Everyone has heard that consumption of alcohol in relatively large quantities are bad for your body. When you drink alcohol about 10% of it metabolites in your brain, while the remaining is metabolized by your liver. This is the reason why the effects of alcohol toxicity are immediately felt by the drinker. But according to several research studies done in the recent past, affects of sugar has been found to as dangerous as alcohol if not more. Giving your children a can of coke is the produces the effects as giving them a can of beer. This video elaborates this issue:
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Sugar is poison no.1 in the world.
That is a fairly misleading video, and the information while factual, is presented in a misconstrued way, this coming from me and I am a pretty critical of fructose. I've even written a few posts about it.
I dont think the video was misconstrued in any way. Though certain facts were exaggerated to garner an affect on the audience, but the harmful effects of sugar have been well researched and the studies published in peer review journals. As a matter of fact, there are several researchers/professors working in this field who have quite openly voiced the dangers of sugar consumption in many public forums.
It's misconstrued because of statements saying that drinking soda is the same as drinking a beer. The video itself has to cross out a variety of potential health issues associated with alcohol consumption when transitioning to its discussion on sugar. Then returns to stating how its just as bad. If you have to do that, then you are being disingenuous.
Sugar is bad, that is a fact. Producing videos that don't exaggerate and misrepresent data do a lot more good then videos like this IMO.
I don't see how a slight exaggeration does more harm than 'good'. Media as a whole is filled with blatant exaggeration on innumerous issues specially like religion or political ideologies, which do nothing but increase tension and animosity. But the vast majority of people believe it without any questioning. So a slight exaggeration in bringing light to this important issue is not disingenuous.
Should not science be held to a higher standard? It seems to me that small exaggerations like this are fuel for the fire of people's distrust of science in many cases. We pride ourselves on facts and accurate representation of data. You feel like I am asking for too much?
I do agree that Science should be portrayed in the most accurate way possible. But the person who made the video is a Youtuber, and not a representative of the scientific community or even an academic. So, I think we can cut him some slack.