How many lives have you ruined? How many people have you killed?

we're going to talk about kristen leo we're going to talk about unnatural vegan and we're going to talk about a reasonably profound issue that links the two this video starts at the shallow end but it gets deep and i'm asking you to put up with the first minute or two i'm asking you to trust me that together we are gonna walk from the shallow end to the deep end if on route we do not together drown this is how kristen leo earns her money oh that looks like leather that looks like wool kristen leo is someone who describes herself as vegan and who earns her money every day buying and selling leather buying and selling wool why not fur why aren't there fur coats on here what difference could there possibly be between buying and selling leather boots and buying and selling a fur coat from a vegan perspective the evil is the same even if one is more ostentatious than the other even if one makes you stand out in a crowd and be noticed more than the other i'm just a dumb [ __ ] that doesn't know pretty much anything about politics a lot of people think that when i criticize capitalism that automatically means that i support communism and that is not the case just the words themselves like communism capitalism are very cringy and embarrassing for me to say because i'm i'm just a dumb [ __ ] that doesn't know pretty much anything about politics and i just like clothes and i want the people that make these clothes to be paid fairly and for those clothes to not pollute the environment i don't want to talk about hypocrisy i don't want to talk about living with contradictions between what you practice and what you preach middle age life makes hypocrites of us all most of you have jobs and schedules and responsibilities that compel you to do things that you would preach to others they should not do if they have a choice in the matter if they have an alternative if there's some better way they can spend their time or earn their living a lot of us have to with all due humility except this is what adult life entails even if it is something as simple as owning a car as driving a car when perhaps ecologically we wish there was a better way for us to spend our time and earn our living i don't want to talk about hypocrisy i want to talk about consequences because these aren't just ordinary people when someone like unnatural vegan makes excuses for using antidepressants when someone like a natural vegan makes excuses for using antidepressants during pregnancy causing harm to her own children causing brain malformations in her own children when she normalizes that and rationalizes that and promotes it to her audience of many thousands of people i'm asking what are the consequences i'm asking how many lives have you ruined how many people have you killed look at this look at this right here prenatal ssri exposure alters neonatal [Music] corticosteroid binding globulin infant cortisol levels and emerging hpa function i don't really know what that means you most likely watching this video do not really know what that means [Music] imagine if you were donating money for some kind of highly scientifically literate youtuber to read and evaluate this peer-reviewed study and then report to you the conclusions i'm you know i'm basically a caveman people i mean you know i read this out of complete ignorance this is not my of expertise conclusions prenatal ssri exposure affects the developing hpa system by altering serum cbg levels in neonates and infant infant salivary cortisol levels further research is warranted on the long-term functional implications of the effect of prenatal ssri exposure on fetal hepatic cbg gene expression and the developing hps you know what that means you know what that means i don't oh this looks this looks legit no you see the title this is the thing i love about these types of articles the title is long enough that it's like you've read a whole book just in reading of the title it's great exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy and risk of autism spectrum spectrum disorder in children a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies now imagine what a different world would be living in if the title said taking antidepressants during pregnancy increases [Music] the risk of your baby having autism imagine if that were the title you can even just read the fine print here uh here on screen for the abstract and you can figure out that that is that is what this article is telling you is it true i don't know not really not really my field of expertise antidepressants and pregnancy continued evidence of harm still no evidence of benefit now this is a real interesting study to take a look at and you can tell this is published in a different kind of journal ethical human psychology and psychiatry so this is a little bit easier for people like you and i to uh interpret dear viewer and this is taking a different type of approach the issue and saying look it's not just the case that we need to take seriously the threats to the mother's health the impacts on the baby's health we have to view this in the context of the fact that the the science indicates that the benefit from taking antidepressants is either very very little or absolutely nil time magazine headline taking antidepressants during pregnancy may lead to fetal brain changes well you know what that sounds a lot like those peer-reviewed articles i was just uh just looking at but kind of dumb down and put into layman's terms there's a growing and confusing group of studies looking at the effect of antidepressants during pregnancy some research suggests that the drugs are linked to an increased risk of miscarriage while others focus on the implications for the developing baby including possible birth defects and an increased risk of autism i don't even know is this chiari 1 or chiari e this is chiari and the roman numeral this is not my field this is not what i study not mary i'm interested in any way maternal use i'm not running out of sources i'm actually not using all the sources i've got in this video because i don't know that would be boring maternal use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors fetal growth and risk of adverse birth outcomes ssris just like cannabis and tobacco negatively affected the growth of fetal head circumference does that sound like something you'd want to you want to play with is this something you want to make excuses for swayze because you have you've come on and you've said the most laughable shameful debunked pseudo-scientific garbage that comes straight out of psychiatric advertising campaigns not science you're still out here promoting the idea that ssri drugs cure a chemical imbalance in the brain someone like kristen leo when she is actively promoting and promulgating a vegan lifestyle that is not vegan at all i'm not asking about the hypocrisy i'm not asking about the type of self-contradiction she's drawn into i don't want to think about this like an equation on a chalkboard i think there's a really meaningful sense in which this kind of demonstration damages people ruins people's lives in the old days parents number one concern was that their children would end up running with a bad crowd do you remember that idiom that your children would fall in with a bad group of friends that your children would join a gang maybe but maybe they just have a friend group that normalizes drug use that normalizes dropping out of school that normalizes wasting all your time hanging out at bars or nightclubs right the parent used to be concerned about guiding the child to surround themselves with the right kind of friend there's a much more powerful kind of influence on the internet today and it doesn't just impact children it impacts middle-aged adults it impacts the elderly and i really want to raise the question of what the consequences are for the vegan movement and for the lives of individuals what are the consequences of people like kristin leo an unnatural vegan wielding this influence in the way that they do and my answer is in a word it's bad i'm just a dumb [ __ ] that doesn't know pretty much anything about politics i mean really people like to disrespect my crew but the fact is that you know my name and i don't know you