Talk:Cara Santa Maria

Scientifically Illiterate Science Communicators?

Why is there no mention of the fact that this person was an avid supporter of 'solar roadways,' you know, the white elephant that has to run for 4,000 years to break even and generates meter square to meter square about 1/3rd as much as roof top solar panels? She was also caught out trying to publically shame a nuclear physicist and YouTube rationalist exposing the 'CO2 to plastic' scam as being nowhere near as energy conserving (and thus significantly more harmful to the environment) than making entirely new plastic because his calculations weren't 'backed up by anything but his own calculations,' seemingly lacking to understand the very basis of science and evidence based deductive reasoning. This person is clearly cashing in on the "If I wear big framed glasses and read New Scientist to a crowd I can make a fortune." mentality blighting the low brow LOLFACTZ world of the internet, and this is all she is known for to many, many millions of users the world over. It's definitely notable and has coverage that she's a sham and lacks the scientific understanding to communicate anything but BuzzFeed headlines - so the question is why is this biography so whitewashed to appear like a pseudo-primary source for future employment gigs by this scientifically illiterate buffoon? 121.211.56.55 (talk) 18:29, 4 June 2015 (UTC Why is it that all of the females hosts of the SGU attract criticism of anything they've ever done. People want them to have huge lists of everything they disagree with on their Wiki.

What are your sources? You seem very heated up. Most wiki bio pages are like this, not "whitewashed to appear like a pseudo-primary source for future employement gigs by this scientifically illiterate buffoon" but are impartial lists of relevant facts. Loogawa (talk) 20:52, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

The standard retort of those unwilling to consider, or incapable of considering the face value of an assertion: "What are your sources?." This becomes absurd as when simple math is involved, and no sufficiently prestigious source has the same calculation in the same context. One expects a media scientist to be self-promoting, however, accusations of buffoonery and being "heated up" do not help. 107.77.213.234 (talk) 16:45, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

She is 4 years into obtaining a PhD in clinical psychology at Queens College and will officially join the ranks of social scientists. After all, Bill Nye was a mechanical engineer with a bachelor's from Cornell in the 70s before much of the current eduflation. 166.216.158.9 (talk) 17:05, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

The article reads like it was written by a PR specialist to the point of near breathlessness. A biographical article shouldn't seem to be listing everything the subject has done. It's tiring to slog through. This is the opposite of our intended tone, is it not? I regret that I lack the expertise to propose a correction, but I do have sufficient experience to notice that an article makes me cringe. I strongly suspect that the subject has had more than a minor role in its writing. Willbravo (talk) 09:19, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

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I saw her in person at a skeptic's event and she didn't look anything like the photo with no date on the main page. Also, I wish she wouldn't call herself a scientist without showing some validation that she was more than an employee in a lab many years ago (although she left that claim out of her audio clip on the main page). She is a very competent journalist and communicator. Does wikipedia have criteria for people claiming to be a scientist? In this video, Ms. Maria says "I'm not really a scientist.": http://holesinthefoam.us/coming-out-as-atheist-with-cara-santa-maria/

Above link: http://holesinthefoam.us/ returns 'domain not found, Willbravo (talk) 01:06, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Better sources needed

This article is suffering from a lack of sources supporting its content. Please add more references if possible and help pare down unsourced claims. I am confident that she passed GNG, so an AfD is not the right step. Delta13C (talk) 06:51, 19 June 2017 (UTC)