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Bonny22Pye


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http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-****-1694902226

this is a great article.  You can read the whokeep thing in the link above.

Vani Hari, AKA the Food Babe, has amassed a loyal following in her Food Babe Army. The recent subject of profiles and interviews in the New York Times, the New York Post andNew York Magazine, Hari implores her soldiers to petition food companies to change their formulas. She's also written a bestselling book telling you that you can change your life in 21 days by "breaking free of the hidden toxins in your life." She and her army are out to change the world.

She's also utterly full of ****.

I am an analytical chemist with a background in forensics and toxicology. Before working full-time as a science writer and public speaker, I worked as a chemistry professor, a toxicology chemist, and in research analyzing pesticides for safety. I now run my own blog,Science Babe, dedicated to debunking pseudoscience that tends to proliferate in the blogosphere. Reading Hari's site, it's rare to come across a single scientific fact. Between her egregious abuse of the word "toxin" anytime there's a chemical she can't pronounce and asserting that everyone who disagrees with her is a paid shill, it's hard to pinpoint her biggest sin.

Hari's superhero origin story is that she came down with appendicitis and didn't accept the explanation that appendicitis just happens sometimes. So she quit her job as a consultant, attended Google University and transformed herself into an uncredentialed expert in everything she admittedly can't pronounce. Slap the catchy moniker "Food Babe" on top, throw in a couple of trend stories and some appearances on the Dr. Oz show, and we have the new organic media darling.

But reader beware. Here are some reasons why she's the worst assault on science on the Internet.



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It's worth the read. Hari is a certifiable idiot.

She calls every one who tries to call her out a paid shill for this or that company--with absolutely zero proof, yet she takes money from several products and organizations, chiefly those who produce organic foods.

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Bonny22Pye


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She's a total idiot and people believe her!

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People often listen to "experts" because it is easier than thinking for oneself..... Let the so-called "expert" take the responsibility...

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People listen to those who back up what they already think.

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I agree with Karl & MM.

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Yeah, just like the "experts" who decided that vaccines are the cause of autism, a fallacy that is now causing great harm.
But there are always those who seek out those who "agree" with their ideas and beliefs. As it is evident here, by many threads of debate, you won't change someone's beliefs, you can only put one where there is a "blank"

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That's a good line - "pseudoscience that tends to proliferate in the blogosphere."

People either don't know how, or are too lazy to verify credentials.

The internet is the Land of Unverified Credentials. People can purport to be experts, and plenty of people will believe them.

People will read stuff on the internet with no source quoted, so they don't even know where it comes from. And they will believe it.

You know  - "I saw it on the internet, so it must be true."



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