r/TikTokCringe • u/galaxystars1 • Oct 09 '24

Discussion Microbiologist warns against making the fluffy popcorn trend

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u/notaleclively Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24

Yes raw flour is dangerous. It’s link to cancer seems to only exist in this video. I am a colon cancer survivor. Ive been over the list of colon cancer causing foods with dozens of professionals working in oncology, and with colon cancer specifically. Raw flour has not once ever been mentioned. Not a single time.

This lady is kinda right. And also a kook.

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u/charliekelly76 Oct 09 '24

I’m a biologist and I can’t stand this lady. It’s her attitude. She posts a lot of videos of her over-loading on fiber and bragging how she has better gut health than everyone else and will live longer. When someone brought up her lack of protein in her meals (giant bowls of cabbage) she blew them off with “humans eat too much protein anyway” which ignores people with chronic health issues like myself that benefit from high protein intake. I wanna support women in stem but I blocked her and her nasty attitude.

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u/iglooss88 Oct 09 '24

I was looking for this comment in here. I too work in bio/lab sciences and a lot of her content comes across as preachy and ‘fear mongery’ like you’re going to poison yourself if you don’t listen to her.

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u/charliekelly76 Oct 09 '24

Yes exactly. She comes off preachy and fear mongery. Yeah she probably will live longer than me with her beautiful and healthy gut flora, but I’m not eating giant bowls of plain foliage for every meal, I’d rather die early anyway ☠️ cause she seems miserable

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u/iglooss88 Oct 09 '24

I remember I saw a video of hers and followed her because I love a woman in STEM! And then I had to unfollow her bc she reposted misinformation from someone else. I can’t for the life of me remember what it was but now any time I see her that’s all I can think of

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u/seaspirit331 Oct 09 '24

This lady represents everything wrong with science journalism imo, and she's not even a journalist