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Is The Food Babe Really Full Of Sh*t?

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2015

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

I recently read an article on Gakwer called The "Food Babe" Blogger Is Full of Shit. It was written by today's podcast guest: Yvette d'Entremont.

Yvette, AKA "The Science Babe", has bachelor's degrees in theatre and chemistry along with a master's degree in forensic science. With a background working as an analytical chemist, she currently runs the Science Babe website full time. Her site is an interesting mix of debunking pseudoscience with humor and science. She lives in southern California with her stinky dog, Buddy (who makes a fun cameo in today's podcast).

During our controversial discussion, you'll discover: -Why Yvette thinks that chiropractic treatment is total BS... -Why Yvette, in her post on the "Bullshitproof Diet", calls Dave Asprey a Douchebag... -How Yvette thinks that the Food Babe's Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte was blown way out of proportion... -What Yvette thinks is the next most unproven, hyped up, dangerous or scientifically inaccurate trend or fad currently making it's way down the health pipeline... -Why living by the rule "If a third grader can't pronounce it, don't eat it" is a dangerous rule to follow... -The details behind the group on Facebook called "Banned By Food Babe" that boasts nearly 6,000 members... -And much more...

Resources we discuss during this episode: -The Gawker article The "Food Babe" Blogger Is Full of Shit -Public Library of Science (PLOS) -Science Based Medicine -TheNess Neurological Blog -The "Natural Ingredients" In A Blueberry -My article on Bulletproof Coffee Enemas

I imagine that you probably have some thoughts about this podcast. Perhaps some strong thoughts. Leave your comments, questions and feedback at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and I promise to reply!

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1:21.7

I'm very careful about what I put into there. I won't go after someone unless I know exactly where the BS is and what they're doing, and I won't publish anything unless there's widespread scientific consensus.

1:32.3

If anyone ever shows me proof, the chiropractic makes you immune to the measles and not needing a shot, go ahead and show me that proof, but I've never seen it.

1:40.8

He starts off saying the diet is based on paleo, and then to bring it to another level. I'm like, here's a problem. The premise behind paleo is likewise BS.

1:50.8

There's something else in that, I'm just going to fight the latte, that's the incursion class to be, and that's coffee because we acclimated during the roasting process.

2:00.8

It's very easy to conflate. Something like kale is good for you, so kale is going to fight cancer.

2:05.8

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2:18.8

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2:29.8

Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here, and I first became aware of my podcast guest for today's episode when I read her article on gocker.com entitled The Food Babe Blogger is full of sh**t.

2:50.8

And my guest runs a website called sibebe.com. That's scibebe.com. Her name, which I'll be very careful not to mispronounce as I do this, is Yvette Guinevere down from on.

3:07.8

And she is the sibebe. She looks at things like alternative medicine and pseudoscience movements, and she writes about them in a pretty entertaining way over on her blog at sibebe.com.

3:20.8

She's got a BA in theater, a BS in chemistry, and a master's degree, I believe, in forensic science with a concentration in biological criminalistics, whatever that is.

3:31.8

So basically, she lives in Southern California, she runs this blog full time, she makes it an effort to debunk pseudoscience with humor right before we got started recording.

3:43.8

She already started ripping into me for using the term superfood. So this ought to be, this ought to be a lot of fun.

3:52.8

So Yvette, welcome to the Ben GreenfieldFitness show.

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