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Willing to elaborate on "knitting debacle"? I'm a late and infrequent watcher of his YouTube channel.
Been a minute since I watched it, but essentially Scishow did an episode about the science of knitting (and other forms of fabric crafting, which they did not adequately distinguish between) without consulting a single person who knits. It came off as really dismissive of the craft, like it's somehow super surprising that knitting is actually interesting.
I'll update this comment with a better explanation after work, check back in 12 hours
I got this vibe from stuff you should know podcast once early on, but after i was mad at them for a while, I still listen, and they seem to do a better job now.
When you're making edutainment for a general audience, there's going to be some things that will seem obvious to experts, so i can't really knock them for that.
But I can knock them for not doing their research and putting out wrong information, especially if they don't retract it later.
Edit: this video is a knitter explaining it well. She doesn't blame Hank either, but explains the reaction and the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHpGoYlzmog
That's enough for me tbh, thanks!
Oh no! Not the knitting debacle