While I'm busy wrapping up some business before getting back to some additional and serious blogging, take a look at a great one my Mark Sisson, dissecting what I'll refer to as the "myth of authority." This is a recurring theme here at Free the Animal, where animals don't need gurus.
I tell anyone who will listen that lawyers, doctors and CPAs don’t have answers. They only have opinions and sometimes those opinions are no better (and often worse) than your own instincts. This is why we at MDA are on a mission to try to help you better understand how your body works, so you can make educated, informed decisions when it comes to matters of health. Armed with an understanding of what might truly be behind your problem, that little extra you pay for a second or even third opinion might just make the difference.
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Richard,
Can we turn off those Snap Previews? They're really quite annoying. Sorry to say.
Regards,
Brock
We'll see, Brock, but I'm leaning that way. I had them enabled long time ago, didn't much like them, but am trying them again. BTW, you can disable them as a reader. Just bring one up as a pop-up and then go to the setting in the upper right to disable. I assume it tosses a cookie your way.
Ah! Much better!
I didn't realize you could turn them off. Thanks.
That's probably gonna be a site by site thing. Brock.
Cheers, and thanks for the input. Negative (rational) is even more valuable to me than positive.
To exacerbate the problem, many of these "experts" (otherwise highly intelligent people) become wedded to a particular dogma within their area of expertise, and are reluctant to seriously consider new, (and possibly conflicting to their established "knowledge")ideas emerging in their field. Or they become financially wedded to a particular view and suffer from conformational biases. Gary Taubes points out many cases of this in GCBC.
Hi Richard,
Just wanted to add that for those who use Firefox, to make sure to check the "Accept third party cookies" in Tools>Options>Privacy for the disable feature to work properly. At least that's what I had to do to get it to work.
Thanks for the great blog.