“Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudo-Science”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/23/whole-foods-america-s-temple-of-pseudoscience.html

I’ve had dinner with John Mackey a couple of times and listened to him speak on several occasions.  I like him.  And I like his libertarian views.

But I don’t share his veganism, and I have to admit that I think this article lands some solid hits.

Furthermore, it makes the important point that, despite what you’re often told, pseudo-science isn’t a monopoly of irrationally religious right-wing knuckle draggers such as myself.  Whenever I’m in a Whole Foods market, which has happened a few times — I find them very interesting, and I like much (though by no means all) of what they sell — I don’t exactly get the impression that I’m surrounded by zealots for the Tea Party or by lifetime members of the National Rifle Association.  More commonly, it feels as if the entire faculty club at Harvard, Berkeley, or Santa Cruz (or the audience at a Bernie Sanders rally) has just been flown in.