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Orrex

(64,101 posts) Tue Sep 22, 2015, 06:28 AM Sep 2015

Six Trendy New Health Foods that are Full of Crap

From Cracked.com

I notice that Cracked.com is sometimes a real lightning rod in GD. If you cite one of their articles in regard to, say, international refugees or illegal whaling, they're hailed as Gospel Truth. But if you link to one that points out the absurdity of anti-vax thinking or bullshit pseudoscience, it's dismissed as "just a comedy site."

Regardless, their trademark snarky tone comes through magically in this current piece. Worth reading simply for the subject headers alone.

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Six Trendy New Health Foods that are Full of Crap (Original Post) Orrex Sep 2015 OP

Your link starts on page 2, here's the link for the first page... PoliticAverse Sep 2015 #1

That's a literary technic called "in media res" Orrex Sep 2015 #2

Heh, well I learned something... PoliticAverse Sep 2015 #4

Oh yeah. Archae Sep 2015 #3

Yes indeed Orrex Sep 2015 #5

That's the standard reply. HuckleB Sep 2015 #6

But NaturalNews and Mercola are sacrosanct Orrex Sep 2015 #7

Infallible, even! HuckleB Sep 2015 #8

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. Your link starts on page 2, here's the link for the first page...

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 07:50 AM

Sep 2015

http://www.cracked.com/article_23070_6-trendy-new-health-foods-that-are-full-crap.html

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

Orrex

(64,101 posts)

2. That's a literary technic called "in media res"

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 08:21 AM

Sep 2015

I was, um, building dramatic tension or something.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

4. Heh, well I learned something...

Reply to Orrex (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 09:28 AM

Sep 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res

Archae

(46,798 posts)

3. Oh yeah.

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 09:12 AM

Sep 2015

Don't forget the anti-GMO hysterics and their "righteous indignation" at the pictures for Cracked posted, that show "organic" is just a big scam.

Orrex

(64,101 posts)

5. Yes indeed

Reply to Archae (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 10:12 AM

Sep 2015

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When I've posted the one pointing out that several "organic-friendly" chemicals are more toxic than Glyphosate, my source is attacked even though the actual information is correct.

How surprising!