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My professor made a pretty good criticism of the “hockey” stick graph climate change scientists often referred to, showing how it was just bad science.

Would criticisms like that be demonetized for climate denial content? Seems like it would.

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Considering YouTubers were afraid of simply mentioning words such as "covid" and "virus" in their videos I'd say that it'll have a chilling effect whether YouTube gets it right or not. And I have little faith in YouTube getting it right.

I don't understand how a 50% increase in CO2 levels within 100 years is bad science.

the hockey stick is about temperature, not CO2, and it's pretty shoddy. It uses current day pretty accurate data to estimate past proxies like corals and tree rings. But it combines all of them in a graph that is not really accurate. Much better temperature reconstructions have been made available.

Do you think your professor would really care about monetizing his video? This rule seems to strike a good balance, you can still criticize the orthodoxy all you want but Google's not going to pay for it. It takes the incentive away from charlatans profiting off of misinformation.

It also takes incentive away from the scientist with an unpopular or unique hypothesis. That stifles innovation.

You think people putting content on youtube are doing it for fun? Neither fun or passion pay the bills

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