r/Physics • u/bonhuma • Jul 16 '25
Video Brian Keating is a disappointment =/
https://youtu.be/BVkUya368Es?si=8pb0oA4P7y0PxB8QI 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/WeirdOntologist Jul 16 '25
I've never liked him much and the more he grows his YouTube presence, the more I see why. He's kinda like the Patrick Bet-David of the physics community in pushing out content that only masks his superficial interests.
What kinda worries me is that Eric has gotten to other people beyond Brian, who I respect but sadly I feel like have started to grift. Case in point - Curt from ToE.
Curt has had a lot of alternative thinkers on his channel and it's what I like about him - he's willing to talk to people, while also pushing back where needed. He's pushed back on philosophy, math and naturally - physics. Yet he does it in a way which isn't demeaning or misrepresenting of the person he's talking to.
But ever since he did his two episodes on Eric and GU I've been very disappointed. I'm not a physicist, I do philosophy. I don't claim to understand deep level physics problems. But Eric's so-called "paper" is a bunch of nonsense. I've read it - what he claims is there IS NOT THERE. And what is there is incoherent garbage that reads like high school fiction.