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She goes out to talk about topics she's not well versed in without doing enough research and says outright wrong stuff. In general, scientists who specialize in a field are often no better than a layman in the fields they have no background in. She's not the only one who does this. Some scientists merely share uninformed opinions. Others do it for money. They build a persona that is imbued with trust by their existing expertise then they use this trust to keep pumping out other material for profit. That's Sabine. Also Jordan Peterson. No they're not the same but the scheme is. Laymen don't know any better and absorb the material, correct or incorrect, since they don't have the background to recognize when it's bullshit.