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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI wish Youtube & Google would categorize "scientific" opinion woo separately from peer review
published research. There should be a way that they put the junk science / armature opinion BS all together but if you want stuff that is backed by the scientific establishment you can click a sort button and it will dump all the BS. I just did a search for first evidence of human civilization in North America and most of what comes up looks like pseudoscience but sometimes it's hard to tell so I have to check on the sourcing. When the youtube publisher's name is something like "Beyond Science" anyone with a brain knows it's probably mostly made up shit.
To help clear up the results I have to throw in something like "Peer Review" into the search to narrow it down to mostly actual science. The amount of misinformation getting out to the public now on youtube and google is frightening!
SWBTATTReg
(22,205 posts)disasters/stories/you name it type of stuff waiting to happen, yada, yada, yada.
It's a joke and I lost a heck of a lot of respect for it / You Tube. I expected more. But obviously not. Google seems to be a little better but it has too much crap almost out there.
It's kind of a shame for it damages the integrity of those who strive good, thoughtful, fact-based articles out there on both platforms. I guess the nuts out there in internet land didn't feel like they had enough platforms to place their stuff on.
Quixote1818
(29,022 posts)A video website vetted by real scientists. If they had that I would not even waste my time looking for anything scientific related at youtube.