FFF 053: Toxins, Diet Cokes, Pseudoscience & Fighting The March Of Unreason - with Yvette ‘SciBabe‘ d’Entremont

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Scott Baptie

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4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Yvette ‘SciBabe’ d'Entremont is a science blogger, speaker and former analytical chemist with a background in both forensics and toxicology. When she isn’t speaking at conferences, writing for magazines or battling health gurus, she runs her website full time where she busts pseudoscience with a great mix of humour, real life stories and science.

In this episode we’ll chat about why some people often become emotionally attached and harbour illogical and unsubstantiated fears over seemingly insignificant issues. Why do some nutrition and health issues stimulate such emotional responses? If someone eats gluten and drinks diet coke, is it that big a deal? What’s with the dietary tribalism.

We’ll look the suggestion that pharmaceutical companies are keeping cures from the general public, Yvette explains why all studies aren’t sponsored by multinational corporations, exactly what are ‘toxins’ and why they’re everywhere and her thoughts on ‘biohacking’ – is it legit or pseudoscientific BS?

Yvette also talks about her experiments with homeopathy and she’ll shed some light on many other exaggerated, unscientific crazes that people love to get sucked into.

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0:00.0	Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon?
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0:15.4	You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze.
0:19.1	We'll show you how the smallest change can give you
0:21.5	the largest impact. Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness
0:27.4	podcast. Welcome to episode 53 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by foodfor Fitness.co.
0:41.2	I'm your host, Scott Baptey, and let me just say that I think you're going to love this episode.
0:48.0	It was so much fun to record.
0:50.7	My guest, Yvette, Saibabe de Entremont, is a science blogger, speaker, and former analytical
0:58.1	chemist. Now, she's got a huge following on Facebook and social media because she posts about
1:04.9	science and bus pseudoscience, but with a great sense of humor, there's lots of rants, and it's just, you'll see what I mean when she starts talking. You'll like it. This is only one of two shows that had to get marked explicit because we both get quite worked up about the subjects that we're talking about. In this episode, we'll be looking at why some people get emotionally attached over things that are so insignificant.
1:29.0	This all started because of the Diet Coke infographic that I posted not long ago.
1:33.5	And some of the responses were just so emotionally charged.
1:37.0	And we're talking about, well, what's with this dietary tribalism?
1:41.2	Why do people get worked out about a glass of coke or wheat or something that seems
1:46.5	not really that important? We'll look at, again, some of the other arguments people were saying
1:51.3	that pharmaceutical companies are keeping cures from us and sponsor all the studies and
1:56.2	Yvette, because she's got a background in toxicology, she'll be explaining exactly, well, what are
2:02.5	toxins and chemicals and why they're everywhere and why the poison is in the dose. We'll be looking
2:10.2	at biohacking, looking at homeopathy, and some of the interesting experiment she's done with
2:15.0	it, and many other unscientific crazes that people love
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