South Park's overconfident opinions on the disease theory of alcoholism

[Peter1986]

My question is - why should we listen more to the opinions of two creators of an animated satire show than to the opinions of actual professionals who work with medical conditions and diseases every day?

who is actually doing this, I'd like to know

I'm not talking about anyone specific in my original post, but I have seen a bunch of people act like this on YouTube and similar sites;
they keep saying that "yeah the disease theory is BS" etc.
But no, if lots of doctors count it as a disease, then it IS a disease, period, at least until those doctors change their professional opinions or change the definition.

Another mistake that Trey and Matt seem to make in that episode is that they believe that the "disease label" is supposed to imply that the patient is "powerless" and therefore might as well give up.
That's not the point of a "label", the point is to clearly define a particular complicated physical or mental problem so that doctors can cooperate better and help that patient.
I mean, do we stop trying to maximise our chances to recover from a flu just because a flu counts as a disease?
No, we do the opposite - we figure out what kind of disease we have, and then try our best to help it recover, for example by avoiding unnecessary movement, taking certain medicines (if necessary) and eating as healthy as possible.
And from my understanding, the "alcoholism label" has the exactly same purpose, so in my opinion it should more be thought of as something that helps someone to fight a disease instead of something that makes them powerless.
"Ah okay, so that's my problem."

Of course, this is assuming that the patient has become aware of his/her disease in the first place.