@Hicks66 posted a really interesting(but gross) video earlier today and I've been watching the series in question. It's entertaining and the guy doing the videos is obviously a pretty smart dude BUT he set off one of my favorite pet peeves. You can't just call dumb people dumb, not if you want to change minds.

The lady he's roasting is batshit insane and may possibly have caused multiple deaths. I'm not arguing that she's right. A few of the things he called her out for, however, either have some basis in fact or are things easily misunderstood by those of us without PhDs.

Item 1: he calls her crazy for saying that viruses cause cancer. Yo dude! Some viruses do cause cancer (oncovirus). Its why we have a vaccine for hpv. You know so people don't get uterine cancer... If you call someone crazy for believing something already proven by science, your credibility goes right out the window.

Item 2: he calls her crazy for believing that sugar feeds cancer cells. This is a persistent myth but its persistent for a good reason . PET scans use a glucose as a marker. Cancer cells, being larger and faster growing show more of this marker because of the nature of the cancer cells. It's easy to see how a layman would look at these scans and think "look at all the glucose in those cancer cells, cancer must thrive on glucose!". It's not an unreasonable conclusion to reach. If you want to change someones mind about such a thing, you need to give them solid evidence and explanations for why that supposition is incorrect.

What I'm saying is you can't beat ignorance and misinformation with haughty dismissal , poor fact checking and name calling.