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Okay this is going to be a bit of a rant, but I wanted to bring up a point about Susan Yara that I don't think I've seen mentioned yet. This is NOT to hate on her, but to bring light to a growing issue in the youtube skincare community. One of Susan's favorite lines about dermatologists' knowledge vs. her own knowledge has turned into a bit of a movement on youtube and I've seen it getting quoted by her followers all over youtube, under videos of literally anything skincare related, and I think it needs to be addressed.Susan's constant "dermatologists may have gone to medical school but they aren't necessarily interested in skincare and have time to research all the ingredients [like me]" statement is a veryyy thought out and carefully worded strategy of asserting her own authority and knowledge while discrediting people who 10000% know more than her about every ingredient and concept in skincare, and it's so irritating that people have actually started quoting this exact justification of why not to listen to dermatologists all over youtube - all thanks to Susan's misinformation!! There is a huge issue in healthcare with patients listening to pseudoscience and information without any solid evidence that's getting spread by influencers, and I hate that this is getting perpetuated by this statement that Susan consistently includes in her content.Dermatologists don't need to sit there googling products and ingredients because they know what's actually backed up by solid research and science vs. what are just marketing claims, and I'm sorry but unless you went through years of learning science from undergrad to med school to DERMATOLOGY RESIDENCY, your surface level understanding of skincare ingredients doesn't mean you actually understand how they work or if they even have solid evidence that they work. Like I remember in one of Susan's videos she said something like "Apparently there's a dermatologist out there who says you don't need vitamin c in your skincare and I respectfully disagree" - okay so two things 1) she was obviously referring to Dr Dray, who is 100% correct in her explanation that there's a lot of issues with vitamin c stability and no way to measure its effectiveness from the skincare products you buy - this doesn't mean your products aren't working, but it also doesn't mean they are. Many dermatologists will still recommend vitamin c, but even those dermatologists tend to mention that there's a lot of well documented stability issues with vitamin c in skincare. which brings me to point 2) you don't get to "respectfully" disagree with science. I found that whole statement about how she respectfully disagrees with a dermatologist over vitamin c's effectiveness in skincare so arrogant. And it scares me how confident she is in spewing misinformation and discrediting dermatologists in their knowledge of skincare.I think that skincare is very much a science, but it's a science that really isn't backed up by truly reliable unbiased research, and so a lot of these skincare facts given as "hard truths" by influencers are really just speculative. I think it's a growing issue that the authorities on skincare on youtube are people with 0 understanding of science (google doesn't count) - this isn't to say their input isn't valuable, like I love James Welsh's videos because he is very much just someone excited by skincare and he doesn't pretend to know more than he does and I feel like people trust him more for that. But I really wish Susan would treat her position more responsibly and not discredit dermatology with that ridiculous statement that somehow implies she knows more about skincare just because she's supposedly more interested in it than some dermatologists /endrant
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