An interesting, if slightly breathless article on how pseudoscience isn't just confined to places like the Creationist Museum, but to places like the Homeopathy aisle (et al.) at Whole Foods.
What's particularly interesting is the immediate hopping on of folk whose particular oxen are gored over the course of the article.
Originally shared by +Kee Hinckley:
❝ Bringing sound data into political conversations and consumer decisions is a huge, ongoing challenge. It’s not limited to one side of the public debate. The moral is not that we should all boycott Whole Foods. It’s that whenever we talk about science and society, it helps to keep two rather humbling premises in mind: very few of us are anywhere near rational. And pretty much all of us are hypocrites. ❞
Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience
Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods.
I do shop at Whole Foods on a semi-regular basis. But I do so for the interesting "conventional" foodstuffs they stock. And not regularly because, well, that stuff is pricey.
The human predilection for believing nonsense always amazes me.
Still… On the off chance that it works, I'm going to put a bit of spider in my dinner tonight to see if I can gain its powers.