March 2008 | On Our Radar
Worth Repeating
“The BMI was made up by insurance companies. It’s an arbitrary and meaningless number that has no relation to actual health. Doctors use it to deny care, insurance companies use it to deny coverage, and countries use it to deny adoptions and immigration. That is why the BMI is crap.”
—The Rotund blogging on her website, where dieting is a verboten subject and fat is a feminist issue (therotund.com, 1/22)
“Rhesus males are quintessential opportunists. They pretend they’re helping others, but they only help adults, not infants. They only help those who are higher in rank than they are, not lower. They intervene in fights where they know they’re going to win anyway and where the risk of being
injured is small.”
—Primatologist Dario Maestripieri on similarities between monkeys and “political animals,” i.e. humans vying for political power (NY Times, 1/22)
“The homeless care about the environment…,If they can be part of a facility that is reducing energy costs and saving the planet, homeless folks are all in favor of that, just like most Americans.”
—Michael Stoops, acting executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, regarding Oakland, Calif.’s Crossroads, the first green homeless shelter in the world (NY Times, 1/28)
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