– Date – December 1st, 2015
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The Odds Must Be Crazy [13:35]
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Interview: Yvette d’Entremont [18:30]
– Originally was the ‘Science Babe’, but changed it after finding out someone else already was using the name.
– Formal education in Theater and Forensic Science.
– Jokes that she wanted to be ‘Science Dudette’ and follow in the footsteps of Bill Nye.
– Her Forensic degree is in Biological Forensics which is the ‘dirty’ and ‘smelly’ type stuff.
– Had a short stint working in the Homeland Security office dealing with forensic explosives.
– Things like kitty litter and some drugs and chemotherapy may present positive results in bomb scans.
– She was fairly anti-GMO until she got into the industry and learned more about the actual science behind Montsanto and pesticides.
– Now and then she still gets e-mail from people who have turned away from the ‘Food Babe’ after reading about the science on her site.
– You have to realize that even ‘natural’ foods have many complicated ingredients within them as what people consider ‘artificial’.
– Even the smartest people can look like they are not.
– After the ‘Food Babe’ had some fairly negative press over her ideas, she seems to have fallen out of media coverage.
– Saw how easy it is for someone to fall into alternative medicine while having a terrible headache that would not go away.
– The solution is to try the best to provide the public with the best information possible as dictated by known science.
– After getting Science Dog she started to realize how many homeopathic pet ‘treatments’ are out there.
– One of the more strange ones could be a ‘treatment’ that is basically a shot of alcohol that gets your dog drunk which has since gone away.
– There is a ‘treatment’ at CVS which was basically a 40 proof shot of booze.
– Soon after starting her site was informed that Rob Schenider is a major anti-vax & anti-GMO promoter and was involved in getting him fired from being a State Farm spokesperson.
– How, exactly, does ‘steaming your clams’ lengthen your legs again?
– Her newer focus has been Dr. Oz, and his very bad and completely incorrect claims.
– Dr. Oz has a Reiki loving/practicing wife who he has had/used during his actual medical work and surgeries.
– Find out more about SciBabe and see her stuff at her website.
Outro Music [33:00]
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