Also many medical facts may apply to certain segment fo population and not to others. It behooves each and every one of us to test and see if procedures and medications are suitable for oneself. Rule of thumb is if it sounds counter intuitive and weird, do more research and be very very scared (skeptical).

But no, we “didn’t try hard enough”. So how much is enough? When we’re spending all our own time exercising and eating 1500-calorie-a-day diets that allow only 60 grams of fat a day and being Biafra-baby hungry all day long as a result? I know there are people who can live on that little, and good for them because their grocery bills must be pretty low, but really, those people are a minority.

900-1,000 calories-a-day with thirty grams of fat is considered a brink-of-starvation diet, to give you some perspective. I’m sure a lot of our Dude Nation trolls would say, “Then you should eat that diet, you fucking rhinos!” And these enlightened individuals would probably last about a week on the 1500-a-day diet, I tend to think!

I took a look at the “Lean Cuisines” in the freezer at the grocery store a few days ago. The average package is about 250 calories with about four or five grams of fat. If people are actually eating those, I hope they are eating something else in addition to those hyper-skimpy portions.

I had a favorite high school physics teacher who liked to say something to the effect of “science ain’t about the answers so much as the questions. If you got all the answers, there’d be no science.” And one of my favorite unattributed quotes is “Questions without answers are far less dangerous than answers without questions.”

I’m an editor, and I dropped several columns in the last three years because I started checking their sources. I was really concerned how indie columnists were actually misreporting the findings of the studies – and making them sound conclusive.

I don’t think science is ever conclusive. I think it seeks to explain things.

People will believe damn near anything with a PhD attached to it. Except evolution.

There’s a “surprise me cunt” joke in here somewhere, I know it.
Absolutely.