So I’m having an exchange with some posters over at CalorieLab. They are commenting on a Mythbusters-like news item that notes that you’d need nearly two feet of fat to be “bulletproof.”

Okay, so that’s one of those not particularly useful bits of scientific speculation. But I can see that someone might actually wonder. What I’m having trouble with is the way CalorieLab is reporting this. I didn’t save the original post from yesterday (which led to my first complaint/comment), but here’s part of the revised post from this morning:

Obesity is a growing problem in police forces and the military. Both types of institutions have created programs to help their members slim down.

But The Independent reports the obese may have a hidden advantage in professions where gunshot wounds may occur: It turns out that some parts of the bodies of the extremely obese may be bulletproof.

I realize it makes more of a statement about me (and why I’m annoyed by this) than CalorieLab perhaps, but I just don’t get the first sentence of the second paragraph. I as wrote in my second complaint/comment, the original article makes no such report that “the obese may have a hidden advantage where gunshot wounds may occur” nor does it say that “some parts of the bodies of the extremely obese may be bulletproof.”

Argh.