[Music] can you trust coaches act videos to answer this question we'll first explain how we research
them and then talk a bit about past videos and what we want to achieve with the channel
making a quartz gazard video always begins with a question or an issue for example after our meat
video many viewers asked about the health effects of meat on humans we had no idea and we're pretty
curious too so we just decided to work on it the first step is research we start by
looking for books and scientific papers to get an overview and just read a lot the plan is to
find a story worth telling is there something surprising to learn is there a larger context
or A New Perspective or will it be an overview or introduction once we have the first readable
version we reach out to experts or scientists and ask them to fact check and correct us often
enough they find a flaw or pointers in the direction of contradictory research at this
point many scripts die if our idea does hold up we continue working on it this process can
take weeks or months our loneliness script for example took over a year and a half to finish
the hardest part is being brief while not simplifying too much it's much easier to write
a long script than a short one when we're finally done we do another round of research my opinion I
think kurzegov walks a very fine line I have too too complex too simple and it's a massive problem
because especially when you're doing videos on physics which there's a lot of on his channel
it's you nearly always have to distill it to a point where it is actually misinformation
almost always when you watch a physics video or an astro like any area of physics on YouTube you're
probably getting misinformation why because we have to distill it in a way that our human brains
can sort of understand it and a lot of the time take quantum theory general relativity we speak so
loosely about this stuff because talking about it requires years of mathematical knowledge and the
concepts build upon each other and you just really can't even talk about it in any Accurate Way
and so whether it's from you know simplifying the structure of an atom to simplifying how the
big bang to Simply like everything it's it's so it's a problem PBS space-time
uh I disagree with you I think uh coach exact actually has a better balance than space-time
because these videos are much more entertaining these videos are open to more people PBS space
time is an incredible Channel but it's way more focused for people who have already
some prerequisite knowledge these videos are accessible to anyone kids they're very old and
not they're not only just inform you in terms of uh like basic stuff they also occasionally tell
you some actually really things you know you you'd only get from a you know a professor and
so this is an incredible balance and they've got animations which make it's so watchable the watch
time on these videos would be unbelievably high so I think this is this guy should win a Nobel Prize
in science communication if there was a thing and I think there should be a freaking thing because
science communication is just as important as the science if you do brilliant science but you
never communicate it to someone else well then guess what it was as good as pointless because
no one will ever know no one will ever be able to understand and maybe eventually someone will
come along and decipher what you've done that's what's happened a lot of times in in the history
of science you have some really smart dude in math or woman and you know they'll they'll discover
something and they just are so introverted they can't communicate they've and then it's you know
that's it I should show the script to experts again ideally different ones than the ones we
talked to at the beginning of the process when we express an opinion we mark it as such that's
not saying that we don't draw conclusions from the research Homeopathy does not work
and meat is really bad for the planet climate change is real but organic food is not a good
way of solving it if the facts clearly support a conclusion it's okay to present it as such
of course we can't always make everybody happy people who know a lot about a topic sometimes
get annoyed if we don't mention an aspect they think is crucial or when we omit technical terms
this is more or less unsolvable because of the nature of our videos scripts have around one
that's a great way to put it it's very it's impossible because it's what we were just talking
about you've got to misinform to some degree and scientists don't understand this there are
so many people in the depths of the fields doing the research and they don't understand anything
about science communication because we don't get forced to do it in a degree and we should and you
know these people don't understand that we need to actually distill it and misinform to some degree
1 300 words so there's always some degree of simplification you will always find a list of our
research and sources and further reading material in the video description just citing sources
doesn't make your work accurate or your research good though so we encourage you to use our sources
document as a starting point to look at the topic yourself and learn more but it would be dishonest
to say that we've always worked this way some older videos don't live up to the standards we
set ourselves today the two that Annoy Us the most are the refugee and addiction videos in
both of them we didn't try to present a balanced perspective but instead chose a take and Ram with
it the refugee video was made with a deep feeling of angry frustration about the world at the high
point of the 2015 Refugee crisis while we argued over quotas dead children washed ashore on our
coastlines the script was written on one Sunday afternoon and Illustrated and animated within a
week it was exhausting stressful and frustrating we still believe it was the right thing for
European countries to help but it was absolutely unnecessary to be toxic about it we insulted
people and brushed away their concerns about real and profound challenges the video was divisive
and emotional at a time when the debate needed a calm and clear overview the addiction video was
based on only one source that has amassed a lot of criticism over the years I don't know about what
he just said about the refugee stuff I think um I disagree in a lot of places there but we'll we'll
save that and unfortunately we did not reach out to scientists or do extra research on the papers
that were the basis for the video's thesis that addiction is purely psychological and based on
the life circumstances of the individual this stance is still held by a number of addiction
professionals and we're not saying it's wrong but a lot of others disagree and it's not correct to
present it as the truth addiction is far from solved and our video should have reflected that
instead of taking one side we simplified an idea so much that it made a great story but became
distorting both videos were made over the span of two months and then the story had just made it
extremely wrong two of our most success more wrong Ben is acceptable because all of it is going to be
it's not all of it but most of it's going to be somewhat wrong but it's going to be not too wrong
it's four videos to date we had found a formula that really worked but we never made anything like
them again I don't know if it's like watching your old cringy videos I think what they're
actually talking about is um you know they just presented they realized they were a bit
um you know too hard one way or the other they might have been having a bad day or they felt
really impassioned by some you know Refugee crisis right and like they said they pumped it out very
quickly and yeah so I I don't think it's actually uh like a cringy video I'm sure they probably
still agree with it the person who wrote it right maybe maybe he's changed his mind or something but
maybe the backlash caused them to realize okay we just people don't want this or it's too you know
jarring for a lot of people so we're just going to present things in a more um agnostic way which is
what they generally do I think nowadays which I think is uh I don't know like it's good and bad
and have been discussing how to deal with them for a long time it doesn't help that both videos
are loved by many people we want to be proud of our work and these two videos don't make us proud
so today we deleted them it won't purge them from the internet but that's not the goal anyway feel
free to upload them elsewhere we're working on a new Addiction video that will take a look at
the chemical and psychological courses we'll take our sweet time with it so please have patience the
refugee video is not up to date anymore so we will not renew it we're also going through our
older videos to add sources further reading and comments in the next few months nowadays rather
than trusting in mainstream institutions we often look at creators on the internet for
Reliable information we rely on the fact that they are careful and rigorous and not led by monetary
incentives and we expect them to acknowledge mistakes in public and work well a lot of [ __ ]
everyone's in incentivized by the money you know what I mean like everyone there's we're humans man
yeah a major part of my motivation is to actually help but you know it's like I'm already doing that
in the physics in the in the PHD you know what I mean so it's sort of like we get no money in the
PHD or the physics area so a lot of us are trying out other areas to kind of just survive you know
I gotta disagree push back a little bit money is in the the way the world works is
important unfortunately you know you can't survive without it or you can you go live in Alaska and
and I'd love to do that but unfortunately you know what else did we say we're almost done I think to
minimize them so this is what we're going to do if you come I'm building something as well actually
um for the sake of people this isn't to make money I saw something that needed to be done
so quantum computers are right around the corner the powerful ones they already exist so I created
this little VPN and it's got something called post Quantum cryptographic algorithms in it and these
are quite new uh nist has just advised everyone upgrade their encryption standards and we're the
first VPN that consumers can use with them which is kind of cool and I'm proud of it so if you want
to come help us out but you do trust is not a thing you earn once and then keep forever you
have to constantly work for it so can you trust Court's Gazette you can trust that every video
we make is Thoroughly researched and approved by different experts you can trust that we know that
we have biases and we try to overcome them we want to move kutzkers out further towards the
trustworthy end of the spectrum the world is too complex for simple answers and we don't want to
be the ones giving them making these videos over the last six years has been quite a ride
and we're very grateful for it world might be simpler than we realize though we hope you'll
be with us for the next few years too and join us on our journey to figure out what
this universe and life stuff is all about think I think you can't trust coach exact they're great
videos you can trust they're going to inform you misinform you to the the minimal degree possible
because they will misinform you like I've been stating in this video but it's gonna be
the least misinformed videos probably on YouTube in in some ways so that's good I mean if you
want to go really deeper yeah like uh Addie Adam said before go check out PBS space time
if you like that specific area of you know physics of science uh they they go in depth
but it's hard to follow so that's a curse exact video done that was awesome