She’s a right-wing demagogue (likely Thiel-funded) that whines about DEI, ‘cancel culture’, and ‘communism’ while lying about physics. That’s it.
She also got dunked on by six actual physicists, who debunked her rhetoric around how ‘physics is failing’ and how ‘Eric Weinstein is actually a super awesome physics guy’ pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipI5TQ54tA
im guessing the signs were there, when her video about giving up as a “scientist” because of her opinions, she was obfuscating the nature of why she dint become one.
Speaking of Sabine, I unsubscribed from Alex O’Connor because he kept having pseudo science guests on and wasn’t being critical at all, just letting them yap. Gave me Rogan vibes but hosting Sabine was my last straw.
Or at least a whiff of Rogan, I’m pretty sensitive to any potential red flags these days even if he doesn’t ever fall off as hard as that. Glad someone else agrees, I haven’t looked in a year to know if he’s fallen out of online atheist graces or not.
I’ve seen concerns in comment sections in videos on other channels when he comes up in clips and seen a single video addressing some concerns about his direction, but nothing major to my knowledge.
Others can say it better than me, but her videos went from well-researched science education to takedowns of the scientific process itself, hybothesis, experiment, analysis, forming new hypotheses. And takedowns of scientist in general. Conspiracies like “they’re all trying to waste taxpayer money,” which did GREAT numbers on YouTube.
I enjoyed her early videos saying “String theory is too difficult to verify experimentally, offers too little in predictive power, and gets way too much funding compared to other areas like X Y Z.” That’s a fair opinion and a discussion where rational minds can support their argument, and even agree to disagree.
“Science is sick, academia is dying, the whole field is corrupt, you can’t trust scientists” is her vibe now. You can’t have good faith arguments in that framing.
I haven’t watched Sabine in ages. She has always been fringe… Often cringe.
Science is sick. At least in America… Academia is dying. The amount of people that use AI to cheat is ridiculous. Brain rot was literally word of the year…
People are getting stupider regardless of the subject matter. I think Korn wrote a song about that and how long ago was that?
Have you considered she’s farming for clicks and really doesn’t give a fuck?
Look how she’s been attacked over the years even when she was doing videos that you all really liked I was never a fan but to each their own. Scientific method can take many facets. And that’s the wonderful thing about science is that scientists disagree with each other. But ultimately we should rely upon experimentation and predictive power and falsifiability to determine what is science and what is not.
I like Gareth from See The Pattern. I don’t agree with it everything that guy says. But that’s kind of the point he explores various theories and that’s fun. I can’t say whether they’re right or wrong and I really don’t care cuz it’s presented well and it’s entertaining.
How do you go full anti-science?
Just because she questions mainstream consensus science which has very little evidence going for it?
That’s what a good scientist does. They formulate hypothesis… Theories. Maybe they’re right or maybe they’re wrong. Who knows.
You don’t have to be infallibly correct to be a scientist.
shes not a scientist thought, she got kicked out of academia, for her obvious promblematic issues.
Roflmao, “mainstream science” 😂
She’s a right-wing demagogue (likely Thiel-funded) that whines about DEI, ‘cancel culture’, and ‘communism’ while lying about physics. That’s it.
She also got dunked on by six actual physicists, who debunked her rhetoric around how ‘physics is failing’ and how ‘Eric Weinstein is actually a super awesome physics guy’ pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipI5TQ54tA
im guessing the signs were there, when her video about giving up as a “scientist” because of her opinions, she was obfuscating the nature of why she dint become one.
Speaking of Sabine, I unsubscribed from Alex O’Connor because he kept having pseudo science guests on and wasn’t being critical at all, just letting them yap. Gave me Rogan vibes but hosting Sabine was my last straw.
That’s what you do… you let them talk. No point arguing with fools.
I’ve been so disappointed in the direction he has taken his channel. Rogan vibes is such a good way of putting it.
Or at least a whiff of Rogan, I’m pretty sensitive to any potential red flags these days even if he doesn’t ever fall off as hard as that. Glad someone else agrees, I haven’t looked in a year to know if he’s fallen out of online atheist graces or not.
I’ve seen concerns in comment sections in videos on other channels when he comes up in clips and seen a single video addressing some concerns about his direction, but nothing major to my knowledge.
She pretty much always picks a non-mainstream opinion on any given topic, even when confronted with evidence counter her position.
Contrarianism isn’t “what a good scientist does”, it’s stupidity.
Can you please name an example one or two of things that have reached “scientific consensus” yet have very little evidence?
How about just one. One thing.
I’m really curious to see what it is that you think words mean.
If you are genuinely asking and not just defending, this blog post is a starting point to explain: https://timothynguyen.org/2025/08/21/physics-grifters-eric-weinstein-sabine-hossenfelder-and-a-crisis-of-credibility/
Others can say it better than me, but her videos went from well-researched science education to takedowns of the scientific process itself, hybothesis, experiment, analysis, forming new hypotheses. And takedowns of scientist in general. Conspiracies like “they’re all trying to waste taxpayer money,” which did GREAT numbers on YouTube.
I enjoyed her early videos saying “String theory is too difficult to verify experimentally, offers too little in predictive power, and gets way too much funding compared to other areas like X Y Z.” That’s a fair opinion and a discussion where rational minds can support their argument, and even agree to disagree.
“Science is sick, academia is dying, the whole field is corrupt, you can’t trust scientists” is her vibe now. You can’t have good faith arguments in that framing.
I haven’t watched Sabine in ages. She has always been fringe… Often cringe.
Science is sick. At least in America… Academia is dying. The amount of people that use AI to cheat is ridiculous. Brain rot was literally word of the year…
People are getting stupider regardless of the subject matter. I think Korn wrote a song about that and how long ago was that?
I really liked her quantum physics explainers, like the two slit experiment. I didn’t think she was fringe when she was teaching like this.
Have you considered she’s farming for clicks and really doesn’t give a fuck?
Look how she’s been attacked over the years even when she was doing videos that you all really liked I was never a fan but to each their own. Scientific method can take many facets. And that’s the wonderful thing about science is that scientists disagree with each other. But ultimately we should rely upon experimentation and predictive power and falsifiability to determine what is science and what is not.
It’s obvious that’s what’s she’s doing. But i think she believes the lies at this point.
I like Gareth from See The Pattern. I don’t agree with it everything that guy says. But that’s kind of the point he explores various theories and that’s fun. I can’t say whether they’re right or wrong and I really don’t care cuz it’s presented well and it’s entertaining.
How does that relate to Sabine?
They both discuss cosmology among similar subjects on YouTube.