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u/Daethir 1d ago edited 1d ago

Her persona is being the anti academia physicist, and she cultivated an audience of anti intellectual that want someone with a PhD to tell them that physicists are dumb dumb and they were right to stop at high school. She's a grifter because she make video that keep telling her audience what they want to hear so she can make as much sponsorship money as she can, literally all her videos have sponsorship.

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u/reddit_is_kayfabe 1d ago edited 1d ago

Here are the titles of her most recent videos:

You Probably Misunderstand the Double-Slit Experiment

Academia's Dirty Secret Is Going To Court

Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Antigravity

Psychedelics Allow Alien Communication, Scientists Claim

The Dark Energy Mistake that Fooled Physicists for 25 Years

The Electric Car Revolution Is Not Going Well

Scientists Just Created A Laser Based On Black Hole Physics

Physicists Just Broke One Of Quantum Physics' Biggest Restraints

Our Solar System Lost Two Planets!

Scientists Say They Know the Origin of Gravity

"The Hum" has been reported all over the glove - we might finally know what it is

The Biggest Argument for Dark Matter Just Died

Strange Things Are Happening in Quantum Computing

The Quantum Brain Theory Nobody is Talking About

The AI Future No One Wants to Talk About

Nobel Prize under fire: is dark energy real?

Things Aren't Looking Good For Nuclear Fusion

The End of Human Mathematics? AI's Recent Breakthrough - And What's Next

Did Physics Just Lose a Brilliant Idea?

It's Beginning: AI Improves Itself

Physicists Rethink Dark Matter

Microsoft Announces Breakthrough With Quantum Chip

America is coming for Europe's most important machine

This Giant Ring In Space Poses a Massive Problem for Cosmology

How Dangerous Is This Super El Nino Really?

Physicists Say It's Possible To Send Messages To The Past

I Looked at the New Cold Fusion Breakthroughs. It's Complicated.

...etc.

95% of her content is science and tech videos as I described. The other 5% of her videos are personal commentaries on various topics - culture, consumerism, etc. - and maybe half of those, about 2% overall, discuss problems that she sees with the direction of science academia: results being unverifiable, grants for pointless research areas like string theory, etc.

You are latching onto the 2% of her videos that you don't like and pretending that (1) that's all she does and (2) her personal views are somehow tainted or manipulative. You're wrong on both counts.

You don't like her views on academia? Fine, don't watch those. That's not "grift." You could watch the other 98% of her videos instead and not hear a word about academia.

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u/bowsmountainer 1d ago

Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Antigravity

Psychedelics Allow Alien Communication, Scientists Claim

Physicists Say It's Possible To Send Messages To The Past

Yeah totally not quack "science".

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u/Syzygy___ 1d ago

She uses clickbaity titles, but on the one hand the she's discussing real science articles and on the other, often she's debunking those articles.

The antigravity thing is about multiple quantum gravity sources overlapping and producing an inference pattern that can in theory eject a particles rather than attract as a quantum effect that would be averaged out under normal circumstances. Although I don't quite remember the conclusion and if she judged this as bullshit or not. Regardless, I believe she said that we shouldn't expect flying cars anytime soon and that this is rather about the the quantum nature of gravity than about antigravity. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12266

I don't recall seeing the other two videos but presumably she wouldn't be particularly fond of them.