Skeptoid #623: Environmental Working Group and the Dirty Dozen

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

History, Skeptic, Social Sciences, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Skepticism, Paranormal, Science

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This company's annual press releases are intended to frighten you into buying organic.

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0:00.0	Consumer Alert!
0:05.5	Once a year, you'll see all the news media abuzz with a terrifying warning.
0:10.6	The dirty dozen.
0:12.2	Twelve foods claims to be most dangerously contaminated by pesticides and other scary
0:18.2	things.
0:19.5	It always comes with recommended alternatives found in the Certified Organic Section of
0:25.0	Your Supermarket.
0:26.5	Well, don't believe it.
0:29.3	Distan toxicologists are appalled at this annual disinformation scare mongering.
0:36.4	The truth behind the dirty dozen is coming up right now on Skeptoid.
0:43.5	You're listening to Skeptoid.
0:48.2	I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.
0:51.6	The Environmental Working Group and the Dirty dozen.
0:57.5	Once a year, News Outlet's Worldwide report the Dirty dozen, purportedly a list of the
1:02.7	twelve types of conventionally grown produce most contaminated with pesticides.
1:08.8	It's accompanied by a recommendation that consumers wishing to not be poisoned should
1:13.3	instead by organic versions of these.
1:17.1	The list is published each year by the Environmental Working Group, or EWG, and its press release
1:23.2	is duly published by virtually every major news outlet, print, TV, radio, and online,
1:31.5	with headlines suggesting a catastrophic risk level.
1:35.3	EWG has published their dirty dozen list every year for over 20 years.
1:41.7	To the point that today, every news outlet waits for the annual press release with baited
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