Sabine Chudettefelder says Academia sucks and most of their research is useless :marseyscientist: :sciencejak:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

So here's the link to her video. Basically she says became a physicist back in the 90s filled with idealism, says she's against female only scholarships as she got one and :marseypikachu2: her colleagues doubted her suitability due to that. Then she talks about how most of her job (and that of academic physicists in general) is limited to writing useless papers or using PhD and post Doc students to write said papers with your name in order to get more grants while being dissuaded from doing research in the fields you're interested at.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DecodingTheGurus/comments/1bx6od8/sabine_hossenfelder_my_dream_died_and_now_im_here/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1bwn5vi/my_dream_died_and_now_im_here/

The reddit threads :#soysnoo2:

She's already done some sketchy vids in hot topics beyond her expertise.

Her vids about Trans people for example, in which she speaks about ROGD as though it's a real medical phenomenon.

TERFdom is a massive canary in the coalmine for influencers/commentators

At this point it's a great litmus test of guru-dom, whether or not they have an strong opinion on trans issues. It's like a pound shop version of the gurometer.

:#marseytransattentionseeker:

I predict that in the future she will 1.Talk worse about academia and academics 2.Talk more about american politics (fox news stuff) 3.At some point she will start simping for some capitalist

:#marseypearlclutch: :#soycry:

Sabine rapidly descending down the grifter pipeline

:#marseyagreefast:

As long as she's talking about real science and doing it accurately, how is she a grifter? Because she accepts money from sponsors?

Aye, this one not so much! More the ones where she talks about… capitalism? And other topics she doesn't have expertise in

Yeah the capitalism video was quite stupid

:#soyreddit: :#marseycomradecry:

!anticommunists !neolibs

Bonus on her capitalism video

https://old.reddit.com/r/DecodingTheGurus/comments/17tugi5/sabine_hossenfelders_weird_capitalismposting/

https://old.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/16pdxot/sabine_is_wrong_again_capitalism_wouldve_killed/

Breadtubers DEBOOOONKING :#soyjakfat:

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Then she talks about how most of her job (and that of academic physicists in general) is limited to writing useless papers

Skill issue

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Elaborate

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There's nothing to elaborate, I just wanted to dunk on her.

Having said that, I've never heard any of the PhDs I know complain of this. There are many other things they complain about in the academic sphere, but the fact that you can do research in the field that interests you for a living is always presented as a positive, even if you do occasionally have to publish a lower quality paper to meet a quota. I don't think I've ever encountered a case where the author himself thinks that the work he is publishing is useless (though useless papers by themselves absolutely exist, I've encountered them first hand). From this I'm wondering if maybe that's just a "her" issue that she's projecting onto a wider group.

Though I am biased against this woman as I dislike her and her videos

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Though I am biased against this woman as I dislike her and her videos

What don't you like about her and her videos?

Nothing against your opinion (I'm not even subscribed to her channel just follow the drama lol), I just love trash talking about others :marseytroublemaker:

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I never followed her either so it's hard for me to tell, I just watched some of her videos back when I was in undergrad I think and I didn't really like her character or attitude, I got the feeling that it's another one of those popsci shows where the host is extremely smug and is just this short :marseythissmall: of calling you an r-slur to your face for not knowing the topic of the video you chose to learn about.

Then at some point I watched some other video of hers which I felt was either outright wrong or really misrepresented the topic (keep in mind that I was still in undergrad by that point so she very well could've been correct and it was me who's r-slurred. I'm just explaining where the negative perception came from.)

A more legitimate criticism that I've developed more recently of her however was when I noticed that she started putting out seemingly unrelated videos on viral topics like weed, :!marseytrain:s, dopamine addiction, climate change etc. I don't really think that she's particularly qualified to speak on these things, and as such it kind of felt like some of her videos are just trend chasing for views, and at that point it kind of put into question other videos of hers that seem to be grand or sensationalist, like the one you posted- is she saying these things because she genuinely believes them or because she wants to drive engagement? Is she being sincere or overblowing things?

Now a very simple solution to this that I'm sure anyone will propose to me is to just watch some of those videos and perhaps formulate a more in-depth opinion on them. My answer to that is that I already deal with enough academic papers and poorly made graphs at work so I really can't muster the strength to do that in my free time lol.

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All those words won't bring daddy back.

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She is smug but not because she thinks people are r-slurs, but because the eggheads are r-slurs that lie and misinterpret data in their papers.

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