(W)hole Foods. Yes, DUmmies are Hole Food Fools. ( Whole Food also known as Whole Paycheck)
Great thread with a real good video post.
DUmmies do not like being called out about things like pseudo science where diet is considered anymore than climate.
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10024555227wyldwolf (35,014 posts)
Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience
Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods. It’s all pseudoscience—so why are some kinds of pseudoscience more equal than others?
From the probiotics aisle to the vaguely ridiculous Organic Integrity outreach effort (more on that later), Whole Foods has all the ingredients necessary to give Richard Dawkins nightmares. And if you want a sense of how weird, and how fraught, the relationship between science, politics, and commerce is in our modern world, then there’s really no better place to go. Because anti-science isn’t just a religious, conservative phenomenon—and the way in which it crosses cultural lines can tell us a lot about why places like the Creation Museum inspire so much rage, while places like Whole Foods don’t.
Nearby are eight full shelves of probiotics—live bacteria intended to improve general health. I invited a biologist friend who studies human gut bacteria to come take a look with me. She read the healing claims printed on a handful of bottles and frowned. “This is bullshit,†she said, and went off to buy some vegetables. Later, while purchasing a bag of chickpeas, I browsed among the magazine racks. There was Paleo Living, and, not far away, the latest issue of What Doctors Don’t Tell You. Pseudoscience bubbles over into anti-science. A sample headline: “Stay sharp till the end: the secret cause of Alzheimer’s.†A sample opening sentence: “We like to think that medicine works.†...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/23/whole-foods-america-s-temple-of-pseudoscience.html
I will post the first reply which brings a bit
to this campfire.
Democracyinkind (3,328 posts)
1. Oy.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UFc1pr2yUU[/youtube]
There are lots of good cat fights taking place in this thread.
Denial? A river in Egypt or thread at the DUmp?
