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

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I didn't realize how many people were still assmad about Pluto's reclassification as a Dwarf Planet, and what actually defines as a planet with modern science.

It doesn't help that it feels like a pointless change, just about as arbitrary as the countless amount of identity/gender nonsense and so on we're inundated with in our day with 'modern science'. I get the idea behind it here, but it's just about as hollow, another unelected panel of experts telling people how things are going to be after ages of it being a certain way. Even if there had been discussion about it in the background amongst those in the know in astronomy for years, it was still dumped onto the people suddenly and you were just not supposed to debate it. The science was settled. It's funny looking back at this after the past few years.

 

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It’s a good example of a minor change in terminology being rejected because it was poorly communicated.

Picture a big arena with a cheering crowd. The resonant announcer comes on the mic. “He’s so far out from the rest of our solar system it’s a wonder he was counted at all but now, entering the ring, weighing in at three times the mass of Haumea and slightly wider than Eris; the undisputed King of the Kuiper Belt — Plutoooooooooo!!”

(Awesome walk on music plays, pyrotechnics explode, Pluto walks on to great applause and Science Gets Communicated.)

I’m just saying the international astronomical society could have used some better marketing when announcing the change in classification.

 

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Solarballs, which used the Pluto reclassification for comedy first and characterization later, eventually came out and said that these things are just labels and ultimately don’t matter. It's a kids' channel, but honestly, with the number of people obsessing over labels to begin with, it's something kids need to hear. If you don't want to watch a 2 and a half hour long video, here's where they say it.

However, it's more of a pop science channel since they don't cite any sources.