Comments on: Quack Word #16: ‘Nutritionist’ http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html Experiments and Thoughts on Quackery, Health Beliefs and Pseudoscience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:47:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Cody http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html#comment-12427 Cody Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:06:35 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html#comment-12427 "Who pays your bills that you are so vehemently against this movement to get back to natural farming practices?" This is one of the core arguments of the Organic Movement: "Study after study which I don't care to cite have proven my philosophy, while any idea or notion to the contrary is funded by the Corporate Boogeyman." Not too dissimilar to the arguments used by Animal Rights activists, purveyors of New Age bunk, and even far-Left activist types. Organic food's biggest selling point is it's politics. “Who pays your bills that you are so vehemently against this movement to get back to natural farming practices?”

This is one of the core arguments of the Organic Movement: “Study after study which I don’t care to cite have proven my philosophy, while any idea or notion to the contrary is funded by the Corporate Boogeyman.”

Not too dissimilar to the arguments used by Animal Rights activists, purveyors of New Age bunk, and even far-Left activist types.

Organic food’s biggest selling point is it’s politics.

]]> By: Locke http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html#comment-12171 Locke Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:25:32 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html#comment-12171 My mum, unfortunately, is so gullible she obeys every word these "nutriquacks" say. She takes too many vitamins, she has completely cut out all wheat, soy, and dairy from her diet, and she looks very yellow. I call her nutritionist "Dr. Ducky", because he's a quack and he waddles. My mum, unfortunately, is so gullible she obeys every word these “nutriquacks” say. She takes too many vitamins, she has completely cut out all wheat, soy, and dairy from her diet, and she looks very yellow.

I call her nutritionist “Dr. Ducky”, because he’s a quack and he waddles.

]]> By: Lol http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html#comment-11048 Lol Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:43:26 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html#comment-11048 Swampy, define the "right places". I can't believe a person can be so selectively gullible. Swampy, define the “right places”. I can’t believe a person can be so selectively gullible.

]]> By: Le Canard Noir http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html#comment-6255 Le Canard Noir Sun, 11 May 2008 22:28:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html#comment-6255 Study after study? Name three - and make sure they were not written by vitamin and mineral salespeople.<br/><br/>e.g. see <a HREF="http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2006/04/mineral-depleted-food-scandal.html" REL="nofollow" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Study after study? Name three – and make sure they were not written by vitamin and mineral salespeople.

e.g. see here.

]]> By: Swampy77 http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html#comment-6254 Swampy77 Sun, 11 May 2008 16:47:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2006/11/quack-word-16-nutritionist.html#comment-6254 While I agree with your comments that more people call themselves nutritionists than should, I disagree with your assertion that the listed statements are quackery, especially the one that organic food is not better. Scientific study after study has demonstrated just the opposite, that commercial agriculture strips veggies of much of their vitamin and mineral content and that people are unhealthier for it. Who pays your bills that you are so vehemently against this movement to get back to natural farming practices? The evidence is there. I suggest you look in the right places next time for your answers. While I agree with your comments that more people call themselves nutritionists than should, I disagree with your assertion that the listed statements are quackery, especially the one that organic food is not better. Scientific study after study has demonstrated just the opposite, that commercial agriculture strips veggies of much of their vitamin and mineral content and that people are unhealthier for it. Who pays your bills that you are so vehemently against this movement to get back to natural farming practices? The evidence is there. I suggest you look in the right places next time for your answers.

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