Friday, July 18, 2008 . 7/18/2008
I was watching Joao Magueijo's Big Bang on the Science Channel earlier today (pretty good show, except I couldn't help but notice Magueijo used the word 'theory' wrong several times). During commercial breaks, I thumbed through my mom's newest Oprah magazine. And that got me thinking: Why are women's magazines so stupid? Sure, they can have descent articles every once in a while, but it's mostly just trash. Touchy-feely "I'm on top of the world and I can change reality if only I think really hard" trash. Oh, and you can't forget the "advice" from "Dr" Phil. And the horoscopes, too. And then the shitty books they offer as recommended reading. In one magazine (can't remember the name), the only book listed that looked even mildly interesting was Stephen King's Duma Key. The rest were either cook books or feel-good pseudoscience from the looks of it; one that caught my eye in particular was written by Sylvia Browne.Unbelievable.
Women can't really be this stupid, can they? Call me crazy, but I'd much rather stick to magazines like The Skeptical Inquirer and Scientific American.
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