Monday, March 3, 2014

Is it "whole food" or "hole food" (I mean, with a lot of holes about their scientific explanantion)


Still, there’s a lot in your average Whole Foods that’s resolutely pseudoscientific. The homeopathy section has plenty of Latin words and mathematical terms, but many of its remedies are so diluted that, statistically speaking, they may not contain a single molecule of the substance they purport to deliver.

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

 a significant portion of what Whole Foods sells is based on simple pseudoscience. And sometimes that can spill over into outright anti-science 

The link below has more details:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/23/whole-foods-america-s-temple-of-pseudoscience.html

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