• ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Agreed. I used to agree with a fair amount he had to say, but now I think he was being disagreeable so that he could appear edgy and smart, and it allowed him to talk down to people. I got tired of him a decade ago or more.

      • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        I used to watch his show 2018-2020, but I put in on my never-watch list after he invited a bunch of antivaxx “researchers”, who were low-level PhDs (meaning recent grads, who left academia/research for blogging[!]), and said stupid things. Also, in general BM’s takes on medical issues tend to be highly misinformed, bordering the Dunning-Kruger effect.

        Maher being the aging narcissist cliché, always reminded me of some of my high school teachers and some of my med school profs when they bashed my generation [they raised] for being dumb and lazy. It takes a narcissist to not realize that dissing a generation raised by yours is always self-criticism. BM is even more pathetic about this because he both manages to diss millennials (and now GenZ) about being terminally on-line, and consistently make all his young generation bad references from Twitter.