Browsing the "Food Quackery" Category
Published on April 10th, 2015 | by Rayne
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 Babe” Blogger Is Full of Shit“). ... Read More →
Published on December 28th, 2014 | by Rayne
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, Ms Frances Sheffield, engaged ... Read More →
Published on December 28th, 2014 | by Rayne
The warriors against pseudoscience are well versed in the realm of the Food Babe. I, myself have done a few articles on the phenomenon of the Food Babe. I’ve spoken about the tactics she uses to ... Read More →
Published on December 27th, 2014 | by Rayne
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 a package designed ... Read More →
Published on December 26th, 2014 | by Rayne
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 ... Read More →
Published on October 1st, 2014 | by Rayne
Sometimes I hope pseudoscientists consciously make stuff up 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 largest trolling ... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2014 | by Rayne
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 chemistry, science and vaccines in general – ... Read More →
Published on September 9th, 2014 | by Rayne
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 ... Read More →
Published on September 5th, 2014 | by Rayne
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 ... Read More →
Published on August 25th, 2014 | by Rayne
On the weekend I decided to up my game on the writing front and do five posts in five days, partly because my readers are entertained when I call bullshit on viral pictures their friends re-post ... Read More →