It probably won’t surprise you to learn that the people who follow Dr. Berg are dumb. You would have to be a few eggs short of a dozen to believe a chiropractor moonlighting as an expert on all things health should be trusted.
And you would have to be the absolute dullest tool in the shed to believe an individual caught doing this, this and this somehow has a person’s best interests at heart. Despite this, legions of people blindly take his dodgy advice as gospel despite the fact he’s both woefully unqualified and a bad character.
It is easy to blame the head of the snake leaching off their followers. Make no mistake, they deserve the lion’s share of blame and derision. However, not enough attention is paid to those enabling this behavior. Snake oil peddlers and cult leaders don’t exist in a vacuum. The folks supporting their efforts are guilty here as well.
With that in mind, why are people who follow Dr. Eric Berg so dumb?
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A look at why are people who follow Dr. Berg so dumb
I have personally experienced people who follow Dr. Berg being dumb firsthand in the comments section of my video that looks at why he’s so terrible. It is more than 1,000 messages from conspiracy theorists, boomers and other individuals who happily deny facts in favor of their deranged worldview.
One question I get asked is why. Why swim in these swampy waters of stupidity? Personally, it’s a matter of doing what’s right. Too often, the rational thinking public dismisses these yahoos immediately. The problem is these movements grow because nitwits can latch onto each other via the internet to spread their easily disprovable nonsense all because they listen to someone incorrectly calling himself a doctor.
A chiropractor is not a doctor. Going to a fake school teaching quackery all based on stories involving marks doesn’t make you anything. Had Berg not falsely glossed himself as a doctor and done a bunch of terrible other things, I’m not talking about him.
I could care less about your diet or what you eat. When a person starts falsely misrepresenting themselves to a group of people too dumb to know any better, that’s a problem worth talking about, even if they don’t want to hear it.
Speaking of things Berg’s followers don’t want to hear, they hate it when you point out that this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about and simply rips headlines from Google searches. This is something I pointed out in my last video when the chiropractor claimed oregano could help treat herpes. That solution only works if a person ingests a toxic amount of oregano oil.
More recently, Berg exposed his lack of understanding of the topics he covers when trying to debunk a doctor who exposed his nonsense. Watch the video to learn more.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. The not-so-good doctor has churned out countless videos that are either wrong or misguided because he either doesn’t understand the material he presents or is purposely trying to obscure truths in order to support his own conclusions.
Unfortunately, Berg is such a prolific content creator that he has tapped into the ‘cramming ten pounds of shit into a five-pound bag’ phenomenon. That is when a person puts out so much information that a follower will agree with everything because separating fact from fiction would take too much work.
It also helps to have an army of trolls, bots and morons willing to start a flame war with anyone who can show where Berg is wrong.
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The wild world of Berg’s followers
When you look at the flock of Berg, his followers mostly fall into one of six main categories. Some do overlap categories, and all share a few common tendencies. Namely, they’re gullible, easy to manipulate, and refuse to accept the truth even if it comes up and punches them in the face.
With more than 1,300 comments on my last Berg video, let’s sift through some and find examples of each one of his stupid follower groups in action.
1) College freshman geniuses
The first group is those college freshman geniuses or those folks who know a couple of facts and now assume they are somehow the smartest person in the room. They try to present themselves as rational actors using common sense to defend Berg. In reality, they completely ignore valid criticisms and prattle on about the one or two facts have memorized before scatting around other topics.
They also love to end their comments with some shrouded insult posed as a question. What am I doing? Well, I can tell you what I’m not doing. I’m not making videos based on things the AHA never said for starters.
2) Conspiracy theorists
It’s not surprising that Berg’s lemmings love a good conspiracy. There is your usual nonsense. Doctors are bad. You can’t trust mainstream medicine. Anything relating to what they call “the jab”. It’s just the stupid crap conservatives feed people to make them feel special when in reality, they’re nothing but brainless sheep unable to think for themselves.
However, the most ludicrous conspiracy this group prattles on about me being paid by big pharma or the pharmaceutical industry. Let’s go over what they are implying here.
These people think a billion-dollar sector is paying a small-time YouTube channel to create a video highlighting how Berg is junk. What? Why would they not work with a creator who had more reach? Or better production? Better yet, wouldn’t big pharma enlist their well-funded legal departments to do something? Or their lobbyists?
If you still don’t believe me, I’m more than happy to provide anyone with my bank statements privately. Prepare to be wildly disappointed, though. Not that Berg’s followers would accept this anyway.
3) Berg’s rubber and you’re glue
The defenders of Berg usually find themselves without a leg to stand on when it comes to facing the truth. This is when they resort to juvenile insults that basically boil down to “Berg is rubber and you’re glue; whatever you say bounces off him and sticks to you.”
This tends to go down one of two paths. The first is Berg has more followers and viewers so he can’t be wrong. However, I must be wrong since I don’t have those numbers. If something is true, it doesn’t matter how many subscribers a person has.
The second path is to ignore everything and call me a hater or jealous. I did a whole video on why calling someone a hater is dumb, but something important must be stressed here. If you call someone a hater for presenting facts, you are hating on them. You’re literally doing the thing you’ve accused another person of doing.
4) Religious nuts
The one group I do not understand is a collection of bad Christians claiming Berg is heaven sent to spread the gospel of readily available diet advice. Oh yeah, and he’s a Scientologist who treats his son poorly and forces that religion on his employees.
Look, I don’t care what religion you practice; your deity or deities are going to give a thumbs down to that type of behavior. I’ve read the bible a time or two, and I guess I missed the chapter where Jesus met up with Xenu and agreed fake doctors should be praised for fooling people on social media.
5) Obvious marks
So many of these Berg people love leaving wild, clearly untrue claims about how he has helped them. These range from being tame, stuff like “he’s changed my life”, to just flat-out dumb crap. Berg has saved you thousands of dollars in ER visits? You’ve lost a thousand pounds and can now bench press a small car. Sure.
Have you ever noticed that anytime a person is doing something unsavory, you find comments from marks like this? Every YouTube chiropractor trying to be the next Dr. Oz has a trove of internet accounts posting laughable claims. Hell, the entire chiropractic field was based on people being paid to say crazy things about how it helped them.
6) Bots and trolls
The final group are trolls or fake accounts who leave a statement professing an undying allegiance to Berg, usually in all caps, or accounts randomly created on the same day they leave a comment on my video supporting the chiropractor.
Come on people. This is not difficult information to find out. This is either his army of fake accounts trying to discredit me or one of his followers too scared to post under their real account. In other words, a human bot.
Berg leading the blind
All of that is bad, but the worst has to be the fact these folks in an echo chamber think that alone makes them right. Maybe it’s because a rational person with the slightest bit of education has zero desire to argue with people online about easily disprovable things.
Even worse is the argument from these people that they are somehow in the majority. Do you know who else thought they were in the majority? The followers of Warren Jeffs and the Branch Davidians. How’d that all work out in the end?
Not well. To think Eric Berg, a man who has proven to not actually care about people, has your best interests at heart is preposterous. He’s here for your money, whether that comes in the form of views or buying his overpriced products. And in order to get that paper, he’ll say whatever or cajole people into this false “us versus them” scenario.
Back to our original question: why are people who follow Dr. Berg so dumb? I suppose he just happened to be in the right time and the right place to tap into the world’s growing stupidity. There have always been morons, but over the past decade, they’ve been able to unite and champion dunces.
Now, we live in a world where anyone can pass themselves off as a medical or nutrition expert, even if they have no qualifications. And some people will believe and defend them regardless of how wrong or awful they happen to be.
Berg’s followers don’t really care about his advice. They want to be right and be part of what they think is something bigger. It is a pointless, dangerous mindset. The people who support Berg were stupid before he came along. Now, they just have a figure to rally behind.
At the end of the day, I ask you this. Who is more likely to have your best interests at heart? An individual proven on multiple occasions to show disdain for those trusting him while simultaneously asking you for something or a person who doesn’t care what you do and simply doesn’t want you to patronize a scammer?
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