Interesting analysis from my favorite severe no nonsense physics youtuber gal (who also used to randomly post vids of her doing cover songs to peoples’ general confusion lol).
Good bit at the end speculating on the material economic basis for this (useless) way of doing science. People make careers on this fluff that amounts to nothing.
But I believe the biggest contributor to this trend is a misunderstanding of Karl Popper’s philosophy of science, which, to make a long story short, demands that a good scientific idea has to be falsifiable.
lmao of course the guy who “debunked marxism” has also infected other areas of academia with his brainworms
It’s particularly annoying since Popper’s epistemology comes accross as deeply lacking even compared to Logical Empiricism.
