tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post6995429822776862441..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Shelling out for Sheldon....again (but without the nudes)!Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-29572228948844612432014-11-04T00:12:14.493-05:002014-11-04T00:12:14.493-05:00Ken you are more or less the same age as I am so y...Ken you are more or less the same age as I am so you will surely remember in the 1950s the school nurse coming around with grotesque teaching aids.<br /><br />One was a hideous set of plastic teeth to teach us about how to brush. Another was even worse stuff about posture. Back then posture was a national obsession. I got a lot of posture propaganda in elementary school and even more in Boy Scouts before I escaped.<br /><br />We should not mock Sheldon, who was right smack in the mainstream, with his obsession. The "wrong kind" slouched and had poor posture, we had to cure things. <br /><br />My own view is that do-gooders are the great social evil and Sheldon is in the middle of the pack.<br /><br />HenryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-51976106416753067112014-10-29T11:52:55.870-04:002014-10-29T11:52:55.870-04:00Our every move will be tracked--indeed, predicted!...Our every move will be tracked--indeed, predicted!--from our selfies! Scientific determinism? How could you suggest such a thing!Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-82915987342025743552014-10-29T10:42:59.718-04:002014-10-29T10:42:59.718-04:00I resent being pegged with a credit score. Now I h...I resent being pegged with a credit score. Now I have this new means of discriminatory tagging to look forward to. Ugh. Would you say this neo-somatotyping is philosophically underpinned by scientific determinism?O. Douglas Jenningshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16821793924706435516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-64890283580681061572014-10-29T08:34:49.694-04:002014-10-29T08:34:49.694-04:00Ayurgenomics, wow. I will say that I thought Ken&...Ayurgenomics, wow. I will say that I thought Ken's post might be pushing it a bit, even knowing that people really are already conflating genes 'for' face shape with personality genes. That's not your usual behavior genetics, though, not (yet?) mainstream, so I wondered why point this out. Instead, it turns out he's spot-on. Real life leads the way. Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-59045014878025643372014-10-29T07:50:36.695-04:002014-10-29T07:50:36.695-04:00Rdolofo
Great to hear from you! We'll look fo...Rdolofo<br />Great to hear from you! We'll look for that Science article.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-42017248591371399482014-10-29T07:45:15.799-04:002014-10-29T07:45:15.799-04:00It is happening,
see:
Searching for science in Ind...It is happening,<br />see:<br />Searching for science in India's traditional medicine<br /><br />Science 24 October 2014; 346 (6208): 410 <br />Rodolfo Valdeznoreply@blogger.com