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Dr. Peter Light promotes research saying light can reduce fat. Sounds a little fishy to me.
by JackFr 5y ago
Dr. Peter Light promotes research saying light can reduce fat.
Sounds a little fishy to me.
- Wolfenstein98k 5y agoThanks for bringing these links to light. Corruption like this can go on a long time in the dark, without good citizens like you. The best disinfectant truly is sunlight.
- coayer 5y agoThis is clearly big light trying to manipulate us!
- bqmjjx0kac 5y agoI recently learned this has a name: nominative determinism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
- gwd 5y agoWhen I was growing up, the ophthalmologist our family frequented was named Ivan Doctor. So he was Dr. I. Doctor the eye doctor.
- rsynnott 5y agoMy favourite example of this: > UK retailer Shoe Zone has named Terry Boot as its next finance boss after predecessor Peter Foot walked away from the role.
- BizarroLand 5y agoThat sounds like the premise of an episode of some wacky sitcom where aliens have to masquerade as humans while preparing to take over the world.
- jaclaz 5y agoAnd, JFYI, it dates quite back in time: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nomen_est_omen https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nomen_est_omen The en.wikipedia "nomen est omen" redirects to the "nominative determinism" page which doesn't highlight enough the origin.
- skytreader 5y agoWhile we're in the topic of examples, does Usain Bolt count here? I just can't believe the coincidence that the fastest man on the planet would carry that surname. The thing with Bolt is that, not only did he choose that field, he is also biologically gifted to achieve those records. What are the odds, come on! (And I looked it up, Jamaica is an English-speaking territory, though with a creole.) In more personal examples, in my freshman year, I met a fellow freshie whose name is "Justice", though he is more often referred to with a nickname I now forgot. He was in the Political Science program, on track as a---you guessed it---prelaw degree. He would preempt introductions by claiming his name has nothing to do with his choice of degree program. I don't know if he did manage to enter the bar but "Attorney Justice" sounds as absurd as a superhero name to me. I wonder how he's living up to his name now.
- sugarpile 5y agoLearning about nominative determinism is commonly one's first peek behind the curtain.
- aitchnyu 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
- dghughes 5y agoMy grandfather and dad were painters last name Hughes so hues of paint colour maybe?
- woliveirajr 5y agoThat was a low hanging fruit, @jackfr...
- ineedasername 5y agoAnd let's not forget the evil Dr. Light of the DC Universe. Let's hope the FBI has this guy under surveilance.