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Headlines do it again Is Organic food really not nutritionally better than conventional?
Reading news headlines is a lot like trying to figure out the weather by solely observing the clouds. On occasion, what you see is what you get, but usually, the clouds at best only give you a partial idea as to what the weather may or may not have in store for you.
The recent headlines ( http://news.yahoo.com/organic-food-no-healthier-non-organic-study-210536314.html ) about organic versus conventional foods are similar. They do point to some important things, but the first impression you get looking at them belays the reality.
So, are organic food and conventional foods basically the same, save a few less toxic, disease causing chemicals?
As one of the articles admits, it all depends on how you define organics.
Many of the studies didn't specify their standards for what constituted organic food.
So, you are building huge, attention grabbing, view point pounding headlines based on a bunch of inconsistent, unanalyzed, faulty studies that contain all sorts of problematic assumptions and setups?
You treat all these studies of equal weight and worth even when they are CLEARLY NOT of equal weight and worth?
Yet another article spins the study of studies this way,
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