This article is a joke, because all science reporting here is. Please, Kinja gods, let ALL science reporting be at i09 and have Jez just link to it. It's what we deserve. We've been so good.

I read the mother jones article and didn't bother responding because a million people had already chimed in about how the study is actually saying that your phone does as good of a job, not that the fitbit is bullshit. If you couldnt think of one reason that someone would prefer a slim, light band over carrying their…

I agree. The headline makes it sounds like FitBit is a complete and bogus sham, but the article says that it's just no better than other devices, including iPhones.

I'm sure you have enough muscle from patting yourself on the back. No one is judging committed atheletes, but not everyone has the time or will to be one.

Wait, is it total bullshit or are you just saying it's not worth the money? Because ballsmcgee and I got ours for free through his health insurance, so I've got a great step & calorie counter (I got one of the ones that tells the time, your steps, your calories, how many floors you've climbed, and how far you've…

YUP! It's been doing wonders for me. :) Might be a stupid psychological thing but it works

Whatever. It may not be totally accurate but the $50 I spent on my fitbit was worth it. It 100% shames me into walking more. Judgemental numbers do so much more for me than they should. Do whatever works for you. All I know is that getting to the step goal becomes an obsession with users and it gets you moving more.

Let's just say going back to high school boys after that summer was difficult.

True story: I was a camp counselor when I was 17 and in charge of six 8 year old girls for the summer. We were all about to go to sleep when one girl pulled back the covers to her cot to find a scorpion in the "ready" position. I wanted to scream and run but could not, as somehow the camp put me in charge of these…

I even know a person that has been diagnosed by an actual doctor with Celiac and anytime I hear somebody mention the word gluten I assume that they are an idiot. However, the person I know (my cousin) with Celiac is somewhat overjoyed by all the bullshit because now there's actual food she can eat.

Stories like that one drive me insane. My husband has a severe nut allergy - anaphylaxis, hives, imminent death without medical intervention severe. Stuff like the ground hazelnut lady desensitizes people, and could potentially cause someone to not take a nut allergy as seriously as it should be taken.

I truly feel for people who have real food allergies. I'm sure their lives are 100x harder becasue of having to deal with all the crazies and their made up food issues like "whole nut allergies" and phantom "gluten sensitivity" that make it harder for them to be taken seriously.

The "lady" in the last story sounds like a real half-wheat...

I'm actually curious about whether we've entered an age where human males prefer images that more closely resemble video game characters than living human females.

Don't Broadway musical actors do this several times a week? (Sing live and manage to do some choreography?)

Because it's a opportunity for upstanding "family men" to read a supposedly wholesome magazine and ogle attractive women while simultaneously slut-shaming them for having the audacity to display their bodies in what is supposed to be a family-friendly medium.

Because misogyny. Because patriarchy. Because fuck this noise.

Wait - are we supposed to be impressed by singers if they can stay in tune live ?? That's kind of their job.
(Not talking about the obvious frauds)

I am close to an officer that regularly sits/supervises inmates within hospitals.

I only learned about this because my mother volunteered at a women's prison in Illinois where she co-created a program to teach parenting courses to mothers in prison to help them gain back custody rights to their children upon release. Her tales were harrowing and heartbreaking but she stuck with them for years.…