> >> The bottom line is that they (in my book) completely wrecked their
> >> credibility by putting an ad in "The Economist" (if they did) and 
> >> setting
> >> up a website BEFORE having an ad in a reputable peer-reviewed
> >> journal.
> >
> > Oops.  Ought to have said "article in a reputable peer-reviewed 
> > journal".
>
>
> I'm not sure that there was in fact even a real Economist article.
> 
> Did you see my ad on the front page of the Times last month 
> on the dangers of Genetic Engineering?
> 
>         Russell


Oh, the ad was real.  And it works, which is more than you can say for the
machine.

JRef (The Amazing Randi) has offered them $US1,000,000 to offset the
$US100,000 the Economist ad possibly cost -
http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-08/082506yet.html#i1, and unsurprising says
'not this crap again'.

Quote from article - "With delight, they quote George Bernard Shaw: "All
great truths begin as blasphemies." Yes, but all great blasphemies remain as
blasphemies, too."

Hmm, that's what the ad says -
http://irish.typepad.com/photos/covers/stoern.html

Bob Parks' "Seven Signs of Bogus Science" always comes in handy.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/signs.html.  Quick,
children, how many can you spot?

Tony

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