He is primarily producing entertainment, and there is no harm in that. But he does it with a correct scientific background and some humorist tones not everybody appreciates. It's not a purely scientific channel, sometimes he get's some things wrongs, mostly on his opinions about the economics of projects.
The only thing I found too many, easily dismissing in this thread, is that when he makes one these busted videos he is also daring to make a statement and they are not random ramblings.
For example his first video of SpinLaunch, if you ignore the tone is a much better analysis than the one from Scott Manley, even if Scott Manley is a much better source for anything else related to Space.
Can you point me one of those egregious errors he made? Because I looked at this whole thread out of curiosity, and every single commentator criticizing him, did not provide a single concrete example.
It's a new genre...Scientific Entertainment ( bit still scientific) Not sure everything in this short life of ours, needs to be taken so seriously:-)
He employs a large number dishonest lines of arguments. Drawing large conclusions for limited unrepresentative data. Not actually fairly representing the things he is arguing about. What he does is build narratives to lead viewers to the conclusion he want them to reach.
> Can you point me one of those egregious errors he made? Because I looked at this whole thread out of curiosity, and every single commentator criticizing him, did not provide a single concrete example.
I have not one of his videos in a long time. I remember watching his videos on Falcon 0 and struck by him clearly have no understanding of the issues with his driving goal seeming to be to gather all possible evidence and building a 'Busted' narrative while ignoring any evidence that points into another direction.
In general, looking at his videos he seems to have made a career out of calling Musk an idiot. To be fair their are a lot of low equally low quality channels that made a career out of calling Musk a genius but those are equally stupid.
He even attacks some of those channels in his own videos, but its very telling that those are the kinds of channels he interacts with. Because that the level he is playing at.
> It's a new genre...Scientific Entertainment ( bit still scientific) Not sure everything in this short life of ours, needs to be taken so seriously:-)
You don't have to be serious but I very much get the vibe that he thinks he is very serious and his fans think he is very serious as well. A also think he is deeply unfunny and his videos are pure cringe to watch. Somehow he is a genius who knows everything about everything and yet his videos production quality is worse then a 8 year old on Instagram.
His channel is the kind of channel that is designed around making online interactions worse for any topic, not better.
This is the kind of video that I find actually helpful:
He should improve his video making skill beyond 2003 and stop making insulting people a core part of his message.
I have no interested in addressing his arguments, whatever they are on SpinLaunch. And I don't want to defend SpinLaunch anyway as it is terrible idea.