The "Food Babe" Blogger Is Full of Shit

[jeff47]

http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226

Hari’s campaign last year against the Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte drove me to launch my site (don’t fuck with a Bostonian’s Pumpkin-Spice Anything). She alleged that the PSL has a “toxic” dose of sugar and two (TWO!!) doses of caramel color level IV in carcinogen class 2b.

The word “toxic” has a meaning, and that is “having the effect of a poison.” Anything can be poisonous depending on the dose. Enough water can even be poisonous in the right quantity (and can cause a condition called hyponatremia).

But then, the Food Babe has gone on record to say, “ There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.” I wonder if anybody’s warned her about good old dihydrogen monoxide?

(snip)

Hari uses this tricky technique again and again. If I told you that a chemical that’s used as a disinfectant, used in industrial laboratory for hydrolysis reactions, and can create a nasty chemical burn is also a common ingredient in salad dressing, would you panic? Be suspicious that the industries were poisoning your children? Think it might cause cancer? Sign a petition to have it removed?

What if I told you I was talking about vinegar, otherwise known as acetic acid?

[trotsky]

1. Her article about the "dangers" of airplane cabins was embarrassing.

But folks like her have no shame - none whatsoever. Their ignorance and lies are profitable, because there will always be stupid people to gobble it up.

[arcane1]

2. I unfollowed Food inc on Facebook because they kept promoting this shameless dumb-ass.

Isn't this the same one who said the air in airplanes is "toxic" because it contains nitrogen?

[immoderate]

3. Vinegar is the secret ingredient of great cooking!

It also does windows.

--imm

[Warpy]

4. The comments on her article at The Science Blog

are eviscerating her. She's a shining example of how a little learning is a very dangerous thing, especially in living examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/02/12/the-food-babe-there-is-just-no-acceptable-level-of-any-chemical-to-ingest-ever/

I'm glad I followed the link to The Science Blogs, it restored my faith in the fact that not everyone on the net is as pig ignorant as the food babe is.

[Dr. Strange]

5. Are you sure? I thought shit was a chemical, and she doesn't consume chemicals.

Why Is Food Babe Selling a Product With BHT?