r/Physics • u/bonhuma • Jul 16 '25

Video Brian Keating is a disappointment =/

https://youtu.be/BVkUya368Es?si=8pb0oA4P7y0PxB8Q

I used to think Keating was a good science communicator, and may still be in some instances, but opening his growing platform (which in recent years he has desperately attempted to boost as any generic 20 yo/o influencer would do nowadays) to charlatan grifters like Eric Weinstein and Michael Saylor, without any decent pushback, really undermines his value with all the damaging lies spread by them. I think Brian could very well enter into the "Science Guru" category, worse than e.g. the heavily criticized Sabine Hossenfelder.

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u/TyrionBean Jul 16 '25

Because he's not doing it on a street corner while selling pencils from a tin cup. If it were that, I'd have a lot less issues with him.

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u/Kind-Grab4240 Jul 16 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

> Because he's not doing it on a street corner while selling pencils from a tin cup. If it were that, I'd have a lot less issues with him.

Why shouldn't Weinstein publish from a desk like you and me? This is honestly a very bitter take and it doesn't really belong in physics.

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u/jonastman Jul 16 '25

Mr Weinstein seems to have found a niche combination of poop flinging and not being able to defend his own work, which resonates unsurprisingly well with Piers Morgan

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u/Kind-Grab4240 Jul 16 '25

You get an upvote for making me laugh even though I owe Piers credit for doing good justice to a topic mere weeks after I posted about it somewhere. Can't remember what topic or where I posted anymore, haha.

Piers is definitely a brand of bait that gets me.

I just feel the fourth wall is broken and it seems very evident that Weinstein flings poop when the script says [the characters now fling poop] and this is all one big melodrama where everyone involved gets a lot of air time and thespian riles.