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wyldwolf

(43,865 posts)
Fri Dec 5, 2014, 11:19 PM Dec 2014

Is The Food Babe A Fearmonger? Scientists Are Speaking Out

But that lack of training often leads her to misinterpret peer-reviewed research and technical details about food chemistry, nutrition and health, says Kevin Folta, a professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida and vocal online critic of Hari. "She really conflates the science," he tells The Salt.

"If anything, she's created more confusion about food, more confusion about the role of chemicals and additives," Folta says.

More recently, as we've reported, Hari's attacks on the lack of pumpkin in Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice lattes prompted the Institute of Food Technologists to release a video explaining the chemicals that replicate that squash flavor in a cup of Joe.

"What she does is exploit the scientific ignorance and fear of her followers," says Kavin Senapathy, an anti-pseudoscience blogger who frequently challenges the assertions in Hari's posts. "And most of us are in agreement that we simply can't accept that."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/04/364745790/food-babe-or-fear-babe-as-activist-s-profile-grows-so-do-her-critics?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social

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Is The Food Babe A Fearmonger? Scientists Are Speaking Out (Original Post) wyldwolf Dec 2014 OP
This is all you need to know about "Food Babe" 951-Riverside Dec 2014 #1
Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words!! KinMd Dec 2014 #15
Yummy, I love a nice big hot styrofoam cup of chemicals, mmmmm. Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #2
I would hope so, otherwise you would have nothing in the cup, like a complete vacuum. Humanist_Activist Dec 2014 #3
We really do not know the full extent of damage caused by man-made chemicals. Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #9
Considering we are living longer, healthier lives now than we have at any point in all of human... Humanist_Activist Dec 2014 #20
Considering the disease explosion in the past 70 years, cancers, auto-immune, diabetes, HPB, Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #21
LOL. everything is "chemicals", you are made out of "chemicals". Odin2005 Dec 2014 #4
Such is so, but these are chemicals which evolved from nature, Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #8
they are the same damn chemicals MattBaggins Dec 2014 #10
A few, but not all. Anyone here remember Rachel Carson? Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #13
LOL! Odin2005 Dec 2014 #14
Virtually nothing that humans do is evolved from nature. randome Dec 2014 #16
And just look at the state of the planet. The mind of mankind has not evolved to a higher ethic. Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #17
Somebody tell these people about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide. Odin2005 Dec 2014 #5
I have to make an admission: My parents got me addicted to it when I was just a baby. Ikonoklast Dec 2014 #19
And here I thought this would be about Giada De Laurentiis. baldguy Dec 2014 #6
She appears to be regurgitating CSPI press releases jmowreader Dec 2014 #7
Glad they are speaking out. Raine1967 Dec 2014 #11
I have never heard of her. HappyMe Dec 2014 #12
Yeah, we would not want any fear-mongering about food, oh heck no. bemildred Dec 2014 #18
 

Humanist_Activist

(7,670 posts)
3. I would hope so, otherwise you would have nothing in the cup, like a complete vacuum.
Fri Dec 5, 2014, 11:58 PM
Dec 2014

I love people who complain about chemicals in their foods as if chemicals are bad, without chemical reactions, you would be dead, without chemicals in foods, you would be dead, indeed, there is little, if anything that is associated with matter in general that isn't also chemical in nature.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
9. We really do not know the full extent of damage caused by man-made chemicals.
Sat Dec 6, 2014, 10:36 AM
Dec 2014

And when we do, we will be in horror of these creations.

 

Humanist_Activist

(7,670 posts)
20. Considering we are living longer, healthier lives now than we have at any point in all of human...
Sat Dec 6, 2014, 01:55 PM
Dec 2014

history, at least 100,000 years of it, these chemicals don't appear to be as devastating as we first thought.

Are all chemicals safe for human consumption? No, and are all food additives properly tested, again, no, but they should be. The problem is that people like the Food Babe use scaremongering, without facts, and indeed in contradiction of the facts, to push their own agenda.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
21. Considering the disease explosion in the past 70 years, cancers, auto-immune, diabetes, HPB,
Sat Dec 6, 2014, 03:08 PM
Dec 2014

Heart disease, high cholesterol, high stress lives......many people are not living quality lives.

I think alex jones and crew are scare-mongers who take nibbles of truths and turn them in to Conspiraville.

But to say man-made chemicals are not much of a problem is severely minimizing a serious problem. That has been a good avenue for the chemical companies since they must turn absurd profits at all cost to life.


 

randome

(34,845 posts)
16. Virtually nothing that humans do is evolved from nature.
Sat Dec 6, 2014, 10:55 AM
Dec 2014

What do you use to wash your hands with? Clean your floors with? How do you travel to work? What do you sleep on? What do you wear on your feet?

On edit: we are, ourselves, evolved from Nature. What most mean when they refer to 'Nature' is animalistic, unthinking behavior. We are not unthinking animals. That's both our downfall and our saving grace.
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Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
17. And just look at the state of the planet. The mind of mankind has not evolved to a higher ethic.
Sat Dec 6, 2014, 11:04 AM
Dec 2014

All this man-made crap has led to the poisoning of our water, air, soil, food. The species we are causing to go extinct every day. The imbalance to our atmosphere. WTF!

Until we STOP defending this crap and take a hard honest look at what we are doing to our earth, the situation man has created will continue to get worse.

Smugness will not fix anything.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
19. I have to make an admission: My parents got me addicted to it when I was just a baby.
Sat Dec 6, 2014, 01:38 PM
Dec 2014

Now I can hardly get through one day without getting my fix, and every person I know that tried to kick the habit is dead.

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
7. She appears to be regurgitating CSPI press releases
Sat Dec 6, 2014, 07:13 AM
Dec 2014

I wonder...if she's gotten famous by referring to azodicarbonamide-containing baked goods as "yoga mat bread," should we tell her all the industrial uses of acetic acid, sodium bicarbonate and table salt?

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)
11. Glad they are speaking out.
Sat Dec 6, 2014, 10:41 AM
Dec 2014
Steve Novella, a Yale neuroscientist and prominent pseudoscience warrior, among others, has dubbed Hari the "Jenny McCarthy of food" after the celebrity known for championing thoroughly debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.


I don't trust her. I trust authorities on this subject. She is not in my opinion an authority.
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