Comments on: Bad Science AND Copyright Infringement!

By: Saralinda

Saralinda — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:08:05 +0000

The worst crappy science here is the failure to consider whether–if his data are correct–he has cause and effect identified properly.

For example: Does random and/or premarital sex cause depression of oxytocin levels and failed relationships, OR do people whose oxytocin levels are congenitally low tend toward more random sex and experience more difficulty maintaining relationships?

By: bmc90

bmc90 — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:06:44 +0000

So if my husband won’t have sex with me or talk to me any more, my hormones will make me have affairs with other people to salve the wound of my failed relationship. What a great excuse! Oh, I forgot. Marriages never fail.

By: Sophist

Sophist — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:42:41 +0000

“Emotional pain causes our bodies to produce an elevated level of endorphins which in turn lowers the level of oxytocin. Therefore, relationship failure leads to pain which leads to elevated endorphins which leads to lower oxytocin, the result of which is a lower ability to bond.”

And, what, failed relationships are the only cause of emotional pain? Or is it only failed-relationship pain that produces the Popeye defeating endorphins?

By: nexyjo

nexyjo — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:25:41 +0000

People don’t fall in love, but into hormonal bondage.

that’s an interesting way to express lament for the good old days…

By: El Mocho

El Mocho — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:33:35 +0000

The vengeful spirit of Chuck Jones needs to lay a downpour-of-falling-anvils style smackdown on the “good” doctor.

By: Dan S.

Dan S. — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:54:28 +0000

““Emotional pain causes our bodies to produce an elevated level of endorphins which in turn lowers the level of oxytocin. Therefore, relationship failure leads to pain which leads to elevated endorphins which leads to lower oxytocin, the result of which is a lower ability to bond.”

Or – B*tch! You dumped me, and now look what you’ve done!”

“Close [or good] enough for government work” – never a positive claim – is going to take on a whole new emphasis by the time Bush is through with us.

By: leslie

leslie — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:43:49 +0000

I would love to see the owners of the copyrights on all those cartoons go after this clown. So depressing that he doesn’t have to be confirmed by Congress.

By: little cabbage

little cabbage — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:22:48 +0000

Those slides resemble nothing so much as a mentally ill person's insane Internet ramblings. The first thing I thought of was http://www.timecube.com. Except, well, you know something is very very wrong when the Time Cube guy makes MORE sense than the guy in charge of Title X funding.

By: little light

little light — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:50:08 +0000

Wait–Almighty Zeus blocks joy in my head-chemicals, causing me to crave sex and overpowering even Popeye in His wrath?
No wonder He got laid with all those chicks He turned into cows and swans and things.

By: Kyra

Kyra — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:41:45 +0000

Forty percent of couples who live together break up before they marry and of the 60 percent that do marry, 40 percent of them divorce after 10 years. … So why do so many adults continue in a cycle of sex without a marriage commitment, cohabitation, and failed relationships? This perpetual cycle of misery is due largely to the role of oxytocin.

What the fuck? Oxytocin is affected by the presence of a wedding ring? How should it matter if they marry before they live together or after?

(And, I wonder, how many of those forty percent that break up “before they marry” have long, fulfilling relationships and count as “failed” because they just don’t get married? Obviously such people don’t fit in with the “sixty percent that do get married.”)