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loved her earlier videos. But now she's doing mostly pure ragebait stuff. Even if it were true, there's 0 value on teaching people about it this way. In fact, it hurts everybody, as people are losing more and more faith in academic research and science (noticable when suddenly conspiracy groups like flatearthers are starting to quote her videos...)
Counter argument: it’s happening with or without her and it’d be better to rationally highlight the issues rather than allow the uneducated to hijack the issue.
IME, the biggest deflator of faith in science etc for laypeople are their friends who left academia telling their own stories aligned with Sabine’s general point.
Broadly, I’d wager the erosion of faith in research is a much bigger picture and getting to the bottom of the causes is more important than getting precious about maintaining the status quo.
The erosion of faith in science comes mainly from two things : the stealing of its benefits from big companies (through secrecy, obfuscation and patents, and the commercial use only of science and technology), and conservative propaganda.
The propaganda itself goes in two ways : the absence of vulgarisation, and the denial of scientific facts and doubting scientist objectivity.
There are problems in sciences and academia, but they are very far from being ore problematic than the political structure around it and the political propaganda.