You always have to keep in mind that Veritasium gets sponsored by companies that take part in their videos, so the content is biased. For example, they did a video about self driving vehicles where this whole video basically was an advertising for, i think, it was Waymo. This video in particular sparked some controversy, although it was announced that this content is being sponsored at the beginning of the video (it is the very definition of what an influencer does - advertising!). Or another example: the video where they tested and compared different types of night vision goggles, which was “influenced” by the military, as they are the main user base and also developer of these devices.
I like to watch most of their videos nonetheless, as they are educational and well-explained. But I see this kind of video content as entertainment rather than education, as I don’t know what parts are researches badly or explained wrong. I see it similar to Wikipedia, where school teachers tell their students not to rely on it alone - but it can serve as a good staring point into further research.
sheepy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Yeah, at that point he 100% turned from a science channel to pure popsci. Go back a year or two, and the video instead would have honestly looked at that tiny spike in current and would have probably branched off into an explanation of inductance. Instead, he used it to farm hate clicks. Very disappointing.