{"id":1204,"date":"2013-03-20T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2013-03-20T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:49:35","slug":"wednesday-links-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/03\/20\/wednesday-links-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chiropractors playing to a parent’s deepest fear – SIDS. We don’t know what causes it, we know little about how to prevent it, but Chiropractors lay claim to secret knowledge and take advantage of new parents’ willingness to do anything for their children by lying to them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed Yong tells an inspiring story of a triumph in genomic medicine. Lilly Grossman<\/a> carries a gene mutation that fills her nights with shaking and seizures instead of sleep, but finding it delivers the treatment she needs to live an almost normal life. Grab your hankies.<\/p>\n

This won’t make a lot of sense to many people, but an abstract<\/a> that shows a possible neurobiological connection for skin picking and hair pulling (dermatillomania and trichitillomania) makes me think how nice it would be to eventually find a way to fix it.<\/p>\n

Take this<\/a>, people who think diet can prevent all disease. So there.<\/p>\n

This may seem like a wonderful advancemen<\/a>t in prosthetics, but can you say. . .mind control?!?!?<\/p>\n

Recognize a pattern? Republican sticks to party platform, opposes gay marriage. Republican offspring comes out as gay. Republican weasels out of original stance.<\/a><\/p>\n

I can’t say this where it’s appropriate, but you can tell when someone thinks he knows more than he actually does when he’s not even wrong<\/a>. Unfortunately, the Dunning-Kruger effect<\/a> means it will be impossible to educate him as to why this is so. He does not experience the discomfort of cognitive dissonance<\/a> and learns only what strengthens his confirmation bias<\/a>. Worse, this is willful ignorance<\/a> and intellectual dishonesty<\/a>. Rationalwiki is an appropriate source of information to reflect my repressed snarkiness. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

Bookmark this site<\/a> for when you need a good laugh or a healthy dose of schadenfreude. There is simply too much here for me to give it to you a bit at a time. Bask in its guanophrenic glory as it slowly loads the page bit by bit up to the top. If you really want to get in the spirit, go to the pantry and get some tinfoil to make yourself a party hat first.<\/p>\n

AWWW!! ELEPHANT BAYBEEE!<\/p>\n