Goodeye8

An oversimplification doesn’t mean you get to make completely false statements. An oversimplification ignores other significant factors to end up with a simple statement that for the most part is true.

It’s rare because we have higher hygiene standards

This is an acceptable oversimplification.

Basically washing our hands eliminated the black plague.

This is not because this is just factually wrong.

The latter is what is being corrected. Now apply your smartass education and understand when you’re wrong.

Considering wacky theories have a tendency to contradict each other (and itself) it would be far more impressive if his wacky theories weren’t contradictory.

Are you also dead because you’re guaranteed to die eventually? It’s not an experiment of the eventual outcome but the observation of the outcome. While you’re observing the cat it has to be alive or dead, it can’t be both. But when you stop observing the certainty disappears and the cat is no longer dead or alive but both at the same time.