Government catches bad case of the wastes.
LOS ANGELES — If your friends and family get fat, chances are you will too, researchers report in a startling new study that suggests obesity is “socially contagious” and can spread easily from person to person.
The large, U.S.-funded study found that to be true even if your loved ones live far away. Social ties seem to play a surprisingly strong role, even more than genes are known to do.
“We were stunned to find that friends who are hundreds of miles away have just as much impact on a person’s weight status as friends who are right next door,” said co-author James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego.
Dumb fuckers. Why are you picking my pocket for this kind of idiocy?
“Why are you picking my pocket for this kind of idiocy?”
It’s for the chiiiildren.
Assholes. Here’s a thought: Figure out the mechanism that lets some people eat like hogs, never exercise, and weigh 190 lbs, while I eat like a bird and gain weight on anything.
As you allude, Og, the truly stunning thing is that this study solves absolutely nothing, yet cost however many millions of dollars to set up and conduct — dollars that could have been spent much more constructively, but which in the end were simply wasted.
Based on the outcome of the study, it appears that we are supposed to stop being friends with fat people in order to keep our weight within socially-acceptable bounds.
Just more junk science promoted by what seems to be an ever-increasing number of superficial, politically-correct “scientists” being pumped out of our left-wing “universities”. I wonder when they will start saying “the debate is over” regarding obesity.