Comments on: I’m Having Chest Pains http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/03/12/im-having-chest-pains/ Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:03:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: More on Pseudoexperts, Teletherapists, and Lemmings « Media and Mayhem http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/03/12/im-having-chest-pains/#comment-57 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:37:13 +0000 http://sgorelick.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-57 [...] and Lemmings I wanted to thank the folks at Broadcast Newsroom’s portal for picking up my post on the phony teletherapists  and self-help vultures who are already hard at the ethically dubious task of solving Eliot [...]

]]> By: Steve Gorelick http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/03/12/im-having-chest-pains/#comment-40 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:24:01 +0000 http://sgorelick.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-40 This immediately becomes my new all-time favorite example of dumb, long-distance, pseudoexpertise. She is looking at his cheek bones and brow levels and measuring testosterone levels?

Why not look at his ears and measure his cholesterol?

]]> By: Dominic http://mediaandmayhem.com/2008/03/12/im-having-chest-pains/#comment-39 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:08:15 +0000 http://sgorelick.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-39 My favorite instant analysis was the one offered on yesterday’s Today Show by “anthropologist Helen Fisher, who, while laudably rejecting the notion that Spitzer’s transgressions were anyone’s fault but his own, nevertheless added: “All you have to do is look at Eliot Spitzer. He has a high cheekbone and low brow ridges. Those are signs of very high testosterone.”

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/11/dr-laura-blames-spitzer_n_90994.html

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