I discovered Shaun this year and binged most of his videos. The War On Science was this year and is great, though 4+ hours is a big commitment… Most of his other stuff is shorter.
For the curious: “War on Science” is a book of essays including Lawrence Kraus (whom “edits” the volume) and Richard Dawkins.
You might think that this book would be about RFKjr or the collapse of US funding for research. No. The ‘war on science’ is when academics are held accountable to woke ideology i.e. being disciplined for having sex with your students. It’s publisher doesn’t usually cover science, mostly selling books about fundamental Christianity.
For those of us who watched the brain-rot of Islamophobia and misogyny take over the skeptic community back in the early 2010s, it’s no surprise that these men turned out to be grifters in bed with fundamentalist Christians over their shared hatred of Muslims and women.
There is so much more to the video. Including specifics about some of the essays and their authors; the Jeffery Epstein connection; and how feminism destroyed the “new atheist” movement.
It’s frankly amazing to go through and become an atheist in the early 2000s based off some of these individuals and their work, forget about them for a few years, then check in years later just to see how absolutely horrible some of these turds turned out. Like holy shit what the fuck is wrong with you.
I discovered Shaun this year and binged most of his videos. The War On Science was this year and is great, though 4+ hours is a big commitment… Most of his other stuff is shorter.
For the curious: “War on Science” is a book of essays including Lawrence Kraus (whom “edits” the volume) and Richard Dawkins.
You might think that this book would be about RFKjr or the collapse of US funding for research. No. The ‘war on science’ is when academics are held accountable to woke ideology i.e. being disciplined for having sex with your students. It’s publisher doesn’t usually cover science, mostly selling books about fundamental Christianity.
For those of us who watched the brain-rot of Islamophobia and misogyny take over the skeptic community back in the early 2010s, it’s no surprise that these men turned out to be grifters in bed with fundamentalist Christians over their shared hatred of Muslims and women.
There is so much more to the video. Including specifics about some of the essays and their authors; the Jeffery Epstein connection; and how feminism destroyed the “new atheist” movement.
It’s frankly amazing to go through and become an atheist in the early 2000s based off some of these individuals and their work, forget about them for a few years, then check in years later just to see how absolutely horrible some of these turds turned out. Like holy shit what the fuck is wrong with you.
Thanks for letting me know of this channel