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I enjoy Launch Pad's detailed look at things, as well. But, I also like Kurzgesagt. There's something about the pacing and editing of PBS videos that I find h

• ramraj07 3y ago
  I’m not a fan of Kurzgesagt at all unfortunately. I’m not a physicist so I’ll say maybe there’s some justification that I don’t fathom that explains why their fundamental explanation of the science is so terrible. But I am a biologist and I can assure you a good load of videos they make on it are at best not great explanations or at worst fundamentally unsubstantiated drivel. Like their latest one about how your body “kills cancers every day”. I went through their massive google doc “evidence” and as suspected not a single real reference to any proof that this is true. It COULD be true, but it’s not proven. I’m not even sure the evidence we have is actually pointing towards this direction. If it’s true that your immune system clears cancers every day, then immunosuppression should instantly plunge you into cancer. Does it? Not really. May be some blood cancers but that’s it. Point is, they show shiny videos explaining almost plausible sounding scientific concepts. But often it’s still michio kaku level sensationalism. I personally believe this disingenuousness is the root cause of degradation in trust in science. The average person does have the ability to sniff bullshit and it eventually catches up to them in their mind that these scientists have no idea what they’re talking about (like my observation that these videos say there’s one neutron per proton in a supernova; I could instantly smell something rotten).