Pop science and informational YouTube channels...full of misinformation. - When the fact checking is worse than Buzzfeed

[Str8Bustah]

I think the better question would be, which channels aren't. I have yet to come across a single one that didn't have misinformation or ideologically driven omissions.

Ancient Architects is pretty good. He's got a bit of a weird twinge in his voice, but he's extremely forward in his approach to correcting any errors he thinks he made.

 

[Dysnomia]

Source? Did the Furries take over the Queen's U paleontology department too? They (specifically Guy Narbonne) also teach that dinos had feathers though they were structured differently than modern ones due to being entirely for warmth.

Yutyrannus from China had them. Plain old T Rex probably didn't.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-skin-was-not-covered-feathers-study-says-180963603/

But some think that as babies they may have been covered in down. In the Jurassic Park novel the baby T Rex whose broken leg is set has some downy feathers. Michael Crichton used information that was considered the most accurate at the time and wasn't pulling dino factoids out of his ass.

I find Simon Whistler very entertaining. But it seems like I find something wrong with most of his factoids. I know he can't drone on for two hours about every subject to get it all down. But at least fix your dates. It's not that hard to verify when something happened.

If you want to know more you can google yourself. But the guy making the video should at least not flub the basics in the first place.

I haven't touched Cracked in years but their photoshop contests became less Darth Vader's slice of life sitcom and more poorly researched and downright dangerous at times "factoids". Some were medical advice given by idiots. Probably gleaned from whatever clickbait article was floating around misinforming people.

I actually did vocally complain about the medical advice photoplasties being potentially dangerous. I couldn't have been the only one. Don't know if they still do them or if Cracked still lives. What a dumpster fire that site became. An mere shadow of the magazine too.

Other than Youtube and crapified comedy sites that woked themselves broke, there's a local DJ here who seems to be on the sauce and God knows what else when he comes on Saturday nights. While he seems knowledgeable about rock and metal overall he misnames and confuses band members a lot and gets years and albums wrong to the point that I was almost tempted to text in. There's no way this guy is sober so maybe that's why. I find his voice annoying because he sounds like someone on a street corner that wants your change. I just suffer through him because they play cool stuff late at night.

 

[Toolbox]

The Cynical Historian. He acts like he doesn't have a bias, but he unironically believes the January 6th capitol protest was an insurrection. It spurred him into making a video on the history of US insurrections.

How many have really gotten very far other than the civil war and the farmers rebellion? Everything else you could either chalk up to cult activity or to crazed terrorists.

 

[Slap47]

How many have really gotten very far other than the civil war and the farmers rebellion? Everything else you could either chalk up to cult activity or to crazed terrorists.

The Cynical Historian. He acts like he doesn't have a bias, but he unironically believes the January 6th capitol protest was an insurrection. It spurred him into making a video on the history of US insurrections.

He's an interesting character. Although, having crazy opinions doesn't automatically make your work bad. HistoriaCivilis renamed their twitter HistoriaAntifis. His content is still good.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

The Cynical Historian. He acts like he doesn't have a bias, but he unironically believes the January 6th capitol protest was an insurrection. It spurred him into making a video on the history of US insurrections.

Ok, so I watched a bunch of his videos last year, and found them mildly interesting at best. I noticed some bias here and there; I tried to ignore his bias for 2 reasons:

1. He's an actual descendant of the real General Patton -- he mentions this specifically in his fact vs. fiction video about the real Patton.
2. He's a veteran -- but then again, I have somewhat of an old school 2000's mindset when it comes to U.S. veterans, and I tend to forget that the modern American military is extremely pozzed and basically serves as bullies for the neoliberal agenda. I don't remember if Cynical Historian specified his actual combat experience (or lack thereof), so for all we know he could have been a cook or some shit and not a tank commander, and obviously not a Delta.

His channel basically strikes me as one of those multiple Channel Awesome splinters that became lolcows in their own right:

 

[cactus]

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He's an interesting character. Although, having crazy opinions doesn't automatically make your work bad. HistoriaCivilis renamed their twitter HistoriaAntifis. His content is still good.

Ok, so I watched a bunch of his videos last year, and found them mildly interesting at best. I noticed some bias here and there; I tried to ignore his bias for 2 reasons:

1. He's an actual descendant of the real General Patton -- he mentions this specifically in his fact vs. fiction video about the real Patton.
2. He's an veteran -- but then again, I have somewhat of an old school 2000's mindset when it comes to U.S. veterans, and I tend to forget that the modern American military is extremely pozzed and basically serves as bullies for the neoliberal agenda. I don't remember if Cynical Historian specified his actual combat experience (or lack thereof), so for all we know he could have been a cook or some shit and not a tank commander, and obviously not a Delta.

His channel basically strikes me as one of those multiple Channel Awesome splinters that became lolcows in their own right:

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There was a liberal lean to his stuff when I started watching, but him and Knowing Better both jumped into being woke within the last year. Historians shouldn't have bias though, they're suppose to be neutral. Those are horrible reasons to ignore bias, it shouldn't be ignored period, and he bans people who point out he's wrong and labels them as bigots. Actual Justice Warrior did a take down of him yesterday (as of the day I'm replying), which I suggest watching.

 

[Campbell-Duo]

No different than wikipedia or most modern globohomo outlets set on revisionism duty. It's the flavor of the century.

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Ok but the British one is right.
India was still under British rule until 1947 and during ww1 Indians were drafted by the british for the war. That is exactly how they looked.
(Yes this post is from a few years ago but it bugged me while reading)

 

[Seventh Star]

He's an interesting character. Although, having crazy opinions doesn't automatically make your work bad. HistoriaCivilis renamed their twitter HistoriaAntifis. His content is still good.

Oh god I hope he doesn't poz his videos up further. I love his content even when he leans into bias too hard, and I even forgive his stupid ass "stronk wymyn" outburst in the King Charles' Trial episodes, but it's starting to get too faggy for me.

This shit is so fake and ungenuine from him too, you can tell he really is just going along with the twitter crowd.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Actual Justice Warrior did a take down of him yesterday (as of the day I'm replying), which I suggest watching.

Meh, dude is a sperg. No better than the people he is whining about. Same shit different asshole.

 

[Slap47]

There was a liberal lean to his stuff when I started watching, but him and Knowing Better both jumped into being woke within the last year. Historians shouldn't have bias though, they're suppose to be neutral. Those are horrible reasons to ignore bias, it shouldn't be ignored period, and he bans people who point out he's wrong and labels them as bigots. Actual Justice Warrior did a take down of him yesterday (as of the day I'm replying), which I suggest watching.

There is nothing wrong with Historians having a bias. They just to be open about their bias. Marxist Historians are actually pretty good about making it very clear that they're Marxists and using materialism in their analysis. Historical writing is about taking a side and making an argument and that means some kind of bias.

They problem with this guy is that he interprets literally all critique as people being Nazis. He's basically a well educated Moviebob.

 

[Seventh Star]

There is nothing wrong with Historians having a bias. They just to be open about their bias. Marxist Historians are actually pretty good about making it very clear that they're Marxists and using materialism in their analysis. Historical writing is about taking a side and making an argument and that means some kind of bias.

They problem with this guy is that he interprets literally all critique as people being Nazis. He's basically a well educated Moviebob.

Correction. Bias =/= being so completely removed from objective research that you intentionally don't disclose stuff or misinform people. There's a difference between Eric Hobsbawm and a fat faggot who says that the nazis made the best tanks in WWII. Even then the people who do historical analysis like that aren't necessarily informative sources, and biased historians aren't necessarily good historians. Actually, most of the time they suck ass (for a local example the incompetence of Felipe Pigna).

I think you're confusing history with the field of "history of ideas". Materialism and a lot of political/philosophical explanations for cause-effect relations are not the same as simply writing about the Ancient Greeks's culture, the democratic period, or their wars. Even then and under the idea that you can't be fully objective and there will always be subjectivity, again, there's a difference between a slight bias in the info you're looking for and trying to understand the situation of people in the period, and painting ancient history in the "we wuz kangz" way. I will grant that there's nothing wrong with analyzing history in and of itself, but it's not factual.

EDIT: And in my opinion, historians of any real rigour should be as objective as possible. The other stuff should be set aside and taken semi-seriously, sure, but not as actual "hard" historical truth.

 

[Slap47]

Pansexual furry that hates seeing problematic terms.

Uh oh...

EDIT: And in my opinion, historians of any real rigour should be as objective as possible. The other stuff should be set aside and taken semi-seriously, sure, but not as actual "hard" historical truth.

Having a bias is not the same as being a partisan hack. Bias worn on sleeve and arguing for certain ideas is fine. Omitting facts, bending the truth and outright lying to push narratives should not be. Its important to describe things properly, but this is all about making arguments, and that is best served through not trying to be some kind of old school journalist that can't have an opinion.

 

[Toolbox]

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Pansexual furry that hates seeing problematic terms.

Uh oh...


Having a bias is not the same as being a partisan hack. Bias worn on sleeve and arguing for certain ideas is fine. Omitting facts, bending the truth and outright lying to push narratives should not be. Its important to describe things properly, but this is all about making arguments, and that is best served through not trying to be some kind of old school journalist that can't have an opinion.

Emp and trey are this big of spergs? I guess it could be assumed from them having autistic biases and a sperg fascination with kids cartoon characters (trey's profile pic is modeled after Dipper from gravity falls, while tigerstar directly named himself after the character of a warrior cats book and his icon is just that cat with a helmet on). It's pretty sad that these people are putting history through their nonsensical lens.

 

[Seventh Star]

Emp and trey are this big of spergs? I guess it could be assumed from them having autistic biases and a sperg fascination with kids cartoon characters (trey's profile pic is modeled after Dipper from gravity falls, while tigerstar directly named himself after the character of a warrior cats book and his icon is just that cat with a helmet on). It's pretty sad that these people are putting history through their nonsensical lens.

Emp is an incompetent fuck so I dont know why you thought he isnt a sperg.

Having a bias is not the same as being a partisan hack. Bias worn on sleeve and arguing for certain ideas is fine. Omitting facts, bending the truth and outright lying to push narratives should not be. Its important to describe things properly, but this is all about making arguments, and that is best served through not trying to be some kind of old school journalist that can't have an opinion.

Again, the difference between the history of ideas/analysis of cause/effect ideas and being an informative historian. If youre gonna do an informative video (informative, not argumentative function) like in the thread, you should be as unbiased as possible. Where being an "old school journalist" isn't a bad thing. Historia Civilis doesn't tend to leave information out, but he's still very biased when it comes down to it, which weighs down his content and brings it to a mildly spergy level.

On a different note, Mark Felton is one of the worst when it comes to tank warfare and... anything in general. See his video where he claims the nazis created time travel. He doesn't cite any sources and appeals to plebbit for views. As bad as a few of these guys are, they don't match him in level of uselessness.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

It's AumSum Time is like the Extra Credits for Mini Autistic Lads. They talk about scenarios like it's their utopia if it's about saving the planet.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

No one's mentioned AsapSCIENCE? They went way off the deep end. I remember them being all right years ago, but now it's all these agenda-laden videos. The majority of their audience is children and they know that, so they choose to talk about the science of transgenderism and whatnot.

At least they talked about some of the misinformation regarding nuclear power, that was pretty based.

I stopped watching their channel ever since I heard they were part of Creators for Change.

 

[Erika Furudo]

Crash Course

John Green talks about history from a Eurocentric view while shitting on white people and praising all other cultures. He tries to make History "cool" and down with the kids while ignoring crucial events that might make interfere with the narrative. His video on the Haitian Revolution is something to behold.

If only you knew how bad things were.

Chromosomal disorders = genders or some shit.
XXY means a guy will be born with smaller balls and infertile.
Women who have only a single X chromosome have very poor fertility and health issues.
Men who have only X chromosomes are that way becuase they have part of the Y chromosome present, and like the others it's not a change for the better. Sterile.

Notice the pattern of fertility issues. Almost as if this shit is very harmful to have and not some kind of exprssion of humans having a gender specturm.

 

[Stoneheart]

Do those Tesla channels count? they are all retarded and the comment section is a cult.

 

[Toolbox]

If only you knew how bad things were.

Chromosomal disorders = genders or some shit.
XXY means a guy will be born with smaller balls and infertile.
Women who have only a single X chromosome have very poor fertility and health issues.
Men who have only X chromosomes are that way becuase they have part of the Y chromosome present, and like the others it's not a change for the better. Sterile.

Notice the pattern of fertility issues. Almost as if this shit is very harmful to have and not some kind of exprssion of humans having a gender specturm.

I wonder if we're ever going to see actual suffers of intersexual disorders actually speak up and say that they don't like this shit being said about them. I know that if I had the unfortunate luck to be born infertile and have several genetic diseases that make my life hell, I'd be pretty pissed at people making it look like it's a wonderful life full of sunshine and roses and trying to rope me in with the absolute clusterfuck that is lgbta2oasdkwd+.

 

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