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[ajva]

Oh fuck *off*.

Everybody knows BMI is a shit measure anyway. Why does an entire profession, scientifically trained, ignore the evidence of the scientific method? Knowing that BMI is shit because it measures only weight with respect to height rather than anything else like bodyfat or muscle, still they persevere with it because they can't be bothered to do anything else.

Are they going to turn away athletes like Martin Johnson or Matthew Pinsent?

Cunts. Morons. I despair.

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[djm4]

There is, I'm pretty sure, a statistically significant correlation between white-skinned people and those entitled the treatment at an NHS hospital (if you take to population of the world as a whole, I'm much less sure about the population of the UK). I would still be horrified if a doctor were to start refusing to refer someone to a hostpital based purely on the colour of their skin.

Footnote - that's purely supposed to be an example if where I think it would be wrong to use even a statistically significant correlation. It wasn't meant to suggest - and I wouldn't suggest - that it's in the same league as anything anyone's suggested here.