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I think scientists (and actually people of other trades) are best when they talk about stuff they actually know. Sometimes people start thinking that because t
by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I think scientists (and actually people of other trades) are best when they talk about stuff they actually know.
Sometimes people start thinking that because they got successful in one area it gives them blanket check to talk about everything. Usually, the end result is they greatly overestimate their capability.
This is how many youtube channels die. The authors think they exhausted the topic and are looking to talk about other stuff and they start alienating their fan base because not only they are much less knowledgeable about those other topics, but also because the fan base just did not expect/appreciate those other topics. They came here because they liked the original videos and now the channel became something else which is unlikely to be what they wanted.
As for Sabine, I watched some of her videos on quantum physics and they were very interesting. Then I stumbled on one or two newer videos on other topics she started adding later and they were jarring, on the verge of misinformation/pseudoscience.
- sdenton4 3y agoSometimes called 'engineer's disease.'
- rokkitmensch 3y agoBeing an engineer, I prefer "Dentist's Syndrome", for my know-it-all father in law. The man is constitutionally unable to say "I don't know".
- dzhiurgis 3y ago> verge of misinformation/pseudoscience. Yeah one was 5G. I did not like she didn’t cut off speculation and stopped watching her videos afterwards. But ultimately she is correct - there just isn’t evidence that microwave heating is safe. I wanna roll my eyes as much as next guy, but need to respect objective reporting.
- cycomanic 3y agoThe 5g one was wrong on many levels and very definitely pseudoscience. I also disagree that there is no evidence that microwave heating is safe. There is in fact no real evidence that it isn't safe (and largely no physics mechanism that would suggest otherwise).
- dzhiurgis 3y agoI think it's sometimes argued that you can def cook food using microwaves... But yeah I agree - the "lack of evidence is not evidence" is often used by quacks.
- onetimeuse92304 3y agoYou can also cook food using sunlight. And yet I take walks and run in the sun and I feel perfectly fine. Just because a 5G antenna can heat up humans around it by 0.00001C (I am guessing at the number of zeroes here), is in no way a valid argument that it is bad for us. A study would have to specifically link this kind of microwave radiation to some ill effects, at the dose of 5G installations in use today. As of now, no such study exists.
- jononor 3y agoRepeated UV exposure from sunlight also causes skin cancer. So I am not sure that is the best example...
- paulpauper 3y agoShe has 1 million subscribers , most of whom of also interested in the non-physics stuff. You don't get that many followers by only talking about technical physics stuff.
- smegger001 3y ago"...You don't get that many followers by only talking about technical physics stuff." Engineerguy 1.4 million Minutephysics 5.6 million PBS Spacetime 2.94 million Periodic Videos 1.59 million Veratasium 14.2 million
- maxlamb 3y ago| on the verge of misinformation/pseudoscience. Can you cite an example?
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- 3seashells 3y agoScience as a method is a universal tool though. And if one branch needs protection from intruders by the other critical scientist.. Maybe it just ain't science, but a religion performing cargo cult mimicry for clout.
- EvgeniyZh 3y agoModern science requires not only universal methodology but also large amount of domain-specific knowledge
- onetimeuse92304 3y agoScience as a method is not a universal solution to problems. For example, a scientist who starts talking about politics is usually well outside his/her area of competence. A scientific method does not seem to lend itself to solving political problems.
- resoluteteeth 3y agoThe scientific method is about performing experiments, not about making YouTube videos. If a scientist who is an expert in one field decides to make videos on other fields, they are not applying the scientific method, they are doing the same thing any YouTuber does.
- snapplebobapple 3y agoThe scientific method is just an empirical method for acquiring knowledge and they certainly can apply the scientific method outside their field (indeed they really should when doing a literature review to inform their opinion on the subject). The credentialism in this thread thread is utterly out of control.
- rowanG077 3y agoI can't really agree with that. I love getting to know people through what they think. Obviously everyone isn't a subject matter expert on about 99.99% of everything they know. I don't think that should stop them from speaking about it. Now what it should do is not speaking about it with authority. If you are speaking in a formal setting on something you either need to disclose you are not an expert or not speak on the matter, if you are not an expert.