seriously?

By christa 19 October, 2005 random

So, I’m on the phone right now and absentmindedly browsing the web (and typing this post I guess) and I clicked on a link to a story from yahoo about a hormone that might affect people’s behavior. And I’m reading and come across this: “Recent research has linked oxytocin — no relation to the painkiller OxyContin — to the ability of people to trust others.” Now, maybe I’m being overly generous when I assume that anyone reading this article isn’t confusing the HORMONE oxytocin with the DRUG oxycontin, just because of few similiar letters. Are we really that lame now? Or is the reporter writing the article just an ass?

And isn’t the real problem here with “journalists” dumbing down a story unnecessarily? Can’t we just PRETEND that people aren’t that effing stupid? Even if we are? Let’s not play into it. It’s okay to not be stupid. I know it doesn’t seem like it in this crazy world we live in, but I am here to tell you that it is OKAY to not be stupid.

10 thoughts on “seriously?”

  2. DG

    5 years ago I read in Science or Scientific America about Oxytocin. When Oxytocin is released into
    certain areas of the brain as a result of certain stimulation the emotion “Love” is produced. It was proved by experimenting with Voles. They would get a Vole near another Vole(of the opposite sex) get them to hang out and groom each other and smell each others butts. Then they would kill the Voles, grind up their brains and test for Oxytocin. And Wallah there it was!!!!

  3. christa Post author

    morgan you change phones more often than I change my underwear. I can’t keep up!

    you’re a cellphone addict. maybe we need an intervention.

    now gimme your old phone.

  4. gina

    hey – i just got a new phone (Samsung A800). i like it a lot (do a search for it so you can see how cool i am), however the camera is not as good as i would have hoped. It does almost everything though!!! It makes talking on the phone more fun. I also have a flipping rash on the back of my neck. I also thought I was dying until this morning. Now will you answer your damn phone????

  5. DG

    I got the Sony Erickson Cam phone for $29.00 and 7 dollars per month.(On top of the regular 29.99)
    You send the pictures to a Kodak MMS site. At that price the grainy pictures dont bother me.

  6. brasten

    Seriously, that OxyClean guy is scary. The wax-govered slicked-back hair, screaming at you for 30 seconds while rubbing grape juice into white sheets… ughh…

  9. Tiffany

    Nooo, I don’t think that’s it. I think it has much more to do with trapeze artists. Or people who are just plain looney toons.