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Comment by lambdaba | Hacker News Reader

what a dumb remark, what does it matter who the host is

The host in this case is a significant investor in Huel who seemingly fails to mention his relationship to it when bigging it up.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rwz5xkrg8o

To me it casts any discussion of nutrition on his podcast in a somewhat different, less than neutral light.

Okay, but the parent was implying that would discredit the interviewee. One thing I've observed with people that have an important message to disseminate is they are not fussy about what the medium is

I don't know if it would or would not. But some cynicism feels warranted by association.

And then there's the further research you can do:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ketogenic-diets-for-cancer-...

I dunno. I don't know enough to evaluate this in precise detail. But I do know enough to feel cynicism about extraordinary claims.

If you have significant financial interest in a product or service you're not going to bring on someone who will meaningfully oppose that product or service. Therefore anyone who goes onto that podcast, or whatever media, would be selected for.

It absolutely does matter?? If you're trying to do reference class forecasting and your class is "a person who is not a CEO" and then you're forecasting based on anecdata of "people who are a CEO" you're not going to get good predictions.

people on the show aren't strictly "CEOs" in the truest sense of that word. just to pick an obvious counterexample, Robert Greene is an author, not a CEO, and he was a guest

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