I sort of agree and disagree with you. I think generally you are correct we do need more Sabines not fewer.
However, I disagree that what she does is the "less popular and therefore less lucrative work of summarising what is just not correct out there". The sort of takedowns she does are quite popular and very easy to do. However, my criticism is that quite a few of them are superficial and fall essentially into the same traps that she criticises, i.e. the actual topic is much too complex to either present or take down without a more comprehensive in-depth discussion (which would be much less popular).
Now this is still somewhat ok if she's the expert on the topic she is talking about as she has the expertise to know how good/bad the simplifications she makes are. However, recently she has started weighing in on topics where she not an expert at all: diesel fuel, antibiotic resistance, light pollution to name just 3 from the front page of her youtube channel. In this case things become quite problematic, because she is simplifying things that she might not have a full grasp of herself but still talks about like an expert.
However, I disagree that what she does is the "less popular and therefore less lucrative work of summarising what is just not correct out there". The sort of takedowns she does are quite popular and very easy to do. However, my criticism is that quite a few of them are superficial and fall essentially into the same traps that she criticises, i.e. the actual topic is much too complex to either present or take down without a more comprehensive in-depth discussion (which would be much less popular).
Now this is still somewhat ok if she's the expert on the topic she is talking about as she has the expertise to know how good/bad the simplifications she makes are. However, recently she has started weighing in on topics where she not an expert at all: diesel fuel, antibiotic resistance, light pollution to name just 3 from the front page of her youtube channel. In this case things become quite problematic, because she is simplifying things that she might not have a full grasp of herself but still talks about like an expert.