Understand Reality Through Science

Human knowledge has progressed exponentially since the dawn of modern science. It is no longer reasonable to accept claims without sufficient objective evidence. The harm from religion, alternatives to medicine, conservatism, and all other false beliefs will be exposed on this blog by reporting the findings of science. This blog will also reinforce what should be the basics of education: History, Civics, Financial Literacy, Media Literacy, and Critical/Science Based Thinking.

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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Gluten-Free ≠ Healthier

"So basically (and ironically), gluten-free diets are associated with increased mercury in the blood, arsenic, obesity, vitamin deficiencies, and metabolic syndrome."

I have a real problem with how the gluten-free industry has gone far beyond what science supports in promoting its product.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

"Gluten-Free" Is A Potentially Harmful Marketing Term

"Given the disproportionate number of people who are eating this way without reason, though, there is cause for alarm. Especially among the many people who now mistakenly and blindly conflate 'gluten free' and 'healthy'."

Like GMO-free, Gluten-Free is really a marketing term.

The Harm in Blindly ‘Going Gluten Free’

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The Clean Eating Delusion

"In practice 'clean eating' tends to be avoiding whatever food is the latest boogeyman in the pseudoscientific diet-advice industry. Today this often includes eating organic, avoiding GMOs, avoiding gluten, avoiding perceived 'chemicals,' eating 'natural' which can mean many things but often means avoiding processed foods and food additives, and sometimes eating raw foods."

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-clean-eating-delusion/