The New Lysenkoists

I finally went there.
Here I offer my two cents on what I perceive to be the source of many of our woes. I tried to refrain from being political, but I’m probably going to end up pissing off a bunch of people anyway.
Before you ask, the 3rd Quantum video is on its way, I haven’t forgotten. Then after the 3rd there’ll be a 4th, a 5th, maybe even a 6th (hopefully not- I’m trying to keep it at 5 parts.) It’ll get here, just be patient- I’m in graduate school right now and it’s every bit as gruelling (and exciting!) as I’d expected. But I’ll make time for you all, don’t you worry.
In fact, if you like, I can produce a weekly show where I go over some of these crazy peer-reviewed articles from the sophists and the Luddites, and it’ll be off the cuff so I won’t have to overextend myself, and I’ll still be able to give you all attention. Only if you want though, I’m just throwing the idea out there.
Also, just wanted to clarify something that maybe wasn’t clear from the video- Lysenkoism wasn’t the source of the famines that I mentioned in the video, but did exacerbate them at a time when genuine scientific solutions were needed. I don’t want to give the impression that Lysenko’s ineptitude was the sole cause of these millions of death (though it absolutely did contribute significantly!)
These references will be updated as the day goes on, but here are the preliminaries:
Original video:
• Science Must Fall?
Richard Dawkins dissing poststructuralists:
• Richard Dawkins on Pos...
Sandra Harding's "rape manual" comment in her book, "The Science Question in Feminism"
books.google.c...
The auto-ethnographic basketball article:
www.humankinet...
MacKinnon quote
books.google.c...
Shinobi Yaka’s channel
/ @shinobiyaka
Many of the articles presented here are courtesy of an excellent Twitter account comprised of academics who find and expose these Lysenkoist articles. They have my full endorsement:
/ realpeerreview
My Patreon: / kingcrocoduck
My Twitter: / kingcrocoduck
Ask me anything: ask.fm/KingCroc...
My PSN: Pitchfork_Maniac

[@sketchyskeptic852]

This just in: the speed of light is now privileged. How close are we to putting humans on mars? I want off this planet.

[@CoolHardLogic]

_"How close are we to putting humans on mars? I want off this planet."_ Not nearly fucking close enough.

[@pierrelindgren5727]

Instead of us going couldn't we send them? Grant them their Tabula Rasa and leave them isolated until they re-develop radio communication a few centuries later. Everybody is happy.

[@CoolHardLogic]

Pierre Lindgren _"Instead of us going couldn't we send them?"_ To Mars? Why spoil Mars? If we're sending them, what's wrong with the Sun? Or Venus?

[@EpicXXProductions]

A few centuries later they would have evolved to eat rocks and dirt or died out because we all know these people couldn't perform basic mathematical functions let alone develop radio communication.

[@davew5383]

556x45mm NATO Or they would end up some how gaining knowledge and building a Death Star and attempting to blast the earth into millions of pieces or not who knows, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, I just hope we don't end up doing the same thing with the universe, Look Out Here We Come lol ;)

[@callumscott5107]

King Crocoduck?! That's a name I've not heard in a long time.

[@JanGaarni]

I think my uncle knew him. He says he is dead. :p

[@miep3934]

Long live the king....wait wrong movie.

[@andrewtippman]

Welcome back - we've missed you!

[@MrMegaPussyPlayer]

WB King Crocoduck missed your content, too.

[@garorobe]

The name I really didn't expect to hear is "Lysenko" :0

[@thestroopwafflemaiden4325]

#speedoflightisprivileged

[@1967sluggy]

EV lution #einsteinhadlightprivelige

[@Gekkibi]

What's the SI unit for triggering?

[@tdsdave]

The kilowhine

[@holdinmcgroin8639]

There actually was a feminist philosopher that said just that.

[@thestroopwafflemaiden4325]

Holdin McGroin awh shit, the irony is you can't even parody SJW's :-P

[@GEdwardsPhilosophy]

Hooke was a hunchback, Newton's reference to "giants" might have been a dig. Newton was, by most accounts, an arsehole. But even so, his mechanics remains a useful scaled-subset of Einstein's model. Because science isn't a beauty contest, it's a struggle for truth.

[@KingCrocoduck]

I found portraits of Leibniz and Descartes, but not of Hooke. Legend has it that Newton and his friends destroyed Hooke's portraits so that no one would ever know what he looked like. Probably never happened, but definitely in line with Newton's character. Like another long-haired scientist I can name, he was quite brilliant, and a total dick.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Dear KC: could you direct me to the calculation that physicists assert exists of the energy of a liter of "empty space" starting from principles of quantum mechanics that yields an energy density 10^120 times what is observed based upon the acceleration of the universe? I've heard that claim so many times, but I don't see the calculations anywhere. Thanks. :)

[@ObjectiveZoomer]

Gary Edwards the truth is the truth no matter who says it. An idea that postmodernist reject.

[@noelplum99]

I just WISH the guy had said *"But I didn't shout out, it was a mass delusion!......... Can you explain THAT?"*

[@whybag]

Should've shown the video of her for just 5 more seconds, when she gets done dressing that guy down about decolonizing his mind and rebuilding the scientific edifice from scratch, she whips out an iPad.

[@darksidegryphon5393]

That moment is fucking glorious.

[@USAltefore]

These lunatics need to be called out in front of a much larger audience. They deserve no apology.

[@RoKappa]

I watched thunderfoot's video on this and another funny thing is that after she finished her speech, she reaches for her tablet. Damn science. You are everywhere!

[@WolfieboyMachi]

Quite possibly your most important video to date. This video needs to go viral.

[@Gibson1961SG]

Dude, you are by far the most articulate well read KZbinr I've come across. Thank you SO much for all your hard work. PLEASE go into politics at some point in your future. Governments NEED you rational articulate voice. I would be a patron if I could afford it. i will be one once I can. Thank you again.

[@hobbygaertner420]

Got this video sent to me by my boyfriend. Really liked your video style. You're so eloquent. Subscribed.

[@MrLaz0rz]

I have a sense of forboding in my children or grandchildren's time when the united states is a service and information economy; when nearly all manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and when no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues. When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN WHAT FEELS GOOD AND WHAT IS TRUE, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. - carl sagan

[@cataclysmicdelta1828]

Please do the weekly thing my dude, I've longed for your sensuous voice within my ears

[@NoahSteckley]

You NEVER apologize because an authority is making you.

[@anthony3841]

Wait, I can't say my opinion, but I can say it if it agrees with them? Also, it's disrespectful to the sacred space, but laughing at him is ok? Hypocrisy in true form :|

[@williambarnes5023]

That's okay. "It isn't true." isn't an _opinion_ about magical lightning, so he isn't expressing an opinion.

[@Gopherzooka]

Apparently the king is the only OG skeptic that didn't fall to the cult.

[@theguythatmakesyoumad3834]

I too keep calling bullshit on bullshit, right until they actually make said lightningbolt hit me.

[@thevoxofreason8468]

I believe what happened in the USSR can not occur today, at least in modern nations. The reason? The Internet and people like you; the free flow of information. Brilliantly done. Keep it up.

[@HubiKoshi]

The problem is that it's very hard to tell what information on the Internet is true and what is not. I mean just look at the success of anti-vaxxers.

[@TheIronwil]

Did that woman just say "the sacredness of this space"?

[@DrGerbils]

The presence in academia of a few outlying quacks and the existence of one unfortunate freshman from South Africa who never learned that science is a process, not an accumulation of facts and formulas doesn't concern me greatly. Academia has always been full of quacks, in the social sciences and the hard sciences. For example, in the 1850's, the Astronomer Royal of Scotland objected to the metric system because it was the product of a Godless and violent revolution. I am somewhat more concerned about scientists who mistake the current model of reality for reality itself. The atomic model has changed so rapidly in the last century and a half that text books can barely keep up. Pointing to the current model and saying "Anyone who questions this is crazy." is crazy.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Agreed. Well said. Well, I HOPE you are correct: that logic-hating shitheads like this girl have ALWAYS been the norm. Except for your atomic model complaint. ALL human minds - NOT JUST scientists' - "mistake"/"equate" their abstract interpretations/models of reality with reality itself - BECAUSE THAT IS ALL ANY MIND & CONCEIVE or perceive: a MODEL of reality. A mind cannot "suck in" all the atoms in the universe to "test/sense" all those atoms directly.

[@scottking5555]

So fucking excited for this video, and you're finishing or just finished grad school didn't you? I hope to hear more about this from your perspective. The king is back baby!

[@okamaman7324]

I wonder how Crocoduck feels about this now. I'ts been seven years

[@soulandkro]

I really enjoy your videos KC; they are always very informative and analytical.

[@DakkaDakkason]

Now go. LET THE LEGEND COME BACK TO LIFE.

[@_Aly_00_]

Yes, you're back! And as always you are 100% correct. Keep being awesome King Crocoduck!

[@deathdealer312]

Not only have you created a wonderfully detailed and interesting video(and diverged it into a whole series, yay!), but also introduced me to another great youtuber, Shinboi Yaka. I'm now a theist because you're obviously a god.

[@TheCheapPhilosophy]

The dogma she boosts made the science she unashamedly enjoys a "cultural appropriation" of which she is guilty of, by origin or belonging group... That is a shot in the foot, and keeping the smile.

[@cyaneyed7146]

A very welcome, timely and incisive contribution from the King

[@michieldrost9396]

Excellent video. These people are indeed scary.

[@naughteedesign]

i'd just love to benefit from mud-hut mathematics, imagine the space program

[@matthewmaxfield8443]

naughteedesign all i need is some sticks, shit and gas and we can make it to europa.

[@naughteedesign]

hah

[@naughteedesign]

Matthew Maxfield you know matthew, you're being particularly stupid here, seriously if you didn't take along a goat you'd be royally screwed.

[@matthewmaxfield8443]

naughteedesign a cow is better. more shit to make repairs and a burger if i get hungry

[@toddfelong6399]

I can not express without dropping all kinds of f bombs how enraged i became listening to the dribble coming out of that women's mouth. It is truly scary the lack of understanding. I fear that with the in the waning of religion people have grabbed on to whatever insane notion suits them, substituting one fairytale for another.

[@scrotaljussieworrier7496]

I recall reading of a satellite photo expert for the Zimbabwe Agriculture Dept. This educated man claimed, for a fact, that he slept with his lights on at night - because President Mugabe could turn himself into a panther at night to attack and kill his enemies.

[@tareiknetro315]

For respect to the sound velocity, we should include it in the special relativity. Equality should be important in science.

[@nikkovalidor4890]

this video: 24 minutes of rape apology and racism, also pro-trump because reasons #StayWoke #Justice4Harambe

[@ABaumstumpf]

*"StayWoke"* #Learn2Grammaar Edit: Nope, it will stay with '2' :P

[@korayacar1444]

ABaumstumpf *#LearnToGrammar #LearnToGrammar

[@freemanaccount5146]

If someone rapes, an apology is at least a good start...

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

+nikko validor Hope you were joking. Nothing in this video about being pro-Trump.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

+nikko validor Hope you're going to vote for Jill Stein or Zoltan Istvan or Clifton Roberts or John McAfee next Tuesday, if you have not done so already by mail-in absentee ballot, and if you're an American. I voted already for Zoltan Istvan. I voted for Stein in 2012 & 2008. I voted for Ralph Nader in 2004, 2000, 1996.

[@davidmossong8061]

#lightprivilage

[@stasiate]

That was a really good video, and i subbed. BUT i also think that i understand where are this modern 'lysenkoists' coming from, and they are right in their own regard (thou they probably dont know it themselves). Hear me out; we are suberged in scientific paradigm just as deep as medieval society was in religion, but science could never solve all the problems of humanity, like existential angst, a sense of purpose etc. It is obvious for 'western' mind that progress will eventually solve all of these problems, but this just might be not true. Maybe science is not needed for africans and radical feminist, and they are not necesairly happier using its achievements. It brought them only misery, and they struggle to find themselves in society that is a product of scientific progress. So, in order to free themselves from it they must criticize it, shift the paradigm. I think you are completely missing this point of view.

[@KingCrocoduck]

stasiate check out my new playlist, "The Science Wars." I address these perspectives there

[@GothaBillsAndDeath]

Great analysis. I subscribed given I detest using ancient philosophers to suggest these identarian, single-minded, standpoint theories that have no appreciation of context and time.

[@robokill387]

the problem is that we can't go back to a pre-scientific world, it would only lead to death and misery. our world is very dependent on science now.

[@TommySleeze]

Marilyn Newman sure, but the worse their countries get, the more they want to come to our countries. It is a no win scenario. Ironically, this no win scenario reminds me of a Kipling poem about colonization.

[@adamhonestyanddecency5054]

stasiate I don't see existential angst as being solely western.

[@beayn]

Subbed on patreon for this quality, intelligent, well written video. Looking forward to more.

[@jackbaxter2223]

The speed of light is privileged? I seriously cannot tell if that person's being serious or taking the piss, and that is depressing.

[@jamesphillips92jp]

As a progressive science student, I'm grateful that you didn't go all thunderf00t and tar all theories on social justice with this brush, nor did you present these ideas as anywhere close to mainstream. Thanks for that. That said, decolonization theory is hideously misapplied to the sciences here. It would be better applied to speak of conceptual barriers to entry for people outside a western mindset and how to alleviate those barriers. This applies to the sociology of science, not the process or conclusions of science. This girl in the video was simply wrong. And out of context, a safe space can look bizarre. Just understand that the purpose of a safe space is to express ideas without a filter, not to distill out from those ideas the truth. There are better venues for that. Tldr; yes, there are dumbasses misappplying social science. That doesn't discredit social science any more than Ken hamm discredits biology.

[@deepinside7576]

Ken Ham isnt a biologist. Regressive social scientists are social scientists, just bad ones. "Conceptual barriers to entry for people outside a western mindset" is beautiful double-speak. Until you can demonstrate what a "western mindset" is, and how is differs from "X mindset", then you are throwing strawmen at a wall and hoping they will stick. There are thousands of non-western scientists that have coped with maths, physics, chemistry, biology, and the scientific method just fine. No barrier to entry, except for intelligence.

[@jamesphillips92jp]

Is it really such an extraordinary claim to say that people from different cultures might conceive of the world differently? I'm not at all suggesting that reality is somehow different for them, merely that the language and norms of science education are primed for teaching science to Western students. Ask a foreign student sometime. He'll tell you.

[@jamesphillips92jp]

I'm also not suggesting that science is in any way different for them. For someone who rails on strawmen, you slay a few, yourself.

[@deepinside7576]

I am a foreigner. Maybe you should ask me? And do you think science in Japan is tailored to US students? University in India is tailored to US students? University in China is tailored to US students? Or do you perhaps think that their professors may speak their language, use their idioms, study their cultural influences and societies. Or... do you think everything is US centric? 'science' is a universally understood and adopted method of thinking and deriving understanding. It can be applied and understood by black, brown, pink or green people. It can be understood and applied in English, Chinese, Swahili or German. It has no barriers to entry. It has no cultural restrictions other than the ability to put aside your own common sense, instincts and traditions, in a quest to find a deeper truth

[@diondre7350]

+James Phillips "Is it really such an extraordinary claim to say that people from different cultures might conceive of the world differently?" That's irrelevant, science only cares about empirical evidence. "...merely that the language and norms of science education are primed for teaching science to Western students." Based on what evidence?

[@DougBentleyauthor]

He knocked it out of the ballpark!!

[@juliancapone7515]

Have you done a video dealing with the Myers Briggs test? I HATE that test.

[@noone-ez6on]

So happy to see this glorious bastard once again.

[@poppasmurf6828]

can you adjust your volume up please? we can always cut the volume down, but are limited in how far we can cut it up. thanks.

[@nguyenquangminh4814]

You're back hurray!

[@randybrush9872]

Great vid, thank you for posting...LLP

[@spacedoohicky]

That was more scary than some horror movies. Thank you K.C. for giving me nightmares.

[@mrfriendlyguy]

Is there a link to that video of the African class discussion?

[@Baku69895]

"have no place calling themselves progessive" That ship has sailed. This is the meaning of the word now.

[@derekfarmer7444]

Unfathomable. Its as though we progressed so far just so we can regress.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

15m15s Oh fucking shit, man, you got BALLS, man, GIGANTIC BALLS, KC. I could NEVER EVER bring myself to sit down to talk to Ray Cumfart, even once.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

I hate breeders. I hate the arrogance of breeders, thinking they are entitled to force other human beings, as well as nonhuman animals, into existence, WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION. If you hate poverty & homelessness, then SUPPORT OUTLAWING BREEDING & OVERPOPULATING. I don't give a FUCK how politically incorrect this opinion. We need COURAGEOUS ATHEIST ANTINATALIST ANIMAL RIGHTS VEGANS to be as AGGRESSIVE & PATRIOTIC & VIOLENT as the police & the military are for THEIR causes. Fact: NOBODY is entitled to the status quo. NOBODY, including government institutions, the police, courts, prisons, NSA, CIA, FBI, as well as churches & culture & nations, has any inherent "right" to exist, least of all when their negatives (injustice, hypocrisies) outweigh the positives. Fact: ALL decisions, ALL choices are utilitarian choices: maximally making the positives outweigh the negatives. By no means does this imply a unique solution. In real life, computing solutions is hard. But, that does not change the reality of the goal of making positives outweighing negatives. Fact: Everything differs in magnitude, not in kind. Corollary: The difference between right versus wrong is how much. Fact: A soldier or police officer is just a terrorist or violent protestor who is lucky to get paid to use violent force for their cause. Otherwise, there exists no moral difference. Fact: If government won't help people - i.e. socialism or communism to benefit EVERYone, EVERYone get paid, EVERYone pay taxes - especially churches & Wall Street - or NOBODY pay taxes & government just PRINTS money for everyone - then government has NO business punishing anyone, has NO business solving crimes on your behalf or fighting a war on your behalf if it means arresting or killing someone else. Fact: You are a socialist iff (if & only if) you are not an anarchist. The instant you support ANY law, e.g. calling the cops to defend what you believe is your private property, you ARE a socialist, because you are demanding society help you. So, there is NO such thing as "socialism is bad" or "socialism is good". That is like saying a tool, like a hammer, is bad, or good. Depends what LAWS are passed. Against whom. For what reason.

[@shadrackattack]

thanks king crocoduck. your stuff is top shelf. my blood boils at the fundementalist

[@SonOfmowgef]

Hail to the King baby.

[@goodpal7444]

Thank you.

[@darbywing2]

This is so well laid out by the narrator that it could be used as a mini-course in logic and the debunking of pseudo-science/ political victimology.

[@pyry1948]

The moderator be like "No facts allowed, apologize for pointing out facts"

[@jebus6kryst]

I believe what she said got lost in translation. She did not mean black magick, she meant a mutation like Storm has.

[@charlidog2]

I feel smarter after your videos. Thanks for sharing your intellect.

[@ezrascarlet5935]

man its unfortunate that people like that girl get air time, and take it upon them self to speak for all Africans for their "African black magic". dude who got persecuted in the video I apologize on behalf of all my fellow Africans.

[@Psychotol]

Lightning huh? Sounds more the case that peace is a lie, there is only passion.

[@SALSN]

I look forward to some of these lunatics trying to make a computer running on black magic, or describing orbital mechanics with woo. What a bunch of backwards idiots, it is truly baffling that anyone takes them seriously. Welcome back btw, we've missed you!

[@heyho405]

'This is a sacred plaze!' lmao

[@hemeoncn]

Great video, thanks.

[@haraldwolte3745]

I love Crocoducks work and largely agree with him. But there is a tiny glimmer of truth in the postmodern critique of science. Science is a powerful and effective method for stripping away human subjective value and opinion from a problem. We weild emperical tools on the problem, enabling us to very effectively impose our will on the world. The results are undeniable, from computers to space rockets. But the process of stripping *meaning* out in step 1. leaves us in a *meaningless* world. The most important aspect of life is in the realm of meaning and values, which is untouchable by science. The realm of meaning and value drives scientists, who are people after all, to choose what they will study and focus on. So, yes, it is undeniable that water is 2 parts Hydrogen to 1 part Oxygen. But is that *all* that water is? Water is the sustainer of life. The waters that cover the earth remain a great and dangerous chaos for those who venture there. What can science say about the meaning of water? At best scientists might say that there are "emergent" properties of water, but the explanatory power of "emergent" doesn't seem much different from the explanatory power of the word "magic". Those who idolize science hate this chink in the armor of science might hope that advances will close the gap. But the fact that the very power of science comes from stripping away the subjective, means that science will never provide subjective output. No advances will change that.

[@michaelmoran9020]

Science doesnt make any claims to artistic conceptions of what water means to us. Critiquing science on that ground is like criticising a car for its inability to toast consistent baguettes. I'd also contend the idea that this *meaning* of water is knowledge. I'm not saying that to shrink it's significance or whatever it's just not something with any truth claims tied to it.

[@yphysicsGR]

At Last! A new video!

[@redeamed19]

the king has returned!

[@alextiming]

We need more videos from you!!!

[@sagerider2]

I reject her nonscience, let's see if SHE can get to the moon. I bet dollars to donuts, she can't.

[@someonesomewheresometime3897]

excellent, very clear exposition of the problem. great job.

[@chris2kostya]

hey King, what are your thought on the venus project and the zeitgeist movement?

[@quinndiesel1977]

I loved the brief flick of "Headshots legitimize police shootings" In Battlefield 3 I ranked in the top 5% in the world for headshot/kill ratio with the M98 B. I racked up more than 10,000 head shots. I still think unjustified police shootings are horrible, as much as I ever have.

[@Shooter__Andy]

Black magic? BLACK magic?! I think someone's racist here! Sound the alarm! But seriously though, wow, I wouldn't be able to keep my mouth shut were I somehow to find myself in this room.

[@meandyousomeofusfortwo]

The funny part is, Western science, thought, linguistics, the alphabet etc. was heavily influenced by Kemetic (Egyptian) civilization who were, black Africans. A good example would be Pythagoreans theorem. These sorts of fallacies are rooted in underdevelopment indeed as a result of colonialism and psychological slavery. Nevertheless, mathematics, science and computation alike are products of empirical nature. Not of Caucasian hegemony.

[@NorthernObserver]

You guys are so silly. Stop trying to conquer a past that doesn’t belong to you when the future of humanity belongs to Africa and Africans. The black nationalist focus is wrong. I mean I guess it is fun to invent narratives to annoy “white” scholars, I can see the satisfaction in that, but it just seems that an activists time would better be spent on personal, institutional and national development. Because that’s where you can get the racial dignity you crave. Why invest in broken strategies.

[@WellandJoyceArtist]

He's back!

[@fatsamcastle]

Dude, i don't think those black students are laughing at their peer, I think they're laughing with her.

[@bpdmf2798]

The king is back! Excited as fuck!

[@drbenwaymd]

Being from SA, I know that the laugh of the crowd isn['t a laugh of disapproval. South Africans have a form of laughing but agreeing. You can often hear it during political speeches. We mix ridiculous references into our politics ... I think any people here agreed with her.

[@BillM1960]

Great job!

[@FrancisRoyCA]

At about 0:46 you show an infographic of the political left and right. Can you point out website where you found this?

[@jtveg]

People fear what they don't understand. She doesn't understand science. How exactly do they start again? Throw away all their smartphones? I doubt they'll do that? 😉

[@Pyrolonn]

At first when I saw the title of your video I scratched my head a bit, Lysenko? I thought it might refer to the tragedy of using Lamarkian principles in Soviet agriculture, the name sounded Russian and I possibly had heard it before. Already his name is fading. Bad ideas sometimes make a name worth remembering for a while, but ultimately they are forgotten when their lesson has been resoundingly learned. Of course as you so adeptly illustrate, bad ideas have a way of coming back.

[@AaronJonesMagic]

I have no words....

[@jayebyrd00]

You missed an opportunity my friend. Immediately after the girl gave her talk, she went to her I-Pad or whatever.

[@ThePi314Man]

As someone who adheres to anarchist and intersectional tendencies, I'll say that anyone who tries to politicise science is gravely misinformed and potentially dangerous. The comparison of these brats to a man influenced by Leninism and Stalinism is an apt one, as both exhibit narrow minded and authoritarian attitudes.

[@stairwayunicorn4861]

Lort Thoth is displeased by the blasphemy this woman is speaking

[@darkdevil905]

I'm a student of physics, just started my 2nd year. I sometimes wonder if Newton had it incorrectly. That his principle of force and interaction that objects loose or gain something(energy) when they change their motion. I know energy wasn't hypothesized by Newton but in some ways it is the product of generating a quantity like force that is a change in momentum with time. This is just an idea however what if this thing we made up that we call energy is just not the right principle. There is a lot of hidden variable theories like Madelung's non-linear PDE of time evolution of quantum systems or Pilot Wave Theory and even Yilmaz theory of GR. What if this abduction of thought that something like energy can exist is just another hidden variable theory in which energy is the fundamental concept that we cannot grasp? It is frustrating because I know these principle must be right or our experiments wouldn't agree but fundamentally something might be wrong. I don't know...

[@GodBoredWas]

Thanks man, loved to listen to this.

[@memoryalphamale]

Sadly, greed in our cultures is the root of this sickness. How often has one individual taken all credit for a scientific advancement when the real work was done by others? STEM achievement is riddled with examples of this. "The Wizard of Menlow Park" was an infamous thieving greed-head. Let us not blind ourselves to history... because of the conditions created by culture it is usually a male, and in European and American culture a white male, who is credited with these achievements. Yes there have been notable exceptions (we could all rattle off their names), but these are the exceptions that prove the rule. The dictates of culture have often precluded individuals from receiving the recognition for their achievements. How many women have used a male pseudonym to publish or otherwise add to the sum of the human intellectual experience because it would have been unthinkable that a female was capable of having any agency beyond baby factory or arm candy? Until I entered high school, and this was in '84, the only black scientist I had ever heard mentioned in any classroom was G.W. Carter. Had I not parents who wanted me the wiser I likely would have thought Carter was the only black man in science until then. Even the concept of the individual genius is crap. No individual can claim responsibility for any thought or action. I know not a single human who can say they popped into existence from nothing, unless they are mad. We all have parents who had parents who had parents, etc. So it is with knowledge. What is referred to as genius is a simplification of a much more complex idea... the confluence of the gathered knowledge of the human superorganism in a particular field and a competition of individual intellects focused on advancing an understanding of that specific knowledge. The title "genius", in STEM, then being applied to the first to publish and pass the scrutiny of peer review (and hopefully at least one replication study confirming the conclusions). In conclusion, I propose that instead of becoming the authoritarian ass or the indignant, all-knowing fool we see illustrated by the clip of the panel "discussion" we admit openly to our cultures' histories of denying agency, intellect, and ability of those people we have deemed "lesser" or "weaker", shed light on the accomplishments of those that were usurped, and welcome all human intellectual endeavor into the circle of STEM. To do otherwise will only make the "New Lysenkoist" position more appealing.

[@FireOccator]

22:37 For an atheist you sure have made an accurate prophecy.

[@HT-ys6ib]

22:12 may I ask who that person is? I am very interested in reading the original work from which his quote was taken. Edit: Nevermind, it's Hegel, found him using google image.

[@Odood19]

Science is the hand of philosophy; how else has society obtained what it wants or needs other than observing phenomena and manipulating the causal forces, associated reactions, or desirable products? Not only is science ignored, but philosophy too. I think you did a good job of addressing both, because any metacommentary about science has to be philosophic (centered on meaning), just as any metacommentary on philosophy must itself be philosophical. Science asks if we could, philosophy, if we should. Why aren't these neo Lysenkoists more concerned with the direction of science, rather than the method of science? If you want an African Science, use the wealth of world knowledge to improve Africa! Eradicate diseases, improve long term crop yields, boost economic activity, etc... etc... Anything new that is discovered should only add onto the wealth of world knowledge.

[@deadman12078]

Give the panel a helicopter ride....

[@Teboski78]

Make more videos! i need to learn more about quantum mechanics!

[@mirrakka6587]

Holy shit!! I did not know someone invented gravity.......🦄🐒💩🥳

[@ElemintBornFresh]

dude you called it

[@AdamSmith-kq6ys]

This bit always make me curious: "This is not a antagonistic space - oh, and by the way, science is RACIST!"

[@sagerider2]

3:48, I don't think it's a new coat. New coats are white. That is clearly yellow. I suspect it's just an old jacket from goodwill that is clearly too big. If it was a lab coat, it would have the name of the person & the organization sewn on it.

[@jean-lucpicard581]

Please do more!

[@alalag]

If some of those people can solve the Navier-Stokes or even end up in a better way to describe the dinamics of fluids then do so, we all would be fucking greatfull

[@catfishcave379]

A safe space for the exchange of ideas as long as you all agree on the same idea? So a space that is safe for ignorance??

[@ijjsqts]

No no no, it's a safe space for exchange of ideas where you have to shut the fuck up and listen to certain ideas and if you dare to challenge them then you're a disgusting anti-progress bigot who wants to hold back society.

[@comradecthulhu6052]

Also known as an echo chamber.

[@hedgehog3180]

Catfish Cave Where did anyone call it a safe space?...

[@sagerider2]

The ones who say, they're so unsafe, they need a safe space. A campus IS a safe space for learning, not screaming, crying, sobbing, wailing, & shedding of tears. That's kindergarten. Though I never went to kindergarten. Maybe that's why I don't believe in all that other shit.

[@TommySleeze]

hedgehog3180 when she started complaining about the person violating the rules of this space.

[@DrShaym]

When the Black Panther movie first came out, I saw people on Twitter arguing that Wakanda would be real if colonization never happened.

[@danielsantos-wh2op]

It’s possible we have more developed countries in Africa, if the colonization had never happened.

[@ispamalot]

@@danielsantos-wh2op No wheel in Africa before colonisation. So no.

[@danielsantos-wh2op]

ispamalot first, that is a myth, they knew the wheel, it just wasn’t necessary. And we had great civilizations in pre-colonial Africa.

[@ispamalot]

@@danielsantos-wh2op Keep coping, the average IQ is around 65 for the continent. So again NO.

[@danielsantos-wh2op]

ispamalot do you understand what IQ really measures? Do you understand that those are post colonial metrics?