The Problem With Sabine Hossenfelder

26 thoughts on “The Problem With Sabine Hossenfelder”

1. I had a hard time with academia too. Eventually I realized my hostility, though based on some sexism, was out of proportion, so I went to therapy. I'm working toward being able to make a small contribution by translating musicology papers for a lay audience. I thought about using my platform to highlight problems similar to what Sabine describes, or only talk about papers I agree with… but the fun part is disagreeing, and while my field has problems too… when all of academia is under attack it feels wrong attack it as a whole. Instead, I can point out problems as I find them and also cover papers that give me hope. Actually Professor Dave has been a good example of someone who while not a working scientist, still respects the field enough to make a small contribution according to his talents and education. That's inspiring.

2. Unfortunately electric universe theory backs itself up with actual inventions proving itself better than fake physicist Albert Einstein pattents clerk thief

3. I love how your comment section has exploded into dialogue as to why Sabine is 100 percent correct, and you’re an idiot.

4. The dislike ratio on this video is surprising, I presume because conspiracy nuts come out of the woodwork to protect one of the only almost credible voices they have like there's no tomorrow. I'm glad you're happy to crack down on whiny bought and paid for nuts like this Dave, in addition to entertainment, it helps streamline my consumption of science and know what channels to avoid.

5. Even giving her every benefit of the doubt, she dogwhistles idiots.
   Her firing story, is a story. We have no idea what really happened. She sounds like she is very difficult.
   Maybe the multiple nervous breakdowns are a stumbling block?

6. You’re wrong. We need people like Sabine. To stop the very thing she’s complaining about. When science stops being about free thinking and imagination that becomes cold hard provable science, that’s when we move the needle. What we have today is one of two things: dogma or within the clutches of capitalistic reality which hinders progress by making it more about money than anything else (be it personally for scientists or through research grants who are looking for specific outcomes). Foundational science has had no major breakthroughs because of this.

7. What is up your arse Professor Dave? Have you run out of topics? She has her place in this debate, just as you do. Has she personally offended you? I don’t think so. We don’t need to be “schooled” by you. You perhaps might ask yourself, “why am I really attacking her?” Very disappointing. You come across as pompous and rude. You are not winning any new subscribers with this IMHO, not that you need them.

8. The difference between her and you, is she actually knows what she talking about. You are better at pretending to know.

9. I used to enjoy Sabine, but it is for this exact reason I stopped trusting her. I feel your comments and approach were fair and measured. Thank you.

10. Dave…

    🫥

11. "Sour" is definitely the under… wait, no overtone of a lot of Sabine's videos. Some people just can't let go!

12. So funny. I have been trying to figure out what it is about Sabine that reminds me of Whinestein. I first noticed it when she was whining about how she thought up 3 dimensional time as an undergrad, and it just immediately sounded like Eric's pompous refrain of "where's my 3 Nobel prizes that I totally deserve?"

13. Sabine Hossenfelder is telling the sad truth.

14. I am with Dave. Sad but truth. She is fishing for click bait.

15. I love Sabine but I love you more Dave😂😂😂🍀

16. It’s a balance between how much we can afford and how quickly we would like to understand the new. Certainly as the size of the subject matter decreases such as with quantum mechanics discovery will be more and more difficult

17. Disagree, she's a charleton

18. So many people here totally ignoring Dave's entire point, that Sabine is using this to make it appear as though ALL of science is bad and failing, and we should never trust it. He never said bad things don't happen in academia. It feeds conspiracy theory and pseudoscience stuff that is destroying our society. This reminds me of the people who get called out for saying racist stuff, and then get mad at those calling their stuff racist.

    Stop ignoring Dave's point to apologize for someone feeding pseudoscience. This is literally their tactic to sow distrust in science, so when Dave and others like him point out these issues, others attack and criticize them like this, ignoring his point.

    I wonder if the same people are still echoing their defense of her after watching the other two videos in this series.

    I suggest people who post comments saying some of her stuff has a point, to also call out her blatant sowing of distrust of science. Instead of only further empowering this rhetoric and making anti-science sentiment MORE pronounced.

19. Science does not calcify. Religion does not calcify. Institutions always calcify.

20. She's a great example of the DK effect (just like NDT). Every time she talks about law, philosophy, math, sociology, or anything other than physics, she makes fundamental mistakes. Yet she keeps talking about them.

    When you get the science wrong, you're not a science communicator. You're a disinformation peddler.

21. This guy should stick with what he knows. He has strayed and is clickbaiting in the "Lets scoff and demeanfolks" area. I hope he will revert back to his first peinciples and not continue to chase the algorthyms approval.

22. Aren’t you a little young to be commenting on the real lives of experienced physicists? You look and sound like a wet behind the ears fresh college graduate. What are you, 25
    😂😂😂

23. I've listened to those same videos and did not detect an anti-establishment bias. What I heard was valid criticism of a field that has been corrupted by the need for funding.

24. I noticed same things about Sabine years back and I thought the purpose she attacked so many scientists/theories was basically to get more members to her youtube channel.

25. I'm fairly anti-academia to be fair, yet we still publish

26. This video is an academic definition of strawman. You plug Sabina into discourse she isn't part of in any manner.

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