally it's on google maps as if being on google maps is you know what a random dude went in and added a marker for the SCP Foundation so it must be real because all all government wide all intergovernmental conspiracy theories are true because they're on google maps anyway so you have the whole gamut here of the there's no one who there's the there's no one who could possibly believe the scp foundation is real and the scp foundation might be real you don't know to the scp foundation is definitely real right so that's the full the full range of it and by the way it's on google maps is in full caps which is like telling me like you ridiculous idiot of course it's real it's on google maps yeah how could you not believe that we talked about this in the video that i'm reading the comments from but i'll say it again the existence of the scp wiki itself is proof that the scp foundation can't be real and why is that well and we'll get to why it doesn't prove what i think it proves because this is a conspiracy theory in a second but from a logical standpoint no government wide or intergovernmental conspiracy like this with this much purported power and influence would have an a wiki dot site that that purports to be the actual like documentation of this conspiracy it just wouldn't be wouldn't be a thing and we'll talk about why that doesn't work the way i wish it would in a second but first we're going to talk about why why conspiracy theories like this take root and we're going to use the scp foundation is real theory to illustrate this point because it's one of those conspiracy theories that i think is believed predominantly by people who are 13 or 12 and younger i'm not saying that all people below that age those ages believe the scp foundation is real i think there's a lot of people below those ages who are capable of differentiating between reality and and not reality but there is a strong social aspect to the belief in these sorts of things it's being part of a community the scp foundation in its structure imparts that kind of community feel even if you don't contact or talk to another living soul about it the idea that you stumbled upon this wide-ranging conspiracy with hundreds or thousands of people involved and now you're part of it gives it a strong social lure aspect and it's the reason why i believe that uh the children especially are vulnerable not just from the sense that they believe it because they don't have the critical thinking skills yet to actually disbelieve it but necessarily because it also is very attractive from a social standpoint now the real problem becomes uh beyond the social aspect it is important to disprove them not because you're going to prove anyone who believes it wrong because you can't the conspiracy theory is non falsifiable much like the carl marxist theories of history or sigman freud's theories on psychology uh they're non falsifiable theories uh they could be used to describe in a wide range of behaviors and actions and still fulfill the original concept and the original premise i should say uh but it's important to disprove them because and we're going to use a single example okay it is also as far as i know the most serious example but uh it is very salient to my point here because the costs of not the costs of allowing people to believe these things can be catastrophic the slender man stabbing in wakisha wisconsin the 12 to 12 year olds uh stabbed uh one of their friends and then left her in the woods to die because they believe they could become like associated with a slender man that way um and this is the problem of any sort of exploitation of the of the difficulties in disbelief that children may have is that and first of all you also kind of want to teach children critical thinking skills i have a nephew uh who got really really frustrated with me yesterday when i was having a conversation about how the paranormal isn't real and i was talking to them to him specifically about the falsifiability of claims and he was like well i was like he's like ghosts are real and i was like ghosts are not real and he's like well how do you know i'm like i don't but the theory that ghosts are real is non falsifiable if i can't prove that they don't exist that means i probably have a problem with my original formulation um and you might be like what do you mean isn't that isn't that a good thing you can't if you can't be proven wrong you must be right no no no you're just saying things that are not that's that's neither here nor there uh we don't need to get into the idea of falsifiability too much here but i do want to make the point that you're never going to get people who strongly believe these things on your own you're there's no argument you can make to convince them and everything's going to circle back on itself the important part is is grabbing people before they develop these beliefs or before they become deeply held if you can get to them before those points then you can prevent the sort of circular thinking that is very unhealthy and let's say intellectually uh troubling and that's not to say that this is the problem some conspiracy theories are true the Tuskegee syphilis experiment the uh cia's usage of lsd on uh on uh what's what's the word i'm looking for here on uh on civilians the uh nsa i think it was the fbi actually the fbi's uh conspiracy to cover up their systemic errors with forensics testing the uh observation of almost all online communications by the u.s. government that was uh exposed by edward snowden uh watergate um and so on and so on but the differences is that those conspiracies were exposed and provable the actual things it's complicated so while those are provable one could also say before they were proven that they were just craziness like you can't like if the government chooses to continue to cover up this thing no one will ever be able to find it right and so it's important differentiate and in fact it's important to differentiate on particular topics so um conspiracy theories that are essentially non falsifiable or uh 9 11 truthers uh birthers um because you know uh barack obama's birth certificate we want to see his birth certificate we see you here's his birth certificate well that's not a real birth certificate you made that up to try and uh try and trick us so like where how do you get past your belief at that point um and so on and so forth you could talk about uh the moon landing was faked well the moon landing wasn't faked here's all this proof oh that was just stuff made up by people to you know throw us off the scent then how do i prove or disprove the theory but JFK was uh uh shot by you know a conspiracy of the mafia or russians or or the CIA or here's proof that it was you know li harby oswald that did it oh well but they they made him a patsy they're they're just they're just doing that to try and throw you off the scent and so on and so forth it's always they're doing this thing to throw you off the scent right uh flat earthers uh the here's a globe here's a picture of the earth from far away it's a circ it's a globe it's a circle it's a globe so you know that it's not flat okay but do you really believe that you know and do you really believe that nasa doesn't have a vested interest in in in this and i'm like why would nasa anyway i've almost got i'm almost like that's so ridiculous but that's not the point of today's video the point of today's video is to talk about how conspiracy theories can become in this one in particular uh circular and logic so reflect on those for just a moment and compare it to the scp wiki we talked at the very beginning not the very beginning but close to the beginning of the video about how the scp wiki its actual existence is proof that the scp foundation can't be real because no wide-ranging conspiracy like that would use a wiki dot wiki uh to store information and so people who are strongly attached to the idea that the scp wiki or i'm sorry the scp foundation is real will then say okay yeah but the wiki the fact that it's logical that it makes no sense that no one would ever do that is something that they and this is again a nebulous they but something that they know the people who are trying to cover this up and they know that i know that they know so they have created the scp wiki as a red herring to prove that it doesn't exist and i'm the only one who's figured it out but i'm going to use a story from somebody i uh used to work with uh who used to uh periodically out of nowhere tell me uh that he believed that the story of genesis was untrue that adam and eve are not we're not the first uh man and woman and in fact there was adam and uh lilith and there's a whole book of lilith thing and there's some you know there's some christian folklore or i should say uh abrahman myth and folklore to back this up there's even like a book of lilith i don't know where what its providence is but there's there's stuff there things that exist and so i was like okay okay and he kept telling me about this and then when he finished i was like all right but if you don't believe in genesis then why do you believe that adam and eve existed at all and he just stopped and he looked at me and he said i don't know and then went back to work let's talk about the scp foundation's exact problem and it was a few it was one of those few times you're never going to convince i'm sure and like it happened again so like he had his moment of realization realized that what he was saying made no sense at all and then went back to work and then like i don't know how many months later it happened again and he completely forgot that we'd had previously had a conversation so i had i thought i'd achieved something but i had achieved nothing but but that's not the important part here we can use this exact concept on the scp foundation is real conspiracy theory because the only evidence you have the only evidence you have that the scp foundation even exists at all sources from the scp wiki and it's pre and it's i should say and its predecessors okay the stuff that led to the scp wiki those things are the reason why you think the scp foundation exists if there are red herring they're made up to try and make you believe whatever it is they're trying to make you believe then why do you believe any of it why is it that you are you're like the scp foundation okay so this red herring is here i believe that it that the the organization that purports to exist exists and they planted this here to fool me into thinking they don't exist your logic has now become circular is it a red herring and it's used to try and convince you that it's not real or is it real you only have one source of information do you believe that information or don't you if you do the illogical nature of the scp wiki becomes apparent there's no way that would be real and if you don't why do you believe anything in that is real like you could believe there's some nebulous government conspiracy in the scp foundation this is a viable version of this that an scp the scp foundation is not real but there is some sort of organization out there that is using the scp foundation as a possible like red herring if they ever get caught and be like oh no it's just that thing over there that's cool but you can't believe the scp foundation as described on the wiki is real anyway that's it this is the topic that i really wanted to go into in more detail but i feel as though it's going to get overly complicated and way off topic conspiracy theories are in interest of mine and i am very very much would love to do like these and it's funny because the as again there are conspiracy theories now surrounding the scp foundation fortunately most of those conspiracy theories are believed by people who are below the age of 13 and 12 so not a huge deal but it is something to cover and and talk about and it's not just people below the ages of 13 and 12 because everyone is susceptible to this kind of thinking especially the social aspects of it believing that you're part of something but that's it thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next that so you're notified when i upload new videos and then head on over to patreon.com forward slash d samarian and pledge at any level like everybody here on the screen already has including dr j redacted and syngeriki 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