David Wolfe: Lunatic Plagiarist Clown
Let me preface this critique by saying there is a measure of validity to natural foods, alternative medicine, and nutritional therapy warranting further investigation, and I support the right of individuals to pursue health according to their own principles. That said, David "Avocado" Wolfe is a complete and total fraud. If you take anything he says seriously, you're an idiot.
You may have seen viral videos on Facebook or elsewhere showing some cool concept and ending with his logo. Invariably, a little research will show he edited down someone else's video to sensationalize and shorten the original presentation, which often made a dubious claim in the first place or merely showed a CGI imagining of an experimental technology still in development.
However, his extreme bullshit has incredible humor value if you can avoid mistaking it for anything else. Hilarity ensues:
- Mushrooms are extraterrestrial, and can levitate
- Gravity is a toxin!
- Of course, the Earth is flat
- Superfoods!
- And then there's this:
I'd say, "You can't make this up," but he and others like him do make this up regularly, and people keep falling for it.
Salt does not need to prevent the oceans from levitating in the first place. Superfoods are not a thing. There is ample evidence supporting a spheroid Earth, and the evidence cited by Flat-Earthers does not hold up to scrutiny. Gravity is not a toxin, just a property of matter still being investigated by physicists. There is no evidence for an extraterrestrial source of mushrooms, and fungi do not have anti-gravitational properties.
Beware the guru. Remember the burden of proof falls on the one making the positive claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. "Common knowledge" and established beliefs should always be open to challenges, but that does not mean new age quackery has any validity.
More fun at Avocado Boy's expense here