The amount of people that believe and share "medical information" from people wearing lab coats without bothering to verify any of their claims or even do any preliminary research on the credibility of the source, is shocking.
We really do live in an age where people just share things simply because it agrees with them and not because it's actually true.
Unsolicited advice: if you don't want to lose credibility among your peers, just take the time to verify the journalistic integrity of any of the people who you base your argument on. You may never get people to agree with you but at least your integrity to produce quality information remains intact.Listen, no one's perfect. We don't know everything, but we can help stop the spread of misinformation and not spread "fake news" ourselves.