BTW- I hadn’t heard “Rush Limplaugh”. That’s pretty funny!

thanks

Correlation: people with red hair often have freckles
Causation: bald people causes sunburned scalps

seems pretty straightforward to me…what am i missing here?

only someone like Rush Limplaugh would try to pass that kind of crap off as legit! i would sure hope that anyone with any actual responsibility wouldn’t try that, but i wouldn’t put anything past the modern medical establishment and their puppetmasters…

… for saying bad things about JLC

In the way you frame it here, you’re absolutely right. There’s a lot of junk or pop science that follows the maxim, if it feels good do it, or believe it.

A lot of it just FEELS right and if you want to or are predisposed to believe it, you will.

For example it sounds really good to say that “studies show that kids whose parents eat dinner with them regularly are less likely to do drugs” because what it’s really saying is, attentive parents are healthier for families. And, of course, largely this is true and there ARE long-term studies for that. But to specify “dinner” and “drugs” is to render the statements false, or at least on less firm ground, as you say, with the truth unknown.

smarter woman have bad sex doesn’t even make real sense on the surface. But again, it sounds “good” and has a well known idea attached to it – that men are scared of smart women therefore it’s better to play stupid (blah, it didn’t even feel good to type that). smart women MAY have less sex because they other things to pursue; they MAY be able to find men they don’t respect on all levels so the sex is correspondingly less satisfying and doesn’t lead to O ETC ETC. But that’s not even what the study is about.

Better lovers equal orgasms, but sometimes even then there are, yes psychological things going on.

You do make the assumption that psychologists were behind both of these studies. The smarter sex article appears in the Sun Magazine which is an authority on Page 3 girls’ nipples and not much else. The NPR PSA could have been done by psycologists but mre likely it was sociologists or soe other research.

So your main point: that it’s too easy to say shit that don’t mean shit I agree with completely.

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People pick and choose data to get their personal points of view across. Shit, according to commercial, a study said that eating Sugar Pops (or some sugary cereal) in the morning makes your kids do better in their first class. No shit. Ever hear of a sugar rush? What they don’t tell you is what the kids are doing in their second and third class. Sleeping.

Your blog is too well written. Makes my blog look like fail.