> Personally find it extremely easy to detect scams. You also don't need a degree or much more than a HS degree to check sources, this was taught to most of us

> Personally find it extremely easy to detect scams. You also don't need a degree or much more than a HS degree to check sources, this was taught to most of us in high school. If by "check a source" you mean look it up and read it, sure. But that tells you relatively little; you can verify that a claim appears in that source but actually weighing the validity of that source requires a lot more specialized expertise. That you think a highschool course can teach all you need to reliably detect bullshit makes me think you're a lot more credulous than you seem to think. The rest of your post is more or less about the heuristics you use in lieu of being a subject matter expert. And those heuristics are known to influencers and are routinely gamed. For instance, you're impressed that this influencer criticizes supplement companies. People peddling bullshit routinely trash talk their own or adjacent fields in order to gain trust, this is a textbook tactic. Used car salesmen trash talk used car salesmen, to make themselves seem candid and honest. Textbooks about sales and persuasion teach this tactic. Supplement peddlers trash talk homeopathy, homeopaths trash talk chiropractors, etc. Of course people who aren't peddling bullshit will trash talk bullshit too, everybody else does too so it's a very unreliable heuristic.