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Science-y types do so much damage when they venture into social or political topics. You just know theres some bright-eyed youngin who will uncritically transfer over the esteem they have for their science communication & just accept their premise without second thought.
The crazy part is that they have so little to gain from it, much to lose, and yet... All the cred she had from making quality, seemingly-informative content vanished with one video. Now, even if she were to present valid info on science topics, I'd forever be skeptical of her basic ability to vet information. I doubt theres an equivalent converse effect within the capitalism fanboy demographic. All she had to do was nothing.
I have a hypothesis that this phenomena of science types overestimating their ability to draw conclusions in the social sciences is a result of STEM-y people persistently being told they are smart for being relatively competent with more concrete subjects, making them far less likely to negatively assess their understanding of the more squishy world. Thoughts?
I said it in a previous thread about her, I think she's intentionally misrepresenting this. She did some shady stuff with climate change which is science. She doesn't deny it but talks it down for her audience.