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Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) used to give the Golden Fleece Award to outrageous research that was expensive and without merit, and that frequently proved the obvious (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text).
I’d like to nominate the study cited in Sufiya Abdur-Rahman’s “Risk seen in teasing kids about weight” (News, Aug. 12). A University of Minnesota researcher surveyed 4,746 middle and high school students and discovered that adolescents who were teased about weight developed more emotional health problems than adolescents who were not teased. Duh.
