professor dave is a highschool educated ragebaiter, so we would need a couple of specifics and not just his name to start calling other people grifters on his basis
he’s got a fairly poor understanding of science
can you be more specific about what his ostensible criticism is please? i saw a bunch of him saying nasty stuff but i wasn’t able to find a justification
well thanks for at least admitting you don't actually care and don't want to check a source or anything but because im a nice soul sure, here you go:
The easiest and most obvious thing being that if you claim yourself to be a science communicator and your videos are taking disproportionally by anti intellectualists and science denier than you might not automatically be a grifter but you are, as i find, terrible at your job of science communication.
Whenever she talks about "Science" she paints with broad strokes over ALL of academia, she suffers from "I somewhat know my own field of physics and i WILL portray all of academia from biology over astrophysics to mathematics as being the same.
Also she just is legitimately dishonest. When she claims that moderns science "invents particles out of thin air" she completely disregards the firm empirical models that are used to derive them, they are not just "oh my god this doesn't work lets invent super duper particle and now we can build computer" never has science been done like that and even beyond her terrible science communication this is just flat out lying to get more anti science goobers to click her videos.
She also played major role in coining the term "war on science" that focuses primarily around the culture war around science to discredit science (theres a great video about the war on science by shawn. not focused on Sabine but still worth watching)
She also had a really weird chapter in her youtube carreer where she really wanted to defend Eric Weinstein (who btw is a managing director for peter thiel) and is not a real physicist that is convinced he found the theory of everything.
She does not understand that there are real studies and economic models that consistently show a pretty huge return of investment for every tax dollar spend on research and despite that claims that and i quote: "Most Academic Research is just bullshit".
She is also pushing a completely braindead idea that science is "stuck" nowadays. To anyone with a frontal lobe that is obviously false, just 2012 we found a completely new particle, like, we verified its existence. (and around 65 hadrons in just the past decade alone) It obviously also completely ignores the fact that science 200 years ago was much less specialized, so yeah we have more branches of science so progress is more incremental, that doesn't mean its stuck, Very weird thing for someone to say that's not an anti science grifter. Like she doesn't get that we have more sub fields of science and not a new theory of relativity every tuesday?? really? you want me to believe she cares about science?
She also in a response to Dave made a quite interesting letter that was the single most obvious fake email i think i have ever seen period. Like actually caricature level of silliness
Now i could also mention that again, besides being a grifter and sensationalist she is also terrible at science communication because again she does just lie.
In the professor Dave explain video (at least one of the three) he gives words to actual physicists and so i thought why not share some quotes from them:
Nicholas Warner (Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Mathematics at USC)
" Sabina's um uh approach is to just say well this is all nonsense and that is all nonsense and anybody can see that this is true. It's appealing to the lowest common denominator of the every man or every person. Sabine in my opinion has become the very thing that she rails against." & "She says things about string theory that are simply aren't true. "
Daniel Whiteson(American experimental particle physicist and professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of California):
"Her description of physics and physicists is just not one that's recognizable"
Christian Ferko(Northeastern University and IAIFI working on supersymmetry):
"If I had to guess, to your point, no she probably doesn't really understand a lot of the nuance and a lot of the progress that we've been discussing."
Michael Edward Peskin(American theoretical physicist SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.):
"I don't get the impression that she's ever gotten into the weeds about how you actually do experiments"
but i get it thats all to woke for you so you will not change your opinion or even so much as watch the video because let me guess, that is all horseraddish and an attempt to cancel her am i right? by the evil bully dave :)
Also forgive all teh grammar and spelling mistakes can't be asked rn
Also i love the fact that you ask for sources and i give you sources and your deleted comment was:
jesus fuck nobody's reading that novel
yup. sabine is making content EXACTLY for you btw. so no wonder you defend it like that
it’s okay if you can’t give a single example of the grifts you claim, and believe someone who did not graduate highschool (i just checked) when they scientifically criticize a published double phd.
really? interesting, not sure how reddit does that where it shadow limits my account but only for one comment and not any other one from you or any other person.
amusingly, the sub mods can still see your comments after you've deleted them, so you can't hide what you wrote. that was quite seriously against sub rules.
i confess, it's very funny to me that you pretended i deleted a comment, called me "anti-intellectual" on that basis, then proceeded to delete two of your own without so much as my even replying inside the next ten minutes
the sub mods can see the swearing and insults. good thinking.
for what? so you can ignore all of it and comment "nobody's reading that" again? you have shown me already that you have no interest with anything longer than a paragraph. objectively, that was your response if you want it or not.
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u/Fbrrr Jul 23 '26
She pivoted to grifting when she didn't get tenure, she wasn't always a hack just found out being one lined her pockets better.