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>The world is a better world when reasonable opinions are well-considered on all sides. Absolutely, that's categorically not what PragerU does. But if it did,
by Traster 7y ago
>The world is a better world when reasonable opinions are well-considered on all sides.
Absolutely, that's categorically not what PragerU does. But if it did, that would be relevant.
> They are reasonable opinions voiced in a calm manner.
Actually no, quite a lot of them are entirely unreasonable opinions voiced in a calm manner. Go and search for PragerU's presentation of evolution for example - their criticism amounts to "Scientists are unsure whether the speed of light is 3x108 or 3.015x108 so clearly there's no speed of light". And "Well maybe micro-evolution but 'many' scientists doubt macro evolution".
It's not reasonable, it's deliberate mis-representation of the scientific material to serve a religious agenda.
- mech1234 7y agoI agree that the video "Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven" is misleading and serves a religious agenda. The video accepts natural selection, and references real research data, which is nice, but it asks too much of science. The implicit claim is "until all biological mechanisms underlying evolution are fully explained, you should remain skeptical of the theory of evolution." An obvious likely audience interpretation of the video could be, "this calm, smart, and reasonable-sounding man is telling me that it is fine to be skeptical of evolution. I'll keep on believing in creationism." However, this amount of misdirection is reasonable, is fairly typical among political organizations, and does not reflect an incendiary or particularly damaging viewpoint. If the corpus of PragerU videos can pass this bar, then there is no reason to de-rank them in YouTube.