I’m seriously thinking about becoming a scientist. Based on
two recent news stories, it seems like a really easy job:
Science says women
have a more active brain, compared to men
Men tend to lose
weight more quickly than women
Wow, that’s some real cutting edge, barn burning research
there, Science Team. How do you folks pick your research topics, anyway? Do you
have a big list of topics on the wall to choose from, titled, “Obvious stuff on
which we should spend no time or money trying to prove”?
I mean, if that’s what you researched, what studies were you
forced to forgo due to constraints on your budget and schedule? Are puppies
cute? Do people like tacos?
The first article stated that for the brain activity study,
scientists from Amen Clinics in Newport Beach, California, went back and looked
at over 46,000 brain imaging studies. What an incredible waste of time and
money.
Who has the more active brain? That study could have been handled
in an afternoon with one married couple. One at a time, sit the woman and the man
on a couch and ask them each a simple question, such as, “Are you comfortable
right now?”
The woman might start to answer right away, but she will
undoubtedly stop herself and begin asking you a series of questions to try to
determine exactly what you meant.
“In what context am I being asked to consider my comfort? Do
you mean emotionally? Physically? Spiritually? Or do you mean in my role as a
mother, wife, daughter, daughter-in-law, sibling, friend, leader, follower,
volunteer, employee, supervisor, executive, team member, neighbor, or soccer
team mom?”
Before any of that is sorted out she will begin to question
your motivations for asking the question in the first place. The whole answer
will take forty-five minutes, and there will be no actual answer.
The man will answer, “Yes.”
Brain study completed. Cost: Zero dollars and forty-five minutes
of your life.
As for the weight loss study, the same husband and wife
could have been consulted. Instead, professors from various universities around
the world, including the University of Copenhagen (mascot: The Fighting Canker
Sores) and the University of Auckland (nickname: NZEwe), took over 2,000
participants and subjected them to an unspeakably cruel diet known as the
Cambridge Weight Plan.
The plan involves consuming only 810 calories daily, mostly
consisting of juices and shakes. That’s just mean. I think I probably consume
810 calories before I even have my actual breakfast. All that brutal starvation
and suffering in the name of science could have been avoided by simply
listening to our married couple.
Question: Who loses weight easier, you, or your spouse?
Wife: “Are you kidding? Is that question meant to be a joke?
Because it’s hilarious. This idiot’s idea of exercise is laying on the couch
yelling at the TV, but he loses ten pounds if he happens to skip lunch one day.
Meanwhile, I’m eating nothing by kale and celery, and getting up at 4:45 every
morning to sweat my ass off at spin class for an hour before work. Guess what?
None of my ass is actually sweating off, and I’ll gain three pounds one week
because I walked by a Starbucks and accidentally smelled one of the muffins.
Shut your stupid face.”
Husband: “No comment.”
Weight loss study completed. Cost: Zero dollars and possibly
a threat on your life.
I’m telling you, as long as I can steer clear of asking
woman about anything to do with weight loss, being a scientist seems like a
sweet gig.
I wonder who I need to talk to about signing up? I’d like to
dig into that taco study right away.
See you soon,
-Smidge
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