No, Sabine, Science is Not Failing

Last week I put out a video about another science communicator named Sabine Hossenfelder. In it, I criticized some unprofessional behavior regarding her choice of titles, thumbnails, and generalized deceptive anti-science rhetoric which has clearly been fueling science denial among the public in large numbers. While many people were relieved to finally hear someone say these things out loud, a portion of the internet lost their minds over it, leaving infantile criticism which only demonstrated that they didn't actually watch the video or understand the point of it. All of those people wanted to talk about academia, so let's talk about academia a little bit in this video, while also addressing an unbelievably immature response video from Sabine where she doubled down on all of her bullshit rhetoric and made things much, much worse for herself. To anyone currently having a temper tantrum about the fact that I made this video as well as the first one, take a deep breath and find the courage to actually watch this video all the way through this time. There is still hope for you to get a clue today. My first video on Sabine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70vYj1KPyT4 Scientific progress despite irreproducibility: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1711786114 Rethinking media narratives: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1708276114 Paper on publishing metrics: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333487946_Over-optimization_of_academic_publishing_metrics_Observing_Goodhart's_Law_in_action Astronomy/Astrophysics Tutorials: http://bit.ly/ProfDaveAstronomy Classical Physics Tutorials: http://bit.ly/ProfDavePhysics1 Modern Physics Tutorials: http://bit.ly/ProfDavePhysics2 Watch all my debunks: http://bit.ly/ProfDaveDebunk EMAIL► [email protected] PATREON► http://patreon.com/ProfessorDaveExplains Check out "Is This Wi-Fi Organic?", my book on disarming pseudoscience! Amazon: https://amzn.to/2HtNpVH Bookshop: https://bit.ly/39cKADM Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/3pUjmrn