InsaneJournal

Books 2008
29. Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, by Sam Gosling

Evidently, Sam Gosling has a huge psychological problem, because that refrigerator sounds scary. Not healthy scary. Other than that, the University of Texas at Austin has some weird people on it's payroll; as in, they pay people to research this stuff? Agatha Cristie knew it all a long time ago. I have a lot to say about popular science, but really, I think reading something like this says it all for me: popular science gives you just enough rope to hang yourself on the petard of stupidity. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing and all that.

But it's nice to know that now there is a research-sanctioned reason to open people's medicine cabinets: "Oh, I just read a study, and I wanted to put it to the test."