August 05, 2005

The Amazing Lie Diet Patients tricked into believing that they once were sick on strawberry ice cream subsequently avoid the food. Curiously, chocolate chip cookies seem immune to the effect. [via blog.bioethics.net]

Source article: Article abstract at PNAS Full text article [PDF] (probably temporary)

  • It doesn't work with heroin, either.
  • Or crack (darn)
  • Wow... how did this get past the ethics boards?
  • You're remembering your childhood...going back to when you were a small boy...you are remembering your favorite food...my cock...you are remembering how good my cock tasted...you want to eat as much of my cock as possible... Ok, I'll stop now.
  • And you're damn right it doesn't work against chocolate chip cookies. NOBODY could believe they didn't like chocolate chip cookies as a kid.
  • For some reason I could really do with a cockweezel right about now. Weird.
  • A cockweezel cookie and a glass of milk. At least he told me it was milk/
  • I find it hard to believe it would work for french fries either....or cockweezel fries...
  • If you wanna bust out some effective/shady psychology that will make you unpopular with your kids, one guy in that article (not associated with the study?) mentions conditioned taste aversion: "It would be much simpler to give kids the offending food -- a McDonald's burger, a pizza, whatever -- and put a little something on it that makes them harmlessly sick... then you would really affect their eating," Stock said.