>If you can’t explain you know nothing. Simple as that. This is still a pretty good bar, but if I just repeat what the video said, it seems like I'm explaining

>If you can’t explain you know nothing. Simple as that. This is still a pretty good bar, but if I just repeat what the video said, it seems like I'm explaining it, and then I can give the impression I do know something. I shouldn't get credibility for just repeating a video. The US has devolved into somewhat of a reputation-driven expertise market, and there are plenty of ways to gain reputation without the expertise. There's still plenty of real experts, but I don't blame them if they want to focus on their work instead of fighting the endless tide of easily produced misinformation.