The natural fallacy is an erroneous belief that anything natural is good, while anything synthetic is bad.
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Adherents to the natural fallacy often apply this concept to medicine and food.
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Yet they forget that nature isn’t always our friend. There are many things in nature that try to harm or kill us, including predators.
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Unfortunately, what people fail to realize is that marketers have adopted the term natural without a regulated definition. Although the FDA has taken steps over the last decade to define the term, it still hasn’t reached a consensus.
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We should all be careful to evaluate whether we perceive things through the natural fallacy.
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