Parkinson’s Law of Triviality

   

…is that organizations give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. This came up recently at ScienceBasedMedicine.org, debating whether or not the word “reiki” should be italicized. Weighty matters!

We couldn’t really decide.1

  1. We did easily agree that it shouldn’t be capitalized. It smacks of branding. ↩︎