https://youtube.com/watch?v=q2dAGU-VJcE
!ifrickinglovescience 5 years ago a random YouTuber (Coffee Break) posted a video debooking Soyzgesagt. This lead to reddit screeching and the Kraut bird channel posting this vid as a response
At the end Coffee break chickened out, removed the video and said sorry like a cuck
https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/b09uwt/can_you_trust_kurzgesagt_in_a_nutshell/
And they did an AMA too
https://old.reddit.com/r/kurzgesagt/comments/b0bgvj/ama_2_can_you_trust_kurzgesagt/
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Soyzgesagt Is like TED in that they focus on very big ideas with little care for practicality. Its why in the pop science world it seems like we should have solved every problem but you look in the real world and none of these solutions are being used.
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Thoughts on their "antibiotic apocalypse" vid?
I always thought their health-related content was much better and informative than their sci-fi nonsense
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Antibiotic resistance is certainly a major health issue. Id point out their Phage Therapy video as an example of what I am talking about. On the surface bacteriophages makes a lot of sense as an alternative to antibiotics. They pose basically no harm to humans, they are highly specific so they wont harm the human micro biome, and they naturally evolve with bacteria so we wont have to worry about engineering our way out of immunity. The issue is Phages are so highly specific one phage can often only infect one strain of one species of bacteria, so we would need far more specific diagnosis cowtools and we would need to have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of phages on hand to treat any possible strain. We would also need to be constantly collecting and identifying new phages to keep up with bacterial evolution. Imagine the regulatory nightmare of needing to test so many treatments.
This is the reason why despite phage therapy being as old as the ussr and it being successfully used on multiple patients it is no where close to wide medical adoption and likely wont be barring the incredible discovery of one unspecified phage or the creation of genetically engineered phages.
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In general it seems like soyence gives you a view that there's little work left to do and it's just Bad People keeping us from the promised future.
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This is because they're stupid
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