Professor Stick

[[File:Professor Stick.jpg|thumb|right|165px| "Stick figures are a special species. We don't need to eat because we're too fucking awesome!"<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66nF3SfvnJ0 Obviously the Best 10,000 Subscriber Video in All of Existence] on [[Youtube]]</ref>]]
{{skepnav}}{{science}}'''Professor Stick''' is  
a demon
<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzu3O38s598 Super SPOOKY Stick Figure: Should We Celebrate Halloween?] on [[Youtube]]</ref> 
a wizard
<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkoQJO0ZjZw Is Halloween evil? (Warning: VERY SPOOKY)] on [[YouTube]].</ref> an [[atheist]] and [[Skepticism|skeptic]] [[YouTube]]r who became popular from a video titled "Flat Earther Tries to Debunk Me on the Solar Eclipse",<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChRI1HiPiO0 "Flat Earther Tries to Debunk Me on the Solar Eclipse"] on [[YouTube]]</ref> which was a response to a [[flat Earth]] video by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC--mKMTBMxilVT1yGSp2ZUQ Bro. Sanchez], an unbelievably well-known and popular YouTuber in the Flat Earth community. The video received over 951,000 views. 

Professor Stick's channel is dedicated to promoting [[secular]]ism, [[reasoning]], [[education]], [[science]], and [[debunking]] [[pseudoscience]] on the [[internet]]. Most of which consists of debunking/responding to videos promoting [[creationism]], flat Earth, [[medical woo]] (primarily on [[cancer]] [[woo]]), [[Anti-vaccination movement|anti-vaxxers]], [[Christian fundamentalists]], and [[Islamism]]. As of April 2020, Professor Stick's YouTube channel has over 200,000 subscribers and over 31 million views.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjw7dE_hxJT-VGLTqCjlJA/about Professor Stick — About]. YouTube.</ref>

==Abortion==
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Professor Stick is [[pro-choice]] and has been highly critical of the [[anti-abortion]] movement. On April 2017, Stick did a collaboration video with atheist YouTuber, Godless Cranium, in response to [[Hunter Avallone]]'s video on abortion.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUO8dGmUYiE Lies and Inhumanities of Abortion? Hmm…] on YouTube.</ref>

==Anti-vaxxers==
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Professor Stick responded to several people claiming about "[[Anti-vaccination movement#Purported reasons not to get vaccinated|the dangers of vaccines]]" and "[[Think of the children|how it's safer to not have your children vaccinated]]" mostly with what they say is "supported" by [[pseudoscientific]] doctrine and unfounded claims.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VcDReDPQZc&t=136s A Healthy Life Without Vaccines?] on [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kJoWan0cE The Bible Says Vaccinations are UNCLEAN!!] on [[YouTube]]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=966UgPZe1Po Vaccinations are Dangerous!! (not)] on [[YouTube]]</ref> Stick also said that anti-vaxxers are the second type of [[ignorant]] people whom he hates after [[Global warming denialism|global warming denialists]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSHgUgT1PQ Dangerous Anti-Vaccination Ideas by Pseudoscientific "Doctor"] on [[YouTube]].</ref>

==Creationism==
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Professor Stick has a degree in [[biology]]<ref name="repeat">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg-dJvtJJHg&t=59s Creationist Attempts to Humiliate Me] on [[Youtube]].</ref> and has spoken against [[creationism]] multiple times in videos refuting [[List of creationist claims|creationist claims]]. In fact, the first video on his channel was called [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcIwl2Q0rCM&t=58s A Creationist's Worst Nightmare], which is a response to creationist nutjob [[Kent Hovind]]'s video that was mostly filled with irrelevant things in a dismal attempt to blame the failures of the American education system on [[atheism]] and the teaching of [[evolution]].

Another creationist whom Stick responded to was [[Richard Kent]], who tried and ultimately failed to explain how the [[Second Law of Thermodynamics]] is evidence 
for creationism
 against evolution<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mrWL6-xH9o Science is Wrong Because Science Disproves Science] on [[YouTube]].</ref> and how fossilization doesn't occur over millions of years, but instantly. [[Non sequitur|Therefore]], [[Noah's flood]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1XcePpETg&t=24s Fossils are wrong… because Noah's flood]</ref>

One responded several times to a creationist YouTuber known as A Bit of Orange.<ref name="repeat"/><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYQW9Y7FZX8 Sonic Hedgehog Confuses a Creationist] on [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiWbKCfdJLw Creationist needs a Gain of Function Mutation in His Brain] on [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK0hIykbxeE&t=56s Silly Animated Creationist Tries to Disprove Evolution (Guest Video for Telltale)] on [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3HtkyrIjok&t=134s Sharing Some Orange With Professor Stick (The Orange Evolution Part 5)] on YouTube.</ref>

==Cancer woo==
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Professor Stick has made many videos to those claiming a purported cure for cancer. One of his most well known videos was Stick responding to Dr. Antonio Jimenez of [[Hope4Cancer]], where Dr. Jimenez claims that "[[Vitamin B17]]" (laetrile) can cure cancer.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIgXdvTW7yg Cure Cancer With Vitamin B17!! (don't do it)] on YouTube.</ref> Stick's video ended up receiving a lot of [[YouTube#YouTube as a debate forum|backlash in the comments section]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Pz3JSgZO0 Reading Mean Comments on My B17 Video] on [[YouTube]].</ref>

==Flat Earth==
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Professor Stick has mentioned that many video requests he's received were about Flat Earth.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOV-ZFIwMC4</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De3TF7wuOuY&t=4s</ref> In the videos he does make about Flat Earth, a lot of them were about calling flat earthers out on their [[crank]]ery. In one of his earliest Flat Earth debunking videos, he tackles lies created by rapper, flat earther, [[conspiracy theorist]], and [[Proll|professional liar]] Matthew Procella, a.k.a., [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuftdXePz6z73Wsg8Ao5lTg ODD TV]<ref>http://oddrealitytv.blogspot.com/2017/08/who-is-odd-reality-aka-matt-procella.html</ref> in a video calling Flat Earth the most cringe-worthy conspiracy ever.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVU077dMlt8&t=136s Well, it really is]</ref>

In that video, Procella made these claims to be "evidence" of a Flat Earth.
*[[Water]] is always flat
*[[Flat Earth#So why are there no REAL photos of the earth?|There are no real pictures of the Earth]]
*We can't go past {{wpl|low Earth orbit}}
*[[Flat Earth#But the horizon is always at eye level!|Horizon is always at eye level]]
*[[Einstein]]'s [[Theory of Relativity]] [[Conspiracy theory|was just a coverup]] for the [[Michelson-Morley experiment]] proving the [[Geocentrism|Earth doesn't revolve around the Sun.]]
*The [[Sun]] is much closer to the Earth because of crepuscular rays.
*The [[Moon]]'s phases should be reversed every six months.
*[[Do your own research]]

Some other pseudo-intellectual flat earthers whom Stick has responded to are [https://www.google.com/search?q=orphan+red&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab Orphan Red]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsUfpQBN-24&pbjreload=10</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBc9rLKA5Sg</ref>,
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTlbjcTWjTLqNmcF3VL7Xag Jake the Asshole]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTlbjcTWjTLqNmcF3VL7Xag</ref>, Darrell Marble, aka, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De3TF7wuOuY&t=7s D. Marble],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De3TF7wuOuY&t=7s</ref> [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYF2HYRN2ILwUoyLQ5TAdA Flat Earth Talk]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ4qZoUJ3C0</ref>, [https://www.youtube.com/user/DelanoTV/ Delano Edwards]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FDz67pwSlk</ref>, and other less notable ones.

==Religion==
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Professor Stick frequently tackles [[Christianity]] and [[Islam]] on his channel.

===Christianity===
Some of the videos that he responded to were on [[PragerU]]'s nonsense.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXWN4YMjabI Life is Short, Be an Atheist] on [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpjoHKRC568 Holiday Special - War on Christmas?] on [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkXQp5MwW5Y&t=1s Dennis Prager's "Moral Facts"] on [[YouTube]].</ref> Some other various topics that Stick responded to dealt with the claim that "[[Christianity is not a religion]]"<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTny_noP-JQ "Christianity is Not a Religion"] on [[YouTube]].</ref> and the relation with [[science]] and [[Jesus]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qdECfuhQE Science and Jesus (Collaboration with Chocolate Hat)] on [[YouTube]].</ref>

===Islam===
Professor Stick is also a critic of Islam and made several videos responding to Muslims,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgAQPkXYDtU&t=55s Karim and His Poor Response to Dusty Smith] on [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxN6nne5CT4&t=5s PROOFS FOR ALLAH?? I think not.] on [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAQZ45Z-Lks Allah's Existence Proven by Bad Arguments] on [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opDAqmziWa0&t=216s Oh No!! These Questions Are Unanswerable!] on [[YouTube]].</ref> including two videos on [[Zakir Naik]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhHQ4Y2raEU&t=66s Zakir Naik Doesn't Understand Darwin's Work] on [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd-zsRrMpH8&t=808s Mythical Tales Aren't Science (feat. Godless Cranium)] on [[YouTube]].</ref> 

On July 2016, Professor Stick made a video asking Muslims these questions:
 {{quotebox|#Are you aware of the [[No True Scotsman]] fallacy? You're saying that the terrorists such as [[ISIS]] are not true Muslims. Well, they in turn will say that you're not a true Muslim. Just because someone interpreted the [[Quran]] differently than you does not mean they're not Muslim. In fact, why do you get the title "Muslims", not them? Maybe we should call you guys something else.
#Why do you get so angry when somebody criticizes your religion? Out of all the religions out there, you guys are the most offended when the topic comes to your religion. In addition, when something horrible happens, such as the [[Orlando shooting]], you guys go straight to defending your religion without even a thought of victims […] Why would you put your beliefs over the empathy for the victims?
#Do you not understand the [[discrimination]] depicted in your [[Holy book]]? Don't tell me the Quran puts [[men]] and [[women]] in the same line. There are explicit areas in the Quran that mention that [[Sexism in the Qur'an|men are greater than women]]. Also, have you ever thought of this? The fact that your Quran is directed towards a male audience already makes it [[sexist]]. 
#Not all Muslims are terrorists […] But why don't you accept that there is something fundamentally fucked up with your religion? Out of all the religions out there, your religion is responsible for the most amount of modern [[Terrorism|terrorist attacks]] and violence […] The fact that your religion can be interpreted in such a way to drive people into terrorism acts already shows there's something wrong with it.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Gdw6nuzQw Professor Stick's Questions for Muslims] on [[YouTube]].</ref>}}

==On RationalWiki==
{{cquote|Oh my god. An article about me on RationalWiki? I am so honored! :D|||Professor Stick<ref>[https://twitter.com/StickProfessor/status/996569543169527809 Oh my god. An article about me on RationalWiki? I am so honored! :D] on [[Twitter]]</ref>}}

==See also==
*[[Holy Koolaid]]: Another atheist YouTuber that mainly talks about religion and science on his channel

==References==
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