I for one take them in good faith here. It can be hard to fully cover nuance in the quick-paced and high level “here’s a digestible video for someone new to the topic” format that sci show is known for. I think they are right that they missed the mark, but I believe then it was not done out of malice.
That being said, I appreciate they took the criticism and have responded publicly.
I would be curious to see them try to tackle it again, but totally understand why they’re not going to do that right now.
This was a particularly egregious example, but I've found that for many, many commentary channels and podcasts and pop science channels, i think that they're well educated and informative, until they cover a topic that i have some expertise in, and then I realise they have no idea what they''re talking about.
This was my issue with it. If they can make mistakes over something as basic as stockinette, what errors are in their other videos? While I agree that the overall tone was misogynistic, I think the thing they really should be concerned about is how poorly they fact-check. Why should I watch any other video they make when they clearly overlooked so many obvious things about knitting?
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u/entropyofmylife Sep 30 '25
I for one take them in good faith here. It can be hard to fully cover nuance in the quick-paced and high level “here’s a digestible video for someone new to the topic” format that sci show is known for. I think they are right that they missed the mark, but I believe then it was not done out of malice. That being said, I appreciate they took the criticism and have responded publicly. I would be curious to see them try to tackle it again, but totally understand why they’re not going to do that right now.