Youtube is a free-for-all with no intellectual standards whatsoever. I understood BhTV to be something different.
In terms of consistency, I imagine that most scientists would boycott any forum that presents itself as having intellectual standards and aiming at an audience skewed towards the educated, knowledgeable, informed subset of the population, IF THAT SITE also commonly supports discussion about topics such as creationism, ghost hunters, alien abduction, psychics, astrology, channelers of dead Atlanteans, etc.
I think it’s perfectly fair to have on “silly” topics, if the silly advocates are set up against skeptics who are strong debaters who usually proceed to kick silly butt all over the place. Nothing wrong with it. Seriously. It’s instructive for the nation’s youth.
Youtube is a free-for-all with no intellectual standards whatsoever. I understood BhTV to be something different.
In terms of consistency, I imagine that most scientists would boycott any forum that presents itself as having intellectual standards and aiming at an audience skewed towards the educated, knowledgeable, informed subset of the population, IF THAT SITE also commonly supports discussion about topics such as creationism, ghost hunters, alien abduction, psychics, astrology, channelers of dead Atlanteans, etc.
I think it’s perfectly fair to have on “silly” topics, if the silly advocates are set up against skeptics who are strong debaters who usually proceed to kick silly butt all over the place. Nothing wrong with it. Seriously. It’s instructive for the nation’s youth.
It’s instructive and worthwhile, and I agree it should happen somewhere. It’s just not what I thought BhTV was all about.