Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose

The inimitable Joy Nash has just posted an excellent rant about being called in as a health expert by Fox News, who wanted her to say that even though Dunkin Donuts is no longer using trans fats, it’s not a license to eat as many as you want.
I’ll speak for Donut eaters everywhere when I [...]

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I admit, I have a certain fondness for Slate. I like several of its writers (what up, Dahlia Lithwick), I like their sometimes cheesy headlines, I like the Explainer, I like reading the terrible answers and even more terrible questions in Dear Prudence. As Jon Stewart has taught all of us, irreverence is an [...]

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I went to a new doctor today. Didn’t love him, probably won’t go back (though I didn’t say that to the coworker who recommended him, of course). He was fine, but he did that particular doctor thing where they tell you to stop doing something without asking first whether you do it or [...]

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A couple of days ago, I wrote a post explaining, from a history and philosophy of science perspective, that studies don’t prove things. The corollary, of course, was that debunking studies doesn’t disprove things, and that the focus in both cases should be on the scientific context — the framework in which the study’s [...]

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When Kate and Sweet Machine went to see Joy Nash on Saturday night, Joy was being filmed for an MTV show about fat-positivity. In an unprecedentedly out-of-touch move, MTV had actually contacted me about doing that show, but I turned them down for several reasons — I’m too old and uncool (I haven’t watched [...]

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Recently, I did something that I hadn’t thought possible a couple years ago; something I once worked hard for but failed to accomplish; something the medical establishment, the media, and even the US government had been coercing me to do: I lost 20 pounds. And I didn’t even have to go to the gym!
Don’t worry, [...]

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with Joy Nash and Sweet Machine.
And a cameraman from MTV.
Weird and awesome.
Also saw Joy perform the Fat Rant live in this show, which was terrific.  Lots of great monologues, including a killer one by the Fruit, who was also delightful in person.
And after I squealed about hanging out with OMG JOY NASH!!!, we walked into [...]

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Solomon, as I was writing this. (Note blurred motion in tail area.)
So, I started a whole long post about cooking this morning, which I will probably go back to next week (since it’s more than half-finished, and that’s the kind of thing I like to have handy on vacay). Today, I need to tell you [...]

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And we have another redesign! This one is on accounta only certain templates allow you to see who wrote a post, and now that there’s more than one writer, I figured we should have one of those. The first thing you’ll see after any given headline is “Posted by…” So you should look there to [...]

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I’m going to tell you something that might shock you: Science can’t prove anything. I know, I sounded like a creationist there for a second, but hear me out. The best way to support a theory is to submit it to a test where, if you don’t get the results you expected, the [...]

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