Whole Foods: the Temple of Pseudoscience.

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  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    gotta be honest I don't get the whole "making a thread disappear" game.

    if the mods don't like it... just lock it. but don't pretend like it never happened - especially when it wasn't bad to begin with in MFP terms. so silly.

    I don't get a lot of it, especially since this is supposed to be an adult web site. I can understand strict rules for kids, but...smdh
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    NM
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    A little food for thought, in the form of a quote from a friend:

    "They have these "standards" for foods that they won't allow in their store, like anything with hydrogenated oil, or high fructose corn syrup. But they're fine with selling homeopathic remedies, and healing crystals"

    Show me the research that shows homeopathic remedies and healing crystals hurt people.
    They may not hurt directly, but I think that it's a problem when people turn to ineffective CAMs and shun treatment with proven efficacy. In some circumstances it might be fine, but in others it can be deadly.

    My grandfather chose experimental cancer treatment instead of traditional therapies and gained years of his life that he probably wouldn't have had otherwise.

    Risk/reward game.
    But what kind of "experimental" treatment? Medical clinics and trials? Or did he eat fruit in place of chemo and radiation, like Suzanne Summers (how do you spell her last name?) claims she did?

    And how do you know for certain it was the treatment? Some people live years and years with cancer whiel others die in months from the same form.

    You can't know that he wouldn't have lived just as long under tradtitional treatment.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    A little food for thought, in the form of a quote from a friend:

    "They have these "standards" for foods that they won't allow in their store, like anything with hydrogenated oil, or high fructose corn syrup. But they're fine with selling homeopathic remedies, and healing crystals"

    Show me the research that shows homeopathic remedies and healing crystals hurt people.
    They may not hurt directly, but I think that it's a problem when people turn to ineffective CAMs and shun treatment with proven efficacy. In some circumstances it might be fine, but in others it can be deadly.

    My grandfather chose experimental cancer treatment instead of traditional therapies and gained years of his life that he probably wouldn't have had otherwise.

    Risk/reward game.
    But what kind of "experimental" treatment? Medical clinics and trials? Or did he eat fruit in place of chemo and radiation, like Suzanne Summers (how do you spell her last name?) claims she did?

    And how do you know for certain it was the treatment? Some people live years and years with cancer whiel others die in months from the same form.

    You can't know that he wouldn't have lived just as long under tradtitional treatment.

    The human mind has a strong desire to determine causation in every pattern it observes.
  • craftywitch_63
    craftywitch_63 Posts: 829 Member
    Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/23/whole-foods-america-s-temple-of-pseudoscience.html

    This is a really great article that nails down what makes me so uncomfortable with the place.

    "Still: a significant portion of what Whole Foods sells is based on simple pseudoscience. And sometimes that can spill over into outright anti-science (think What Doctors Don’t Tell You, or Whole Foods’ overblown GMO campaign, which could merit its own article)."

    also that is a terribly written article. It repeatedly uses the phrase "pseudoscience" and then uses anecdotal evidence to prove his claim.

    um.

    ironic article is ironic.

    Example?

    Here ya go:

    "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 bull****,” she said, and went off to buy some vegetables."

    :huh: The biologist friend proclaimed the bottles bull**** but the article specifically states that she shopped there ("she . . . went off to buy some vegetables.) In other words, she denigrated the products but contributed to the corporation.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/23/whole-foods-america-s-temple-of-pseudoscience.html

    This is a really great article that nails down what makes me so uncomfortable with the place.

    "Still: a significant portion of what Whole Foods sells is based on simple pseudoscience. And sometimes that can spill over into outright anti-science (think What Doctors Don’t Tell You, or Whole Foods’ overblown GMO campaign, which could merit its own article)."

    also that is a terribly written article. It repeatedly uses the phrase "pseudoscience" and then uses anecdotal evidence to prove his claim.

    um.

    ironic article is ironic.

    Example?

    Here ya go:

    "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 bull****,” she said, and went off to buy some vegetables."

    :huh: The biologist friend proclaimed the bottles bull**** but the article specifically states that she shopped there ("she . . . went off to buy some vegetables.) In other words, she denigrated the products but contributed to the corporation.

    Meh.

    I'm sure some of the products in my favorite grocery store are BS, but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop shopping there.

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