kalakau t1_j9mfcqd wrote on February 23, 2023 at 12:43 AM

Reply to comment by FallingBruh in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W

as a practicing physicist you and others should be aware that sabine is intentionally contrarian in order to generate revenue. she's a populist capitalist, not a practicing physicist, and her content should be understood as entertainment, not necessarily as educational content, and certainly not as academic consensus. she often misrepresents (and in certain cases is entirely wrong about) research in fields she has no expertise in. there are threads at length in r/physics discussing this

Hostilis_ t1_j9niuzt wrote on February 23, 2023 at 6:08 AM

She absolutely is a practicing physicist lol. She's also a far better science communicator than NDT or Michio Kaku, but she gets vitriol like this, because unlike those two, she's a staunch critic of the particle physicist community. And for good reason.