October 17, 2003

No More Blondes-I Don't Believe It

An article on the BBC website has an article saying that blondes will die out in the next 200 years. I don't believe it. The reason why is that there isn't enough evidence in this article to prove anything. There's even a statement in the article that goes against the topic, which is a complete blow-off.

I did my own research on this news article to see what kind of "blow-off" it really was. I went to google and did most of my searches. I searched Jonathan Rees, University of Edinburg, because he's the man who gave the statement about blondes not disappearing in 200 years. I found out that he is a real person and that he is a dermatologist. I found out that he has an unpublished article on hair genetics. So he does know some things about hair. His statements are the only believable things in this article.

Also I found an article about Ann Widdecombe because in the blondes article there is a picture of her saying that bottle-blondes like her are to blame. Well, it is true that she is a bottle-blonde because in the other article her hair is dark brown. I don't think that bottle-blondes are to blame though.

Another big example of what a screwy article this is, is that there is NO EVIDENCE AT ALL! There is no date of a meeting discussing this issue, such as at a press conference, except the date 2202, the date when all blondes supposedly won't be around anymore. It also says study experts in Germany. There are no names of these people, and Germany is a pretty big place. They could have at least gave a more specific location.

These are my feelings about this article and personally I don't agree with it at all because I believe Jonathan Rees's statement. It's ashame that the only quote they have to offer in this article is completely against the headline.

Posted by Anne Stadler at October 17, 2003 03:15 PM
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Good detective work on explaining the Anne Widdecombe reference. I'm sure that if she were a male politician, nobody would be talking about her hair color, though. Uh... if she were male, she'd be a he, and nobody would be talking about HIS hair color.

Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at October 17, 2003 03:39 PM
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