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  • Can you trust Kurzgesagt videos?

  • To answer this question, we'll first explain how we research them

  • and then talk a bit about past videos,

  • and what we want to achieve with the channel.

  • Making a Kurzgesagt video always begins with a question or an issue.

  • For example, after our meat video,

  • many viewers asked about the health effects of meat on humans.

  • We had no idea, and were pretty curious too,

  • so we just decided to work on it.

  • The first step is research.

  • We start by looking for books and scientific papers to get an overview,

  • and just read a lot.

  • The plan is to find a story worth telling.

  • Is there something surprising to learn?

  • Is there a larger context or a new perspective,

  • or will it be an overview or introduction?

  • Once we have the first readable version,

  • we reach out to experts or scientists,

  • and ask them to fact check and correct us.

  • Often enough, they find a flaw

  • or point us in the direction of contradictory research.

  • At this point, many scripts die.

  • If our idea does hold up, we continue working on it.

  • This process can take weeks or months.

  • Our Loneliness script, for example, took over a year and a half to finish.

  • The hardest part is being brief, while not simplifying too much.

  • It's much easier to write a long script than a short one.

  • When we're finally done,

  • we do another round of research and show the script to experts again,

  • ideally different ones than the ones we talked to

  • at the beginning of the process.

  • When we express an opinion, we mark it as such.

  • That's not saying that we don't draw conclusions from the research.

  • Homeopathy does not work, and meat is really bad for the planet.

  • Climate change is real, but organic food is not a good way of solving it.

  • If the facts clearly support a conclusion, it's OK to present it as such.

  • Of course, we can't always make everybody happy.

  • People who know a lot about a topic sometimes get annoyed

  • if we don't mention an aspect they think is crucial,

  • or when we omit technical terms.

  • This is, more or less, unsolvable because of the nature of our videos.

  • Scripts have around 1,300 words,

  • so there's always some degree of simplification.

  • You will always find a list of our research and sources

  • and further reading material in the video description.

  • Just citing sources doesn't make your work accurate or your research good though,

  • so we encourage you to use our sources document as a starting point

  • to look at the topic yourself and learn more.

  • But, it would be dishonest to say that we've always worked this way.

  • Some older videos don't live up to the standards we set ourselves today.

  • The two that annoy us the most are the Refugee and Addiction videos.

  • In both of them, we didn't try to present a balanced perspective,

  • but instead chose a take and ran with it.

  • The Refugee video was made with a deep feeling of angry frustration about the world

  • at the high point of the 2015 refugee crisis.

  • While we argued over quotas, dead children washed ashore on our coastlines.

  • The script was written on one Sunday afternoon,

  • and illustrated and animated within a week.

  • It was exhausting, stressful, and frustrating.

  • We still believe it was the right thing for European countries to help,

  • but it was absolutely unnecessary to be toxic about it.

  • We insulted people, and brushed away their concerns about real and profound challenges.

  • The video was divisive and emotional,

  • at a time when the debate needed a calm and clear overview.

  • The addiction video was based on only one source

  • that has amassed a lot of criticism over the years.

  • And, unfortunately, we did not reach out to scientists,

  • or do extra research, on the papers that were the basis for the video's thesis.

  • That, addiction is purely psychological and based on the life circumstances of the individual.

  • This stance is still held by a number of addiction professionals,

  • and we're not saying it's wrong,

  • but a lot of others disagree,

  • and it's not correct to present it as -the- truth.

  • Addiction is far from solved and our videos should have reflected that,

  • instead of taking one side.

  • We simplified an idea so much,

  • that it made a great story, but became distorting.

  • Both videos were made over the span of two months,

  • and they're two of our most successful videos to date.

  • We had found a formula that really worked.

  • But we never made anything like them again,

  • and have been discussing how to deal with them for a long time.

  • It doesn't help that both videos are loved by many people.

  • We want to be proud of our work,

  • and these two videos don't make us proud.

  • So, today, we deleted them.

  • It won't purge them from the Internet,

  • but that's not the goal anyway.

  • Feel free to upload them elsewhere.

  • We're working on a new addiction video

  • that we'll take a look at the chemical and psychological causes.

  • We'll take our sweet time with it, so please have patience.

  • The refugee video is not up-to-date anymore, so we will not renew it.

  • We're also going through our older videos to add sources,

  • further reading, and comments in the next few months.

  • Nowadays, rather than trusting in mainstream institutions,

  • we often look at creators on the Internet for reliable information.

  • We rely on the fact that they're careful and rigorous,

  • and not led by monetary incentives.

  • And we expect them to acknowledge mistakes in public, and work to minimize them.

  • So, this is what we're going to do:

  • Trust is not a thing you earn once and then keep forever.

  • You have to constantly work for it.

  • So can you trust Kurzgesagt?

  • You can trust that every video we make is thoroughly researched and approved by different experts.

  • You can trust that we know that we have biases, and we try to overcome them.

  • We want to move Kurzgesagt further towards the trustworthy end of the spectrum.

  • The world is too complex for simple answers, and we don't want to be the ones giving them.

  • Making these videos over the last six years has been quite a ride, and we're very grateful for it.

  • We hope you'll be with us for the next few years, too.

  • And join us on our journey to figure out what this universe and life stuff is all about.

  • Thank you for watching.

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