Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Scientific American Says Vegetables Are Toxic, Sugary Snacks

#1
C C Offline
https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/08/20/sci...acks-14234

INTRO: The headline is not exaggeration or hyperbole. Scientific American just ran an article claiming that vegetables are becoming like sugary snacks and are toxic. And that's not even the worst part. The article was given the ridiculous headline "Broccoli Is Dying. Corn Is Toxic. Long Live Microbiomes!" It was co-authored by a marine biologist and a retired English teacher. As one might expect from the headline, the article makes one outrageous, unscientific claim after another. The lies, distortions, and laugh-out-loud whoppers start early and often. Let's dissect them:

As food writer Mark Bittman recently remarked, since food is defined as “a substance that provides nutrition and promotes growth” and poison is “a substance that promotes illness,” then “much of what is produced by industrial agriculture is, quite literally, not food but poison.”

This is the first sentence. Yes, that's how this screed actually begins. Everything you eat is poison. How do we know? Because an organic food activist with no relevant scientific training or expertise says so.

Data going back to 1940, as reported by Eco Farming Daily, shows: “The level of every nutrient in almost every kind of food has fallen between 10 and 100 percent..."

Eco Farming Daily. Really? Let's try a peer-reviewed journal instead, like the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, which concluded in a March 2017 paper that "[c]omparisons of food composition data published decades apart are not reliable" because "changes in data sources, crop varieties, geographic origin, ripeness, sample size, sampling methods, laboratory analysis and statistical treatment affect reported nutrient levels."

In a Twitter thread, Dr. Elisabeth Bik commented that copper levels decreased (perhaps because copper isn't used as much as a fungicide, anymore), but other nutrient levels are probably similar over time.

Thank goodness for multivitamins...

No. Thank nobody for multivitamins, which are a scam. Healthy people who eat a relatively balanced diet do not need dietary supplements of any kind. Besides, they are poorly regulated, which means just about anything can be (and is) detected in them. (MORE)
Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Article Scientific American proposes policing the language of astronomy C C 1 81 Jan 10, 2024 04:09 AM
Last Post: Secular Sanity
  Article "Scientific American" is back to distorting the facts to buttress its ideology C C 1 90 Oct 26, 2023 11:48 PM
Last Post: confused2
  Article Once again, Scientific American ideology distorts science: "Animal sex is not binary" C C 0 56 May 19, 2023 02:05 PM
Last Post: C C
  Toxic masculinity is a harmful myth + Electric universe is crank pseudoscience C C 0 298 Oct 19, 2022 12:20 AM
Last Post: C C
  Scientific American finds SETI racist & colonialist + Fat acceptance movement (Maher) C C 2 139 Aug 14, 2022 11:01 PM
Last Post: Syne
  The myth of toxic masculinity C C 3 125 Jun 3, 2022 03:12 AM
Last Post: Syne
  Aaronson: demise of Scientific American + Richard Dawkins on race & sex controversy C C 0 84 Jan 6, 2022 06:13 PM
Last Post: C C
  'Woke' Scientific American goes anti-GMO + SciAm's hit job on E.O. Wilson C C 1 87 Jan 1, 2022 02:18 AM
Last Post: Syne
  Michael Shermer documents the decline and fall of Scientific American C C 0 78 Nov 19, 2021 07:07 PM
Last Post: C C
  Scientific American (and math) go full woke C C 2 149 Aug 31, 2021 04:19 AM
Last Post: Yazata



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)