No, Seriously, Dirt Is Good

Just a quick follow-up on my previous post on the virtues of messiness: science agrees with me! Not that I had any doubt, but according to researchers at UC San Diego, letting children play with messy stuff is actually good for their skin.

Thank you, wise scientists, for confirming what I already knew: my ex-wife is a jackass.

Or are they on to something with this whole dirt-is-good jazz (clever nerds)?

I mean, the essence of these hygiene hypothesis arguments is really nothing more than the stark differences in mother/father concepts of clean, plus charts and statistics.

Seen from my perspective, then, one must ask: why are all mothers crazed germophobes? Have they all been brainwashed by Lysol advertising blitzes? Have they in fact been drinking Lysol?

Will this breakthrough in silly science be enough to finally set them straight?