No, this is not a story about less people dying from nut allergies. Rather, it's a story about a non-story.
Mental Nurse points us to a a Bad Science article that nutters are killing less people than they used to. A lot less people.
Intersting? Not according to the Mainstream Media. Presumably unless it is something that will make us all scared of people different from us it's not worth printing.
Media bias should carry a big fucking health warning.
(I seem to recall reading research saying that if you want to be happy, just don't read any papers.)
Monday, August 18, 2008
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A Nutter writes: Like "nigger", nutters often use this term about themselves; As a special favour, we let the nurses over at MentalNurse use it in recognition of their tireless advocacy for their patients, up to, and including telling doctors to fuck off. You don't appear to be on our approved list. Perhaps when your not too busy incising piles or finding new and creative ways of using the word 'cunt', you'll get your bone-fides out for the patients. Or we might have to Spam your blog to death. But that's Nutters for you.
Is having no sense of humour diagnostic of being a nutter?
As you well know, Dr Rant is an equal opportunities site: we take the piss out of everyone.
Having said that, as this item IS advocating against mental health stigma, and the term 'nutter' was used deliberately to highlight that stigma, I can't see what you problem is Socrates.
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