Everyone Was Wrong About Avocados - Including Us

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always love the "WE WERE WRONG BUT LETS LEARN WHY" videos!

The idea that a sloth is an omnivore... is kinda terrifying.

Hank is THE BEST communicator on YouTube.... by far! His cadence, rhythm, emphasis, and flow are all SPOT ON for the most comprehensible educational videos! You should clone him.

And here, everybody, is how true science works. New knowledge corrects and/or add to old knowledge. Nicely done SciShow!

The fact that SciShow created a new video, to correct something erroneous from an old video, rather than just unlist it, is truly honest and ought to be appreciated. Evidence-based reporting is really what science should be about!

We love fact checking and corrections 🙌👏

I love the fact that they came back, admitted they messed up and corrected the mistake and gave us an awesome factual update video.

Excellent episode! Humans were selectively breeding plants thru agro-forestry long before we realize!

It's good to see Hank back in good health presenting SciShow!

I'm glad that SciShow does stuff like this. "Hey, turns out we were wrong. Here's the information we have now." I love it. I wish more media had this kind of integrity

Well, I can't say it's not a little disappointing to learn that unimaginably large sloths didn't poop guacamole into existence. BUT I really, really appreciate that all the folks at SciSchow are so comfortable owning up to and correcting their mistakes. And I'm always happy to see ancient peoples getting the recognition they deserve for the ways they influenced our world.

This channel is so cool. I'm pretty sure I saw that video. I've never been so entertained while also being told that I was misinformed. It shows a lot about the channel when you can admit to being wrong, correct the misinformation, and still have people like the video. SciShow, you're amazing!!

It's good to remember that, even in the age of science, humanity still largely tends to believe ad hoc explanations that make for a good story. Never forget that the core of the scientific method is trying to disprove your ideas and keeping those that survive inquiry, not shielding useful/popular ones from testing.

So what you're saying is it's more likely avocados were eaten with ground sloths, rather than by ground sloths.

I absolutely love when a channel here on YouTube is able to admit they were wrong. It gives so much more credibility to you guys. Great job 🤘

Respect to any media source who realizes they told a mistruth and correct it publicly and with detail.

The pit of avocado can be baked and ground like flour. Perhaps they were bred to have larger pits because they wanted the storable flour and pits more than the highly spoilable flesh surrounding the pit. The annoyance we find at the size of modern avocado pits may have been actually considered the ideal specimen for early agrarians.

This is exactly how science is.

I've told the megafauna avo story many times. thanks for reeducating me on it.