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?"

Re:Troll

[recoiledsnake]

They should, God created the moon.

Re:Why?

[msauve]

For the sake of argument, let's say it was pulled out of the nose. What does your nose smell like?

Selection

[Copid]

If the Creation Museum starts stocking the same selection of beer and cheese that Whole Foods does, I might swing through from time to time if I'm in the neighborhood.

Re:God

[Anonymous Coward]

I like those soaps. The labels look like something written by Time Cube guy.

Re:Why?

[Brainman Khan]

My nose smells Okay, My dog's nose smells great.

Re:God

[Anonymous Coward]

Ivory soap. You can do all of that with it, it is natural, it is cheap, you can buy it anywhere, and it even floats. It's not hipster cool enough to travel all of Europe with it though.
That's sad when your choice of topic for discussion and way to show your hipness with strangers is a soap. Of course now it has moved on to your "month in Europe". When those discussions get old you can adopt some dogs from an animal shelter, run a marathon, and become a vegan. You will be the hit at parties.

Re:Why?

[BancBoy]

Obligatory -
A - My dog has no nose.
B - How does he smell?
A - Awful!
Perhaps it's funnier in German...

Re:God

[TsuruchiBrian]

citation needed