This reads like a not-very-well-done parody of how the elite media reflect and magnify cultural obsessions with weight through pseudo-scientific musings about the supposed "obesity" epidemic.(Shorter version: Because individual birds and rats are more or less prone to being startled by their environment, and hormones...
evolutionary psychology
Hilzoy is mean. I like it.
The one thing that's fairly clear is that William Saletan doesn't understand the most compelling extant critiques of linking ethnicity with IQ. I'm unsure of two things, however. First, is.