A lunatic confused by the moon. There’s a certain poetry to that.

Maybe that infamous copper salesman had selflessly excised all of his radioactive copper from his stocks so as not to rip off or harm the customer. Maybe he deserves an apology. Inferior copper that isn’t full of syphilis or whatever is better than great copper that melts your face off.

This is like me laying naked on my back with an erection and saying the shadow cast by the sun is a complex timekeeping device.

Is there a consensus view on whether or not Gwyneth is a genuine numbnut or is just cynically exploiting people who are?

This is somehow more offensive to my brain than if they’d simply said “electricity is god”. The way they completely muddy the issue, making the reader not just misinformed but made to feel complacent, like there’s no correct information to be found, is way more grotesque. It shuts down the mind of the reader. It’s anti-education.