If anything you are fueling his argument. /r/science actually has a pretty high bar for submissions and is heavily moderated. In addition, you must directly link to published peer reviewed research. It's not the traditional subreddit that you are used to when you think of "Reddit". It's not quite the major leagues but has A LOT of quality posts because of the rules and moderation.
What? I had to ubsubscribe that joke of a subreddit. It's full of dumb American politics, literally 'research proves gop votes are more likely poorer than..". Day in and out.
That whole place is as much as to do with science than your FB mum group.
There's very little serous discussion going on.
