The thing that is so compelling about JCS is that he keeps his distance from the subject, and lets the facts speak for themselves most of the time. The only time he really talks about psychology at any length it is pretty textbook criminology that you could find on the wikipedia entry about criminal psychology.
Would you also argue that TV shows like "The Search for Bigfoot" and whatnot should be banned? I can understand removing something because it contains personal information or something really obscene (like terrorists beheading someone), but videos like this are mostly just entertainment.
Quite the slipper slope you got going on there. I fail to see how a youtube video discussing interrogation techniques is going to magically cause people to 'think they're master criminal psychologists and get innocent people put in prison.'
By your reasoning anything discussing anything could be 'harmful'.
How about we decide for ourselves what we want to watch/listen/read.
Spreading misinformation about interrogation techniques in a sort-of educational format.
> How about we decide for ourselves what we want to watch/listen/read.
We can, of course. I just also happen to believe that youtube should get to decide what they distribute, and this is a fairly reasonable thing to choose not to distribute.
> I just also happen to believe that youtube should get to decide what they distribute...
Sort of like a publisher, right? Well that sounds totally reasonable for a publisher to... oh. Might wanna rethink that one - it would be a shame to lose that sweet sweet platform protection.
He regularly makes wild claims which aren’t supported by research at all.
In (real) psychology you rarely have clear “x caused y” situations, in JCS’s “criminal psychology” you do.
Stuff like this can be incredibly dangerous, people have literally been sentenced to death based on the testimony of similar quacks.