Rebecca WatsonSep 22, 2023
Here we go again: popular YouTube physicist Sabine Hossenfelder is extremely wrong about something! This time, she argues in favor of capitalism, saying that without it, we wouldn't have scientific progress. The Nobel prize winner she cites begs to disagree. https://skepchick.org/2023/09/sabine-is-wrong-again-capitalism-wouldve-killed-penicillin/
Sabine is Wrong Again: Capitalism Would’ve Killed Penicillin

A few weeks ago, several of you let me know that there had been yet another great disturbance in the online science communication force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out “what the fuck a…

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Show threadPirateRoSep 23, 2023

@rebeccawatson I don’t know about popular. I watched a few of her shows thinking she could have had a decent career in porn. Or Shakespearean theater, you know, from back in the day like 500 years ago.

She started presenting too much opinion not based in science for me or straddled the fence on some topics that were much more clear-cut than she made them out to be. The points she made were confusing the issue more than clarifying it and did little more than extend the video.

Show threadRebecca Watson
@piratero what a fucked up thing to say
Sep 24, 2023 at 12:10amWeb
Show threadPirateRoSep 24, 2023
@rebeccawatson thank you! Sometimes, I think I work too hard on things.
Show threadRebecca WatsonSep 24, 2023
@piratero honestly work harder bc to say that someone with a million subs isn’t popular and you want her to do porn is lazy af, I could find a meth head in wisconsin to say that + something interesting
Show threadPirateRoSep 24, 2023

@rebeccawatson I will take your criticism to heart.

Also, I don’t really measure success by subscriptions. If she lost me as a viewer, something’s wrong there.

Show threadRebecca WatsonSep 24, 2023
@piratero I didn’t say success, you smooth brained monkey. I said popular, which is objective. go to therapy.
Show threadPirateRoSep 24, 2023
@rebeccawatson you also fixated one only one topic, while ignoring the balance of th3 post. Your entire line of attack, since it can’t really be called argument, suggests a deep unhappiness and insecurity. Let’s fix that with a block, shall we?