It's especially not an explanation.
That is the point I was intending. The author of that book seems to use "addiction" as an explanation. "Why do these people not pay me any attention?" he asks himself. "I know, it's because they're addicted to their beliefs!"
She has probably more formal qualifications than Eliezer and is more skeptic about her knowledge about quantum physics than Eliezer.
Does she have knowledge to be sceptical about? I'm not going to slog through two hours of video, even if it were in English. Her works listed at de.wikipedia.org are on other subjects. No, there is nothing here that suggests to me that looking further into it would be useful.
Her works listed at de.wikipedia.org are on other subjects.
If you read that article you will find that Spektrum (the German version of the Scientific American) wrote her a well meaning obituary.
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