Why Americans Have Become Anti-Science | Hasanabi Reacts to Hank Green

[@HasanReactionsfanTwo]

Hey everyone, thanks to Hank for this, you can find more of him here: www.youtube.com/@hankschannel Thanks for watching, and I hope you enjoy the video :)

[@SumuduVNagodavithana]

I love Hank Green!! You should cover him more Hasan.

[@ZERO_O7X]

@@HasanReactionsfanTwo and his brother John is a great dude and fun follow as well! Their parents must really be rad people.

[@SumuduVNagodavithana]

@@ZERO_O7X I love both of them too.

[@ailediablo2496]

Maby what people want to say is that certain sub-topics for certain purposes should not be allowed.

[@HikikoAmore]

One thing i have learned is absolutely true is that Humans, as a species, have not changed in tens of thousands of years, they are the same dumb animals today as they have always been, and more astoundingly, their entire current existence is an exact dictionary analogue of the concept of FAILING UPWARDS.

[@erikh5512]

It's funny how the "just asking questions' crowd, never bothers looking for answers

[@BlueScreenCorp]

To be perfectly honest they don't even seem to be asking questions, they are really just having thoughts

[@ince55ant]

this is why the term "JAQing off" was invented

[@Markstubation01]

Asking questions, not interested in answers.

[@greatwhitesufi]

Lmao true that is hilarious. "Just asking questions" = "not looking for answers, really"

[@Funkincense]

They are getting dog walked around questions by their news entertainers. Until they finally feel like geniuses for "begging the question"

[@filippo8189]

Same applies to marine biology. People discount it all the times when in fact it has major implications for pharmaceutical development and climate science.

[@hheinous]

they don’t give a shit about the ocean unless they can spew caca poopy out their mouth about MEGALODON IZ REAL and ATLANTIS and SEA MONSTERS! no interest in anything, you know, real. real science is so damn cool, i’m not sure what’s so unappealing about it to people. maybe i’m extra salty bc i’m about to enter a career in science during this time of peak nincompoopery.

[@OhAwe]

@@hheinous What are you talking about? In university you'll be expected to write sentences and use capital letters correctly lol.

[@hheinous]

@ My bad, I didn’t realize sentences with lowercase letters were unreadable. My deepest apologies, I didn’t realize. By golly, I can’t believe I did that. I’ll never be science enough at this rate. i tend to give less of a damn about my internet comments since i’m typing on a phone without autocaps and that wasn’t the point. i was making a humorous jab abt anti intellectualism sharting all over my passion 😅 i’m used to my own education/intelligence level (not saying i’m some reborn einstein or anything, i only know what i know, but i’m proud of what i’ve worked for) being invalidated for petty things like my looks, voice, height, etc, so this is nothing new, but i wasn’t expecting it lol

[@okamiseven]

not to mention that the ocean is the planetary biome we still know the least about

[@jackyichan4759]

It’s also the biome we should really be focusing on, with it producing the majority of earth’s oxygen (yes even more than “the lungs of the earth” that is the Amazon rainforest). It also influences the climates of every continent and is the largest carbon sink in the planet. Then there’s that “dark oxygen” we just found that has real exciting potential to produce oxygen without photosynthesis.

[@kriegmesserdclxvi2833]

I can't wait to see what happens when D.O.G.E finds out the Department of Defense couldn't account for 40% of its budget during the last audit? My prediction, absolutely nothing.

[@wayback1010]

Triple the defense budget

[@hilliard665]

I doubt they will even be able to look at the military budget, we still don't know the structure but it's not actually going to be a government department so will depend on the clearance they grant to this 3rd party contractor

[@sethmeaseles3301]

Next audit they'll find out that it's 70% unaccounted for after doge decides that they have to "fix" things. Turns out doge just redirects all that money into the doge people's defense companies.

[@SlowGraffitiVideo]

Yeah, I would assume that military money is untouchable. Elon and Vivek are gonna open a door and find the knight from The Last Crusade.

[@warheadsnation]

@@SlowGraffitiVideo Don't they still have the Ark of the Covenant in that warehouse?

[@jacobartis9853]

This is actually unironically funny because im a biology major and some of the students in the department either dont understand science(because they dont study) or are outwardly antiscience even though most of them get good grades. America is super cooked im ngl.

[@warheadsnation]

"the purpose of science is to get me a good job with a chemical corporation"

[@sophiag4368]

I think Kaitlin Bennett was too😬

[@cjtherou4427]

​@@warheadsnationherein lies the inherent problem with capitalism

[@delatrose]

we had an "intro to bio" seminar in my freshman year and the dept head asked the whole class some basic questions we had to respond to through clickers. my god. the amount of people who said they dont believe in evolution or climate change. it made me question every decision id ever made in life

[@virgondust5562]

​@@delatroseI'm a failed biology major (due to personal circumstances) who still understands all about of what was taught during lectures (such as how evolution works and understanding the dna and cell composition of living organisms but my sister who passed a year earlier with a B still doesn't believe in evolution and pharmaceutical drugs cause she doesn't understand it. Goes to show the requirements to be a passing grade biology student are very inconsistent with their overall understanding of biology

[@JakeFace0]

"Imaginary numbers? Why are we funding this research into numbers that aren't even real?" 400 years later those imaginary numbers led us to discover quantum mechanics, transistors, and ultimately the computer.

[@ashhuang9297]

This is so real. When you learn about imaginary numbers for the first time in like grade school or whatever, they're so stupid as a concept but I'm studying electrical engineering now and I can't open my eyes without seeing more complex numbers.

[@TheYopogo]

​​@@ashhuang9297That's part of why we should try to call them Complex Numbers more often.

[@BDuckie100]

These morons are crying about really straightforward experiments and cant apply critical thinking to figure out why they might be necessary. I dont even wanna think about how they might approach fundamental research, where even the scientist doesnt really know what its gonna be used for in the future, just that it might be wise to understand

[@roachybill]

@@TheYopogo It is mind-boggling how many tedious hours of conversation might have been saved in math education had they just been called "complex numbers" from the start. Or "perpendicular numbers". Or "them fellas up the other direction in the number plane dontcha know". Anything less derogatory.

[@TheYopogo]

@@roachybill On the other hand, naming conventions in STEM are already so dry. I don't want us to end up in a state where NOTHING has a name even remotely interesting or poetic or evocative, for fear of having it be misunderstood by the willfully ignorant.

[@warheadsnation]

People loved science when it was still sufficiently riddled with establishment bias to confirm what they wanted to hear. When science started telling them that progress has dangerous downsides, they started to turn against it. When it started telling them that tobacco and salt and fat and sugar are bad for them, they started to get angry. When it started telling them that they aren't really genetically superior to other races or the other gender, they freaked out.

[@RadarFinsR]

Buddy as someone who's not American how are you lads surprised by this? Your country has been so extremely anti-science for 20+ years, attempts to ban evolution and science in schools have been going strong since 1999. American Education is a joke at this point for a first world country, I mean you're talking about the country where bill O'riley was famous and had people cheering him on for saying "Tides go in, Tides go out, your science can't explain that" This quote is so old there's a reference to it in the Original 2005 Avatar the last Airbender

[@joeavreg2254]

Almost like Capital is threatened by knowledge.

[@samuelwikstrom7721]

Ok, but to be fair, fat is pretty good for you, that seemed to be sugar companies faking research to take the blame off of sugar. Salt can be bad for you in excess, but not that bad for most people. Its a bit more nuanced than you presented.

[@BDuckie100]

@@joeavreg2254 I get that part honestly, what drives me fucking insane is people reaching a level of stupidity theyll attack knowledge while they dont even have capital to be threatened???? Bitch I understand why the system is threatened by knowledge, but these individuals should want to know more man kms

[@jesuswept1334]

A friend of mine told me that they physically proved white superiority with their missiles.

[@dliap98]

i love it when people disbelieve scientists because they personally can't understand something that scientists are experts on, so they see it as a threat that must be useless or unreal instead of something new to learn about. and by love it i mean i hate it

[@bbo7002]

Pleeeeaaasseee the anti science clowns have had me crying in every video about rfk being floated for head of HHS 😭 they think he's smart, we're fcking COOKED 😭

[@WarpPotato]

Welcome to Neo Middle Ages

[@xibalbalon8668]

Or they just don't want to accept that the guy who sold them some snake oil was lying to them

[@classicclassi6146]

Maybe they think there's a wall at the end of the Earth to stop you from falling off

[@Chloe-dv9ns]

It's silly to me because as a scientist I can completely appreciate that I don't know sh*t about fixing a car or the plumbing in my home, and so I rely on experts that do.. but it doesn't seem that sentiment is returned Tbh I think it comes from science being an incremental process that can take time to see or realize it's impact..it is hard to step back and look at the big picture of what each experiment yields us.

[@Radjhitoocool]

The comparison to heliocentricism and the church is actually very useful. We are going pre enlightenment era levels of anti intellectualism in America 😫

[@angeryrat]

So true. This is a thought I've had recently, that there has been a major decline in intellect despite the major social progress we've made.

[@Radjhitoocool]

@ I mean college should be free I think people should be allowed to be dumb while they enjoy the benefits of living in society but there’s this “my individual opinion is valuable because people agree with me therefore it’s true” thing I don’t know how to describe

[@warheadsnation]

I've been thinking that the Age of Reason is ending. But I can't imagine whether we will go backwards to a right-wing Age of Faith 2.0, or forwards into something Orwellian where our beliefs will completely change at a moment's notice.

[@warheadsnation]

@@angeryrat Marx talked about the future commodotization of all relationships. Maybe our relationship with facts became another commodity, where we pay people to trigger whatever emotions we subconsciously want triggered.

[@albert.escobar31]

Carl Sagan warned us.

[@Nosyaj1941]

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir

[@999Zeldafan]

Sagan : (

[@coda3223]

​@@Nosyaj1941Candle in the Dark should be required reading in high school science classes.

[@Elf0911]

is it bad that I think of CarlSagan42 the Mario guy first

[@millerwrightt]

​@@Elf0911yes

[@wadeanes9832]

Hank has been popping off and I have been waiting for this.

[@declaringpond2276]

eh, hes still a capitalist. He made a video trying to say that most americans arent poor because of one graph that was trending saying americans are unable to afford stuff. But its fine, its hank

[@auroraofclanborealis]

​@declaringpond2276 He's a capitalist, but he's a reasonable person and a science communicator. I think he can be reached and convinced of an alternative viewpoint.

[@declaringpond2276]

@@auroraofclanborealis hes great at presenting science I agree, but he's a bit too passive for what we need. Anti intellectualism is at an all time high and we can no longer play nice with people who act in bad faith.

[@cantbothernaming]

@@declaringpond2276not everything is about politics you know, he makes cool science and statistics videos. Let him be

[@wadeanes9832]

@@declaringpond2276 the point of my comment was to applaud him fighting back more than he usually does. His "niceness" is a strength...people will listen to him. We don't need to make him a bulldog, we need his approach and also other people able to be that bulldog

[@Metal_666]

People in power never ever get told 'NO - Stop it your stupid!'... they get spoon fed like babies from private school until they end up president.

[@irtwiaos]

American really living tha knowledge meme chart. Have no high school diploma: I know everything. Have high school diploma: I know almost everything. Post grad: I know a lot of things. Bachlor: I know some things. Masters: I know a few things. Phd: I know one thing. Academics: I have no idea what is going on.

[@noelramirez1551]

It's like funding research into certain snake venom, and the reason is to create medicine to lower blood pressure. People are so dumb, and like you said, just because you don't understand doesn't mean it's useless spending.

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

People talk about even helping the poor being useless spending, even if studies say that ecconomic investment in the poor can bring tax money back. If someone has access to shelter, health care, and transportation? It may be more possible for them to get jobs, get cleaned up for interviews, more likely to get training. More opportunity to do something that could generate revenue pay taxes, etc. Like. Investing in a social safety net and community, could help people feel more connected, and invested in community. More social responsibility, cause they're part of the social system. Paying back taxes, making a return on investment. Where as wealth and mega assets don't seem to "trickle down. " And yet, helping the poor, or public health care, would still be seen as "a waste of money," cause not everyone would be a Return on investment, or "why should someone help them, no one helped me!" But like. If we can help each other, we should? Idk.

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

I mean. Put it another way? Some could argue all the tax cuts for the mega rich are "wasteful spending," but. We rarely deal with THAT wasteful spending. 😅

[@richardyapeter6378]

Better example. Research blood pressure med, side effect wee wee go stonk for hours. Old farts will approve this research

[@greatwhitesufi]

Tbf antivenin is also important research.

[@noelramirez1551]

@greatwhitesufi Yes, but I was just giving an example that people wouldn't think about other than creating antivenom .like several studies have found that snake venoms possess therapeutic agents that can be used as anticancer agents.

[@Indigo1559]

I would love to see Hasan and Hank Green and Hank Pecker team up to talk about the politicization of science

[@daisyinthewoods9081]

Hank Green is too clean for Hasan.

[@afrahrasheed2752]

I’ve never seen them in the same room 🤔 something tells me that hank green and hank pecker are the same person…

[@a1g0rhythm]

Vivik’s DoGE proposal: fire every government employee with an odd social security number.

[@willdevine8266]

F in the chat for whomever between him or Elon is number 1

[@Americanbadashh]

That would only cut 7% of all spending

[@greatwhitesufi]

Then like Milie they'll be like "look at how much money we saved for the first time in 20 years this month"

[@jaytotheareokay]

Balanced, as all things should be.

[@YetiGirl]

The very definition of efficiency is the opposite of what Trump is doing right now. I work in local gov't. I love efficiency. I hate waste. This is killing me.

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

The conservative agenda in the US and Canada in a nutshell. Campaign on Fiscal responsibility, blow or mis spend public money. Cut taxes on the wealthy. Blame the poor.

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

Hell. They are spending money on people to figure out what to stop spending money on. ... They made a whole new government department to cut. Government departments. They created government bureaucracy to. Cut. That same bureaucracy. Idk if this is the big brain move people think it is 😂

[@delatrose]

same here my friend, it is so difficult to communicate as someone working in the govt that there are issues here w/o people trying to say our own jobs should be taken away 🥲

[@ARCHERISNOTOK]

pls keep ur head up and continue to fight for the next generations future💪 thank u for ur work

[@erinnunya7847]

Yes! This is the biggest underlying issue and the thing that has me most terrified. Like I'm actually in the minority of people that can still think for themselves or know how to actually look up something and tell who the experts are ?!

[@Nosyaj1941]

I only listen to Hank Pecker not this Hank Green

[@known_aim]

Who the hell is hank green?

[@Morbing_Time]

​@@known_aimthe brother of the guy that wrote the fault in our stars

[@Nosyaj1941]

@@Morbing_Time John Green has a brother?

[@KoalemosTheAtomizer]

@@Nosyaj1941 Couldn't be, we would have heard of him by now

[@OMJ_the_Show]

​@@known_aimHow do you not know?! Guess you're not interested in science.

[@PinBiohazard]

Soon they will be putting "The universe revolves around the earth" theory back into books at this rate 😂 This is abysmal

[@CompComp]

My private school "science book" said the world is 6,000 yrs old. We found mud under a slab of concrete that has human and dino prints (hoax) I'm a chemist now. I can't believe how bad private Christian schools are allowed to be

[@Darasilverdragon]

Technically it's correct though- There is no 'wrong' point in the universe to use as an inertial reference frame - just some that are more useful than others. For describing the movements of the planets, the sun is the most useful point for the center of the frame For describing the movements of stars, the most useful point is Sagittarius A* For describing the movements of planes, trains, and automobiles... it's easiest to assume that Earth is the center of everything, since the other bodies in our system only exert enough force to create issues with super finely tuned things like satellites

[@dusk2308]

@@Darasilverdragon yea checkmate atheist XD /j

[@CompComp]

@@Darasilverdragon This is so stupid AF to even bring up. We aren't the center of the universe. We also go around the sun because it is the largest. (gravity pull) The sun is the center objectively of our system. We could say the earth is the most interesting because of life here In a philosophic sense. We have no idea if there are more advanced species out in the universe. Mathematical odds favor other life being out there. The problem is finding it. Of course we would use earth conditions for flying planes on earth.... duh

[@Darasilverdragon]

@@CompComp There *is* no center of the universe - that's my point. Every point in space is just as 'center' as every other point. Everywhere in the universe is a valid place to define an inertial reference frame, and they can even differ from each other depending on where or to what you pin them. If you have a working orrery where all the planets take their correct position in space, and you hold it by the sun, the planets will all spin nicely in their elliptical orbits, as intended... but you *can* hold it by the earth instead - it'll just freak out and start whirling wildly around your hand as everything tries to move in accordance to their paths around the sun... but the various balls of the orrery WILL still technically be rotating 'around' the earth-ball in your fist. Just... erratically and spasmodically. It's not a convenient way to look at the movements of the solar system, but it *is* a physically valid one that resolves to the same equations.

[@AgitpropPsyop]

Hank Green 2028

[@gypsylips1950]

Green / Pecker 2028

[@bbpoisonn]

Acting like the US is still gonna be a thing in 2028

[@AgitpropPsyop]

@ it’s gonna be a thing we just might not have elections lol

[@MagickP00dle]

​@@bbpoisonn it will we just won't have elections anymore

[@dliap98]

for real

[@phodell]

There is a very good reason why the Department of War changed their name to the Department of Defense, people accept "protection" a lot easier than they do aggressive warmongering generally. The fact we as a country are now moving to I don't understand this so it doesn't matter is so effing disheartening.

[@desdenova1]

It is, sadly. I noticed this with right-wing media that now has to label all other media besides them as "legacy media" because the original term "mainstream media" now applies to right-wing media.

[@Loanshark753]

US defense spending is a bit of a loophole because of US' inability to properly fund research through normal means, so when people want to cut defense spending on R&D, then it should also follow that the US must still find R&D through other means. US defense spending is also high as the US military is supposed to protect foreign countries in NATO as well as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.

[@phodell]

@@Loanshark753 I understand and get some of that, except that the military and DOD cannot explain where a little under half of the budget goes meaning there is rampant corruption and unnecessary bloat within the budget. The US spends more than the next 10 countries combined on military spending. A lot of it goes to military contractor executive salary bonuses and what does not goes to black hole projects that are purely designed to be money sinks. I live in a heavily reliant on DoD and Gov't Contract town so I know. Just because something is currently done one way doesn't mean it couldn't be improved to better methods.

[@NateSmokes816]

Hank is the man! His Crash Course channel is helping me through my Anatomy class so much!

[@tmatar6345]

HANK! As a nerdfighter and hasanabi head this makes me excited

[@606error5]

Yeah! Same. Hank on fear& when???

[@tmatar6345]

@606error5 omg I wish (he was on the yard!!)

[@606error5]

@@tmatar6345 yeah I watched that! loved it. That's why I said it

[@sirig8]

I actually cried because my 12-year-old self met my 27-year-old self and that’s peak KZbin right there

[@sirig8]

Also, I never stopped watching the brothers just been watching them since I was 12 and crash course and since then all the stuff they do because it’s fucking fantastic. Wholesome af!!!

[@doomdoot6731]

It took me until my masters to truly understand how much value there is in just pursuing knowledge without any immediate ulterior motive. There are countless examples of e.g. mathematicians developing some wild new theory that is just a plaything at first, but enables rigor ("this thing is actually true and not just conjecture, because xyz holds") and in some cases incredible efficiency down the line. I highly recommend everyone to watch the second to last (at time of posting) Veritasium video, where he goes over a weird mathematical quirk that ends up redefining all of engineering (and a lot of physics). That kind of shit was borne from someone just playing around with ideas, without any concrete goal to improve material conditions. Nowadays we use it to simulate the structural integrity of skyscrapers down to less than a percent accuracy, so that the building doesn't collapse under its own weight. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but seriously, take Hasan's advice on the questioning here to heart, and start asking for the "wtf why" whenever something doesn't seems sensical at first.

[@loveisinfinite1997]

My sibling is college educated yet they hate when I give passion-filled nerd lectures about scientific phenomena. 🙂‍↕️ It hurts my soul that this is the attitude around it these days.

[@abbagailmarie9874]

a random: you dont know FOR SURE vaccines work or whats in them!! me, an MSc in Epidemiology and Infectious Disease: .......

[@bbo7002]

U are braver than any marine & more patient than any saint. blessings upon u for ur heavy burden of dealing with idiots like that without resorting to stuff I can't say on KZbin 😔🙏

[@BDuckie100]

you KNOW that random learned about RNA very shortly before the interaction too

[@EthanielIIICarter]

Had this tech for about 200 years and mrna vaccines was developed in the 60s but vaccines ARE STILL questioned

[@bbo7002]

@@EthanielIIICarter that's what has me SCREAMING bro I try to explain the history of vaccines in general and they won't listen to meeee 😭

[@BDuckie100]

@@EthanielIIICarter yea this was the part of frustration for me as well. They keep bringing up experimental tech, but just because that was the moment for THEM that they learned about this tech, doesnt mean it was actually invented then..

[@ellisnorn259]

Hasan was cookin here. Love Hank Green ❤ So glad he had a full recovery.

[@megamandrn001]

Protip; never be like the chatter who said "why are you mean to him tho". It's cool and good when people like that get yelled at, stop valuing civility so much.

[@jaytotheareokay]

Nahzees count on your civility. It allows them to commit atrocities without as much resistance because you don't want to seem uncivil.

[@thelonecabbage7834]

Same scenario as religion; learning the truth of reality is hard and it's more comfortable to believe what they want.

[@denkinoms]

Why didn't they call it the Department of Melting the Poor? 😂

[@KaLeeBunny]

Google really needs to go. It has gotten so bad. It's too big for it's britches and they do not listen to customers at all.

[@chuckguy17]

This is one of the most important videos you've made!

[@vgernyc]

This video was brought to you by Brawndo: it’s got what plants crave

[@lurx2024]

I always play out every logical possibility before I arrive at the conclusion that alien lizards are running the government.

[@robinarmitage1376]

I’ve been playing through the possibilities for decades and I’m not even close to liizards are secretly running the world. I mean, even when I do get to anthropomorphic animals are secretly running the world, I’m gonna have to wade through quite a few before I get to lizards.

[@lurx2024]

@@robinarmitage1376 Ah, well I'll have to reset my metrics.

[@u.k6547]

If you genuinely look into ufos and dmt then it’s not that hard to believe aliens have been interacting with earth since the beginning but we can’t have that serious conversation cause its overrun with right wing nutjobs.

[@meatharbor]

I'mma give y'all this one for free: Whenever one of these gomers asks why somebody's doing some kind of research that can't be quickly explained to the average European eight-year-old or equivalent American 40-year-old, your response should always be, "They're looking for Jesus and our Lord works in mysterious ways." You're welcome.

[@danwarb1]

It's required to sustain neoliberalism.

[@Americanbadashh]

We're not neoliberalist anymore. This is fascism now

[@qjtvaddict]

Neoliberalism is unsustainable

[@TamiC420]

14:00 the concept he is describing here is so friggin nefarious bc conservatives use it across the fucking board. They take an everyday regular thing and name it something so goddamn sinister that it causes a deep and intense feeling come up in the ppl hearing about said everday, regular issue. For example that isn't related to science or medicine - the death tax. They call a regular estate tax, for wealthy folks passing their wealth down after death, a death tax. Which then makes ppl who have literally no reason to fear or be worried of such a tax to get super angry bout it. As if the government is just taxing everyone's family after u die. It's a very creative and cleaver way to propagandize the ppl but it's also pretty evil when u see the damage it does

[@Americanbadashh]

I wish efficiency actually meant efficiency, and not feeding poor people to the rich.

[@Metaljacket420]

Yes listen us nerds, I immediately thought "hmm, I bet the beetles being studied are pests which can decimate whole crops"

[@BigThangs]

This country is so stupid

[@LordConstrobuz]

people are stupid.

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

To be fair, I have always been dumb. And I have a degree. Trying to be less dumb is hard. Its like being less poor. I suck at that too.

[@isaacr9893]

Hank Green mentioned

[@mayaenglish5424]

17:10 You say "get to the point" but he's literally trying, with all his might, to walk people through the process he uses to ascertain what's true and what's not lol. He so patient and nice about trying to get people to look crap up for themselves instead of viewing him as a sentient waaaaay better google. So he's literally resorted to like, "come on a research field trip with Hank!" videos hahaha. Also they are pretty fun and great, I love his tangents.

[@Dumybunny]

As a stem major its so frustrating having to explain basic biology or chemistry to people

[@LordConstrobuz]

you sound like an annoying redditor.

[@warheadsnation]

Where would Elon Musk be without universities funding decades of basic research into battery chemistries and rocketry and software long before any of his companies tried to turn that into applied research? And where do the universities get money for basic research with no oligarch profit-demands attached? The federal government.

[@kellenlean2076]

Hank Green is the reason I love history so much today. It depresses me seeing the broken ass education system we have. I lucked out and pretty much had nothing but progressive history teachers throughout high school and college even in the red state of Montana. One of our “less progressive” history teachers was an alcoholic who slept in his car so nobody really payed attention in his class💀 But that just goes to show that History IS progression. All of history is slanted towards progress. Sure it might be slow going. But as they say, the turtle will eventually win the race.

[@dantewalker1715]

Hoboken public library😂 from Hoboken and I find that hilarious

[@zabuma]

He should do more critical thought exercises like this. people need to learn critical thinking skills from step 1. It's the best way to challenge rampant misinformation and propaganda on the internet

[@D3ADBOY]

That gas station egg salad sandwich burned

[@mediboteve2]

I have a biochem degree, but I eat gas station egg salad sammies :(

[@Anjalena]

Random Chatter Comment: "Yelling is violence" Me: 💯 Please humiliate the newbits without breaking my earballs. 😂

[@greatwhitesufi]

You: throwing bits at Hasan to keep yelling.

[@corywelch667]

I LOVE HANK AND JOHN

[@This_gonna_be_good_I_know_it]

Post-its and specifically their glue (comes off easily and can be reattached several times) is a great example of science finding something by accident. The guy was trying to develop a super-glue. By accident, he discovered the weakest glue. 🤣

[@natattack8666]

Well I went to school to be a teacher and that’s looking scary but don’t worry guys! I also have a degree in biology and research is my backup pl- oh… well that’s cool… (Tbh jokes on me for going into publicly funded fields)

[@ScreechingBagel]

also, the real major source of inefficiency in science is the private market: scientific publishers collecting extraneous payment for knowledge, chemical reagents and scientific equipment being a lot more expensive than they need be, restrictive patents, protectionist int. trade restrictions, costly private education and lab facilities, etc, harming science because of the profit motive

[@ms.bunniesarecute2287]

Hank green and Hank Pecker in a single video 😮

[@TomisaLami]

This video was like reading Bukowski for the first time. Thank you. I needed this.

[@Blackrain7070]

I would say Sparta is taking over Athens but at least the Spartans probably knew the world was round

[@JeevesAnthrozaurUS]

I'm just gonna say "The Department of Government Efficiency" sounds a lot like "The Department of Definitely Not Taking Taxpayer Money from Other Departments to Line Our Own Pockets"

[@kevinlocke4515]

Damn dude from Crash Course is looking stressed. He should try today's sponsor, Better Help.

[@greatwhitesufi]

I literally scrolled past your comment and got an ad for it.

[@anonymousinfinido2540]

😂

[@brianz3691]

Big US pharmaceutical companies have almost completely given up on R&D, the moment I saw this BS I immediately knew this is the same stuff they wanna do but at a state level

[@primarypadma1591]

6:38 we don’t even have free healthcare to properly use our modern medicine

[@TromboneGamer]

To be fair a lot of early medical science was done on stray dogs and prostitutes so y'know we need to have standards, but a lot of people here in America, even if they have normal intellectual capacity, are afraid of their own intellect and will take a defensive posture against anything that requires further research to understand.

[@TheYopogo]

I should also say, science is valuable as an end in itself. Even if it doesn't end up having specific applications, it's always valuable to just find out how things work and expand humanity's knowledge about the world.

[@desdenova1]

It's the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works, but the MAGA crowd wants to throw it all away because it doesn't give them 25 cents off gas and eggs.

[@onetonpun]

I love that the guy that eats roadkill is making national health decisions.

[@christopherlundgren1700]

It's pretty impressive how Hank logics his way into basically understanding what the study was about, before even looking it up. I'm never not disgusted at how terrible our nation is at understanding the most basic science principles.

[@whydoineedahandle406]

They’ll cut a few million here and there and double the defense budget. Very efficient.

[@Sgublaka94]

Once upon a time I studied in a research lab if platinum or palladium would take hydrogen out of an organic liquid with little to no use. Why? It could help us use hydrogen as energy as a liquid with the existing oil infrastructure.

[@ad34bballin]

I work part of the year organizing scientific research conferences. I basically get to meet top scientists from around the world in their respective fields and I've learned two things from them that I see consistently in the individual conferences. 1. A lot of science departments are severely underfunded, despite having a lot of potential future implications. 2. Most of the conferences discuss with other junior scientists on how to better communicate ideas to the general public. They know how anti science/uninformed the general public is and are trying a lot to correct it. I hope they succeed.

[@MKronos]

this is going to be extremely pertinent very soon

[@JackDespero]

That is the most frustrating part about discussing with idiots, is that you cannot even get the satisfaction of them knowing how ridiculous they are. It is like insulting a cow, you can spend all day long making fun of the cow, but you will only lose hours, get frustrated, and the cow will be just as blissfully ignorant. "You are too ignorant to even know how ignorant you are" is a very real thing for everyone. That is why the self-confidence curve in a task goes up and down, even if your experience increases, because at certain levels of competency you reach the local summit, only to realize that there was an even bigger mountain behind.

[@Fabermorrow]

Aww I really love Hank... Dude was my science teacher and taught me more than any science teacher ever taught me, now, he is speaking up on issues that he cares about with his platform he buult for himself!! A real one!

[@inf3rnalis804]

Leave the gas station egg salad alone homie

[@bretttaylor3787]

Google does suck ass. Why is it so hard to look up a simple question?

[@ccruz2814]

6:22 - 6:42. First time I have laughed out loud for months! 🤣 Thanks so much for activating my limited and quickly depleting dopamine reserves 😁

[@BitOBear]

And you know nothing could be more efficient and giving two separate people the same job in the same organization.

[@lewismaddox4132]

The wise man knows he is not wise! Socrates

[@Crylar44]

This sounds like a great leason to have in schools. "Find a research that sounds silly on the surface, then go though the step and find what it really means"

[@2ndEnlightenment]

Science advancements are not only "wasteful" in some ways, but a lot of times, completely accidental; meaning that you can have meaningful breakthroughs derive from completely unrelated fields. If I'm not mistaken, Viagra is an example of that, it was a research for treating high blood pressure (hypertension) and angina pectoris (chest pain due to heart disease). Investment in science are (almost) NEVER wasteful, it will always point us towards more understanding and therefore development in general. edit: grammar

[@jsliszt]

Glad Hasan was willing to review a video from Hank (of whom I'm often skeptical of). Hank is not evil, and he often helps to educate people in every-day science and medicine. Especially IBD, IBS. This study is about PTSD, which many humans have. This study saves lives. 🙂 Support!!!

[@KairiMorin]

I don't understand something, I look it up, maybe I don't understand everything, but I try.

[@etienne8110]

America is a giant dunning kruger effect. 😅 Issue is, they are dragging us all down with them. 😢

[@grim_glim]

vacationing at the marinara trench

[@Caliban_80]

I'm a military retiree and for the first time I'm worried about them cutting my benefits. Not very efficient to be paying all of us vets who don't even work for them anymore.

[@dankmemester123]

while i do agree with everything that's being said, i will say, having done research in both physics and aerospace engineering, when it comes to certain types of funding (military funding mainly), we do lie a lot on our research grant proposals to secure more funding. it comes from this misconception that science will make gundams or something, so we kinda just say "yes, it totally will, as long as you give us an extra hundred thousand in funding". in that sense we're wasting money, tho not arbitrarily, just that the money isn't being used to get what the government thought it could get. an example is NASA during the 60s; sure, there were some eventual military benefits to NASA going to the moon, but the military definitely thought we were going to do space wars or something, when in reality the benefits of going to the moon was mainly looking at cool space rocks and leaving a footprint. that's why kennedy actually wanted to cut funding, while eisenhower was responsible for establishing it and reagan wanted to kind of keep doing it but in a weird way with star wars. the cold war was crap, but it was great for engineers and scientists involved with NASA at the time; if you look at the budget during those years they basically poured the entire defense budget into going to the moon. anyway it's not like they were gonna use that money for much anyway; what, you lose out on an apache attack helicopter? relax. also researchers eat egg salad gas station sandwiches too, i feel like that shouldn't be a disqualifier.

[@delatrose]

you should not have to lie about looking at space rocks on a grant thats way more valid that starting space wars

[@CompComp]

Me explaining yesterday why the FDA isn't why our healthcare is expensive

[@TheDanhewitt]

I've seen cuts in staffing in the park service make our job so much more inefficient....

[@smappositivedance]

I wonder if DOGE will find out that spending 20 billion dollars to fund a genocide is inefficient.

[@lololuv2012]

I work in cancer research and am a science nerd. Every single day I try not to lose it from the extreme stupidity.

[@viiviviviiv]

seeing hank recommend chatgpt is like finding out your grandpa is cheating on your grandma with a 22 year old

[@bwatson1380]

Remember in Interstellar how the teacher has to talk with the dad because his daughter keeps arguing about how the Apollo missions were real and the teacher was calling it nonsense? That's going to be happening soon it seems at least in America

[@dogblessamerica]

Imagine thinking researching earth based life forms is wasteful but the mars mission isn't - "oohhh look at the big rocket"

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

I wonder if I spray bob cat pee on places where mice are likely to enter my house, it could keep mice away.

[@barpsampssen]

Hasan's out here doing the Lord's work. I can't even entertain these people. It's exhausting. Yeah, Hanan's getting paid - whatever - there's no amount of money that could motivate me to try to help these people understand basic ass shit like "why research matters." We're cooked. Anybody else feeling absolutely drained and exhausted by the sheer act of being alive?

[@B_dev]

the issue also is that there's so much stigma around intelligence that people are incredibly afraid to admit their wrong on both sides on the political spectrum, what we need is healthy ego and realizing that being wrong doesnt make us dumb or gullible. how to get there idk, but corporate controlled social media is certainly not helping

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

Its like how people pat Elon on the back, for private space innovations. Not only did he not do that (those he employed did). His company could blow through private money, not public funds, so they could lose more rockets with less push back (cause it wasn't from your tax dollars). Also, They made improvements to existing tech. Which is more than I can do, for sure. I'm a morron. But. I would argue, Elon is too.

[@leighfoulkes7297]

Especially when it comes to chemistry, one purpose of science is just to discover with the hope that an engineer or another scientist will figure out how to use this new information to benefit us in the future.

[@TheRuralPerspective]

You are wise enough to take into consideration your own limits of knowledge. You are exceptional.

[@34口2fds蛋トマgs]

the future of Western democracy is so scary. We have an entire generation of people who can't tell the difference between memes, jokes, opinions and facts. We have so many isolated pockets of the internet and certain information will never reach parts of the internet. The anti-SJW to alt-right pipeline exists on a lot more platforms. Things like toxic radical feminism and the gender identity crap are seemingly conveyer belts to these pipelines. This is the prelude to full fledged idiocracy.

[@sentientnatalie]

Western "democracy".