The Birth of the Science Communicator | Professor Dave Explains
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The era of once-a-decade outliers such as Carl Sagan is long gone. In this current era of internet-borne disinformation and science denial, science communication has emerged as a vibrant and necessary field, with science scholars using their expertise to inform the public.
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Charlatans and anti-science propaganda have never been more prevalent, and the stakes have never been higher. As the existential challenge of the twenty-first century begins to materialize, how do we help people know what is true? This talk will clarify the issue and players involved and highlight important strategies that can be implemented toward winning this war with ourselves.
Dave Farina is a science communicator and generalist best known for his KZread channel, Professor Dave Explains (which has 2.5 million subscribers). While the channel is primarily a database of academic tutorials to help students with a variety of subjects, Dave is also passionate about neutralizing disinformation and science denial, from flat earthers and creationists to anti-vaxxers and medical hoaxes. Dave hopes to serve as a beacon toward the rehabilitation of public science literacy.
This talk took place on October 27, 2023.
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Congratulations Dave! Your contribution to the science community is immense! We appreciate you!
Inquisitive lay person here. Love Dave's work. Especially his destruction of James Tour.
Keep doin' what you're doin' Dave .....Your voice needs to be heard....thanks for keeping it up
Great work. So few people understand even the basics of science that science communicators need to be very busy!
Thank you so much for your work Dave! Love your direct and no nonsense approach to call out these frauds.
I always thought of Stephen Meyer as something of a religiously motivated crank, but based on that tweet at 19:43 he is apparently even more of an extremist (or at least is willing to promote it) than I had realized.
Love his new haircut-he's so hot and smart.
Dangerous, angry man here. Good high school swimmer, though.
Meanwhile a MrBeast video receives millions of views in an hour. Let’s face it, humans are inherently doomed. Well done, Dave. I fully support you as a scientist but humans are gonna human and on average we’re a social ape.
I really love and appreciate what he does and I support him. Though, I do have my reservations politically; he seems somewhat neoliberal/textbook democrat and therefore might have a blind spot vis a vis politics but aside from that, he's a gem. (Happy to be proven wrong though, if he's a lowkey communist I'm all for it haha) And oohh boy is he hot 😊☺
@greyideasthetheliopurodon4640
3 ай бұрын
He is a liberal leftist, he does seem to have issues with imperialism such as how he talks about Iran and Israel as well as the US.
@greyideasthetheliopurodon4640
3 ай бұрын
He does seemingly espouse Maoist ideas at times.
@Nxck2440
3 ай бұрын
y’all on the far left need to learn that you can’t pick and choose your allies in politics. the right is very united and very motivated to take away your rights, and the ‘communist’ branch of the left is quite frankly completely powerless. the liberal and left needs to come together because it’s the only shot we have for our common goals.
The birth of the Wikipedia Narrator. What's next?
@DadamWrites
3 ай бұрын
The wikipedia version of events is all we need to thoroughly debunk creationist nonsense. But Dave steps it up and actually provides summaries of papers, communicates with real scientists, etc. His work is more than the DI deserves, but it's what he needs to do to get the point across.