That’s mostly what I meant. Up until the LATE 80’s, marriage was this highly coveted and super special thing that people were pretty much told from the moment they could host “tea parties” that they’d need to prepare for and find that “special someone”, or that one day they would know cooties didn’t really exist and…

I grew up around a lot of really old people. Some of them had been married forever. Almost every woman I had known was a stay at home mom, a nurse, or teacher. But all of them were married. Not all of them were happy. Divorce was still a little scandalous. And once these ladies’ husbands died either through heart…

I’ve always wondered about a control group that consists of people who are in unhappy marriages (self-identified) but remain married. Thanks for including that paragraph!

haha, no problem :)

Ugh I know it's like Caroline Weinberg knows my life or something.

HOW DID THIS STORY MISS THE SINGLE MOST GREATEST THING ABOUT THAT 1963 ARTICLE??!?

As you should be, as you should be.

It says quite a bit about medicine in the 60s that the categories you invented were entirely believable as being part of the study.

Am having a spectacular "Duh" moment!

Am I the only person still lamenting the loss of the very real and very delicious Good Burger chain restaurants in NYC? All these articles are starting to make me feel like I hallucinated the whole thing.

As a non scientist who is a fan of truth, every time one of these damn studies go around, I'm like fkkkk, now I need to go hunt down the original study and try to make some sense of it. Ain't nobody got time for that! Health and nutrition is what I particularly follow, and it's infuriating - it's almost criminal the…

I would, too!!

NO. SCIENCE FOREVER.

No problem. After the last few months, I swear correcting people about Ebola had become a nervous tic.

yay for science... and writers of science who are not making the rest of us bash our heads against the wall! Welcome!

I am soooo done with the whole "Ebola is the plague that is going to wipe out humanity we are all doomed OMG shut down the borders" hysterical nonsense coming from people who clearly have NO CLUE what Ebola is, how it is transmitted, and how it is contained. If your entire body of knowledge about medicine and…

That Brad Pitt/Jennifer Aniston thing made me LOL. I can just imagine some writer sitting there trying to think of celebrity exes. "I've got it!", not even having the slightest understanding of anything.

Coming in late, but I am so excited about everything happening here (seriously, I'm so damn glad to see a good breakdown of this study and the way it's been reported, because every time I see another dumb link shared on Facebook about it I'm overcome by a deep sense of hopelessness for the human race).

You cannot imagine the jubilance I saw in some corners of the internet when this bullshit first spread. "HAW HAW," they cried, "NOW IT'S PROVEN! VIRGINS ARE SCIENTIFICALLY BETTER!"

Reason #4985 why the word "shocking" should be banned from journalism 5ever.