Food Babe Critics Speak Out

Craig B said:
Nice! Heroin peddlers can cite that principle. As can brothel keepers. What's your view of that?
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Never tried Heroin, but Nevada seems to have no major problems with its brothels. I think the market has decided on both: we don't want brothels in Texas, even if they are safe, and we don't want Heroin, even if making it illegal doesn't get rid of it. So, both are illegal in my state.

But neither of those seem equivalent to adding corn syrup to marinara sauce at the factory instead having mom dump in a handful of sugar to "give it the right taste". Are you going to outlaw sugar and salt the way we have successfully eradicated other dangerous drugs?
 
RedPillNeo said:
I think it's worse to know better and make such a silly straw argument, than to blindly worry about chemicals in food from ignorance.

Which terrestrial organisms evolved to accept aspartame, sucralose, or partially hydrogenated oils in their diet, or hundreds of pounds a year of sucrose or fructose? This is important and needs our collective attention. Focusing on the poor arguments at the extremes of the knowlege spectrum while ignoring the actual dangers is NOT a superior or well-informed position.
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What's the danger of aspartame? Are you also against small amounts of fluoride and chlorine in tap water because they are "unnatural"? Invoking evolution or nature is a total fallacy in face of actual studies on how these things are metabolized by our bodies.
 
Dr. Keith said:
Never tried Heroin, but Nevada seems to have no major problems with its brothels. I think the market has decided on both: we don't want brothels in Texas, even if they are safe, and we don't want Heroin, even if making it illegal doesn't get rid of it. So, both are illegal in my state.
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"The preferences of customers" decided that?
 
I have no trouble considering Food Babe as a vendor of "woo".

Bad Science + Scare Tactics = Woo.


Mark Crislip wrote up her anti-vax(flu shot) blog and this sentence sums it up, nicely....


It is hard to find an example of a piece of writing where virtually every piece of information is wrong. And when there is a nugget of truth my first response is to question my knowledge. If Food Babe says it, it must be wrong.
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http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/scam-stud/
 
steenkh said:
Whatever flaws there might be in the Food Babe's arguments, it has nothing to do with woo.

Personally, I welcome a campaign for fewer unnecessary chemicals in our environment. I do not care if the amount is considered non-poisonous, because we might get the same chemicals from several sources, raising the amount that we eat, and these chemicals are still unnecessary.
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Could you provide us with a list of "unnecessary chemicals in our environment"?

Thanks.
 
steenkh said:
Whatever flaws there might be in the Food Babe's arguments, it has nothing to do with woo.

Personally, I welcome a campaign for fewer unnecessary chemicals in our environment. I do not care if the amount is considered non-poisonous, because we might get the same chemicals from several sources, raising the amount that we eat, and these chemicals are still unnecessary.
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This is a woman who posted about airplanes "having high levels of nitrogen," and how microwaves cause water molecules to respond to words like "Hitler" and "Stalin." She's hand in hand with Dr. Oz, Mercola, and the rest of the woo merchants influencing the public.

I guess I'm glad someone resurrected this topic, thought no one was interested!
 
Skeletor said:
This is a woman who posted about airplanes "having high levels of nitrogen," and how microwaves cause water molecules to respond to words like "Hitler" and "Stalin." She's hand in hand with Dr. Oz, Mercola, and the rest of the woo merchants influencing the public.

I guess I'm glad someone resurrected this topic, thought no one was interested!
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Indeed. She's a dangerous wooster. That she might say something sensible now and then doesn't diminish her danger.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
I know. Those farmers sure are uneducated rubes. Luckily, we have "farmers" who grew up in the city and got a fancy education to go out into the countryside and teach them.
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Is that your problem? Never met one of those "rubes" as you call them because you never grew up on a farm? If you had, your opinions of them as being "rubes" might be considerably different. My Great grandfather (a small farmer in North Carolina) was such a "rube" he ended up being the president of a bank during the depression. Why? Because he was the only "rube" with any money left in the bank! Without him the bank would have bellied up. :rolleyes:
 
Skeletor said:
This is a woman who posted about airplanes "having high levels of nitrogen," and how microwaves cause water molecules to respond to words like "Hitler" and "Stalin." She's hand in hand with Dr. Oz, Mercola, and the rest of the woo merchants influencing the public.

I guess I'm glad someone resurrected this topic, thought no one was interested!
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Correct. Her "credentials" are based on "I just know there's a lot of bad stuff in food, because I make it a point to know". She has a science degree - in computers. No medicine, no biology, no chemistry, no nutrition. She found a niche of panicky readers and popularity. It's like those average "phenoms" on Youtube who get a million followers; don't need any ability, just need to strike a sympathetic chord with someone.

Always remember Mencken's adage and the proof of it in that Gangman Style now has over 1,000,000,000 views on Youtube.
 
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