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[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)
[–] Noblesavage@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ever since Tom Nicholas' video criticising Veritasium's channel, and then how Veritasium handled the criticism after in the comment section... I haven't really watched any of Veritasium's video anymore.

https://youtu.be/CM0aohBfUTc

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

From reading the comments, it would seem that Tom really knows how to cherry pick his talking points. Which is about all i got from seeing his other videos too.

Veritasium really looks like the sympathetic one in that exchange. I mean. Tom really made a whole video trying very hard to smear someone that brings a net positive to the world. I dont find that the criticism warranted a 50 minute video over essentially nothing.

[–] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've seen him double down on being very wrong more than once. I find it hard to take him seriously knowing how very wrong he can be without wavering conviction.

If he's wrong when talking about the topics I do know about, what should I assume about his knowledge of topics I'm less familiar on?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What topics? And who is the "he"? The previous comment mentioned two people.

[–] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, Veritasium. And it's been a while since I've watched his stuff, so I don't remember which videos annoyed me. I know there was one that involved electricity that was just extremely wrong in a few key ways.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

What video and how was it wrong?