Neil deGrasse Tyson: Humans Share DNA With Mushrooms, Bananas & Plants I CLUB SHAY SHAY
Credibility score: 54/100 — Mixed Credibility. Several questionable claims detected. Watch with healthy skepticism.
BSmeter analyzed "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Humans Share DNA With Mushrooms, Bananas & Plants I CLUB SHAY SHAY" and rated it 54/100 for credibility (a BS score of 46/100 — mixed credibility), on 2026-06-11. Its weakest claim — "Dogs never walked on all fours" — scored 10/100 and was flagged as bs. 15 claims were checked against the video transcript. Scores are produced by BSmeter's AI analysis of the transcript, not independent human verification.
Claims analyzed
Humans share 20-25% identical genes with bananas — Solid (75/100)
The 20-25% banana number is real — it's from comparing ~30,000 human genes to the banana genome.
Nobody calls kale meaty — Just Vibes (50/100)
Accurate vibe check — kale gets described as earthy or bitter, never meaty.
Questions why aliens in media always look human instead of like mushrooms — Just Vibes (50/100)
Fair point — sci-fi defaults to humanoid aliens way too often.
Asking what has killed the most humans historically — Just Vibes (50/100)
Classic Tyson setup — he's about to drop the punchline on war, plague, or famine next
Mosquitoes killed more humans than anything else — Solid (78/100)
Classic stat — malaria deaths alone back it up historically.
Humans survive despite nature, not because of it — Opinion (50/100)
Dramatic framing — nature both kills and enables us.
Climate change forced humans to walk upright — OK (62/100)
Simplified version of savanna hypothesis — still debated.
A vocal cord mutation gave us speech — Dubious (45/100)
Way too tidy — speech evolution is way more complicated.
Dogs never walked on all fours — BS (10/100)
Dogs are literally quadrupeds — they still walk on all fours every day.
Humans have worse vision than most animals — Opinion (50/100)
Humans actually have excellent vision compared to most mammals — we're just not bats.
Bipedalism evolved way longer than a billion years ago — Sketchy (25/100)
Said 'way longer than a billion' when it's actually ~6-7 million years ago — off by two orders of magnitude.
Useless traits always fade away like bad car features — Dubious (45/100)
Oversimplifies evolution — neutral mutations can persist for millions of years; not everything gets selected away.
Eyebrows exist to keep sweat out of your eyes while running — OK (65/100)
That's one real function, but eyebrows also help with expression, UV protection, and reducing glare — not just sweat.
19th century anthropologists ignored hairy white people while ranking Black people closer to apes — Solid (75/100)
Racist pseudoscience did push that ranking — the hairy European exception was real and ignored.
African populations have near-zero Neanderthal DNA — Solid (75/100)
That tracks — non-African groups carry ~1-2% Neanderthal DNA while most sub-Saharan populations have essentially none.
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