Are we in the reductio ad absurdum era? Sarah Palin, congressional hearings, Twitter....
And in the diet and health corner, we've got more and more great examples, from fat-blocking diet pills that make you shit your pants, to gastric bypass surgery (advertised on billboards in the US!), to "heart-healthy" potato chips. I'm optimistic about this in that if you take flawed hypotheses and treat them as true, the quicker you get to the end game that exposes the flaws, the better.
No comments:
Post a Comment