Please tell me that's a parody, which is still terrible, but at least then the creator knows it's terrible.

As I look through the JAMA article — I fail to see where you're arguing a different point than the one I've made. We're referring to the same data (the study(ies) showing grade 1 obesity has a lower mortality rate) and I've included caveats in all (or at least the majority) of my statements. Quite frankly, given the…

Except that fat and overweight people don't get better medical care - they get worse medical care consistently. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01…

Here's the point:

I'm not sure if it is true everywhere, but I remember being told by a friend in college that public urination, if you got caught enough times, would land you on the sex offender registry for indecent exposure. I fully admit to not looking that up anywhere besides a basic google search though.

You're acting like they are mutually exclusive.

You're biasing my point - there is a difference between a journalistic article and commentary. Lindy wrote commentary and whether you agree or disagree with it, it is not the same as a reporter writing an article about a study.

Go for it. As it is, all you've done is made a claim that you haven't yet backed up and dismissed articles on the premise that they are a wrong interpretation of evidence you are somehow more qualified to understand. So yes, I would love for you to provide direct sources and your credentials.

I don't believe that you're telling the truth. I've provided sources that show that longevity even increases with a slightly elevated BMI and you've only cited your own credentials which can neither be proved nor disproved in the anonymity of the internet.

I think the point is that neither fat nor thin is inherently healthy or unhealthy. There are a few diseases that have a direct link to weight (some to excess weight, some to being under weight) and those should be looked at closely. However, we use it as a general proxy and that's my issue.

I pulled the quickest articles. There are dozens of studies making the same point.

Agreed — I FOUGHT my weight for years and made myself so stressed — including raising the blood pressure. Once I realized my body has a healthy weight and that may or may not conform to what society says it should be, I was a lot happier.

Actually we don't "know" that being fat is an unhealthy state. There are dozens of detailed, peer reviewed studies showing that a healthy lifestyle at any weight (up to and including extremely obese) is a better predictor of longevity than weight itself. We have mislabeled physical preference for health and it is a…

That I agree with entirely! I finished my time in December of 2010 so I was there at the time too. At this point I desperately hope that there wasn't a cover up and that this slipped through the cracks, but if there was one, I'll be on the front lines with the pitchfork!

It doesn't look like there was much of an investigation. They took her statement, she decided not to press charges. Then what? Not to mention that this happened at the end of the season — there's a big gap between the Ohio State game and the Capital One Bowl (January 1, 2008).

Pending investigation of things the school adjudicates — cheating, tests, getting money for endorsements etc... — the school has the ability to make a determination on that. On this, people on this site and others have complained like crazy about the school adjudicating rape cases. This time, the school steps back…

Except that it wasn't. It was reported - it went to the police - she didn't press charges. What else were they supposed to do? They didn't prevent the police from getting involved and there's no evidence the university did anything to prevent her from speaking publicly, reporting it or pursuing it. There's no…

And I would be, regardless of the heinousness of the crime, significantly MORE upset at the university for punishing someone without legal proof than for what they chose to do. We get mad when universities try to adjudicate things themselves instead of going through the police and then we get mad when they defer to…

And then chose not to press charges. Tell me how they have any other option? Unlike other cases where groups dismissed people or pushed it under the rug, this went as far as she chose to take it. If she's not pressing charges, that's the end and that isn't the fault of the University. They did the right thing here.

Why? There is no evidence here that the University knew what happened or participated in a cover up whatsoever. One person did one terrible thing and one other person did another terrible thing — this isn't like those cases where the school knew and suppressed it (first of all). Secondly, like it or not, people are…