primarily suggested experimental carbon capture system that Bill Gates invested in as potential solutions
only mentioned the sponsor in the end screen so most people did not notice
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).
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.
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.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 11 months ago
Not now, I don’t really have time for that (bedtime). I suggest you look at this Medium article / opinion piece (?).