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Biased

posted 12 years ago by BadCash
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While I did take away a positive overall message from this movie, which is eat more healthy vegetables, I did find it way too biased and a one sided view. I like my documentaries like I like my steaks - well done and on both sides ;)
I'm not sure you can really call movies like this one "documentaries", because it's clear from the beginning what message they are trying to get across, and they never interview any scientists with an opposite or different view. There should be a word for these kind of one-sided-documentaries...

As others have pointed out, recent research indicates that it is most certainly possible to overdose vitamins, and that eating a healthy and varied diet will give you all the vitamins you need, without any need for supplements. I don't like to throw the baby out with the bath water, so I'll just take away the parts of it I think made sense, and flush the rest of it down the drain.

4/10 since it's leaning 90 degrees to one side of the matter.

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[–] armalite1016 11 years ago

Of course they are going to be biased when they are trying to make a very distinct argument.

[–] anspruchsvoiier 11 years ago

That's a very weak point of view. Plenty of documentaries try to bring a certain point across and they do that by actually bringing evidence into the game and rebuttals from the other side which then can also be dismantled, granted they have the proof needed. And that cements their point of view even more.

This movie was a propagandistic piece with one claim strung to the next one lacking ANY proof at all. This has nothing to do with making a distinct argument, but clearly shows that they had no proof to back up their claims which is the very least you should have before throwing something like this out on DVD. Even many conspiracy documentaries - ridiculous as they might be - try to present proof for their claims. This is the only documentary I ever watched that shamelessly did not produce one shred of evidence. Of course that's easy to understand: As BadCash already pointed out - plenty of their "facts" are outright wrong. In the end, this flick is neither scientific nor journalistic, but a populistic opinion piece at best.