@bdccarpenter: Replying to @Agent Woden @Kurzgesagt - In A Nutshell correction. I recently made a response video to Kurzgesagt “your workout is a bad way to lose weight”. Whenever I post fact-check videos, I normally get some backlash. Sometimes the person I fact-check gets angry at me (although nobody has yet to ever disagree with me with actual scientific papers, lol). Also, their fans get angry at me. For example, when I showed Dr. Robert Lustig completely misquoting the numbers on a study to do with soda and weight gain on the Huberman Lab podcast, I got a lot of abuse from fans who just hated that I had corrected it. “HOW DARE YOU! HE IS VERY WELL QUALIFIED! WHO ARE YOU TO CORRECT HIM?” Kind of stuff. So I want to show you what happens when a company *actually* cares about scientific integrity. I made a video response to Kurzgesagt and although I thought their video overall was excellent, I thought some of the wording was a little strong. Rather than getting angry at me, they messaged me personally and asked if I would help them make some amendments to their video. So let me ask you, all those popular podcasts with people churning out absolute nonsense. How many of them have you EVER seen correct their own information? Most importantly, this also goes to show why fact checking is important, because when done well it improves the quality of the information that you consume. The social media landscape would be a much better place if more of the very popular pages operated like Kurzgesagt, that’s all I am saying. #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #workout #loseweight #weightloss #misinformation

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