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I almost lied to you.
I almost lied to you.
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Phụ đề (53)
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- I almost made a video that lied to you.
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This video is about why I didn't,
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and one way that you can learn to not be lied to.
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The night after the Battle of Shiloh in 1862,
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injured soldiers notice that their wounds
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were glowing this faint blue green light.
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Pretty spooky,
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and mysteriously those glowing wounds healed faster.
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Soldiers called it Angel's Glow.
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In 2001, a high school science fair team figured out why.
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Luminescent bacteria carried by worms infected the wounds
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killed off the bad microbes and saved lives.
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It's an incredible story.
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It's got civil war mystery,
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teenage scientists, glowing bacteria.
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So of course the media loved it.
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These high school students had their whole 15 minutes
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of pre-social media fame.
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But then I noticed that this glowing bacteria
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saving soldiers' lives thing zero mentions before 2001.
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So I dug deeper, and I called a literal Civil War historian.
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- I've read probably thousands, and thousands, of thousands
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of documents dealing with the Battle of Shiloh
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from the participants from April, 1862,
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and I have not seen one mention whatsoever
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of this occurrence happening.
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There's no factual basis to it whatsoever.
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- The glowing bacteria,
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saving soldiers thing never happened.
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Yet, this story has been repeated by YouTube channels,
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and journalists for like 25 years.
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I think that the people who repeated this story
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actually did go try and see if it was true,
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but they saw an earlier retelling of the story.
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And then that story cites an even earlier version.
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And pretty soon you have a bunch of stories
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that all cite each other and what looks like a bunch
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of evidence is actually just everyone telling the same lie.
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It's called circular reporting.
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Did the kids make up the battlefield story?
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Was their science fair project is misinterpreted?
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I don't know.
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But it kept getting passed around
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because it was a great story that sounded strange enough
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to be true, and that was enough for most people.
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And that's sad because that glowing bacteria
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is a real species and it has inspired some actual new drugs,
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but it never saved a single soldier's life with its glow.
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It's so hard to know what to trust these days.
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Everyone wants to tell you what is actually true,
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but you should listen to the people who go looking,
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and then aren't afraid to tell you what isn't true.
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