Cycling 186 miles a week damages men’s fertility

[XmisterIS]

I love the way this retard of a woman (and many other reporters) just fling the word "expert" around as freely as I use the word "f**k".

I also love the way that she takes some tentative evidence and writes it up as gospel without proof.

Infact, if you click on her name at the top of that article and read some of her other articles, they are all written in the same "tentative evidence as gospel" style, with liberal usage of the dreaded "expert" word ... I mean, wtf is a bloody "expert" anyway? Experts at what exactly? I eat three or more times a day, I'm pretty good at stuffing my face with food, and I've been doing it every day of my life, since I was weaned ... so does that make me an "expert"?

I have two words to describe that woman! "Re" and "Tard" ...

 

[jimboalee]

I love the way this retard of a woman (and many other reporters) just fling the word "expert" around as freely as I use the word "f**k".

I also love the way that she takes some tentative evidence and writes it up as gospel without proof.

Infact, if you click on her name at the top of that article and read some of her other articles, they are all written in the same "tentative evidence as gospel" style, with liberal usage of the dreaded "expert" word ... I mean, wtf is a bloody "expert" anyway? Experts at what exactly? I eat three or more times a day, I'm pretty good at stuffing my face with food, and I've been doing it every day of my life, since I was weaned ... so does that make me an "expert"?

I have two words to describe that woman! "Re" and "Tard" ...

I'm an "Expert". I've got a certificate on the wall to prove it.

This 'expert' says "Young ladies between 18 and 25 with a BMI of between 20 and 22; who ride a bicycle more than 186 miles per week have a better chance of finding a partner in Solihull".

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Yeah, I was just being sarcastic - clearly the headline isn't supported by the research...

Thought you were, I was just picking up on the craziness of converting metric to imperial units in an article like this ..

We had a similar bit of "research" printed and left in our tea room at work a few months back. It introduced a thing they called "e-thrombosis" which was basically saying that if you sit at your desk all day you run the risk of getting DVT. Sample group of a few dozen, all of whom had DVT, and - guess what !! - 30-something percent had spent one or more long days at work in the past x months. There you go .. proof!!

No control group, small sample size, all of whom had the condition, etc. It was more full of holes than a very holey thing that had been drilled for lightness. Course, the rub was this published by some company that could provide stockings or whatever to prevent you getting EVT ..

 

[betty swollocks]

Well I cycle well over that amount every week.
If this Diana Vaamonde is female and attractive and has cool hands with long slender fingers, I'm quite happy to assist her with further research.

 

[jybeebee]

I'd be interested to see the sample size, how big a reduction there was ... ..

I would rather NOT ...

With three girls I think I can disprove the "sloppy science" anyway ...

 

[Twanger]

Thanks HJ .. sorry, must have skipped your post in my haste to score points on what good swimmers my little guys are!!

Consider this...those male primates whose little guys are great swimmers - think Chimpanzees - only need to have great swimmers because the females mate left, right and centre with total abandon. Gorillas, whose little guys are not great swimmers, do not suffer from such female infidelity. They can continue the species with much smaller testicles.

Just saying, is all.