# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/141 "2015-03-24T12:33:57Z")
> [@Arabella\_Flynn](#): > > [Science Babe](http://scibabe.com). She cracked and started blogging because Food Babe made her so mad she could spit, in fact. Bonus points for being gluten free because she is genuinely, clinical-signs-and-lab-test diagnosed with celiac disease, among other things. She is fond of dirty jokes and says “fuck” a lot, and once made her point about the efficacy of homeopathy by getting tipsy off a bottle of homeopathic dog “medication”. Well, I’m sold. ---
**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 24, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/142 "2015-03-24T12:39:56Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > Swiss chard has more of everything that’s useful in kale, and it doesn’t make your house smell like a frat house toilet when you saute it. > > Q.E.D. > [@Broomstick](#): > > Chard is better in every way. And it’s prettier, too. The flavor of Swiss Chard is too neutral for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/143 "2015-03-24T12:49:58Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > People have it all wrong, we should be focusing on Wellfullness. I aim for OKfulness. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/144 "2015-03-24T13:15:43Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Well, it’s not like there’s another group from…maybe farther east? Or west, depending on which way you’re looking. That is super disappointing. Look, I know “other” minorities are much smaller in number and I guess they couldn’t be arsed to count us up but couldn’t they at least lump us all together in one category? Instead we are not even acknowledged. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/145 "2015-04-07T18:38:00Z")
The Science Babe tears Food Babe to shred on Gawker. It’s a thing of beauty: [The "Food Babe" Blogger Is Full of Shit](http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/146 "2015-04-07T19:00:30Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > The Science Babe tears Food Babe to shred on Gawker. It’s a thing of beauty: [http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226](http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226) We need more Science Babes in the world. That was great, and finally provided a valid link to the removed airplane article. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/147 "2015-04-07T19:54:22Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > "I’ll just eat 600 grams of sugar every day and disregard the mounting body of evidence showing this is terribly unsafe, just like we did back in the 60s and 70s with tobacco… Then there are the type of people who think “Everything in moderation” is the answer for everything, so there’s no need to actually figure out what’s good or bad for us. Stupid people, we can’t handle everything in moderation. . Humans have been eating sugar for 2.5 million years . Heavy smoking didnt occur until around 1700. Dont get me wrong- too much sugar\* is\* bad for you. Too much water is bad for you. Too much meat is bad for you. _Too much xxxxx is bad for you_. Admittedly, in todays diet, it’s deceptively easy to get too much sugar, but it’s not bad for you in moderation, esp if consumed via fruits. Sugar certainly is one of those things that “in moderation” is good for you. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/148 "2015-04-07T20:03:32Z")
> [@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). > > . I have a friend, he’s been the CFO of a couple of “Little Pharma” companies, and he sez his company would kill for a cure for cancer or hell- even ingrown toenails- even if they lost money on it. The publicity, the potential for a Nobel prize, etc- all would put any struggling “Little Pharma” company on the map in a second. He sez they’d cheerfully write a megabuck check for any proven cancer cure, even if they didnt make a nickel selling it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/149 "2015-04-07T20:12:30Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > See, here’s the problem with your type. You actually know very little about nutrition, much like those bloggers. And you’re loud and proud, too, like them. At least some of them recognize that there’s something severely wrong with the current allopathic model of medicine, which often ends up drugging and cutting instead of fixing things through lifestyle changes and education. woo-woo!:rolleyes: wiki: _“Allopathic medicine is an expression commonly used by homeopaths and proponents of other forms of alternative medicine to refer to mainstream medical use of pharmacologically active agents or physical interventions to treat or suppress symptoms or pathophysiologic processes of diseases or conditions.[1] The expression was coined in 1810 by the creator of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843).[2]”_ To paraphrase Churchill: “Western medicine is the worst form of medicine, except for all the others.” I made a bet years ago: we both get infected with the Black Plague. I will take a simple course of modern antibiotics, aka “Allopathic medicine”. :rolleyes: You can take herbs, Chinese Traditional, homeopathy, chiropractic, Ayurvedic medicine or even Faith healing. Anything but antibiotics. Which of us lives and which dies? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/150 "2015-04-07T20:16:26Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > The plural of anecdote is not data, dude. [http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-anecdote-is-data-after-all.html](http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-anecdote-is-data-after-all.html) and it is data (not the best data, but data none-the-less) : wiki: \*Anecdotal evidence can have varying degrees of formality. For instance, in medicine, published anecdotal evidence by a trained observer (a doctor) is called a case report, and is subjected to formal peer review.[12] Although such evidence is not seen as conclusive, it is sometimes regarded as an invitation to more rigorous scientific study of the phenomenon in question.[13] For instance, one study found that 35 of 47 anecdotal reports of drug side-effects were later sustained as “clearly correct.”[14] Anecdotal evidence is considered the least certain type of scientific information.[15] Researchers may use anecdotal evidence for suggesting new hypotheses, but never as validating evidence.\* ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/151 "2015-04-07T20:19:33Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Cite that they’re not? Eaten once year at the County fair and I will bet they pose no health risks for the average American. Eaten daily?.. _not so much_. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/152 "2015-04-07T20:22:03Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > “Too hot?” > > “No, too sweet!” “Read the card, read the card!” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/153 "2015-04-07T20:24:05Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Well, it’s not just “pretty women” bloggers as I thought: How could you be more “paleo” than mothers milk? :dubious:😕 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/154 "2015-04-07T20:26:27Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Chard is better in every way. And it’s prettier, too. And he has the V.C.! > **[John Chard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chard)** > > Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard VC (21 December 1847 – 1 November 1897) was a British Army officer who received the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British armed forces. He earned the decoration for his role in the defence of Rorke's Drift in January 1879 where he assumed command of the outpost and a small garrison of 139 soldiers and successfully repulsed an assault by some 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warrio... ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/155 "2015-04-07T20:53:22Z")
_TL;DR - I went to high school with self-righteous, naive people._ A high school classmate posted a link from the Food Babe’s blog two weeks ago, and I posted an NPR story where scientists discredit many of her claims. My point was not to ridicule my friend or her beliefs, but that she should be aware that the Food Babe uses pseudo-science and incomplete / insufficient information to fearmonger. I received an extremely smug & condescending reply from said friend, saying how it is good that I support getting both sides of a story, and how she supports the side that advocates health, natural living, and avoiding all those evil chemicals out there. A few exchanges later, she said that she would not put any chemicals into the bodies of her family or herself. What started off as a “heads up, this woman lacks scientific support for the majority of her claims, she is into ‘woo science,’ etc.” became a tirade about how I obviously had a hidden agenda in trying to badmouth “The Truth” and how I didn’t care about my health, I was part of the sheeple, etc. All in all, just insulting and frustrating. So… yeah, I asked about her thoughts on dihydrogen monoxide. She replied by saying that it sounded unhealthy and something that she’d want to avoid, but as she was unfamiliar with the facts, she couldn’t pass judgement. Graciously, I provided [this link](http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html), so that she’d be aware of all the adverse effects of the chemical. At this point, I thought she’d see what I was doing - given the page’s cheesy / poor design, and that it was obviously pushing an agenda. Well, that didn’t happen. Her next response is about how horrible it sounds and she asks why she hasn’t heard of it before. At this point, I’m almost certain she’s playing along, because, damn, how could you not realize what this “bit” was? I reply, asking her for clarification as to why she doesn’t like it, giving her every chance to let me know she is in on the joke. Nope. She asks if I didn’t bother to read my own link, and then harps back on how I don’t know what I’m talking about, saying that I am just part of the mindless masses who don’t question things, etc. Then, in what I assume was her most sanctimonious tone, she asks what my thoughts are on dihydrogen monoxide. I simply respond, “Honestly, I think the benefits outweigh potential detriments.” This opened up a floodgate of smug, self-satisfying statements, such as how she would never give _her_ family this poison, and maybe I need to take a closer look at the Food Babe, because she can show me “The Way,” lest I not change my dietary habits and suffer a lifetime of illnesses before enjoying the sweet release of an early death. I think she mentioned she was going to pray for me, too, at some point. She ends this tirade by stating that not only would she avoid giving the chemical to her family, friends, loved ones, pets, etc., but she was also going to start a crusade to get dihydrogen monoxide banned. Honestly, her response was too good to be true. If I didn’t know better, I would’ve sworn she was joking. I figured it was time to prove my point. I say, “Dihydrogen monoxide is water. That was the point of my link, to show you how, when placed in a particular context, anything can seem dangerous or deadly. That’s what the Food Babe does.” Yeah, 45 minutes later, she blocked me on Facebook, her husband (former teammate) defriended me, and I found out that she’d deleted the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/156 "2015-04-07T21:57:24Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > How could you be more “paleo” than mothers milk? :dubious:😕 Clearly you are being paid by Big Pharma to say that. > [@Calatin](#): > > I say, “Dihydrogen monoxide is water. That was the point of my link, to show you how, when placed in a particular context, anything can seem dangerous or deadly. That’s what the Food Babe does.” And you by Big Water. 🙂 I posted the link to the dihydrogen monoxide link on FB today. I am tired of people posting bullshit without their BS detector popping their eardrums. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/157 "2015-04-07T22:14:15Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > The Science Babe tears Food Babe to shred on Gawker. It’s a thing of beauty: [http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226](http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226) I like it. I just wish she went by a different moniker than “Science Babe”. It seems to lend credibility to Food _Babe_. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/158 "2015-04-07T22:25:22Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > I like it. I just wish she went by a different moniker than “Science Babe”. It seems to lend credibility to Food _Babe_. I saw it more as a mockery of the name “Food Babe.” ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/159 "2015-04-07T23:28:31Z")
I have a feeling that she is turning into the Media’s punching bag after they themselves propped her up: [MY PROBLEM WITH FOOD BABE’S MESSAGE](http://www.elle.com/culture/a27692/food-babe-problem/?src=spr_FBPAGE&spr_id=1448_165730204&linkId=13388063) (article on Elle). ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331/160 "2015-04-08T00:22:51Z")
I invited Scibabe to join us. I wonder if she will? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bimbo-wellness-blogger-found-to-be-a-fraud/715331.md?page=9)