Making conspiracy theories is a claim I haven't heard of them before
firecat@kbin.social 11 months ago
Until Kurzgesagt stops making conspiracy theories, no one should support the channel.
atocci@kbin.social 11 months ago
firecat@kbin.social 11 months ago
The video title is very misleading, current video “How to win interstellar war” has actual no real science behind it. We can not predict a war, no one has. Another thing, we haven’t even proven if aliens are real. kurzgesagt just made it up.
skulblaka@kbin.social 11 months ago
Got any other info on that? You've got my attention, but also my doubt.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
They received money from the Gates Foundation so now right wing nut jobs believe all their videos are mind control propaganda.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 11 months ago
The video in question
Also, lots of their research comes from their partnered publication, Our World in Data, which was sponsored by philantropists and found to be biased and unreliable on many accounts.
Does it mean they are as crazy and oblivious to science as PragerU? Not even close. However, their claims should be treated with a pinch of salt even if they provide footnotes. Personally, I find the biases too slight to matter – I would not really watch their videos anyway (I don’t like the pacing, language and animation style).
projectd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Could you reference some of these claims that our world in data was found to be biased? Sounds like a pretty solid judgement was made, but a cursory search didn’t yield anything untoward. Maybe if it’s definite, you could update the Wikipedia entry to reference the controversy, as that’s always a good place to signpost that kind of thing.