I’m not sure what is going on, but it feels like everyone that I’ve followed or enjoyed watching now has huge leanings/kickbacks from companies they seem to be promoting on their platforms. Specifically space news recently has really shown the bias with everyone foaming at the mouth about how brilliant SpaceX is when they decide to pivot to the moon instead of mars or adding safety measures like water to a launchpad which has been done for decades.
I think my breaking point was a recent video of someone walking around, what seemed to be a campus, explaining the server/hosting logistics and technical aspects but then pivoted into how great it was when everything they were saying seemed to be a negative. Followed all the relevant links to the person and of course they work for google, so it’s some kinda “non-mainstream advertising” in the guise of actual knowledge.
I think the only two individuals I watch anymore are Anton and Fran. Hell, some of Neil Degrasse Tyson’s shit has been interesting me just because of my lack of content and I’m unfortunately someone who just can’t stand the guy (but I’ll admit I’ve seen some videos lately and he’s made good points while calling out bad actors in question).
Science and futurism with Isaac Arthur will always be my favorite YouTuber. The guys personal history is fascinating, he’s always been very involved with his community. He does video essays about different aspects of the future, from spaceship designs that work under currently known physics, to what the future of sports looks like. He covers megastructures like Dyson spheres(or swarms more likely), he’s touched on micro and nano technology, I bet you haven’t even heard of a Santa Claus machine. I recommend you start with his earlier stuff although it’s not mandatory. It will give you a good idea of the logical frameworks he works within. Plus hearing “whalegun” literally never gets old.
There’s also PBS spacetime. Matt Dowd is an amazing person and a very effective physics communicator. You can come away from his videos with nearly a college level education, but it’s a lot of work because it’s not easy to understand all the time. He’s breaks things down excellently, but the topics he covers are so complex that you can only reasonably break them down so far. He does quantum videos, lots of black hole stuff, breaks down everything we know about dark energy and matter, discusses the heat death of the universe, and gets into Einstein Rosen bridges and the holographic theory.
I don’t know what “bias” is in this context, science isn’t really political and doesn’t have a “message” so there’s not really anything to push. Either you communicate the truth, or you’re a grifter. There’s isn’t really an in between. That being said, this next person does make their political beliefs more known, although rarely does that get brought up in their videos.
Joe Scott from Answers With Joe is awesome! He does a lot more wide ranging stuff, like weird occurrences(missing people, time travelers, alien abductions) but he present them in a very unbias way in the sense that he tries to tell all sides of the story. He’s not a conspiracy theorist, but he does find some of the more wacky conspiracies interesting. He’s also done videos on AI before LLMs started taking over, he covered Omuamua back when that happened, he’s discussed how climate change will impact different areas. He’s a much more layman-level YouTuber than the others in this list, but he is every bit as informative and entertaining.
Styropyro does lasers and extremely high voltage, The Plasma channel does things that might shock you, the Thought Emporium does a ton of crazy cool stuff like gene editing and growing a real mini rat brain to play DOOM. IDidAThing does foot stuff. CodysLab is interesting. The video content is incredible, but Cody does give me some mildly unsettling vibes.
Shout-out to The GrandLine Review. They’re not sciencey at all, they cover One Piece. They’re cool and funny though, check em out if you’re into lore videos.
If anyone liked these recommendations, let me know. My feed is nothing but this stuff, and I’ve got a lot of YouTubers who I watch.