My mother is a whacko who believes in the worst types of homeopathic/woo medicine and is extremely pushy and arrogant about it. She belittles anyone who goes to doctors or uses actual medication to cure an illness and has gone so far as to convince cancer patients to quit chemotherapy in favor of drinking her magical…

Thanks for this. People always wrinkle their noses (in disgust or bewilderment?) at my sugar-free options, but I CAN'T HAVE THE SUGAR! WTF else am I supposed to do? Watch everyone else have a damned Slurpee?

I've read Food Babe's blog. It's not very scientific. She is very uninformed and seems to base everything on her impressions, rather than facts. She's an anti-vaxxer and buys into EVERYTHING 'big health food' says. Grain of Himalaya pink salt with this one.

"Just drink the regular thing!"
Look, I'm no great fan of artificial sweeteners, but, as a diabetic, I do like occasionally having a drink option other than plain water or black coffee. You know, we're part of the reason diet slurpees, in spite of their consistency issues, even exist — the diabetic community requested…

I'm afraid that I'm skeptical of your science friend because the taste bud map theory is a myth that has long since been disproven. (Articles 1, 2, 3, 4 Journals 1)

Isn't the "Food Babe" the same blogger who got everyone up in arms about THE CHEMICALS IN YOGA MATS ARE IN BREAD!!1!1!!! but then neglected to mention that, oh, I don't know, tofu contains drywall and organic farmers use pesticides—loads of them—derived from turpentine?

I wish people would stop giving that Food Babe moron the attention. She gets everything wrong and creates "controversy" for clickbait.

Psychosomatic.

An unnamed, unreferenced quote is an actual scientist in these parts? Hahahahaha Is the bar for Jezebel really that low?

IMO, the United States has an extremely messed up drinking culture. All social interactions include the use of alcohol. Drinking is an expected part of courtship and social interactions between men and women, so much so that anyone who *doesn't* drink is viewed as "weird." Not only does our culture's view of…

Oh please, Kate, your wigs are getting less and less convincing as the seasons drag on. You have to go back!

Wow, something that I as a nerd finally have in common with religious nutjobs: hating deviations from the established canon of my favorite fictional universes.

This is gonna be a rant. Ok. So there was another story here a while ago with a person making a comment about Kathleen Hanna. The person was all disgusted and surprised when Hanna told her 'I hate men.' She said 'what feminist says that?'

Ok, I agree with you on everything...but the MD and LA in me says that you are completely and utterly wrong about raw oysters. Top them with a little bit of lemon and/tabasco and it is heavenly. Especially with beer.

Now seems as good a time as any to post a link to my favorite Slate article, which discusses the history of Traditional Chinese Medicine as Maoist Propaganda. Give it a read!

Fat people are fat.