Comment on Sabine Hossenfelder Has Started Openly Defending Proven Grifters
cacti@ani.social 4 days agoShe doesn’t just talk about String Theory, she acts as an authoritative figure on everything. And I could hardly say that Professor Dave is a grifter.
kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
cacti@ani.social 3 days ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t make unhinged statements like “I don’t trust scientists” and “Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit” though, at least as far as I know.
kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
True that about him. (Altho he has confidently misstated the facts a few times.) Sabine definitely has her on days and off days. Maybe I missed her saying exactly those two things you put quotes around. As for the productivity of Big Science, I think she’s right to suggest that it has not delivered the way that it once did, and right about how it has lost its way. (HYUGE topic for this little container.)
cacti@ani.social 2 days ago
If only it was as innocent as “on and off days”. Those statements can be found in this video’s first minute. And I hope you’re saying “Big Science” satirically. Science is not a conglomerate, nor does the worldwide scientific community have any ties to a specific corporate entity/state/nation. And she doesn’t “suggest” that “scientific research hasn’t delivered as much as it once did”, she clearly states that in all fields of science, most of the research paid for by your taxes “is almost certainly bullshit”, and that one should not trust scientists. Then after she gets called out for this, she just acts like she was actually only talking about the fundamentals of physics, not every field.
And her defending Eric Weinstein, a man literally directly funded by the Peter Thiel behind the Dark Enlightenment movement, for his pseudoscientific “theory” of everything with obvious fake outrage, saying that “If you take away one thing from this video, let it be that Sabine said Eric’s a good and fairly normal person”, implying that a theory of everything is something that everyone in her circle has, saying that she hasn’t looked into it (which is a lie, this gets exposed in the video linked on the original post) and that she “is not interested in unification ideas”, the thing in physics is something which has been wildly succesful twice and that has allowed her to post her shitty propaganda online makes her malice completely transparent. And this is only the first one and a half minutes of that video of hers. As such, I would recommend being skeptical of her opinions on the fundamentals of physics too.