Dub
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I'm gettin' so the past is the only thing I can remember.
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Post by Dub on Nov 22, 2014 16:17:41 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Nov 22, 2014 17:25:04 GMT -5
Dude's obviously a probiotic denier.
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Post by millring on Nov 22, 2014 18:18:19 GMT -5
Why does everyone hate science?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 19:01:23 GMT -5
I try to examine all scientific claims with some measure of healthy scepticism and rigour, be they claims for/about AGW, homeopathy, probiotics or creationism. (My correspondence on Facebook with Ken Ham of the creationist museum did not go swimmingly and he blocked me). An agreeable debunker of bad science and bad reporting on science is Ben Goldacre. His front page features stuff related to his latest news and book prominently but there is a search function and a list of article categories on the left of the page. www.badscience.net/ |
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Post by Village Idiot on Nov 22, 2014 22:47:40 GMT -5
Kim and I went into a Whole Food Market in Des Moines (for Dub, University Ave just south of I-80) and we wound up walking around pointing at stuff and giggling like little girls. We thought we'd better leave as we were to the point of becoming an embarrassment to ourselves, and on our way out I got a coffee sample of some sort. Free-range vegetarian coffee, or something like that. Wound up doing a coffee spew as soon as we hit the parking lot, we were laughing that hard.
People actually shop there, and spend that amount of money? I've heard later that people call the place "whole paycheck market". Makes sense to me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2014 1:26:56 GMT -5
Is fair-trade coffee easily purchasable in other shops? More and more of the whole food shop stuff like that is available in supermarkets here. I still go to the whole food place for some stuff that is hard to find in other shops. I can't find good miso elsewhere and their pickles and exotic sauces are nifty. Generally speaking the stuff is too expensive for me but there are richer people. My girlfriend made nice salads and cakes and all sorts for the local whole food shop. They paid her well but the mark-up was high.
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Post by TKennedy on Nov 23, 2014 2:10:34 GMT -5
One of my kids lived 5 blocks from the Durham whole foods mentioned in the article so I'd go there occasionally.
I have never seen so many seriously concerned people in one place.
It's a big old goofy world.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 23, 2014 4:26:34 GMT -5
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Post by millring on Nov 23, 2014 6:37:11 GMT -5
How much living could one do on the basis of only what is materially and utterly knowable?
On the sidewalk that leads from the gate of naivete to the door of omniscience, to which terminus is mankind currently closer?
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Post by Marshall on Nov 23, 2014 9:58:36 GMT -5
"even if the Paleo diet is probably premised more on The Flintstones than it is on any actual evidence about human evolutionary history."
He He
"It’s that whenever we talk about science and society, it helps to keep two rather humbling premises in mind: very few of us are anywhere near rational. And pretty much all of us are hypocrites."
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Post by lar on Nov 23, 2014 11:09:05 GMT -5
I'll not tolerate any bashing of Whole Foods here. I eat Whole Foods all of the time; whole chicken, whole steak, whole pound of hamburger.
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Post by fauxmaha on Nov 23, 2014 11:10:59 GMT -5
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Post by patrick on Nov 23, 2014 11:36:34 GMT -5
There are plenty of things that people with too much money spend their money on that are worth giggling over.
I only shop WF for stuff I can't find at Giant or Safeway.
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Post by millring on Nov 23, 2014 12:12:09 GMT -5
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 23, 2014 12:39:35 GMT -5
On the sidewalk that leads from the gate of naivete to the door of omniscience, to which terminus is mankind currently closer? I prefer to stroll the cobblestones of irony and the gravel paths of snark (though they make for tough shoveling come winter), which wind through the minefields of marketing and the punji-pits of stupid on the way to the cliff-edge of uncertainty, which looms over the bottomless gulf of irreduceable indeterminacy. |
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Post by Doug on Nov 23, 2014 12:46:51 GMT -5
On the sidewalk that leads from the gate of naivete to the door of omniscience, to which terminus is mankind currently closer? I prefer to stroll the cobblestones of irony and the gravel paths of snark (though they make for tough shoveling come winter), which wind through the minefields of marketing and the punji-pits of stupid on the way to the cliff-edge of uncertainty, which looms over the bottomless gulf of irreduceable indeterminacy. Russell that is great. It would make a great signature for you too. |
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 23, 2014 13:17:05 GMT -5
From my lonely seat on the pinnacle of self-satisfaction in the mighty range of human folly I look down and say, "Thanks."
And would you like to invest in this sure-fire sales scheme for an elixir of eternal youth I just got an e-mail about? I'm thinking we could buy a gallon, split a pint, and sell the rest by the shot-glass, down in the Whole Foods parking lot.
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Post by millring on Nov 23, 2014 13:27:42 GMT -5
And would you like to invest in this sure-fire sales scheme for an elixir of eternal youth I just got an e-mail about? I'm thinking we could buy a gallon, split a pint, and sell the rest by the shot-glass, down in the Whole Foods parking lot. Is it still effective if diluted with a wealth potion? |
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 23, 2014 14:08:20 GMT -5
Now, John, everybody knows that wealth doesn't come from potions but from annointing oneself with the unguents and emollients (not to say emoluments) of Prosperity, preferably applied with wadded-up pages removed from first editions of Atlas Shrugged. (Attempts to use pages from the works of Joel Osteen have been shown to lack the necessary oomph and roughage.)
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Post by millring on Nov 23, 2014 14:13:13 GMT -5
I will take that as a disappointing "no".
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