Well, I’m sold.
The flavor of Swiss Chard is too neutral for me.
I aim for OKfulness.
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.
The Science Babe tears Food Babe to shred on Gawker. It’s a thing of beauty: The "Food Babe" Blogger Is Full of Shit
We need more Science Babes in the world. That was great, and finally provided a valid link to the removed airplane article.
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.
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.
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?
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.*
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.
“Read the card, read the card!”
How could you be more “paleo” than mothers milk? :dubious:
And he has the V.C.!
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, 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.
Clearly you are being paid by Big Pharma to say that.
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.
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.”
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 (article on Elle).
I invited Scibabe to join us. I wonder if she will?