#391 - “You’re WRONG” YouTube’s #1 Skeptic Confronts Danny | Professor Dave

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

Documentary, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Sometimes it can be a good mental exercise to listen to & engage with people who you disagree with. That is why I wanted to have this conversation with Dave. Dave Farina is a science educator & conspiracy debunker who runs the popular YouTube channel 'Professor Dave Explains'. SPONSORS https://mengotomars.com - Use code DANNY for 50% Off & 3 Free Gifts. https://butcherbox.com/danny - Get chicken breast or top sirloin for a year OR ground beef for life, PLUS $20 off. https://amentara.com/go/dj - Use code DJ22 for 22% off your first order. https://mudwtr.com/dannyjones - Use code DANNYJONES for 43% off. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off. EPISODE LINKS @ProfessorDaveExplains FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Dave's origin story 05:52 - Cults 14:36 - Human species is older than we thought 21:31 - Science vs. pseudo-science 26:25 - The real public health crisis 37:11 - Health insurance vs. health science industries 41:16 - Totalitarian healthcare restrictions 46:38 - Free speech 51:41 - Dr. Mary Bowden 01:01:47 - Who is really funding health science research 01:11:00 - Dark history of science in America 01:15:33 - RFK 01:23:05 - Dave's issue with Joe Rogan 01:30:04 - Pre-dynastic Egyptian vases 01:40:51 - Epstein & politicizing science 01:46:55 - Debunking Professor Jiang 01:51:16 - Dave's take on UFOs 01:53:46 - Biblical "creationists" 01:57:56 - Top 20 anti-semites in the U.S. 02:07:31 - Zohran Mamdani & the next era of politicians 02:10:39 - Palantir & government surveillance 02:20:04 - Flat Earthers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Professor Date.
0:08.1	Howdy.
0:09.2	Howdy.
0:09.9	Thanks for coming, bro.
0:11.1	Yeah, happy to be here.
0:12.0	A little surprise to be here, but happy nonetheless.
0:15.3	Look, man, you're very talented.
0:18.0	And your videos are very funny.
0:20.7	Thank you. And I can't deny that, whether I agree
0:24.1	with all of the stuff you say or not. Cudos to you for doing what you're doing and making it
0:31.1	entertaining, informative, and fucking hilarious. So for the people that are listening to this
0:37.1	that may hate your guts
0:38.1	because they don't agree with you, which is stupid, this will be a like taking an ice bath
0:44.1	for them. It'll be healthy, I think. Yeah, I hope they get all the way through it. Yeah.
0:50.0	I think it'd be good to start this off by like explaining how you got into all this shit in the
0:53.7	beginning. Sure.
0:55.0	Okay. Let's see. It's good. I mean, even my viewers I don't think have like the full in-depth origin story. So I guess I can give you kind of the medium length one and then anywhere you want more details. This is a long show, right? You can feel free to pry and get more information. I guess I would say, so I studied chemistry in college and then in grad school as well, but
1:15.1	ultimately all I really wanted to do was play music.
1:17.8	So from the beginning of college, I knew I wanted to be a musician, I was playing in bands,
1:21.4	really obsessed with that, but decided to be a chem major anyway.
1:26.2	Apparently I was very practical in that regard. But then all
1:29.4	through my 20s, I was playing in bands, and all the while just at first I was sort of tutoring
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