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About Veritasium. These good stories with dubious claims and with "but I wasn't wrong!" and "at least I made you think" reactions is considered OK by most in the US for example. But in eastern parts of the world it is treated as a pure smartass behavior.

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Is it? Maybe (probably) I'm unusual as far as US folk go, but I think it's pretty squarely in the realm of smartassery.

If you're talking about the electricity video, that one was not wrong at all.

No, but he didn't put enough effort into making sure his question was clear, and it felt a bit deceptive ("click-batey"). He asked when the bulb would light up at all, but it seems most people thought he was asking when it would light up fully. He didn't make that clear initially, and then didn't admit later that he had communicated poorly.

That being said, I really like his videos and don't mind most of the issues people bring up with him here.

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