• ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
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    A lot of academia’s problems are just Capitalism’s perversion on display: incentivizing the wrong thing in every case. But it’s also not in such bad shape as the anti-science grifters (e.g. Hossenfelder) like to pretend

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      I sometimes see videos of Hossenfelder on my feed and have watched a couple. Would you mind adding some context? What are “anti-science grifters”? Sry if i’m a bit out of the loop here.

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        Angela Collier on YT has some good videos about these. I think those videos talks about conspiracy and science crackpots.

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          Okay, i looked into those and i know the type. If i wanted to name a person that embodies this i’d go to people like Graham Hancock.

          How dies it apply to Hossenfelder?

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            Adding to what the others have said: I think Hossenfelder is also an example of chasing YouTube popularity. And apparently many people are really into this anti-science, right-wing stuff. It probably also aligns somehow with her own values, but I’m pretty confident that this is beneficial to her streaming business.