Sunday, January 04, 2009

We Gave Them An Inch; This Is What Happens

It was bound to happen. More idiocy from the HealthStasi.

Let's see, now they'll want to forbid you from smoking outside, alone, in the rain, and returning indoors....because you might have THIRD HAND SMOKE clinging to you that will instantly trigger disease in everybody in the room?

So, nobody will be able to take a smoke break ever, anywhere, if they are going to have contact with another human being before they shower, change their clothes and wash their hair?

Are they going to have "scent detectors" at every place of business, refusing admittance to workers and patrons who carry the dreaded THIRD HAND SMOKE PLAGUE?

You can bet they'll try. But they won't profile terrorists. That would be wrong!

God, I hate 'em.

Apparently, this is their idea of science:

But far fewer of those surveyed were aware of the risks of third-hand smoke[*]. Since the term is so new, the researchers asked people if they agreed with the statement that “breathing air in a room today where people smoked yesterday can harm the health of infants and children.” Only 65 percent of nonsmokers and 43 percent of smokers agreed with that statement, which researchers interpreted as acknowledgement of the risks of third-hand smoke.

*which is like saying that fewer of those surveyed were aware of the risks of consorting with pixies—GS

Well, by God, if a lot of people agreed with the statement, it must be true. Sort of like "consensus" on Global Warming.

How did we all get so stupid? And why are these people allowed to pretend to be scientists? And where was the looking glass I obviously fell through without noticing?

The Gunslinger

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