Interesting Links for 20-09-2018

[andrewducker]

Poor Toad: How Stormy Daniels ruined Mario Kart

(tags: Mario sex politics funny )

Do Parents Matter?

(tags: parenting children psychology development )

Brexit: The Salzburg summit is not important

(tags: uk europe doom )

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

(tags: obesity weight health society viaErindubitably )

A number of media companies are offering freelancers the option to pay to get their own money

(tags: pay work wtf )

Stars in Milky Way moving ‘like ripples on pond’ after near collision with another galaxy

(tags: stars space )

Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program

(tags: tickets fraud OhForFucksSake )

Brexit and the Irish border question explained

(tags: uk Ireland doom )

Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen to return as Loki and Scarlet Witch in Marvel TV shows

(tags: tv marvel comics )

Theresa May to accept checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain in major concession to avoid Brexit no-deal

(tags: UK Europe NorthernIreland trade )

Every man should be worried if Kavanaugh goes down. At least, I'm worried.

(tags: assault usa satire )

Liam Fox plans to scrap EU food standards to win Brexit trade deal with Trump

(tags: food safety UK usa )

Keeping order in the General Assembly: The strange saga of how a Viking gavel was broken, then lost, then carved again

(tags: iceland UnitedNations history )

Comments

[cmcmck]

Given that my parents have had no bearing on my life since I was fifteen, but one of my brothers very much has, there may be something in this!

Obesity

[agoodwinsmith]

I was so disappointed when I read this article yesterday. It started out with the example of scurvy, which showed that the then medical community was wrong (just like in the time of Ignaz Semmelweis and the issue of handwashing), but that while slow, progress was made and scurvy (and new mothers' deaths from septicemia) is now mostly a thing of the past. So: yay! The implication is that the medical community has been dragging its self-satisfied feet over a solution that humanity will now benefit from.

But no: if you are obese, you are done; give in and just focus on becoming healthy fatty.

And the article's therefore is that doctors should be nicer. Pfff - good luck with that.

Re: Obesity

[awesomelies]

Off on a tangent to your point, but: scurvy's a fascinating case because we had a cure and then forgot it again by the time of the Scott Expedition, through a lengthy process involving copper tubing, the Royal Navy's switch from lemon to lime juice and the failed British Arctic Expedition of 1875. Scientific knowledge doesn't always advance; sometimes it goes dramatically backwards.