Kavin Can’t Even
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Science
Kavin Can’t Even Allergy Edition: Go Home, GMO Inside. You’re Fear Mongering
I know I haven’t given you a #KavinCantEven in a few weeks. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, “Kavin Can’t Even” is a regular-ish column in which I present my reaction to disturbing science gaffes from the vast internet quagmire of unscientific debris. I also delight or horrify my readers with pictures of me making various incredulous facial expressions. Fortunately…
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Quickies
Kavin Can’t Even Quickie: Food Babe, Did You Know that “Indian” Isn’t a Language?
This will be an extremely short edition of “Kavin Can’t Even.” I have been taking one for the team and reading Vani Hari’s book, “Food Babe Way,” a New York Times bestseller. For the life of me, I cannot imagine how anyone believes that this book is factually accurate. Even her personal anecdotes are reductionist to the extreme. Case…
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Reviews
Kavin Can’t Even: Food Babe Way Exotifies India, and Grossly Exaggerates or Lies About Her Dad
Dear Vani, Your exotification of India, and simultaneous painting of the nation as full of people who can only afford cheap food is offensive. As an Indian-American, I’m appalled and disgusted by your frequent “appeals to India” in your new book “The Food Babe Way.” There is so much this-is-how-my-ancestors did it, this-is-how-all-Indians live and eat rhetoric. This is no…
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