The Sleep of Reason by David James Smith

This is definitely a baseless CONSPIRACY theory. She is saying due to string theory people lost faith in all sciences. Even to know what the majority thinks you need a LARGE SAMPLE SIZE to get an idea. The pop science audience is in millions and you can’t assume they all have similar opinions.

She is randomly saying things (making stuff up) like the public was thinking like this in 2000s and like that in 2010s etc without any SOURCES. She incorrectly said that the cost of SSC was 200 billion instead of 8.25 billion. Why do some of them wish that fields like string theory and quantum gravity which are already SEVERELY underfunded to go extinct? What do they achieve if humanity stops progressing in fundamental physics? Correct me if I am wrong but you don’t advocate for completely stopping hiring string theorists right? She is an ASTRO person.

Looks like she is much less nuanced than people like you. She is wishing string theorists should never be hired (at 31:20). “if they are not testable now they are not predictions”: Thanks for teaching me that when Einstein “predicted” gravitational waves it was not a prediction until 100 years later. So are we supposed to learn the history of string theory from someone who doesn’t know what Pauli got the Nobel for? She wrongly included String theory in a nutshell (by Elias Kiritsis) as a popular science book among Kaku’s and Brian Greene’s books. This person doesn’t look like she EVEN knows string theory at the popular science level. She told there are 10 string theories (at 16:00) and were unified even though there are only 5. Originally published in 1994, this new edition features a new preface which considers the release and rearrest of one of the convicted.Life hack: If someone is not even putting enough effort to focus while talking and instead is gaming while speaking then that video is not worth watching. A sensitive and definitive account, The Sleep of Reason achieves a unique understanding of the James Bulger case, and comes as close as may ever be possible to explaining how two ten-year-olds could kill.

In search of an explanation, award-winning journalist David James Smith looks behind the misinformation, misunderstanding, and sensational reporting to an exact account of the events of that day. In between they abducted and killed a two-year-old boy, James Bulger. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys began the day by playing truant and ended it running an errand for the local video shop. his evidence, used judiciously and presented without comment but with an undertone of urgency, is a damning indictment.' - Anita Brookner, Observer Friday, 12th February, 1993. For fans of Serial, Making a Murderer and The Keepers 'Dramatic and disturbing.

The Sleep of Reason by David James Smith