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{ Monthly Archives } October 2008

The placebo effect

Quis autem vestrum cogitando potest adicere ad staturam suam cubitum unum?
Clearly none. But there seem to be many other ways you can affect your body by taking thought. In particular, you can affect your health. When I was young this was largely dismissed as superstition. Primitive tribesmen might appear to die after being cursed, but […]

C2 gives evidence

The other police firearms officer who shot Menezes gave evidence earlier this week (his colleague C12 gave evidence last week). It did not add much.
Clearly the firearms officers and the surveillance officers are at odds over whether the latter had reported that Menezes was positively identified as the suspected bomber (with the firearms […]

Reason, rant or plain wrong

James Meigs, editor-in-chief of the US magazine Popular Mechanics, recalling the day the magazine published its first articles on the shortcomings in the widespread theories that the Twin Towers were demolished by the US military on the instructions of the President in order to promote his foreign policy objectives:
On February 7, 2005, I […]

David Willetts

In my first article on this subject, PFI, PPP and all that, I commented that PFI appeared to have been invented by David Willetts.

Looking into things more closely, I see that David Willetts was in the Treasury 1978-84. He was born almost exactly six years later than me, so must have entered the Treasury […]

David Ray Griffin

After thirty years as a theologian at Claremont College in California, David Griffin has taken to 9/11 conspiracy theorizing in his retirement. I have no objection to someone moving outside their normal area of expertise, but one has to learn the basics. If you want to attempt any kind of critical examination of a […]