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“Lack of understanding of the condition and the failure to use information from medical professionals is causing stress or contributing to relapses and deteriorating health. This is counterintuitive to a system designed to support people with disabilities.”
MS Sufferers' Health Damaged by Benefits Tests, Survey Finds | Society | the Guardian
Haroon Siddique
The Body Mass Index was invented nearly 200 years ago. Its creator, Adolphe Quetelet, was an academic whose studies included astronomy, mathematics, statistics, and sociology. Notably, Quetelet was not a physician, nor did he study medicine. He was best known for his sociological work aimed at identifying the characteristics of l’homme moyen — the average man — whom, to Quetelet, represented a social ideal.
The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI
Your Fat Friend
I believe confirmation bias plays a huge role in how people perceive fact checkers. I also believe that the right wing media campaign to discredit fact checkers plays a significant role.
Snopes Is a Least Biased Source Despite What You May Have Read
mediabiasfactcheck.com
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