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    Science never quite clicked for me at school. Then I discovered science YouTube | Tom Hawking

    I found something I never knew I wanted: fascinating mathematical concepts explained in a way that’s entertaining
    by Tom Hawking Mar 05, 2019 3 minutes
    ‘For me, it’s seeing how and why those ideas work — quite a revelation in itself, because I never considered myself a visual learner at school’ Photograph: AKP Photos / Alamy/Alamy

    YouTube has long had a reputation as a hive of conspiracy theories, misinformation, and pseudoscience. All these accusations are, more or less, true — if you’re vulnerable to the wooing of Flat Earthers, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 truthers, the alt-right, and every other sort of lunatic fringe flourishing in 2018, they’re all there, waiting for you on YouTube.

    But as with all the other “platforms” that dominate the internet — Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc — YouTube is more than a morass of anti-scientific nutters.

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