Michael Greger, $1,500,000 FOR WHAT? (Nutritionfacts.org)

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real talk a few people were mortified and scandalized that I as a vegan as an aspiring vegan activist that I would criticize dr. Michael Greger and his non pardon me his nonprofit foundation Nutrition Facts org for the brutal financial reality that they are collecting 1.5 million dollars per year in in round numbers about one and a half million dollars per year in donations in order to produce YouTube videos you look at the website just look at their YouTube channel you cannot take a glance at what that foundation is doing and say that this justifies a budget of 1.5 million dollars per annum can't can't do it it's ridiculous now the question I'm raising here is at some point doesn't efficiency become an ethical issue at some point isn't inefficiency evil alright now I'm not saying what dr. Greger was doing is worthless I'm not saying that and you can look at you can google IRS Form 990 and then add the words nutrition facts org and you can find it yourself precisely how much money they're spending I have here for the current year or 2017 1 million 1 million four hundred eighty thousand two or twenty three dollars you can get the precise figures for how much money they're spending and then you can look again at that YouTube channel and ask yourself where the is 1.5 million dollars going in this YouTube channel and they don't do nothing else okay it is not the case that they're handing out packages of food to starving people Haidee it is not the case that they are taking you know solid steel tubes and installing sewage systems in third-world countries it is not the case that dr. Michael Greger is flying first-class in order to perform heart surgery on people in war zones who need the help nothing like that is happening here right this is 1.5 million dollars going into supporting nothing but some self-indulgent Polly research YouTube videos and you know that's true if you have ever taken the time to fact check Michael Gregor's work I'm a vegan I sympathize with his bias but he is biased as hell his work is sloppy it's full of irresponsible garbage he goes off on tangents both during live lectures and his YouTube videos that can't be justified he make generalizations that are dangerous and wrong says stuff off the top of his head that you know he plays fast and loose about stuff that he really should neither be fast with rusev Oh dr. Michael Greger personally personally gets paid one hundred and eighty four thousand dollars to be precise one hundred eighty four thousand three hundred and ninety US dollars okay little bit under two hundred thousand US dollars per year if you watch my channel you will know that that's actually a normal salary for a family doctor in the United States of America that is not extraordinary that is about the amount of money he could expect to make in a normal medical practice however dr. Greger does not now have a normal medical practice he never has at any point in his life had a normal medical practice he wears a lab coat right he looks like a doctor he finished medical school and went directly into this public health education thing that he does all he does is read peer-reviewed journal articles and then chitchat about these latest developments in medical science on a YouTube channel in a very casual and sometimes irresponsible and erroneous way and he sometimes flies around the world and gives lectures okay this whole foundation according to the paperwork form 990 they have only three paid employees so if you think one point five million dollars is employing a bunch of people no dr. Michael Greger then there's a technician it says chief tech and then there's an executive assistants I assume it says the exact executive di so executive director or executive assistant that's it that's the whole organization that's those the only people getting paid there's also a secretary who is not getting paid a treasurer working on a volunteer basis all right this is not 1.5 million dollars going to fund a huge staff it's not going to fund a single researcher or hate this is not 1.5 million dollars going to laboratory medicine it's not going to humanitarian work okay this is 1.5 million dollars going to support a YouTube channel priyad there is no other activism here there's no other justification you know what if you feel if you feel that dr. Michael Greger is earning a salary of $200,000 per year that's debatable if you think it's worth $200,000 per year why can't you eliminate the inefficiency of paying 1.5 million dollars just to deliver that $200,000 damn already from my perspective that is evil dr. Michael Greger should close down this foundation and just open a patreon and receive two hundred thousand dollars in donations per year he can receive that salary you can earn that here on YouTube doing this public education outreach he does not need a 1.5 million dollar foundation in order to provide him with that two or dozen or so if the outcome we want here is for Michael Greger to be highly motivated and feel rewarded feel like his time and effort is well spent and to earn a salary a generous salary of two hundred thousand US dollars per year if that's not what we're debating fine maybe it's worth it let him earn that without wasting another one point three million dollars it's ridiculous okay this is not the only catastrophe of its kind on YouTube and I'm saying catastrophe I'm not saying it's a scam it's not a scam the books are open anyone can Google this just google their IRS filing or for 990 you can look at the withering discouraging numbers and ask yourself what the are you doing with your money donating to this horseshit okay this is not the only catastrophe of its kind on YouTube TYT The Young Turks they keep doing multi-million dollar fundraisers for what in order to upload completely on the researched casual YouTube videos talking about politics they did a two million dollar fundraiser they've raised more than two million dollars to support their investigative journalism or so there's a separate YouTube channel that's called TYT investigates you can look at if you look it up right now it's even more withering than looking at the nutrition facts YouTube channel it's just a guy sitting in front of a camera like this casually talking about a little bit of reading eat it and that is it they have hour long videos I'm not gonna say it's garbage but it doesn't justify a budget of two million dollars right they raised two million dollars so they've done many multi-million dollar fundraisers by the way this wasn't the only one TYT The Young Turks they raised two million dollars to help Stoke up their Investigative Journalism wing they hired know Mickey Const okay with this two million dollars whether they hired one journalist named know Mickey Const fired just a couple months later I'm sorry I was not able to figure out how many months they employed her for but for a few months they had this woman Vickie Const and then she was gone and they hired another investigative journalist who turned around so the other investigative journalists they hired is called Andrew Jones they only hired him for a few months according this website six months and then he sued them so I take it he quit and sued them saying that they were racist against them and they held them to a different standard than white employees okay so now if you were one of the people gullible enough to donate your money to The Young Turks you get to look at it where did the two million dollars go and you can just just do the same thing I'm telling you to do with nutrition just look at that YouTube page you YouTube look gyt investigate the youtubers look at this and ask yourself does this look like two million dollars twelve million u.s. dollars were poured into the charity of paying for this guy to sit in front of the camera and just talk off the top of his head about some five pages of reading he did little tiny bit of research where do the two million dollars go okay dr. Greger I have to ask the same question I do this same on YouTube there's some YouTube videos of presented here that represent years of research all right years of research learning languages I studied Cambodian I lived in Cambodia I D humanitarian work in Cambodia I have years of depth of research and experience on Cambodia and I sometimes make youtube videos talking about Cambodian politics I'm not asking you to pay me two hundred thousand dollars I'm not asking you to pay me two million dollars this is ridiculous if you know sorry the level of research that the Young Turks put into their investigates channel or the level of research that dr. Greger puts in his YouTube videos it does not justify the unbelievable inefficiency of a 1.5 million dollar budget per annum and I mean if you feel it justifies a salary of two hundred thousand dollars a year for dr. Greger then you should be able to pay that directly without wasting more than a million dollars otherwise this ridiculous in my mind immoral foundation okay at what point does efficiency become a moral problem let's say we travel back in time and we sit down in a room with a guy named Nixon president ed states and some of his detractors on the left wing we sit down so hey you know what we just traveled back in time this war you want to fight in Vietnam you know what you know what you can win the Vietnam War you can create a capitalist democracy in Vietnam but it's going to be inefficient you know what that inefficiency involves minimum 1 million human casualties more likely over 2 million Vietnamese are going to be killed that's a little inefficiency if you think about it and now I want you guys to why don't you guys sit down and debate here Nixon and some people from laughing why don't you debate whether or not this idea you've got of creating a capitalist democracy in Vietnam is worth killing two million people for yeah and you know what you're also gonna kind of bankrupt the United States of America there are some other inefficiencies built in I want you to questions at some point inefficiency becomes evil it becomes an ethical problem even if the goal you're pursuing is worthwhile you know what they need of a medical doctor reading a few articles and making a youtube video talking about the latest updates and science from a vegan perspective that sounds great for 1.5 million dollars per year year after year after ten years that's 15 million dollars think about what a positive difference you can make in the world for those 15 million dollars it's sick it's disgusting okay hey let's step it up a notch Adolf Hitler do you want to fight a war travel back in time you want to fight your war to destroy Adolf Hitler sounds good Adolf Hitler is evil you want to fight award is oh hey there's a little inefficiency built into it you know what that is you're gonna become allies with Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin the only other human being alive at that time who had killed more people than Adolf Hitler and because of that alliance with Joseph Stalin you're gonna hand over Poland to him you're gonna hand over a whole chunk of Eastern Europe then you're gonna hand over the the northernmost islands of Japan sakhalin island you're gonna hand over key and then he's gonna have unquestioned power to go on murdering people for decades after World War two ends yeah yeah little bit of inefficiency in there little bit moral compromise that you became allies with the only human being on earth who's worse than Adolf Hitler in order to defeat it off Italy see see it gets morally complex when you think about inefficiency and you're willing to admit to yourself that it is an ethical problem okay if you think dr. Greger is earning $200,000 a year doing his form of vegan advocacy which I can sympathize with it's not that different from the advocacy I do here on YouTube for $200 a month great pay him the $200,000 and this it cannot justify a budget of 1.5 million dollars per year