I’ve no clue why this is in this channel, I didn’t expect to see anything about this TERF here. She’s singing the same song the US regime sings, she just happens to be one of the first those people are going after.
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This picture is even AI generated and was cropped, what the fuck. Everything about this is garbage. OP needs some ratio.
Came here to link to the other post after ive seen it
good job o7
Sabine is one of the most influential scientists today. You haven’t heard of her? She does amazing work and spreads knowledge, new science discoveries, new theories. I mean she did sell out a little bit in the last two years with the ads, but the videos are still brilliant.
She does criticize academia now and then, but I haven’t heard any critique from her that wasn’t completely justified.
But I never heard her say anything remotely what you posted here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htb_n7ok9AU
Here’s her “Academia is Communism” video.
Here’s where the pull quote she made for the War on Science book is listed.
From assaults on merit-based hiring to the policing of language and replacing well-established, disciplinary scholarship by ideological mantras, current science and scholarship is under threat throughout western institutions. As this group of prominent scholars ranging across many different disciplines and political leanings detail, the very future of free inquiry and scientific progress is at risk. Many who have spoken up against this threat have lost their positions, and a climate of fear has arisen that strikes at the heart of modern education and research. Banding together to finally speak out, this brave and unprecedented group of scholars issues a clarion call for change.
“Higher education isn’t what it used to be. Cancel Culture and DEI have caused many to keep their mouths shut. Not so the authors of this book. This collection of essays tells of threats to open inquiry, free speech, and the scientific process itself. A much-needed book.”
—Sabine Hossenfelder, Physicist and Author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions
And hey, Richard Dawkins was good at presenting science to people, too. Didn’t mean he wasn’t and isn’t also an asshole with some real stupid ideas like when he proposed we shouldn’t let children read fiction because they may not be able to tell the difference between reality and fantasy.
Did you watch the video?
I don’t need to watch it to understand that conflating academia with communism is fuck-stupid.
she rejects science she doesn’t like when it comes to transgender science
I don’t think so… her content on trans people sounds almost as impartial as it could be, but prove me wrong if you have a better source
I think you should watch her content and draw your own conclusions about her instead of trusting clickbait-y articles or lemmy upvotes
Ah, maybe you should watch though. I don’t think the article represents her views.
The article reads like someone wants clicks and they used a famous person to get them.
It’s a good quote, but a little context would be nice.
the quote comes from this video where Sabine reported - over 1y ago - how she lost trust in the peer review process of scientific research in the field of physics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg
6min 55s
She’s a Joe Rogan with a university degree.
While the Trump regime eviscerates science, Sabine Hossenfelder, a German physicist by training turned science YouTuber, published a video whose thumbnail states in large red letters, “Academia is Communism.” And an upcoming book called The War on Science, written by a coalition of grievance-mongers including Lawrence Krauss, Peter Boghossian, and Gad Saad, received a glowing, official endorsement from Hossenfelder: “Higher education isn’t what it used to be,” she wrote. “Cancel Culture and DEI have caused many to keep their mouths shut. Not so the authors of this book.”
In her February video thumbnailed “Academia is Communism,” Hossenfelder argues that the defunding of academic research will probably happen, whether we want it or not, and she cites Elon Musk’s, Marc Andreessen’s, and Peter Thiel’s vilification of universities: that they’re bastions of communism and the enemies of progress, with their researchers essentially on government welfare. She expands on the arguments in favour of moving basic research to the private sector: that government grants tend to be short-lived while entrepreneurs plan for the long term; that serendipitous discoveries could still happen within companies; that silly research ideas would no longer be financed; and that private investors are better at taking risks than national funding bodies.
Yeah, she sounds like an absolute fuckwit to me.
You’ve got the throwing up communism as an evil canard and labeling Academia as communist, which if anything, Academia is corporatist and being twisted by corporations funneling money into flawed science. Yet, that’s literally what she supports, is the privatization of science.
You’ve got the “cancel culture” and “DEI” canards that she claims is resulting in some form of self-censorship.
This is exactly the kind of shit that leads idiot MAGA fucktards to distrust science entirely.
This bitch ain’t helping, sorry, not sorry.
Please, OP, I implore you to re-assess your view of this situation. Academia is far from perfect, but it is not communist by any stretch, nor is privatization of science in any way a fucking solution. That’s just handing the billionaires of the world the cyberpunk dystopia they so desperately want on a silver platter. If anything, science needs to be more open, not less.
Her endorsement of the stupid Krauss book is the most damning thing she did objectively, but she went off the rails earlier than that with her transphobic videos. She presents “science without the gobbledygook” except when it’s trans people, then she pulls out random junk studies that make her feel justified in her disgust reaction, apparently. Now of course she openly aligns with Physics cranks like Eric Weinstein and the Trump administration so there’s absolutely no doubt left about what she’s doing even if you ignore her non-Physics videos.
The Krauss book is funny in a morbid way too, it keeps talking about how Biden will do this or that while releasing while Trump was (is?) doing unprecedented budget cuts for everything even vaguely resembling a scientific institution. Oh and most of the other guest writers for the book are former Professors who were fired for sexually harrassing their students, that must be this “Cancel Culture” thing Hossenfelder is talking about.
Oh so she’s a TERF, too? That tracks…
Wow, I enjoyed her videos now and then; sounds like she’s a fucking asshole actually. Not going to interact with her shit anymore.
Anyone pushed by youtube algorithm has to be suspect.
I hate universities as much as anyone, but she’s obviously pushing some agenda. There should be publicly funded teaching ( polytechnic not elitist). And publicly funded research (to generate FOSS IP). I actually think research should be anonymised too, just like peer review…
It’s the failures of democracy (or whatever political system) to turn education and research systems into something that serves the people - whilst giving them power and resources that that is the big issue to me. Of course western prestigious Universities predate most modern forms of government - and their feudalistic roots show in how they carry on.
I mean, it sounds like she’s got some valid critiques in respect to her own field of study, but her offered solutions of privatization are pretty off the mark. She also really can’t speak for other fields of study but apparently feels comfortable doing so.
She’s bringing real “You’re not wrong, Walter. You’re just an asshole.” energy.
I wonder how much corporations are paying her to push this swill against open research that’s publicly owned.
Probably nothing. I’ve been following her for a while and it seems to me she’s just been betrayed and disappointed by academia to an extreme that made her turn a 180 and defend private funding, when that’s clearly doomed from the start.
I wouldn’t take these bits too seriously, but she does make good arguments overall and exposes some real problems and concerns that I’ve also seen as a grad student in a different field. I can’t agree that privatization is the way forward, but there’s more to her channel than that.
Right, academia has a whole boatload of problems, but her proposed solutions are a non-starter for for anyone with a brain
