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Looks like it's “The evidence that breastfeeding makes a difference is just inconclusive" is based on an Atlantic article from 2009, which is an ancient text in the world of microbial science. There have been enough studies done in the last 8 years to make that assertion complete garbage and it sucks that people will watch the episode and possibly assume it's true (I do like the show, though, but I hate misinformation more than I love most things).

I'm reading The Kid Stays in the Picture (memoirs of Robert Evans) - didn't know much going in despite loving film, but it's been a great read so far. Since he's had sex with every other woman your age, just wanted to ask: how was it?

That's probably exactly what Grace Kelly said when the book was published.

George Wendt was amazing in the 1980's movie Gung Ho. If they rewrote that movie and casted you as his fun-loving car factory friend, a la your Cheers characters, would you take that role? Even if they replaced Michael Keaton with, say, Benedict Cumberbatch?

The obvious answer is awareness. If the Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments taught us anything, it's that people almost unconsciously support a status quo no matter if it makes sense or not. People will preserve tradition and cultural norms even if those things are hazardous to them, and unless you show them that other people aren't willing to put up with them anymore, they'll usually just keep punching their time card and dealing with it with muted grumbles and furrowed brows.

Voting, writing letters and signing petitions is so dependent on quantity that the first step is making people aware that this is something they should no longer put up with. If it sounds like I'm calling people sheep, it's not my point but yeah, we all really are.

Baaahhh!