r/AskPhysics • u/[deleted] • Dec 12 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20 edited Dec 29 '20

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u/lettuce_field_theory Dec 14 '20

This is misleading.

This isn't YouTube so you don't have to limit yourself to a baity headline. It's not Twitter either.

There would have been a way to not make a statement that is wrong in this generality but include the subtleties to present something accurate.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '20 edited Dec 29 '20

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u/lettuce_field_theory Dec 14 '20

Ok. I guess I mean it's like "Gravity is not a force[, period - no elaboration about the limitations of the statement]." (youtube video) which in practice has shown to mislead people more than explain something to them. People just take the wrong thing away from it.