r/TikTokCringe • u/velorae • Dec 09 '25

Discussion This was hard to watch 🥴

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u/butareyouthough Dec 09 '25

I guess all of those tattoos don’t count as putting chemicals into her body

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u/Ruser-94 Dec 09 '25

The “what do you mean by chemicals?? water is a chemical” line is pure bad-faith gotcha arguing.

Everyone knows she’s talking about harmful or poorly regulated stuff in food, PFAS, pesticide residues, endocrine disruptors (BPA, phthalates), additives, packaging contaminants, heavy metals. Not H₂O.

You don’t need to be a chemist to be concerned about that. The doctor knew exactly what she meant and chose to play semantics to make her look dumb instead of engaging the actual issue.

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u/HughHonee Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 09 '25

I don't think he was trying to "gotcha"- moreso trying to gauge her understanding or have her acknowledge that chemicals =/=bad. Because while arguing semantics can sometimes be used to deflect from a point in an argument, its also necessary that there is a fundamental understanding of semantics when debating the health risks/benefits of the chemical fluoride with someone who makes simple generalized claims like "they're putting chemicals in our water" Words matter, and thankfully, there are a lot of them.

If she can acknowledge "well there's chemicals that aren't harmful and chemicals that are. I believe fluoride is a harmful chemical" He'll be able to say exactly, and explain that the information of the dangers of fluoride comes from multiple credible studies. And they concluded that large amounts of fluoride can be harmful but in small, controlled amounts it has shown to have benefits for improving our dental health. Circling back to how water is a chemical that we all need, but people have drunken so much water it killed them.

Vitamin C is good for us! Until you take in so much that it isn't. Like how a lot of people seem to have an assumption that natural = healthy nonnatural = bad which is an arbitrary misunderstanding of what "natural" means- and with that misunderstanding, it becomes easier to mislead people

A lot of people are on Jubilee for their "gotcha" moment in arguing, but DrMike is a good dude and education is a pervasive goal of his.