YOU LIE!!!!

To your doctor. I know you do.

And even if you don't, you won't want to miss the very interesting thread developing on this topic at Collective Imagination.

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The last edition of the Never-Ending Thread has once again grown beyond reason, with no end in sight.
Imagine this: Tie a thread around the earth's equator. Then, say, you let the thread out by 2*Pi metres (Pi=Ï, the mathematical constant) to make a thread circle that stands slightly above the earth's equator. Now, how far above the surface of the equator will the thread stand?

There's the other side of it: What if your doctor doesn't believe you?

I had a doctor who thought I was making stuff up. (Quote: "I thought you must have imagined it.") After a correct diagnosis by an X-ray tech, the doc had nothing but crow to eat: everything I'd told him now fit perfectly.

Doctors lie to patients. We know this. But what's the fix?