6th recall this year so far

is diplomacy an option?

dead souls style invasions

christmas wouldn’t be christmas without 42 geese

surely you don’t go to the comments section because you want to see comments? you go there because you want post recommendations, right? please click on the recommended posts

best self defense mechanism there is

this was also me in my 20s when someone asked if i wanted to go out drinking

it would be a pretty funny post for the full 5 minutes it would last until it got stalin sorted out of lemmy.ml

the human head can only take so many punches

that would only be true if there was something to replace it

such is life in the UK

is it a legal violation if no jury is around to hear it?

whoa that’s a pretty good source

it’s very telling that being pro palestine is immediately interpreted as being “anti israel”

no not like that

that’s what they tell you right before throwing you off the plane

yeah it’s definitely a contender for first place

interesting strategy to hire a lawyer for that instead of a psychologist

i think you’re taking that quote out of context a bit. a few sentences later, the article says

Even physicians have weighed in on the shortcomings of B.M.I. The American Medical Association warned last year that B.M.I. is an imperfect metric that doesn’t account for racial, ethnic, age, sex and gender diversity. It can’t differentiate between individuals who carry a lot of muscle and those with fat in all the wrong places.

“Based on B.M.I., Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was a bodybuilder would have been categorized as obese and needing to lose weight,” said Dr. Wajahat Mehal, director of the Metabolic Health and Weight Loss Program at Yale University.

so the point they seem to be making is that, while BMI is controversial partly because people like to shoot the messenger, it’s also just not a reliable measurement in a medical context, even as a heuristic. the article also goes into more detail on its other shortcomings as well. the article also indicates how BMI was never intended to be used in a medical context. so, there are plenty of valid reasons for wanting a new metric.

but i do think the sentence you quoted isn’t really doing the author any favors in terms of trying to communicate the central point of the article.

in my defense, your honor, i didn’t think anybody would actually fall for it