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I examine the logic of powerful people. And in doing this work, I found that reasoning typically falls somewhere within this quadrant. The first access runs brilliant to idiotic, the second innovative to fraud. But the logic of this guy, well, it's different. The biggest hoax in history happened, and that was to trick people into believing that their God given right to heal themselves is actually the disease. So I think the best way is to look at nature, You don't see
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nothing in nature getting sick and taking pharmaceuticals. the biggest one is, is cancer. Cancer is one of the most peculiar gifts on earth. I've been doing this for 15 years. I've never seen one person die of cancer. I've seen people die of the allopathic treatment of cancer The doctor here is a popular homeopathic And after watching this interview far too many times, I can tell you he's at least brilliant. Now I know what you're thinking. This looks like a podcast. It's not.
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Your eyes deceive you. really he's giving a business pitch. like any good business, you've got a problem. he's got a solution. What's different? In order for this business to work? He first must explode some deeply rooted notions of that problem. people think cancer is this big disease when cancer is the body's healing mechanism, diabetes Oh, is that true? What if he's right? I mean, the comment section is in love with this guy. of these kings. Is this the innovator we've all been waiting for
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who can finally disrupt the cancer? I'm not going to do that to you. guy is not an innovator. At least not when it comes to cancer. I'm going to prove it But first, I have a message for the doctor. Hello doctor. You said some things on that podcast that, to be honest, I took personally. Doctor, as you well know, for any one of us, take enough trips around the sun and eventually cancer is going to touch your life. it's us personally or someone we care about. For me, that person was my mom.
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My mom was a nurse. She loved talking about medical stuff, and I suppose she shared that passion with me. And as I watched cancer take her life, I realized, no, cancer sucks. So, doctor, after I heard your words on cancer and also witnessed people accept those words,
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Well, none of that's okay. So here's the deal, doctor. I'm not going to say your name, and I'm not going to mention your business, because I can see you're trying to help your community. And I want you to be successful. I want you to sell your bitters, your herb pills, and your vagina steams. I want you to sell millions of them. But you need to stop talking about cancer because your words are powerful and you're going to get someone hurt. Okay. be clear, this video is not about cancer.
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It is about the logic of the doctor and the three things that he does so well. The first thing is he creates wildly compelling and attention grabbing ideas like this. which is also the conclusion we will be examining. The second is I'll give it to him. But when you look at the physiology and anatomy and which I will be visualizing in this video. And most importantly, the third thing is how he firms up that argument by taking a series of cognitive biases that lay dormant in his audience,
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switching them on so they all add up to a powerful in-group outgroup identity system that's really effective, that helps him build a million follower Instagram channel and get people to believe really wrong ideas. Listen, I am not even remotely qualified to fact check him on cancer. the beauty of logic is that doesn't really matter because proper reasoning is universal to all fields. in this episode of Logic Instant Replay, I'm going to slow things down, visualize
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his logic, names to his tactics, and then grade his logic and rank him in the bad logic hall of shame. Because the doctor is saying some things about cancer that is being heard by our most vulnerable people. and that's not cool. So let's examine his logic.
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If you're not satisfied. That's a pretty good deal and it will help me create more logic. Instant replays. Okay, let's begin by watching his full argument. I will visualize this premises as we go. The biggest hoax in history happen, and that was to trick people into believing that their God given right in their God given abilities to heal themselves is actually the disease. The biggest one is cancer. Cancer is one of the most peculiar gifts on earth.
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But we have been taught that it kills everybody. I've been doing this for 15 years. I've never seen one person die of cancer. I've seen people die of the treatment of cancer using, you know, the chemotherapies and the radiations and things like that. But I haven't seen somebody naturally die of cancer. But when you look at the physiology and anatomy of what's really going on in your body, healing the cells, when you look at cancer, they talk about a tumor.
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You when you look at a tumor, a tumor is like a human trash bag. And what it does is the body is so unique and the body is so special that it will create this fleshly trash bag and put all the toxins from the bloodstream into it. So it goes through a process called angiogenesis, where it will grow its own blood stream. It it grows on blood vessels to get blood to keep growing. So you can keep stuff stuffing trash inside of this fleshly trash bag
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Okay. We've been witnessing his first rhetorical device. This guy can yap and he uses that as a weapon. He hits us with idea after idea in quick succession. The rhetorical device is very invisible. It's called Gish galloping. Basically, he can talk faster than we can think. He says something like the tumor engages in angiogenesis, and naturally, our mind cranks to understand that. But before that crankiness resolve, he's moved on to a different thing.
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To keep up, our minds have to abandon the first thing we were cranking on, leaving it unresolved, because we don't resolve that thing He basically wins that argument And then he just repeats it, does it again and again In order to combat this galloping, you really just have to be like, oh, whoa, whoa. Pause. Let's take this one at a time. trash bag and put all the toxins from the bloodstream into it. So it goes through a process called angiogenesis, where it will grow its own blood stream.
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It it grows on blood vessels to get blood to keep growing. So you can keep stuff stuffing trash inside of this fleshly trash bag. And then it will grow until you change your diet, until you phase, until you take herbs, until you heal. And this is what I've been asking all of my professors at school. If cancer is a disease, then why can't a man, not a female, but a man, and get a tumor test positive on a pregnancy test? We know that men can't get pregnant, right?
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But why is this man testing positive for pregnancy? When he got a tumor? Why is a tumor is the exact same identification is the placenta. The placenta is created because the body lacks oxygen cells. privilege cells mean that the immune system will look at something wrong with the cell and just bypass it to give it a pass in pregnancy, immune cells, the eye cells and brain cells, tell me why tumor cells release the same things, and they get those same immune privileged type of capabilities.
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a tumor in for the body, why is my immune system seeing these mutations and allowing it to happen if it's not supposed to happen? Because I'm full of toxins. So when we start really looking at cancer, cancer is a healing mechanism. Cancer is our friend, is not our enemy. Same thing with all these other so-called diseases. If somebody just sit back and look at the physiology, you'll start seeing that our body was made to heal itself and we have just been tricked and bamboozled
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into the symptomology bad disease, when is actually a healing mechanism. Wow. Yes. Wow. Okay, let go of a logic. Instant replay, like an instant replay in sports, is to slow things down so we can visualize exactly how the logic is working. We do this using the clear method. C is for conclusion, which we have already seen. This is our North star and everything we are about to do is directed towards this conclusion. L is for labels.
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We already know that cancer is an important term for this argument. E is for evidence. We've already established his premises. Hours for review where we will score his logic. But first we need to get data to score that logic. And that's a a is for assess. Let's do that now. But first, real quick a few disclaimers. This video is not an attack on homeopathy. And this is not a faultless defense about mainstream which is not perfect, One of his overarching fallacies is this false binary.
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His argument is exclusive to homeopathy, where it could be adjunctive to both. reasoning is based on the assumption that the science of mainstream medicine is legit. I have linked my research below Okay. Let's review his logic I've been doing this for 15 years. I've never seen one person die of cancer. Evidence one he's never seen it. Here's a question. How does this work. things. First, it works when no one calls him on his bullshit. That's about to end.
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Second, he's built this trust with his audience over years through storytelling like this. This is an anecdotal fallacy. It's personal, it's vivid, it's emotional. And because it's those things, one single story can become representative as a whole. This is also an argument from incredulity, Which is the fallacy of dismissing a claim simply because you can't believe that it can possibly be true. He's never seen someone die of cancer. So how can that be possible? Here's an example from my life.
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I personally do not believe in normals. think about it. Unicorn whales. That's stupid. Plus, I've never seen one, so they're not real. And it's definitely not because I'm egotistical. what constitutes reality is only what I've seen. I've seen people die of the allopathic treatment of cancer using, you know, the chemotherapy in a radiation and things like that. But I haven't seen somebody naturally die of cancer. Really, allopathic treatment kills. By the way, what is allopathic?
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It is what homeopathic healers call mainstream medicine insult it. Now, that's no way to start a conversation. this error is a bit more reasonable than the prior one. This is a fallacy called after this. Therefore, because of this. assuming that one event caused another simply because the first happened before the second. This comes from the correlation causation group of fallacies. here is an example. You go to a car mechanic. You're going to find a lot of broken cars.
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But is it the mechanic that's doing the damage. You go to a hospital, you see a lot of sick people. Some of them are passing. Is it the doctor that is doing the damage? He thinks? The answer is yes. Let's take a moment and consider the implications of his logic that people don't die from cancer. They die from allopathic treatment. In 2023, the CDC said that 600,000 people died from cancer in the US. he implying that in 2023, doctors murdered 600,000 people?
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If that's the case, buddy, we got a way bigger problem than cancer. Maybe stop worrying about men getting fake pregnant and start bringing these murder doctors to justice. This premise is much more palatable if you believe that doctors are the villains like you just can't say something this dumb and expect it to work without activating this anti-authority bias in his audience. This bias inverts who we're supposed to trust, steals away that trust and redirects it towards him.
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And this identity based community that he's creating. It is super effective. This nice added benefit of the anti-authority bias is when your YouTube channel gets shut down like his did. It's not because you're spreading pseudoscientific nonsense, it's because they are coming for you. Okay, logic score 9000. Let's tally these up for premise one. I'm counting three logical fallacies one cognitive bias and one rhetorical device in the Gish Gallop. Oh, yes. Thank you for the reminder.
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you look at a tumor, a tumor is like a human trash bag. And and what it does is the body is so unique in the body is so special that it will create this fleshly trash bag and put all the toxins from the bloodstream in, and to it, He argues the body purposefully creates a tumor with the intent to collect toxins. His error here is a false analogy. Fallacy. False analogies are deceptive because comparing two things like this is really visually effective and
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impactful, but we don't even need science to see why this is false. We can just ask a few questions, Okay. A tumor is a trash bag for toxins. So who's going to take out the trash? You and I both know that trash ain't going to take itself out. Oh, or does the tumor also grow a disposal system to actually get rid of the toxins? Now you're just describing a whole new organ. And it's at this point that the liver is like, what am I, chopped liver? We already have that organ already.
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Liver, kidneys, immune system all collect and dispose of toxins. And that's not even to mention the body's most famous system for taking out the trash. That's a false analogy. Here's just an analogy. A tumor is like an evil trash bag. A trash bag that doesn't collect trash, but creates trash right out of thin air, endlessly pumping out more and more and more trash until it fills up the entire room with so much trash. It chokes out your cat. Except the cat in this analogy is your brain.
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if a tumor in cancer is bad for the body, then why is my immune system seeing these mutations and allowing it to happen? if it's not supposed to happen because I'm full of toxins. Let's talk a little bit about cognitive biases. We are born into this world with hundreds of cognitive biases preprogramed into our brain. But of course, they're not all raging at once. Instead, someone like the good doctor here knows how to push the right buttons
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to wake up a cognitive bias to use to his own advantage. Right here, he's using one that is foundational to a lot of homeopathy. and that is the appeal to nature bias. which basically says things that are natural, have a superseding quality over other evidence. When plants get sick, they go to nature. When a dog is sick, the first thing a dog do is fast. It don't eat anything and then they eat grass or two. Call herbs for it can make yourself throw up. Yeah.
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I'd hate to be his dog, it sounds like anytime his dog shows any sign of sickness, he's like, you're cut off. Appeal to nature is this form of circular reasoning. Nature is good. The body is natural. Tumors happen inside the body. Therefore, tumors are natural. There's no actual evidence. It's just looping back on itself. And this is what I've been asking all of my professors at school if cancer is a disease, then why can't man, not a female, but a man, get a tumor, test
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positive on a pregnancy test We know that men can't get pregnant, but why is this man Testing positive for pregnancy when he got a tumor? Okay, we're about to learn a lot about the doctor. So he asks his professors why this male pregnancy thing is happening, But they don't know. We know a lot about cancer, but the male pregnancy thing is a gap in our understanding. So his logic works by taking this gap and filling it with his answer. We call this error in reasoning a God in the gaps fallacy,
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Here's a classic example of God in the gaps. We don't know how the pyramids were built, so it must have been aliens. and not Egyptians. The God in the gap fallacy is so effective because of the nature of how ignorance works in the human mind. Ignorance in our minds is not simply a void, it's a magnet that hungrily attracts answers to fill up that void. So then it becomes easy to fill that gap with pretty much anything. It's a cheat code. it just works. here's the second thing this tells us.
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You may be surprised to hear this, but we do understand why men test positive for pregnancy tests. There's no gap in the understanding. Just this one time, I'm gonna break my rule. Let's play. Doctor, I want you to take a wild guess on what type of cancer it will make it possible for a man to elicit a positive pregnancy test.
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Do you have a guess? Don't think about it. Too hard is testicular cancer. Yes. That's right. The part of the male body that creates the most male hormone gets a cancer, and then it starts malfunctioning. Shocking, And here's the third thing this tells us. I interpreted his argument that this male pregnancy thing happens with cancer in general. No There are 100 plus forms of cancer that will never and can never elicit a positive male pregnancy test. This is cherry picking. It is completely
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misrepresenting the male pregnancy test thing to support his argument. Also, this is a non-sequitur. There is no reasonable inference connecting males testing positive pregnancy and anything good Am I missing something? Oh, my testicles are riddled with tumors. So now I finally have a reason to go out and buy that pregnancy test. another way to look at this. This is a bare assertion fallacy. or the act of claiming something true without offering any evidence or justification whatsoever.
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can't just throw something like this out there and just expect it to be self-evidently true. Okay. Last nine. Let's check in. I count six fallacies. One cognitive bias.
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I know, and we're only now getting to the good stuff. quick reminder. Here is our conclusion. Cancer is a healing mechanism. why is my immune system seeing these mutations and allowing it to happen? if it's not supposed to happen because I'm full of toxins. Logic is like a machine. Each and every part needs to be able to work together in concert in order for the whole to work. what I'm basically describing is argument strength, which we will score soon.
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And here we see a small but critical component hidden within his logic, called a framing device. let's visualize exactly how this is working. This is the chain of cause and effect. According to the doctor. Bad diet and its toxins. Too many toxins collection in the body. in order to heal the body creates a tumor. The tumor collects toxins like a trash bag. this. Right here is the important part. He frames cancer as a tumor. Toxins relationship. The problem is this is not accurate.
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he brushes over the real most important part. And that is Mutation. I'll give it to him for even saying the word. This is the only time in his entire argument that he mentions anything remotely close to this, Tumors do not grow in reaction to toxins. Tumors grow when genetic mutations occur, which makes cell creation go haywire. They create too many cells. Cells don't die. It's all out of control. Recall my evil trash bag analogy. But none of this gets into his argument.
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So this moment right here is so important because right here this logical fork in the road, this framing device, we take a wrong turn and we go down this path and everything is about toxins. We're thinking about toxins. We're talking toxins. Tumors are reactions to toxins. You get rid of cancer by eliminating toxins. You get rid of toxins by consuming herbs. It's this root. that leads us to buying his or products. This root, drops us off at a place where it makes zero sense
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to buy or products, because on this root, it isn't about toxins, it's about mutations. So this is the danger of a framing device. now it's easy to see why early diagnosis bad logic is so important. three you have the choice to beat cancer. This is probably his most important premise. Now, as you may have noticed, the doctor has not actually said these words. And that is because this is the point in the argument where the United States government
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leans in and takes a special interest Now, why would it do that? Well, that's because he's not actually allowed to give medical advice because he's not a certified medical professional. now that's confusing because for the duration of this video, I've been calling him a doctor. He's not actually a doctor. Doctor. he's not actually one of those PhD doctors either. It's an honorific title. which you'll see if you go to his website,
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if you go there and you're still confused by all that imagery at this point, it's your fault, Because find your way to his disclaimer page, it becomes perfectly clear that it's an honorific. I'm choosing to call him a doctor because it's fun. it's basically illegal for him to say the words. You have the choice to be cancer. So how do you say this without saying it? Because he has to say in order for his whole business to work. Premise three is an implicit premise.
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which is not an error in reasoning. It's just not as clear as saying it explicitly. how the logic of his implicit premise works. These are six explicit statements that the doctor did make. Draw your attention to number three there, where he implicitly says that tumors will stop growing. When you change what you eat, you fast and you take herbs. And number six implicit statement take herbs to get rid of toxins that feed the tumors. He doesn't say it, but he says it.
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If the framing device we spoke about is the fork in the road that structurally points people in the direction of his product, Then this right here is the energy that propels them down that road. energy comes from another cognitive bias. He's activating. the illusion of control. and this is the cognitive bias where he makes his money. You know, we humans are really good at overestimating our ability to control the outcome of things. This is another way of saying hope.
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Cognitive biases are evolutionarily based, so it's not difficult to see why having hope is a positive evolutionary adaptation. Life is hard. It's helpful to have some irrational thing in our brains keeping us going on. So now think about it in the context of cancer. Someone gets the worst news of their life. It's cancer. For those of us that are lucky enough to muster the strength to go on? That's a powerful energy.
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And this framing device is the moment in the logical train where he captures them. He says, hey, don't go that way. Chemo kills. Come with me. This way. We're going to fast. We're going to change our diet. for those of you who happen to choose herbs, he just happens to have a whole line of herbal products. And before you ask, no, these are not covered by health insurance. even a $105 Liver Detox bundle, is still cheaper than going to the doctor.
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biggest hoax in history happened, and that was to trick people into believing that their God given right in their God given abilities to heal themselves is actually the.
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Biggest hoax, I guess if that's true, it would be a pretty big hoax. If you're not going to use science to explain cancer, use storytelling. This is a appeal to conspiracy fallacy. Just a quick logic. Note any time you hear the word appeal with it, a fallacy name. It's a code word for peeling away, think of it as peeling away from the logic you're supposed to be looking at and redirecting your attention to something that they want you be looking at.
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It's like forcibly moving someone's head away from looking at bad logic towards what he wants you to look at, and that is this, hoax conspiracy. How cancer actually works is scary. You can't really control a mutation. So instead, he blames conspiracy of doctors. Sure thing. I mean, like, this is the kind of shit that gives real conspiracies a bad name. So we know who the villains are. Doctors naturally. But every good story needs a good guy. So this time, he's appealing to God.
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Peel us away from his bad logic redirect. Our heads towards God. It's never a bad idea to have God on your side. So check this out. When I'm examining logic, I'll do this exercise where I take the quote like this. And I simplify it as much as I can to get to the essential meaning. I translated it, I got this in violation of God's word. Mainstream medicine. Has conspired to trick us to believe that cancer is deadly, when in actuality, cancer is here to improve our health. First off, what?
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then it occurred to me that I hadn't gotten to the true essence of this quote. Here's what he's really saying. If you believe in God, then believe in me.
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Arguing that cancer is a healing mechanism is so unhinged that he has to appeal to God. Okay? I'm seeing one cognitive bias. Two logical fallacies. Yeah. Nine you are going to love this next one. It's probably my favorite fallacy. thing with all these other so-called diseases. If somebody just sit back and look at the physiology, you'll start seeing that our body was made to heal itself. And we have just been tricked and bamboozled into the symptomology of being disease.
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One is actually a healing mechanism. Wow. Wow. This is why I like this guy. Finally, someone has the bravery to ask the question that no one else is asking. When is someone going to just sit back and look at cancer? I mean, we've known about cancer now for literally thousands of years. When is someone going to just sit back and look? Last year was 2 million new cases of cancer. When is someone going to research that? I'm looking at you, National Cancer Institute. You already have.
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73 NCI centers across the United States that employ an estimated 65 to 70,000 doctors, scientists, nurses, technicians, staff directly involved in cancer research. granted, that number does not include private institutions or let alone the cancer research done across the world, which could probably add up to hundreds of thousands of people. But when are those people going to just sit back and look at the physiology of cancer?
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It's a fair question. logic, just as important as what you do say is what you do not say. His failure in reasoning here is an error of omission. Tens of thousands of people are looking. This is obscene. How do you explain this? Remember, this isn't a podcast. This is a business pitch. a good business model needs a few things. A problem. Cancer check. Urgency. Oh, you got cancer. Tick tock, tick tock. Check. Trust. He's working on that. And finally, you need scarcity.
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Those 70,000 people at the NCI are not looking at the physiology, but he is. So how can anyone get off in saying this? chose me to, to be the beacon. And in the leader of this movement for my generation as chose you. good for you. Is this a messiah complex? Either way, it's that confidence that we love on this channel. I wish I had that kind of confidence. Having confidence like that activates another bias in our brain. And that is authority.
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Bias, if you recall from his one seen one person die of cancer. How do you get away with saying there Because authority bias like that just operates on a different frequency. It hits hard. People believe it. Say things with enough confidence. People are going to believe you, say things with enough perceived authority, and people are going to believe you. All right. Let's tally up the scores. Up until now, all the work that we have been doing is done in order to collect the necessary
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information needed to boil down his logic to one single metric. And that is cogency, which is the information, the premises, the argument, all combine into one concept. That's going to require a lot of data, but thankfully I have the logic score 9000 here And once we have that, we can then rank the doctor in the bad logic hall of shame last night. I'm grateful to have you by my side. Let's begin with the most basic elements, and that is labels and terminology.
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The first and most important term is cancer. Cancer is 100 plus different unique diseases, each with their own causes. But he uses the word cancer as it if is one thing. It's not cancer that elicits positive pregnancy tests in men, it's testicular cancer. So he is not legally permitted to give medical advice. So instead he uses terms like toxins cleanse, opening healing pathways. Why? Because these are not medical terms. These are marketing terms.
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Anytime you hear a health person use the word toxic, it should be a big red flag. All right. Scoring these categories. You begin at a perfect score and get knocked down based on strikes. His language does not clarify. It confuses. I am going to give him
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a four. Okay. Basic facts. So is what he said true? I'm looking at foundational facts that he builds his argument upon. Cancer is not a healing mechanism. Worldwide, roughly 10 million people die of cancer every year. I've never seen one person die of cancer. Maybe your eyes were closed. A tumor is a trash bag for toxins. Not true. Cancer is not a toxin thing. It's a mutation Wow. There's a major untruth connected to every sentence of this argument. I want to give him a one.
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Sometimes the only thing more important what you do say is what you do not say. So from what he left out, how does that change the argument? thing he conspicuously omits is metastasis. Or when cancer from one part of the body spreads to another part, like you have liver cancer, and then it metastasizes to your brain. Oh, does that mean my brain is now going to get detoxified? That's something my brain needs anyway. He admits roughly 70,000 people working on cancer research right now
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in the US alone, he omits the 90% plus of cancer that have nothing to do with your diet. He doesn't talk about those because they don't fit into his silly cure There's just so many important parts of this that are omitted. Omission. Score two. Termination review. When I check for contamination, I use another acronym called fro scum. His main argument consisted of 45 sentences, of which I counted at least 11 logical fallacies, which, is a new logic instant replay record.
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if you'd like to check out the rest of the playlist. His cherry picking is atrocious. never seen someone die of cancer. The God of the gaps fallacy really pervades his entire argument. Jeez, curing cancer is hard. We don't know what to do Take this herb pill. It'll do the trick. Well. There's this formal fallacy of structure that pervades this entire argument. Cancer is a healing mechanism. Cancer is our friend. But we got to take herbs to of it. that's contradictory. Which is it, guy?
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There's the gallop. is good at using science words. I'll give him that. let's just recognize that his whole argument is based on reframing that a disease is a gift. that works because we fetishize revisionism. You thought cancer was a killer or. Buckle up, buckaroo, I'm about to blow your mind. Plot twist. You know, the doctors are actually the bad guys. so many cognitive biases. Appeal to nature is super important one. Another bias that I didn't talk about is the just world bias.
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assumption that the world is inherently fair. Like if you do the right thing, the good thing is going to happen to you. it's insidious because it memorializes sickness. And if you can't beat it, then it blames the victim,
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Shitty. 11 logical fallacies. That is so many cognitive biases. I've lost track. The framing device is just like, oh, I mean, the contamination is zero. Not even close. Obviously his whole business is selling products. Does that mean his argument suffers from motivated reasoning? if he believes truly that God chose him, you can understand how that affects his reasoning, God chose you to be a beacon. This is how God chose you. That's a weird beacon, man. Meta bias five.
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Now what about the quality of each of the individual premises. These are the qualities that make up a good premise. So premise one people don't die of cancer. Zero evidence for that. just based on his authority that he's leveraging. Premise to cancer is natural and good. Lots of evidence. None of it's grounded in any research. Lots of science words. What's weakened by this non sequitur? The male pregnancy thing. Premise three. You have the choice to beat cancer.
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It's an implicit premise because he can't legally say it, from us for there's a shadow behind one huge omission. But the premise is true. No. Are they clear? Yeah sure. Are they well-grounded in evidence? Heck no. Are they relevant to the conclusion? Definitely. Are they logically clear? With no logical contaminations? Absolutely not. As I says these premises I'm looking at each one individually. They are very very poorly grounded. Their logic is supported by a lot of cognitive biases.
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If only cognitive biases, because the evidence is terrible. Like people don't die of cancer. Like, how can you get away with that? I'm going to give him a five for premise quality. Strength of argument is about all these boxes collectively working together to support the conclusion. We've already decided that the premises are like a trash bag. Actually, no, that's a bad analogy. His premises are trash. ideally, there's this logical flow to his premises that is consistent.
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But his argument is based off of this structural fallacy that cancer is a healing mechanism. But also we need to get rid of cancer. It's totally incoherent. Or do we want just the right amount of cancer? So how do these four premises work together? How do I say this? They are supportive of the conclusion in spirit The framing device about the toxins is pretty consistent.
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In the kind of stuff that you actually want to create a good strong argument. They don't have that argument. Strength three. Thanks again to NordVPN. If you'd like to secure your internet, check out the link below in the description to get four months free with your NordVPN plan. Okay. truth. We have the data we need to calculate cogency. All I need to do is press this button.
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Wow. Yikes. Yeah. It's really bad. I'm not going to lie. expecting something really bad. why does this resonate with people? his logic is bad, but his usage of cognitive biases is really good. Okay, so there's nothing else for me to do other than rank him in the bad logic hall of shame.
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Infographics like the How to Speak Logic infographic. There's there's there's many of them. I've forgotten some of them, but they're they're. I said at one point, I take this personally. I think a lot of people do because cancer touches us all, someone like my mom would not have fallen for this pseudoscience, but, there's plenty of people that do. I know because I've seen it. And the risk is they missed the brief opportunity that they have to get the care that they can get.
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I like to think that medicine is the greatest science, because it has the opportunity to improve the quality of life of people who would otherwise suffer. My mom got excellent treatment, but cancer is hard.
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So I dedicate this video to my mom. I hope I can do some good.
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