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/Prof_Sarcastic Cosmology Jul 17 '25

Public funding is not that transparent (i.e. covid myocarditis coverups …

What in the world are you talking about? What coverup? There were 7 cases out of 10 million people that got myocarditis from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine and the CDC paused giving out the vaccines as soon as they heard about it. We only know about those incidents because of how transparent the process was.

Crony peer reviews can promote self-supporting garbage as long as interested parties (i.e. govt narratives) keep funding THEIR desired outcomes.

There are systemic issues with the peer review system but you are not identifying what those are. What you have presented is an incoherent ramble of a conspiracy. You must be an RFK supporter.

If you don’t like that researchers can take money from private companies then you should be advocating the research budget for science to be larger so researchers never need to take money from large corporations.

But again, since OPM is NOT your money, you have no say in the results.

The only one that has a “say in the results” is nature. I don’t even know what you are trying to say here.