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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).
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
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.
Added some more returns lemme know if that helped
That's much easier to read. Thanks.
Don't forget PBS Spacetime!
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
Great list! I'd add:
SciShow
Steve Mould
SixtySymbols
Periodic Videos
Cody's Lab
Real Engineering
Kyle Hill is a great one that I don't see getting recommended often enough.
PBS spacetime
Smarter everyday
Practical engineering
Tom Scott is pretty positive. The videos aren't about debunking though, more just sharing info on random things.
One "debunking" style video might be the one on VPNs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
There's a other great one on online voting
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.
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.
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.