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...pillar of modern public health - then why are so many parents reconsidering vaccinating their children? The answer has to do with our era's strained relationship with scientific truth, our tendency to place more faith in psychological truths than scientific ones. McCarthy's emergence - the Playmate turned pseudoscientist, the fart-joke teller cum mother warrior - can make one feel nostalgic for the time when celebs turned up on talk shows only to hawk their flicks or books, not to promote explosive public-health ideas. But McCarthy says she is speaking the truth - her truth...
...Carol, worthy efforts that, together, took in only about a fifth of the Chipmunks' revenue in the same period. No, somebody - somebody young - must be enjoying this soul-sapping would-be comedy. Maybe I'm missing the wit in the Alvin 2 pileup of purloined plot points, toilet and fart jokes and tired references to old movies. (The "You talkin' to me" bit from Taxi Driver simply must be retired from overuse.) Or maybe kids aren't as cinematically precocious as I thought they were. (See the top 10 movies...
...have also tackled the issue of morality and smell, but from the opposite end of the spectrum. A paper published last year in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin revealed that people are more critical and judgmental about certain moral issues when exposed to the vapors of a - ahem - fart-scented spray...
...fart spray is a commercially available product. Incidentally, according to a psychologist who has worked with it in experiments, it is nearly impossible to rid upholstery of it. Citrus-scented Windex certainly makes for a nicer lab environment, which perhaps has something to do with Liljenquist's continued interest in this line of study. "Research on how to stay on the moral high ground and promote virtue," she says, "is something I find refreshing...
...Dwight convince Michael that an insurance salesman is a member of the mafia who is out to get him. They try to advise him on how to avoid getting killed, but only embarrassing moments ensue. Kevin starts using Jim’s office as a place to fart, but likes it so much that he moves in. When the credit card company calls to verify Jim’s identity, Kevin plays along, pretending to be Jim—but then the company thinks that someone has stolen Jim’s card and is using...