"It's not so much what Hank Green said, but what the Hank Green-hosted SciShow on YouTube put forward. The video is framed as physicists using science to explain the art of knitting, which until now has been innovated simply "through trial and error," and that "how it all works was mostly a mystery." Recently, scientists used a computer model to determine how certain knit stitches will behave, thus being able to predictively pattern knit fabrics for the first time."
"He also said there's nothing left to improve in making sweaters, that sweaters have already hit their ceiling. How have knitters responded? YouTuber Kristine Vike published a video fact-checking Green/SciShow's work. It's around double the length of the original, and more of a call-in than a callout. As she says in the video's description, there's \"no hate to Hank Green and the SciShow team,\" and that wading into areas outside your ken will sometimes result in looking dumb to people with more experience."
Physicists used computer models to predict how specific knit stitches will behave, enabling predictive patterning of knit fabrics and suggesting medical and industrial applications. A SciShow video framed knitting as an art now explainable by science and asserted that sweater design has reached its limits. Several knitters produced longer rebuttals and fact-check videos pushing back on scientific claims and perceived oversimplifications. One creator warned that stepping outside expertise can expose errors, while another described the explanation as mansplaining and rejected the idea that scientific attention confers legitimacy on a historically devalued craft.
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