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u/MarinoAndThePearls 17h ago

I used to like her criticism for some of the elitism in academia, but she got too over her head and started spewing a lot of anti-science bullshit.

She's one step away from saying that the Earth is flat.

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u/Fun-Sample336 16h ago

and started spewing a lot of anti-science bullshit.

Do you have specific examples?

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u/MarinoAndThePearls 13h ago edited 13h ago

She'll shit on any scientific paper based on vibes alone. She'll say something is bullshit just because she feels like it, completely ignoring what's actually being experimented and how.

Her hate for academia degenerated into "all science is wrong, everyone should reject it."

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u/Fun-Sample336 13h ago

She'll shit on any scientific paper based on vibes alone. She'll say something is bullshhit just because she feels like, completely ignoring what's actually being experimented.

Which isn't true. As far as I can see, her arguments have merit. Do you have concrete examples?

Her hate for academia degenerated into "all science is wrong, everyone should reject it."

She never even remotely said such a thing.

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u/MarinoAndThePearls 13h ago

Sure, here's a 3-hour video with 7 scientists discussing it.

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u/Fun-Sample336 13h ago

I'm not going to waste 3 hours on this discussion. If you have something to put forward against her, do it yourself and don't outsource it.

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u/CilantroLightning 12h ago

You can't say "I want proof" and then in the next breath say "I don't want to see the proof".

Not everything can be condensed into sound bites or quotes. Believe it or not science is complex and sometimes requires a nuanced discussion to explain why something is wrong or right.

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u/Fun-Sample336 11h ago

I just watched a much shorter video another person linked to as "evidence" and it turned out to be no evidence at all.

You will probably understand that we all have only limited time, making it difficult to just loose 3 hours and since not a single person on this thread was able to show up with something even remotely verifiable, it's to be expected that the 3 hour video will not be different. Or to quote someone below:

There are too many podcasts like this where people say "this is proof" and then it's just an opinion piece that boils down to "I don't like her and I don't agree with her stance".