The ban-wagon rolls on
YouTube’s removal of chemistry videos demonstrates a lack of scientific understanding that will only hurt budding scientists
What do making chocolate cake and phenylacetic acid have in common? The answer, surprisingly enough, is that both are featured in chemistry videos that have been banned from YouTube. It seems that that the cake may have been just too chocolatey for the censors, but quite what they have against organic synthesis remains a mystery.
Joking aside, the owners of these videos have no idea why they were banned either. We now know of a number of chemistry channels, some containing hundreds of videos, that have been taken down