How NOT to do a vaccine PSA (Jimmy Kimmel fail)
- Rohin
- May 9, 2021
- 1 min read
Jimmy Kimmel had a segment featuring some doctors and nurses giving a vaccine public service announcement. It's had a mixed response.
I do really want to make some non-COVID, more produced videos. But I keep finding myself making these sh*tty looking basic low-effort ones to respond to something topical. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
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Personally one thing I find very cringy is people arguing from authority based on their expertise in a wide discipline like physics or medicine. I understand why it's hard for the public to see the difference between an actual expert and someone having the same degree as such experts.
For an example I actually understand the details of, here in Germany one former physics professor who greatly advanced the field of general relativity now goes around talking about cold fusion crackpot stuff that his expertise doesn't apply to. Same with people like Neil deGrasse Tyson - as far as I can tell perfectly fine astrophysicist, but sometimes says some really weird shit...
When a show like Kimmel's puts up a…