James and the Giant Corn Genetics: Studying the Source Code of Nature

March 7, 2010

The Hair Shirt Fallacy

Filed under: Politics — James @ 8:07 pm

Kids are told to eat their vegetables because, even though they taste bad, because vegetables are good for them. They are told they can’t have ice cream every night, even though it tastes good, because ice cream is bad for them. The danger arrises when people generalize that rule, that if it’s pleasant it’s bad for you, and if you don’t like it it must be good for you. (more…)

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