My response to CellularScale.blogspot.com about a post titled, What is up with the “Dopamine Project.” 

Straw Man Arguments is a popular dopamine game that employs an obvious ploy — misrepresenting what was said. The objective is to “win” disputes by questioning, disproving, dismissing, trivializing, mocking, being offended by, and/or objecting to what wasn’t said.

The Semmelweis reflex is one reason it might take years until the information contained on this site is considered common knowledge.

It’s not nice to make fun of anyone’s physical appearance, but in the case of Justice Antonin Scalia, his troll-like appearance is a key factor responsible for turning a goofy outsider into one of the world’s most dangerous attention and esteem addicts.

“A true zombie is nothing more than an unconscious being apathetically and lifelessly lumbering across the planet buying and consuming everything in its path, unsatisfied, unfulfilled, anxious and unstill.”
– Judith Froemming

Are you willing to invest ten minutes a day to change your life? Or will you let dopamine convince you that learning about how dopamine manipulates behavior is a waste of time?

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.” – Lao Tzu

“Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two.”
– Hugh B. Brown