The Problem with the ’Yay Science!’ Crowd

What is ’soft scientism’? If you want to support this channel, you can get 1 year of CuriosityStream AND Nebula for an incredible $12, at with the code ’medlife’. That’s $1 a month for thousands of epic documentaries and all your favourite indie creators. 41% off if you sign up before January. SCIENCE! What is ’soft scientism’? Well, you probably won’t know, because I just made the term up. I have a lot of thoughts about scientism and science communication. These are just a few of them, with a particular focus on 2020 and the pandemic. Watching this back, I am wondering if I need to stop making videos at 3am because I’m not sure I got my point across at all. I’m just a bit fed up of people giving the impression that science is a magical entity that knows all the answers. Of course all of this pre-dates COVID, we’re awash with YouTube channels, blogs and social media accounts which fetishise science in harmful ways. People praise crackpots that “cite sources“, which is a m