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A night at the theater with Neil deGrasse Tyson (fedia.io)

submitted 7 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 38 points 7 months ago

I give him all the props on keeping me engaged with nerdy science and space stuff after schooling. But damn does he come across as an asshat the last 10 years or so.

I much prefer the team on How the Universe Works to keep relatively up to date.

Does anyone have recommendations on bleeding edge science channels that respect my intelligence but can speak like I'm not a post grad astro physicist?

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Here are some that I like on YT

PBS Space Time

PBS Eons

Fermilab

Anton Petrov

Fraser Cain

Sabine Hossenfelder (good, but often goes against mainstream science with mixed results)

[-] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 7 months ago

I can't speak to Sabine's physics content but her social science oriented content is awful:

The capitalism video: short response, long react

The trans video: short response, long react

The neurodivergence video: very long response

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Honestly I'm convinced at this point she's a propagandist. She's following all the same beats as one. 1) start with apolitical (usually science) content to build credibility 2) start to transition into slightly more political topics to test the waters 3) Start pushing your political views hard

I jumped ship when she started talking about philosophy because I had already went through that rigmarole with GradeA and wasn't at all surprised to find out she's been doing right-wing propaganda since I left.

[-] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

At first I wanted to dismiss your worry and just call her dumb, but you may be right. I'm still not entirely sold on that, I think she can just be out of her depth, but what you're saying would make for a very nice pivot to political grifting. What makes me skeptical of that is her old trans video, about sport. Though, now that I think about it, it used the exact same "both sides" and "insufficient data" arguments the new video abused.

I actually also wanted to link a video about free will and a livestream react but I couldn't find a good one. Was that the one that made you quit?

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

It wasn't one particular video it was just me picking up on the trend and wanting to get off before they started dropping the payload.

[-] Norodix@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Pbs eons is awesome.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He got really cocky and has a thick smog of arrogance now. I remember seeing his JRE interview years back and thinking the same thing. It was the first time I had listened to him speak in long form, and he just dominated the entire conversation in a way that left a bad taste in me mouth. That was right around the tipping point for JRE in general before the entire thing fell off.

Tyson appears to have let his ego inflate his head.