The second-hand embarrassment I had watching that video was unbearable. Social media did a number on those scientists with "big personalities". It is one thing

The second-hand embarrassment I had watching that video was unbearable. Social media did a number on those scientists with "big personalities". It is one thing that influencers and grifters get a platform on social media. But it is another thing, and more harmful, when people with credentials and power abuse those platforms. Look at Avi Loeb, Jordan Peterson, all the science/physics gurus going crazy with an ever-increasing desperation to stay in the limelight...