Looking for resources that avoid berating people and just simply lay out the data with it’s context from professionals in the field.

I don’t know if I’m changing or the format of constantly pointing out how stupid someone is just gets more views, but it’s getting to be hard to digest. I’m all for learning new things and possible deceptions on claims being made, just without all the sarcasm and personal attacks.

I used to enjoy Thunderf00t, and while his content is probably the same from the beginning I just can’t do that condescending speech for 30mins anymore. My brain just starts to tune it out but I want the information. Professor Dave Explains, is probably borderline for me, Adam Something used to be less energetic with sarcasm in his past videos. Basically anyone that seems to have a personal vendetta with the people involved.

I believe I’ve ran across more positive debunking lately which might be why I want to shift my focus. Some notable mentions: Kyle Hill - Youtube’s Science Scam Crisis (more humorous presentation), acollierastro - harvard & aliens & crackpots: a disambiguation of Avi Loeb (spends most of the time actually talking about history versus attacking Avi Loeb), Fraser Cain - A Big Problem with Modern Science Communication (just an all around kind presenter).

I’m open to any field or subject matter, just wanting creators that aren’t raising their blood pressure while having to use an extremely incredulous negative tone to get their point across. I love to share the more positive videos with others when a conversation comes up and they’ve been sucked into a scam video that’s twisted the narrative. I know if it’s hard for me to watch, then they aren’t going to get more than 2 minutes into a video with that type of approach.

Edit: Thank you everyone for all the awesome recommendations! I’ve added a lot of subscriptions and will make a master-list of all the sources to upload for anyone else looking.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    37·
    10 months ago

    Why not just follow popular educational creators? Anyone who accurately explains science is inherently debunking false claims.

    • Cataphract@lemmy.ko4abp.comOP
      9·
      10 months ago

      Very true, any recommendations that you enjoy? For the most part as I stated it’s useful for certain topics that come up when someone’s discussing some woowoo, it’s hard for them to sit down and go through a whole course when the context of what they’re discussing doesn’t come up. There’s also the problem of being slightly educated in a topic but then falling down a rabbit hole thinking it’s all legit (quantum subject matter seems to be particularly susceptible).

      • Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
        171·
        10 months ago

        Tom Scott

        Scott Manley

        Minute Physics

        Veratasium

        Numberphile

        Computerphile

        CGP Grey

        Adam Savage’s Tested

        Kurzgesagt

        Wendover Productions

        PBS Eons

        Dan Olson (Folding Ideas)

        hbomberguy

        Captain Disillusion

        Smartereveryday

        That my shortlist

        • Fermion@feddit.nl
          8·
          10 months ago

          Hey, just so you know, your comment displays as one big blob without formatting, at least on my app. A single carriage return doesn’t display as a new line. Adding "* " to the start of the line would put your list as bullet points, or adding a second carriage return would put each item on a new line.

        • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
          21·
          10 months ago

          Some of these are good suggestions, others not so much - unfortunately this area is rife for lots of issues such as undisclosed (or underdisclosed) sponsorship, creating content specifically to further the agendas of think tanks, and just straight up disinformation. There’s lots of criticisms of CGPGrey and Kurzgesagt for example. Just in case you weren’t aware

      • Fermion@feddit.nl
        4·
        10 months ago
        • 3 blue 1 brown
        • applied science
        • stuff made here
        • breaking taps
        • alpha phoenix
        • practical engineering
        • Tropical tidbits

        These are all excellent non-sensationalized channels. It’s only tangentially related to your prompt, but they’re all worth checking out for education/entertainment without obnoxious hype clickbait and controversy.

        I only added suggestions that I didnt see in other comments. Many of the other suggestions are also in my personal collection.

      • laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Thought Emporium is probably the premier creator when it comes to genetic engineering. I mean other times I’ve mentioned real things he’s done, people thought I was being hyperbolic, but no he is actually training rat neurons to play doom, he did create custom Spider DNA to create spider silk with Yeast and he did engineer a virus to solve his lactose intolerance.

      • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
        1·
        10 months ago

        Others have posted everyone I watch! There is another one that isn’t really science but still attempts to be objective and that’s Economics Explained which reviews contributing factors to current and historical global economic trends.