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I can't see any problems here. It's not like there's a famous novel about why this is a terrible idea or a movie about it with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What if having a high IQ also leads to insanity?

I don't know about insanity, but there are and have been plenty of smart people who also have some very weird ideas. Linus Pauling thinks vitamin C is a panacea. Bobby Fischer believes in antisemitic conspiracy theories. Garry Kasparov thinks history is wrong and has come up with his own timeline of history. Nikola Tesla was terrified of women with pearl earrings and talked to pigeons. Yukio Mishima thought he could restore imperial Japan, something the emperor himself didn't want. Mayim Bialik is just fucking nuts.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was surprised after reading your comment that Blossom hosted jeopardy for a while and had a new show. What crazy has she done? Searching her name got me pretty anodyne results about Sony going another direction and her coworkers being surprised she was fired.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Here you go. She has a bunch of nutty beliefs, including making some antivax statements and claiming birth control pills are dangerous.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/who-is-mayim-bialik-a-terrible-choice-for-jeopardy-host/

Edit: Also-

In a 2018 New York Times op-ed Mayim caused offence by suggesting that Harvey Weinstein’s victims invited sexual assault by dressing inappropriately. She reasoned that she had avoided being assaulted or targeted by predators herself because she dressed modestly and did not “act flirtatiously with men.”

She wrote: “In a perfect world, women should be free to act however they want. But our world isn’t perfect. Nothing - absolutely nothing - excuses men for assaulting or abusing women. But we can’t be naïve about the culture we live in." After initially claiming her comments had just been taking out of context she went on to apologize to victims of sexual assault saying: “You are never responsible for being assaulted… I am truly sorry for causing so much pain, and I hope you can all forgive me.”

https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/mayim-bialiks-most-controversial-comments-243368

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's crazy all of that was before the jeopardy job.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

They did a terrible job of vetting her. Replacing the late Alex Trebek with an antivaxxer in the middle of fucking COVID?