Episode 405: Is there real science on Pesticides and the Dirty Dozen?

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🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

This week Dr. Sarah and Stacy answer a listener question. Listener Question "Is the EWG's dirty dozen list based on strong science? My husband listened to two episodes of the Skeptoid podcast on organic vs. conventional farming. Mr. Dunning said that we are being duped into paying extra for organic produce. It is sprayed with larger amounts of pesticides than those used in conventional farming and the organic pesticides have been shown to cause disease. My husband believes Mr. Dunning because he provides references and appears to be liberal and non-biased in other podcasts. I have been purchasing organic produce according to the Environmental Working Group's dirty dozen list. It says on the Activist Facts website that "There’s really only one thing you need to know about the Environmental Working Group when it comes to its studies of toxins: 79 percent of members of the Society of Toxicology (scientists who know a little something about toxins) who rated the group say that the Environmental Working Group overstates the health risk of chemicals. I am walking around with holes in my shirts, and I haven't gotten the air conditioning fixed in my car, so that I can afford organic food. Am I wasting my money? I feel like I cannot trust anyone but you." You can find the full show notes with links to the products and articles discussed on this episode here. Don’t forget to subscribe to this channel and visit realeverything.com and thepaleomom.com! If you haven't yet unlocked our bonus content, checkout Patreon for exclusive behind-the-scenes content and how Stacy and Dr. Sarah really feel about the topics they discuss. Your subscription goes to support this show and gets you direct access to submit your questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Topp of Real Everything.
0:05.0	I'm Staceytop of Real Everything.com.
0:09.0	I'm all about loving the skin you're in and being healthy inside and out.
0:14.0	And I'm Dr. Sarah Valentine of the paleum.com.
0:18.0	I believe that scientific literacy is the key to improving public health. Welcome back to episode 405 of the whole view.
0:27.0	And today we're talking about a super interesting topic
0:37.8	submitted by a listener, which if you didn't know this already, we love it when you email us and ask questions.
0:49.6	Mostly when it's topics that we're interested in and want to dig into the science on or we already
0:56.1	have a little bit of base knowledge and can expand on it pretty easily.
1:00.6	That is to say if you've submitted questions and haven't heard from us.
1:04.0	My deepest sincere apologies. We do our best.
1:09.0	It might just be a really hard question.
1:12.0	I mean, we need more time to research it.
1:14.2	I mean, we actually do have like,
1:16.4	there, this is a, you know, backstage, window, window into the behind the scenes of our podcast.
1:26.6	But we definitely have like three different streams for questions.
1:31.4	There's the Stacey request question stream. There's the
1:36.9	listener question stream that is like real straightforward podcasts to put together right like 10 hours of
1:45.6	research is to go into and then there's the whoa that's a really challenging
1:49.4	question listener question like question stream where that's going to take 30 or 40 hours just research to be able to dig
1:57.8	into the level of depth that we normally do in these podcasts and those are the ones that you know tend to get sprinkled in
2:06.0	only a few of those those types of questions per year probably and this is this is one of them this one has been in our cue for quite a while and one of the reasons why I was really finally able to put together that the science on this particular
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