5 posts in 5 days: The Religion of Food Babe
I’ve been thinking about this over the last while ever since discovering Food Babe and her followers. How on earth has she managed to create an entire movement based on Appeals to Nature and fear and...
View ArticleOperating like the Food Babe: Product referrals, inconsistencies in data and...
The more I do research into how Food Babe operates, the more intrigued I become. My first post into the phenomenon that is the Food Babe spoke about some of the tactics I have seen by glancing at her...
View ArticleThe Brand of the Food Babe: The potential for harm
Last post I spoke about the various ways in which the Food Babe has constructed her army and positioned herself as an “authority” on the subject of food (and also chemistry, science and vaccines in...
View ArticleDon’t tell Food Babe there are no goldfish in goldfish crackers
Sometimes I hope pseudoscientists consciously make stuff up in order to see how gullible people are. I do. I really do. I really hope people like Food Babe and Mike Adams are engaged in the worlds...
View ArticleThe Miracle Drink hoax that tastes like fail
Some of my readers may have seen this roll around on their Facebook news feeds lately, alongside that bloody Soursop hoax, this “new miracle drink” status has been shitty up my Facebook with it’s...
View ArticleLove/Hate mail: Insulting someone’s penis for pseudoscience
So I woke up this morning to find this in my inbox: I’ve saved this picture in my hate mail folder as “pencil”. Sometimes I take great pleasure in my hate mail but I am a masochist. This is my...
View ArticleFood Babe on alcohol, toxins and a lack of science
Featured image found from Chow Babe. This month saw the release of a chapter of Food Babe’s new book The Food Babe Way. This chapter which is free on her website discusses alcohol, toxins and -you...
View ArticleThe Bulletproof Diet: Butter in the coffee of people who don’t want to exercise
The Bulletproof Diet. I came across this new nasty tasty diet fad recently via a friend of my wife’s. The Bulletproof Diet is like the lovechild of gullibility, laziness and pseudoscience wrapped up in...
View ArticleFood Babe: A different kind of smart
The warriors against pseudoscience are well versed in the realm of the Food Babe. I, myself have done quite a few articles on the phenomenon of the Food Babe. I’ve spoken about the tactics she uses to...
View ArticleRaw Milk: What happens when people become afraid of a little heat
It hasn’t been a very good week for pseudoscience. First there was the ruling by the Federal High Court of Australia which concluded that “Homeopathy Plus! Pty Ltd (Homeopathy Plus!) and its director,...
View ArticleScience Babe vs Food Babe: Facts vs Failing Grade School Science
The Internet exploded this week as science blogger “Science Babe” AKA Yvette d’Entremont put on her high-heeled snark shoes and tore shreds into Vani Hari AKA Food Babe over at Gawker.com (“The “Food...
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