Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "TED-Ed"
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@osamaibrahim7267 : We get all of our, “alc’,” words from Arabic, as well as the alphabet and numbers we use to write them, apparently: words like, “alcohol,” (ironically) “alchemy,” and, “Al Qaida,” all have Arabic roots. And we wouldn’t have even heard of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and other Greek geniuses (having lost or burned all the western world’s records) had it not been for Arabic scholarship preserving them. So, I’d like to see their scholarship tributed. They were streets ahead of the west in science, medicine and philosophy in the Middle Ages.
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It’s sad that TED has become the Wikipedia of YouTube, in that it cannot be sited in academe, or trusted to be 100% accurate. Would love it if TED tightened up its ship? If they vetted their speakers better, or set up categories, by which we could separate hard facts from speakers who . . . well? Let’s face it? Some speakers just can’t be trusted not to be corrupt or even criminals! That undermines everything about TED, which began as a gold standard. Recently, I saw a physics lecture in which the professor said, “You may have heard it on a TED Talk? But, no one takes TED as law, right?” And his panel of well known physicists all nodded along with him. That blew me away, so I looked into it. Some of the people TED has had as guests, were promoting scams dressed up to look like science! Some are in jail, while others are under indictment! You need to go through your back catalogue and put a mark of some kind by the talks which are not tainted in this way. It’s a responsibility which falls to you, unless you are happy as being taken as pop science / pop culture and nothing more? With a potentially, “dodgy,” reputation? It matters. It really matters. The phrase, “S/He gave a TED Talk,” doesn’t carry the weight it used to, and that’s just a shame. Especially since you could do something about that.
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