I don't know what's funnier, the publication title or the Monster Mash of causality being thrown around this study.

Is there an honestly a peer-reviewed publication specialising in gastrointestinal conditions called Gut?

I thought this blog would suck, but it has really delivered on the crazy commenter front.

Appreciated.

Not that your question was posed to me, but perhaps I can offer an answer. I don't feel like you were offering critique of the science and method behind this study (which is insanely well-elaborated and has all kinds of algebraic nonsense that people who like the word "prove" are into). I think you just dismissed an…

It is a very economic-based view of the sociology of organisations. Population ecology (as an organisational sociology theory) is quite interesting, if only to look at how disciplines can interact and borrow conceptual frames. One can, it appears, push the metaphors too far. A good critique of the circular logic in…

Where would we be, as a society, without the institutionalised acceptance of inter-disciplinary cannibalism? I'm all for reducing groups to a select few attributes because it saves us all so much time in deciding who to instantly hate (economists, obviously), but it is drawing a bit of a long bow to suggest that the…

Even citing the paper would make it helpful for those of us with journal access (and google, given that most academics have a portion of their papers available for public viewing) to mull over the details. Mmmmm. Tasty, tasty, social science methods.

And let's be honest, there are methodological problems in any of the sciences. The problem in a lot of Glen Carroll's studies is that he takes natural sciences concepts and applies them to the social sciences in a metaphorical way, thereby transposing epistemological standards of natural science into social science. …

How did you choose the theme for this week?

I would like to think that Gwyneth was so mean that she would make all of the lesser girls do juices cleanses for days on end during summer holidays. I don't want to read the link in case it makes me think otherwise.

Jezebel: I came for the feminist pop culture but I stayed for the in-depth knowledge of hookup apps.

Things that could be considered slutty:

There was a while where I hadn't seen you in ages (was it post-Facebook exodus, post-Hot Pockets, or post-kinja? I can't recall) and I thought you may have headed off or taken a hiatus.

Hang on, are you the Wolfabeast, ex-mod of Jez? If so, eerie. We were just talking about you the other day on Clashtalk.

What's interesting here is the classist sub-text of click-bait. Historically, these kind of attention-grabbing headlines and gauche practices were used to generate revenue, and quickly. It contributed to the nouveau riche, which establishment families frowned on.

It's very difficult to separate out the current discourses of celebrity feminism from notions of (Marxian) consumption and false consciousness.

Justin Bieber maybe just wants to go by Bizzle now, uh-oh.

Good catch. I've been in this bunker with Hitler the whole time.