These felt like Buzzfeed videos in that you spend the majority of the time watching inexpensive graphics and hearing opinions of regular people, and the actual science and information is maybe 2-3 minutes tops of a 17-minute video. The first 4 minutes there was zero information and having to watch cheap graphics you would expect in an old video you see in high school health class. And what little science they give you a lot of it is just clips from old articles from the 2000s and '90s. The episodes seem more like a something an intern wrote out and then assembled a bunch of clips together, then hire a celebrity to narrate, and interview a few experts (though, we don't actually know if they're actually experts) for brief clips.
I suppose I'm not surprised to see Vox in the title, as I'm assuming their the producers. So, Buzzfeed wannabes? I've never been particularly impressed with Vox's writing and have learned to just avoid any articles by them as I find they tend to by heavily skewed towards the writer's personal opinions and very light on actual facts. They once had an article that was later removed promoting why we should be benevolent toward child predators. I mean, who signed off on that?
Vox trying to be an educational tool is kind of like Buzzfeed trying to be news, mostly a waste. It wasn't even entertaining and I certainly didn't learn anything new. It's more like they tried to build a show around a smidgen of information so they could make money off of it. Much better off watching something from National Geographic, Discovery, Science Channel, Smithsonian, etc.
