>>11615619I don't like that, in their cutesy flippant way, they slip in aspects of opinion covertly framed as fact. It's obnoxious. Compare the old world science communicators, who were actually scientists and professors (Laithewait comes to mind) and they stuck to the point and kept their personal politics, biases, and frankly irrelevant often poorly researched dispositions, out of it.
They all do it. All of them. They know they have a platform and sooner or later they can't resist. For example, and here's my chance to make a platform, on a video about piezoelectricity the guy is of course using quartz and he feels the need to state that he bought a "healing for it" and he makes all his little faces and woo and all the rest "like I guess it's suppose to balance my chakras". In the lower corner he puts "whatever that means" and "chakras don't exist".
Now I'm not going to go into piezoelectric materials in biological system, but needless to say, "energy" healing goes all the way back to ancient China and has an incredibly long history and a body of scientific literature I know goddamn well he's never even cracked open. The flippant, arrogant, mindless disregard for one's own limitations is reaching incredible heights these days. And me? As usual, before I got into magnetobiology and bioelectromagnetics, I had the brains to say "well, I don't know." Not so for the average poisonous, incurable moron, so consumed by their need.
