{"id":48751,"date":"2014-12-09T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/on-pseudoscience-and-shopping-at-whole-foods.html"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:13:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T01:13:36","slug":"on-pseudoscience-and-shopping-at-whole-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/on-pseudoscience-and-shopping-at-whole-foods.html","title":{"rendered":"On Pseudoscience and Shopping at Whole Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting, if slightly breathless article on how pseudoscience isn&#39;t just confined to places like the Creationist Museum, but to places like the Homeopathy aisle (et al.) at Whole Foods.<\/p>\n<p>What&#39;s particularly interesting is the immediate hopping on of folk whose particular oxen are gored over the course of the article.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Kee Hinckley<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#10077; <i>Bringing sound data into political conversations and consumer decisions is a huge, ongoing challenge. It&rsquo;s not limited to one side of the public debate. The moral is not that we should all boycott Whole Foods. It&rsquo;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.<\/i> &#10078;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/02\/23\/whole-foods-america-s-temple-of-pseudoscience.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/yKWXK4rj52EC4olFVzugVLIFVujmdcAJb8cIog-hmKG_Y0Fz6mT8qb4O2K72RICAPmTK__6Uqs6j8Ugxw0jQQvgGEMtBC07h0uMvsyK4yj2KrDrGUrDGwj3yZ4TqCoLAbgvyWHSG_toLWOPJaJVtT-q1brBV4_iirNjv5L-HiWezVfPDBrYEc8OSFWK1pWyz9ZwAvlKVI7goycQVod62hqJTXF3c8xSX_zg0Zba5UEmt38tv8UkuOj0L-wbY3g=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/02\/23\/whole-foods-america-s-temple-of-pseudoscience.html'>Whole Foods: America&rsquo;s Temple of Pseudoscience<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAmericans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/7TKEDnjfWbL'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting, if slightly breathless article on how pseudoscience isn&#39;t just confined to places like the Creationist Museum, but to places like the Homeopathy aisle (et al.) at Whole Foods. What&#39;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/on-pseudoscience-and-shopping-at-whole-foods.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Pseudoscience and Shopping at Whole Foods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,38,70,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-food-drink","category-health-science","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41211,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/very-few-of-us-are-anywhere-near-rational.html","url_meta":{"origin":48751,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Very few of us are anywhere near rational&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Feb-14 9:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"Pseudoscience and irrationality aren't solely\u00a0owned by people building Creationism amusement parks.\ufeff Whole Foods: America\u2019s Temple of Pseudoscience Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods. 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