Have you actually seen their videos? They are far from the quality you get from PBS. Fact checking Prager U videos often takes 30+ min to go over a 5-10 min video.
The future GDP growth of the country is going to come from the people (and their kids) who are smart enough to not buy into this nonsense while everyone else will be stuck in a lower class of their own making.
More of these people are likely to emerge from the 'woke' states because people who are going somewhere in life don't care to partake in this game.
>A while back the right and the left used to trust in science and scientists. Now noone does anymore and truth itself is for sale.
How long is 'a while back'? The right has been bashing science for the 30 odd years i've been alive.
I believe that they're implying is that some have lost track of what the scientific method actually dictates and allows. For example, it's no longer permissible to ask questions about certain things, and that if you do ask questions you risk being cancelled.
Yes, there has been breakthrough technologies. But Science - upper case S intentional - has also had breakdowns.
Oh NPR. Notice how the headline characterizes an adversarial relationship. Alt headline “PragerU is introducing diversity into schools that’s more than skin deep.”
Socialism and its more authoritarian affiliates are not kindness. They bear false witness in economics, consolidate social power, crush the human spirit, and typically end in nihilistic, untethered depravity.
> The conservative media nonprofit makes short, well-produced videos crafted to appeal to college students and young people. It has polished animations and titles like "What Radical Islam and the Woke Have in Common" and "Is There Really a Climate Emergency?"
> Educators have voiced alarms about the tone and accuracy of some of PragerU's videos, such as one that features an animated Christopher Columbus saying: "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don't see the problem."
Wow, that's some bold choice of words they've used.
That's not really the correct metric. It seems bold by today's standards, but is it something Columbus would have likely thought at the time? It doesn't seem that far off to me given the prevailing mindsets of the time.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 73.8 ms ] threadNot just in what they flag in Prager or whatever online source (I don’t really care), but also in what they don’t flag PBS or VOA for.
More of these people are likely to emerge from the 'woke' states because people who are going somewhere in life don't care to partake in this game.
>A while back the right and the left used to trust in science and scientists. Now noone does anymore and truth itself is for sale.
How long is 'a while back'? The right has been bashing science for the 30 odd years i've been alive.
So Ozempic is just propaganda then? MRNA vaccines too? CRISPR? CAR-Ts? LLMs? EV Batteries? Nike Alpha Flys? Superconductors?
Hate to break it to you, but we are in a golden age of science especially in Biotech.
Yes, there has been breakthrough technologies. But Science - upper case S intentional - has also had breakdowns.
And you believe this is a new thing? Since when? After Galileo, certainly.
And I'm only try to explain that other comment, not condone it or condem it.
There HAVE been some questions as to how it works (and that the traditional understanding might be wrong), but...
They don't.
> Educators have voiced alarms about the tone and accuracy of some of PragerU's videos, such as one that features an animated Christopher Columbus saying: "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don't see the problem."
Wow, that's some bold choice of words they've used.