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They talk a lot about building reputations nationally and internationally as they climb the professor ladder. Do you think these hundreds of videos and thousands of people who recognize Pete for example help that?

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They talk a lot about building reputations nationally and internationally as they climb the professor ladder. Do you think these hundreds of videos and thousands of people who recognize Pete for example help that?


No they will go to meetings , lectures and general networking events or know people from when there papers are peer reviewed obvously people that have published recent papers that have impacts on other people become well known. or if sumone makes a discovery or does some particualy intresting research.

Its unlikely that any of there peers will watch these videos they might not even know about them , other than from the people in the video saying its a good way to educate the general public.

There are some wories about modern science though in that it rewards results rather than raw science , in the end good research is good research regardless of if anything of use comes from it.

Allot of the time it might take years before a specific bit of research is actually of any use , or it turns out that the results are of big impact to other sciences or that specific science.