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People who are into health/nutrition always have certain people that they "follow." Even if they don't follow a persons advice 100%, they still "like" the person. But there are two possible paradoxes with this.
The first is if the "guru," author, doctor, etc., ends up dying at a "young" age, and doesn't live to be 120 years old, or gets cancer or some other degenerative disease.
The second is the persons character. This is what I call the "Bill Cosby paradox." People loved Bill Cosby up until about October 16th, 2014 when Hannibal Buress changed that:
"On October 16, 2014, at the Philadelphia club The Trocadero, Buress was video recorded doing an extended bit about existing rape allegations against comedian Bill Cosby. Buress addressed Cosby's legacy of "talking down" to young black men about their mode of dress and lifestyle. Buress criticized the actor's public moralizing by saying, "Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby, so that kind of brings you down a couple notches." The audience appeared to respond to Buress's accusation as an incredulous joke before he encouraged everyone to "Google 'Bill Cosby rape'" when they got home. Buress had been using the same Cosby routine for the previous six months with little response, but the October performance went viral after being posted on Philadelphia magazine's website. A media firestorm ensued, with numerous publications tackling the question of how Cosby had managed to maintain, as Buress called it in his routine, a "teflon image" despite more than a decade of public sex abuse accusations."
So if it turns out that any of the health gurus that you follow or like turn out to get cancer, or are rapists/pedos, then people who disagree with you will say "See, that diet sucks!" But you obviously did not know that about the person, and it's just one person, it doesn't mean their diet is actually bad. It's just an individual anecdote. People who already disagreed with you before anything happened will then just use the individual circumstance as more fodder against you, but it doesn't actually disprove the science of the diet.
The first is if the "guru," author, doctor, etc., ends up dying at a "young" age, and doesn't live to be 120 years old, or gets cancer or some other degenerative disease.
The second is the persons character. This is what I call the "Bill Cosby paradox." People loved Bill Cosby up until about October 16th, 2014 when Hannibal Buress changed that:
"On October 16, 2014, at the Philadelphia club The Trocadero, Buress was video recorded doing an extended bit about existing rape allegations against comedian Bill Cosby. Buress addressed Cosby's legacy of "talking down" to young black men about their mode of dress and lifestyle. Buress criticized the actor's public moralizing by saying, "Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby, so that kind of brings you down a couple notches." The audience appeared to respond to Buress's accusation as an incredulous joke before he encouraged everyone to "Google 'Bill Cosby rape'" when they got home. Buress had been using the same Cosby routine for the previous six months with little response, but the October performance went viral after being posted on Philadelphia magazine's website. A media firestorm ensued, with numerous publications tackling the question of how Cosby had managed to maintain, as Buress called it in his routine, a "teflon image" despite more than a decade of public sex abuse accusations."
So if it turns out that any of the health gurus that you follow or like turn out to get cancer, or are rapists/pedos, then people who disagree with you will say "See, that diet sucks!" But you obviously did not know that about the person, and it's just one person, it doesn't mean their diet is actually bad. It's just an individual anecdote. People who already disagreed with you before anything happened will then just use the individual circumstance as more fodder against you, but it doesn't actually disprove the science of the diet.
