Junk Science

Posted on July 25th, 2007 in Uncategorized by Josh
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Groundbreaking my ass.



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  1. E. Gould said,

    on July 25th, 2007 at 7:48 pm

    I think that this site should have an editorial policy of not allowing posts like this. Submitting a news story without additional commentary (not to pick on Josh here but this was also what he did in his Sierra club post) adds little to the site and while not a problem now encourages others to turn this into their own personal blog.

    del.icio.us or a personal blog is a much better place for this sort of thing, I’d prefer to keep this site with more in depth focus as has been present on most of the posts so far (including some by Josh, I really want to draw attention to this as to not pick on him)

  2. Josh said,

    on July 25th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

    As a minimalist, especially in blogging, the title was a summation of my thoughts on this piece. My text in the comment box was superfluos, yet I will expand. Rather than use my own words, I will quote from the article.

    “People pick friends because they are similar in the way they eat or the way they move,” said Barry M. Popkin, who studies obesity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “It’s a nice piece of work but still stops short of being able to deal with causality.”

    In other words, stop looking for excuses and put down the donuts and get off the coach to avoid the “epidemic” of obesity.

  3. Mr Scooter said,

    on July 25th, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    I am with Josh, less is more.

    Hey Josh do you still wear flannel?

  4. Andrew said,

    on July 26th, 2007 at 9:52 am

    Gould, thanks for the comment. Isn’t there a certain irony in writing about how lazy people are, but not even taking the time to make it a hyper link?

    As to an editorial policy, we don’t have one yet - the general consensus is to let this grow organically - see what happens.

  5. Greyson said,

    on July 26th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

    I’m with Gould on this one, sort of… I’d like to see more in-depth discussion on this page, and I don’t want to see it become a hodgepodge of personal blogs. However, I’m with Josh here too, I think he gets his whole point across very concisely on this one, and lets others expand on it or just overlook it. I admit I’m not a hyperlinker yet (just because I spend too much time writing on here to figure this one out… it is less accessible than other programs I have used,) so I think me and Josh should get that lesson.

    As for the article, I heard of the study last night and thought “Duh.” Obviously if you hang out around fat people you are probably going to have more access to fatty foods or inactivity, but this is far from a significant factor in the overall scheme. Does this mean you shouldn’t hang out around fat people? No, it means you should have better self control, a better diet, and be more active.

    Oh, and, who is this Scooter anyways? And why should I care at all what he thinks?

  6. Andrew said,

    on July 30th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    btw, here is another blog post on the same subject done by veteran blogger Seth Godin. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/07/contagious.html

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