Destin of Smarter Every Day went down the drain in my books as soon as he published a video about Flagella, and ended it by suggesting it could be intelligent design and told viewers to read a book authored by someone who is a staunch believer of intelligent design.
Crossed the line as a science Youtuber. You don't need to be athiest to be a scientist, and he definitely isn't. But you should at least know the line.
Finding out this site is basically just a copy of something that already existed and something they knew existed just further degrades my opinion of him. Especially with it being littered with ads. The ad literally takes up half my screen.
It doesn't seem they have problems with the content existing in itself or desire his arrest over it. They're just disappointed in things like billing that as science or copying someone else's free stuff for ad revenue and that lowered their view of them.
Maybe that's not reasonable, maybe it is, but I dunno enough details about Galileo's prosecution to follow this comparison as a take on that - did he try to claim heliocentrism was the word of God and so some religious people said they stopped liking his works because of the false billing? Where'd the house arrest come in?
Philip-J-Fry · · focus · HN ↗
Crossed the line as a science Youtuber. You don't need to be athiest to be a scientist, and he definitely isn't. But you should at least know the line.
Finding out this site is basically just a copy of something that already existed and something they knew existed just further degrades my opinion of him. Especially with it being littered with ads. The ad literally takes up half my screen.
spiderice · · focus · HN ↗
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zamadatix · · focus · HN ↗
Maybe that's not reasonable, maybe it is, but I dunno enough details about Galileo's prosecution to follow this comparison as a take on that - did he try to claim heliocentrism was the word of God and so some religious people said they stopped liking his works because of the false billing? Where'd the house arrest come in?