Biomedical Scientist Answers Pseudoscience Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
Biomedical scientist Dr. Andrea Love answers your questions about pseudosciences and false health claims from Twitter.
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22 mins of the "Karen Report" right on!
Not gonna lie I chuckle after hearing "they're speaking way outside of their area of expertise" and realizing all the topics she was gonna discuss XD
While I am someone who believes in the methods of science, I still appreciate that you don't outright dismiss any hypothesis without the evidence to back it up. Most people refuse to give conspiracy theories real answers only driving people further into their own delusion
So you're saying we're RoundUp Ready?
She debunked so many people I know and I’m here for it!
She's so angry
There was so much to cover, she didn't get to my two favorites, MSG and nitrates in cured meats.
If they call themselves an “influencer”.
btw pepsin isn't the main enzyme for nucleotide chain digestion (nuclease), it's the pancreatic deoxyribonuclease, and the lytic effect of pepsin upon polynucleotides is still debated.
Dr. Love? What a naaaame
How do you know a lot of so-called health experts are talking nonsense? Because everybody would starve to death if they followed every single advice they are given.
Gender ideology should've been brought up as well. The epitome of anti-science.
Not the Andrew Huberman diss
I have a bad face question about homeopathy. So you take a small amount of the substance you're trying to treat someone with add it to water and shake. This process transfers the property of the effective agent to the water. At least that's theory. So why doesn't the water pick up the properties of the container you're doing the shaking in. In other words why doesn't glass container transfer its glassiness to the water or aluminum container transfer the properties of aluminum to the water? You would think the water coming out of your copper pipes after slashing around inside of it would would be loaded with copper properties so that drinking it would give you copper poisoning.
I already know homeopathy is crap, I put it in the question form to show the ridiculousness of this so-called medical procedure.
She got the very basics of radiation correct but it is clear it isn't her wheelhouse. Radiowaves being low energy is describing an amplitude but missing the magnitude (missing the forest through the trees). Any idiot looking at her chart that shows microwaves below the visible spectrum is going to glance at their microwave and say "what?"
6:20 Love the Huberman burn here 😂
15:38 Another cause of wheat related bloating is fructans, fermentable carbs that bacteria handle better than we do. Different baking processes result in very different fructan content in the finished bread.
Sourdough bread doesn’t use yeast and is usually left to proof for a long time, so the bacteria in the sourdough starter eat much of the fructans ahead of time, leaving much less in the finished bread product.
Breads that are baked with a short proofing period, like typical supermarket loaves in the U.S., often end up with more fructans left in the final product.
European breads tend to be proofed for much longer than U.S. bread, which can reduce the quantity of fructans and result in much less bloating.
The ironic part is "those people" will believe what they want to believe
Idk I feel like she didn’t really answer that organic food question, I feel like to focus on one aspect of why people buy organic food like she talked the pesticides but didn’t says it’s virtually the same thing either. Kinda sus.
You can tell this woman is very intelligent and knowledgeable, because of how she explains things in a way that’s easy to understand. Great video!
This is my favorite WIRED I've ever seen
Never mind thoughts on floridated water being good/bad for someone…I don't know how anyone can stand to drink it bc it tastes so bad.
I noticed the good doctor avoided talking about the covid 'vaccine'.
I have a friend who firmly believes that their son developed intellectual disabilities because of vaccinations (I cannot remember the exact disability, but it isn’t specifically autism, I do know that). Anyway, if I sent him this video, he would pretty much never speak to me again.
She needs to do more of these she has the explanations and facts
All the simpng got me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I like placebo back cracks.
After martial arts & sports reffing, its very relaxing 🫠🤷🏽♀️
wait wait wait. no link between anyvaccine and autism or just the mmr vaccine
She has the most perfect level of smugness of someone that knows they're right in the most genuinely honest way and I am here for it. Please have Dr. Love back again as she was phenomenal! Thanks @Wired and Dr. love!
So basically all of our fears are unfounded, and we have absolutely nothing to worry about at all… 🙄👌
You can tell when any "influencer" is full of shyte if they call themselves an influencer.
Which entities paid you to do this video?
Hot af! 😍
Omg! First, please do this every day. Humanity needs this right now. Second, are you single?
How can you tell if a Dr is full of it? When they use pseudoscience to prove they are right and the others are wrong. May I remind you that the gold standard has failed. May I remind you that peer review has failed. Both now border on pseudoscience. John Iodannis taught me that some 15 yrs ago. Your own profession used to use mercury to 'cure' people. There are many more examples of this. Accept you have a bias and you are likely to be wrong 50% of the time.
you heard it here folks, feed that cancer!
Can't figure out how unvaccinated children are going to school. When I was raising mine, you had to show proof that your kids were vaccinated or they wouldn't be allowed to go to school. Maybe it's a state by state thing. Dunno.
My wife had congenital rubella syndrome, and for it has many issues which she has luckily overcome but many lasting effects still persist. People who are unvaccinated or spouting nonsense really get me worked up.
If they claim to be a bio hacker, or say that inflammation is bad, they’re a fraud and don’t understand how the human body works.
6:16 Shot at Andrew Huberman? 😂
If you have a TikTok channel selling snake oil, you’re scamming. If you call yourself an influencer, you’re a scammer.
you know to much
"If you have functioning organ systems y'or already detoxing all day er day"
I think I'm in love.
Genuine follow-up: I'm allergic to pesticides (or at least that's how it was explained to me) and I definitely react differently to organic versus conventional produce, even if I didn't know beforehand (which I think rules out placebo) – am I reacting to something else then? Or has my stupid body just actually decided that parts per trillion are still too much?
21:07 This last one confirms my suspicions. Obviously intelligent and well studied, but your warning early on about people who aren’t experts in a certain field are red flags applies here as well. You’re speaking on a wide range of topics that each have areas of expertise. Case in point is fasting and cancer. I would agree that it may be too early to tell, but Stanford medical had been running studies on fasting for as long as 30 days prior to treatment, and early report indicated that the body enters a more protective state with long term fasts, increasing protection of the body’s cells while leaving the cancer cells more vulnerable to the treatment. Your statement indicated that fasting is useless and potentially harmful, but the reality is that it is understudied and we are as yet unclear of the potential effects.