Mead seems less entranced, suggesting that "a culture that insists on the appearance of nubile availability among women old enough to be grandmothers" is borderline "tyrannical."

I think the tyranny of cosmetic surgery in our culture is awful.

All those guns, and the secret police, always secretly checking your skin. Convincing your neighbors to turn on you and report your wrinkles to the government.

And the gulags for women who refuse their Botox injections! Have you heard about the conditions in those horrible places?

When is the UN going to intervene in this horrific situation?

God save me, I can't hold out much longer.

The article about the fat study is headlined, "High fat not a heart problem for women". Throughout, the article is focused on this idea that fat is always bad for you as sometimes thought, that high-fat diets don't have to be bad for you, etc. But this is not what the study is about. When we get to (in the fourth paragraph) the description of what the study actually compared, it was animal fat and vegetable fat. The result was that "those who obtained the highest percentage of calorie intake from vegetable fat faced a 30 percent lower risk of heart disease than those with high animal fat percentages". That was the result of the study. But we don't get that until the fourth paragraph. The lead paragraph just says "low-carbohydrate high-fat diets do not increase heart risks in women". This (as with the headline) is absoulutely not the result of the study, and in fact it's not even what was being studied. What was being studied was the ratio of vegetable to animal fat. Why am I making a big deal of this? Because I'm vegan and this study shows what we've been saying for a long time: eating animals is bad for you, eating plants is better for you. That's what the study showed, and yet it's not reported that way. Instead it's reported as "your high-fat diet might actually be good for you". Which, unless people notice the buried, fourth-paragraph tidbit that it's only vegetable fat that is good for you, will probably lead people to feel better about eating a high-fat diet, and thus increase their intake of animal fat (since that is most of the fat around us, and what most high-fat Atkins-ites eat a lot of). In other words, the way this study was reported leads to the exact opposite effect as what the results of the study show, and it's dangerous to people's health to misreport it in this manner.