# Yet another bimbo "wellness" blogger found to be a fraud **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 18, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331 "2015-03-18T22:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/41 "2015-03-19T17:45:06Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Eat soap?! Ha! That’s for pussywimps! **Real** cleansers mainline Drano! > [@running\_coach](#): > > Lyer. > > 😃 Not to Junior Mod, but: Reported. For making base accusations. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/42 "2015-03-19T19:02:57Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Not to Junior Mod, but: Reported. > > For making base accusations. Yeah, the Pit is reserved for those with an acid tongue. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/43 "2015-03-19T19:09:55Z")
Bah, he’s just trying to get a reaction. ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/44 "2015-03-19T19:19:14Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > I’m one and know several but I agree that it’s less common among women. I don’t think this is a good thing. > > Sceptism does not equal defending the status quo, though. Why do you think that? > . That depends on your definitions of “skeptic” and “status quo”. The people I don’t understand are the ones who zealously defend whatever the current paradigm is, until its proven wrong, then immediately zealously defend the NEW paradigm, until it too is proven wrong, etc. ad nauseam. That doesn’t seem like much of a strategy to me. Also, it’s usually these same folks who try to apply the same standards of certainty to nutritional research that are used in harder sciences. That’s just not realistic…but the real reason they do so is usually to avoid having to chsnge their unhealthy diets. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/45 "2015-03-19T19:27:46Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Here recent book also says there is no amount of chemical that is safe. Good luck with that. . . . Well, I suppose there’s a toxic dose of anything including water, but is that what she meant? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/46 "2015-03-19T19:55:13Z")
This is all a mild form of CT. The special knowledge, the conspiracy of medical experts, Big Pharma, it’s more fun to believe they’re trying to kill us all and hide the secret information that will save instead of believing they just want to make money (plus a little God complex thrown in from the medical world). But if the result is less crowded planes and the suckers revealing themselves by their magic health secrets it’s fine with me. I don’t know why I haven’t gone into the Holistic Medicine business yet. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/47 "2015-03-19T20:42:27Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I dunno. Is a coffee enema as much like mainlining caffeine as it sounds? 'Cuz if it is, count me in! Or you can just come by my office, where the coffee tastes like ass… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/48 "2015-03-19T21:01:19Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > This is all a mild form of CT. The special knowledge, the conspiracy of medical experts, Big Pharma, it’s more fun to believe they’re trying to kill us all and hide the secret information that will save instead of believing they just want to make money (plus a little God complex thrown in from the medical world). “Repeat after me: pharma being shit does not mean magic beans cure cancer.” – [Ben Goldacre](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ben_Goldacre) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/49 "2015-03-19T21:11:28Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > A good cleansing diet doesn’t have to be complicated or esoteric or expensive or lots of effort to prepare. I just eat 4 oz. of Dial Soap a day (purists will insist on Ivory). Whether grated over salad, or in the layers of lasagne or in an omelet, it keeps one clean inside and out. What about the 56/100% of Ivory that is impure? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/50 "2015-03-19T21:25:31Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The media outlets came under the control of MBAs in suits who don’t care about journalism. I’m wondering if journalism EVER existed. Maybe Woodward and Bernstein were outliers. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/51 "2015-03-19T21:25:57Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > The people I don’t understand are the ones who zealously defend whatever the current paradigm is, until its proven wrong, then immediately zealously defend the NEW paradigm, until it too is proven wrong, etc. ad nauseam. That doesn’t seem like much of a strategy to me. Also, it’s usually these same folks who try to apply the same standards of certainty to nutritional research that are used in harder sciences. That’s just not realistic…but the real reason they do so is usually to avoid having to chsnge their unhealthy diets. Congratulations on your straw man collection. Skeptics (and the scientific community as a whole) would like to see good science before accepting a radical proposition, especially one which defies accepted rules governing the physical world or elementary logic. Regardless, scientists love to see new and exciting ideas get proven. There is no reason nutrition-related research should get a special pass when it comes to sound science. And it has nothing to do with wanting to eat junk food. I agree with the great majority of scientists that GM foods are safe to consume. That doesn’t mean we think it’s a good idea to subsist on Fritos. As for leading researchers not being active as skeptics, I give you Paul Offit M.D., a prolific writer and debunker of woo, who also co-developed a lifesaving rotavirus vaccine. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/52 "2015-03-19T21:29:41Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I’m wondering if journalism EVER existed. Maybe Woodward and Bernstein were outliers. Yes they were. There’s usually a few crusading journalists around, but they’re vastly outnumbered by the rest. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/53 "2015-03-19T21:31:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > “Repeat after me: pharma being shit does not mean magic beans cure cancer.” > > – [Ben Goldacre](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ben_Goldacre) Excellent. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/54 "2015-03-19T21:39:12Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > A good cleansing diet doesn’t have to be complicated or esoteric or expensive or lots of effort to prepare. I just eat 4 oz. of Dial Soap a day (purists will insist on Ivory). Whether grated over salad, or in the layers of lasagne or in an omelet, it keeps one clean inside and out. Why, oh WHY do you insist on filling your body with toxic chemicals? Neither of those are organic or even sustainably made! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/55 "2015-03-19T22:10:45Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Yes they were. There’s usually a few crusading journalists around, but they’re vastly outnumbered by the rest. I was a newspaper reporter once. You needn’t be a crusader to be a real journalist. You just have to really, really care about digging up all the relevant facts and checking them and getting them straight. If you do that, sometimes someone else will respond by mounting a crusade. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/56 "2015-03-19T22:12:10Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > What about the 56/100% of Ivory that is impure? It’s cool, it’s a homeopathic dose. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/57 "2015-03-19T23:46:19Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I agree with the great majority of scientists that GM foods are safe to consume. That doesn’t mean we think it’s a good idea to subsist on Fritos. Well, not ALL of you. And you need some Monster to wash them down. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/58 "2015-03-20T02:08:51Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > And yet I pretty much always find skeptics to be of the overweight middle-aged male variety. They happen to be full of excuses about their dietary choices, and words like “correlation” and “science” seem to get used a lot. The mention of their weight is met with lots of emotions, though. They have no skeptical distance on that, generally speaking. _shrug_ I may be a sceptic middle aged male who’s a little bit overweight but I have no illusions about why this is so. I eat and drink too much and don’t exercise enough. I also (and here’s the key point) _don’t go around telling people what they should eat or drink or how much they should exercise, and if I did I wouldn’t speak complete and utter horseshit._ Do you see how this might distinguish me a little from the type of blogger the OP is talking about? Just a little? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/59 "2015-03-20T02:13:07Z")
About that claim that female nutrition skeptics are “an extremely rare breed”: this runs counter to my experience, seeing that there are a lot of women professionals in the nutrition field, who have written numerous online articles about nutrition fads and fallacies. One prominent female skeptic who’s made contributions on this subject is Harriet Hall\*, a retired Air Force flight surgeon and family doctor, who writes for the Skeptical Inquirer and [Science-Based Medicine](http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/diet-supplements-or-nutritional-supplements-a-ruse-by-any-other-name-is-still-a-ruse/). \*she used to have a column in Oprah’s magazine, but apparently her point of view didn’t go down so well with Madame Woo. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/60 "2015-03-20T02:14:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I was a newspaper reporter once. Really? How did that work? When you published a “story,” was it just a headline followed by a reference to someone else’s article? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331.md?page=4)