Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience

__roo writes "Many Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods. It's all pseudoscience — so why are some kinds of pseudoscience more equal than others? That's the question the author of this article tackles: 'From the probiotics aisle to the vaguely ridiculous Organic Integrity outreach effort ... Whole Foods has all the ingredients necessary to give Richard Dawkins nightmares. ... 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.' He points out his local Whole Foods' clientele shop at a place where a significant portion of the product being sold is based on simple pseudoscience. So, why do many of us perceive Whole Foods and the Creation Museum so differently?"

Comments

Re:Food.

[Carewolf]

AFAIK, Whole Foods main business is not quack snake oil - it's organic produce.

So quack food?

Re:Because...

[jedidiah]

You are so full of shit.

Whole Foods is what represents genuine liberty here. Some people don't want to eat this crap you have such a fetish for. It's a free country, so they are free to make whatever choices they want. The fact that you don't approve of those decisions is completely irrelevant.

YOU are the Food-Talibani here.

YOU are the one that wants to make it hard for people to make an informed choice.

YOU are the one that wants to shove your CRAP down everyone throats.

YOU are the fascist.

Whole Foods is just a place where people who what to make a choice are able to do so. Nothing in the "anti-GMO" movement would stop you from doing the same. You're just engaging in the neocon tactic of trying to to pretend your enemies strength is actually a weakness.

There is NO THREAT posed by full disclosure.