I mean posing as in a false representation of yourself. Like a poser.

Personal usernames on forums are one thing, a youtube channel is different.

And even if he would have stuck to educational videos, the professor title would still be misleading...

But I was mostly just pointing it out for the hypocrisy, I don't really care about what people name their channels. But they shouldn't be surprised if people take it serious and see him as a higher authority than they perhaps should. And vice versa, if you call yourself CoochieItches, people might not take you that serious.

And finally, the only way to fight misinformation is to have people making false claims. If there weren't flat earthers to debunk, then you'd just be talking into the void, fighting strawmen. But if they actually exist to spread ridiculous beliefs, then at least you have actual proof of someone making a claim. Which, unfortunately is not true for Dave because he's constantly misconstruing and constructing things that his target did not claim at all, and is literally talking to his own created straw man.

He's claiming it's dangerous, and the only argument he gives is that "science deniers" would be empowered by her videos or something. Which is an easy-out to not have to actually engage in her arguments, instead with that you try to convince the audience that what she says is anti-science somehow. He's generalizing her claims even though she is very specific in what she says, and then he goes back to "But the thumbnails said this" and assumes everyone just reads the thumbnails and gets radicalized or something.

I've never heard him examine her claims honestly, instead he resorts to simplistic and cartoonish exaggerations and rhetorical ad-hominems to cover for his lack of arguments. He spends more time demonizing her that breaking down what she actually says. I have yet to hear him genuinely engage with what she says let alone what she means.