Dave Farina has one of the top science Youtube channels, with 4.4 million subscribers. That is enough to make a living. He is not a real professor, but has a large number of expository videos, mostly on elementary science. He also likes to debunk Flat Earthers and others he considers pseudoscientific or religious.
Hossenfelder is closer to being a real professor, and posts lots of videos, mostly on theoretical physics. She also does science news, and likes to cover cutting edge research. She does not do elementary expository videos. She avoids politics, except that she often criticizes research projects she considers unproductive.
So they would seem to have little or nothing to do with each other. But Dave regularly trashes Sabine in the harshest terms. It is strange, as it is unlikely that he even understands most of her videos.
Dave's politics are Woke Leftist and anti-Zionist. He recites Woke lines about race not existing, Whites being evil, LGBTQ talking points, etc. He wants Israel destroyed, and taken over by Arabs. His rants on these topics are filled with obscenities, and lack any scientific reasoning. He subscribes to weird conspiracy theories about Peter Thiel and the Jews. He strongly suspects that Thiel is funding Sabine.
Dave's latest video is 40 minutes of calling Sabine a racist. Odd, and she hardly ever says anything about race or politics.
It was all provoked by the Jason Arday scandal. He was a Cambridge U. professor who got exposed as a charlatan, and committed suicide. Dave explained the issue as some dubious accusations of plagiarism that might have been overlooked if he had been White, but which caused White racists to harass him to death.
No, I do not think the plagiarism is what got him in trouble with his employer. His problems were much deeper. He had lied about almost everything, including his childhood, his life story, his academic credential, his teaching, and his research. His autobiography was being published, and it was all lies. His research was garbage, and he had no ability to do academic work. And yet he was promoted as a great genius.
So what does any of this have to do Sabine? She tweeted a couple of times that one of the whistleblowers should not be fired for exposing Arday. Yes, that's all.
Dave is a culture warrior where he stands with the right-minded people who believe is Science, Atheism, and Wokism. He sides with whatever is published in respectable science journals, and he hates Sabine for throwing cold water on some big science projects. He loves whatever science government and universities are doing, and hates whatever Elon Musk and other billionaires do.
I have sometimes criticed Sabine myself, on this blog. But Dave is just an ideological and dishonest jerk. There is no way he can really believe what he says about race, Arday, and the whistleblower. He is like the woke activists who say that a transgender woman is just as much a woman as any other woman, or that a man can get pregnant. It is not science. It is an extreme ideological stance in order to support certain progressive objectives.
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