Startled Disbelief: LUEE Episode 78: Cosmetics

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"Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves."

—Hamilton Nolan,
Everyone into the Grinder

In this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Ashlyn Noble discusses some of the marketing claims made for certain cosmetics with Laura Creek Newman and Lauren Bailey.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism presented by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists & Agnostics of Manitoba.

Links: Beneﬁt of a topical slimming cream in conjunction with dietary advice | Adipoless Slimming Concept | Woman sues make-up company for false advertising | Clinique rapped by the ASA for misleading ad | High-SPF sunscreens: Are they better? | Sephora Bliss FatGirlSleep | Sephora Bliss FatGirlScrub

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13 April 2014

LUEE Episode 78: Cosmetics

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