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I find it strange that you introduced this as a "bit of background," but then quoted only the sections from Wikipedia that note criticisms, albeit mild, of Hube
by xwowsersx 3y ago
I find it strange that you introduced this as a "bit of background," but then quoted only the sections from Wikipedia that note criticisms, albeit mild, of Huberman, and depicted this as amounting to him being "controversial."
My "bit of background" on Huberman would be something like: "Andrew Huberman is a professor of neurobiology at Stanford. He's made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function, and neural plasticity. Huberman is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow. In 2017, he was honored with the Cogan Award, which is given to the scientist making the most significant discoveries in the study of vision."
I say this not because I'm some huge fan of Huberman, although I have found several of his podcast episodes enjoyable. Rather, I find the approach of searching for "controversies" about someone on Wikipedia to be exceptionally lazy and insincere.
In any event, I don't believe the excerpts from Wikipedia you cited portray Huberman as "controversial", but even if Wikipedia had attempted to present him as a controversial figure, I wouldn't give it much weight, unfortunately. I have concerns about Wikipedia's objectivity and my skepticism towards it has increased in recent years (its co-founder, Larry Sanger, has described it as the "most biased encyclopedia" in history).