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who is tom scott
A youtuber who has been releasing high-quality stuff weekly for ten years solid. His videos are well worth a watch if you like the topics at hand. His main series are on science and engineering, linguistics, and interesting places
I think his style and content is pretentious and shallow. The equivalent of reading wikipedia. Essentially it is a travel channel with semi interesting scientific adjacent trivia. Nothing wrong with that but let's not claim it is truly a science channel.
I don't think anyone did claim that? Least of all Scott himself. He pretty much always defers to an actual expert when his videos cover a more technical subject, his job is to be presenter and interviewer. The exceptions are typically the computer science ones since he actually does have qualifications and experience there. I only said science and engineering was a subject he covers, which is true.
Came here to say I don't know who this person is