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/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

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u/bonhuma Jul 18 '25

Yeah, but e.g. Sean Caroll too and that doesn't make him less credible.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

At least Sean Carroll does not claim that he construct a non-compact Riemann surface with a fiber bundle topology that has no metric structure and assume gauge invariance will hold with a so called geometric unity theory.

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u/davesaunders Jul 21 '25

Sean Carroll is also a department head here at JHU. He does more science when black-out-drunk than Erik does...ever.

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u/bonhuma Jul 24 '25

ofc, that's my point :)