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spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 5 days agoShe has growingly appealing to right wing / corporate rhetorics to attract viewers: - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1isje08/what_is_the_general_consensus_of_physicists_on/ - https://timothynguyen.org/2025/08/21/physics-grifters-eric-weinstein-sabine-hossenfelder-and-a-crisis-of-credibility/
One of her more controversial take is that academia failed because it is “communism”, and we should privatize science to let corperate and youtube viewers to decide who to fund instead of expert commitees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htb_n7ok9AU
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 days ago
I’m trying to figure out what she did that makes her transphobic
spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 4 days ago
If you search about it you will find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_RAp73ra0
I have never watch it, and not planning to, so I cannot help you summarize it. Nor have I claimed that she is transphobe, so I don’t feel the need to justify that stand.
If you choose to ignore everything else and focus on this one issue, then I have to admit I don’t know much about it.