Many thanks for all the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the book.
Spontaneous combustion is one of the odder bogus phenomena -- you're quite right. After some umming and hawing I decided to leave it for the book I'm working on at the moment (although it has yet to be signed up by a publisher, my current publisher having decided to wind operations down, dammit), called something like Psi High.
am much more frustrated than you seem to have been by these problems
You underestimate my frustration levels here! I am equally frustrated by the phenomenon you mention whereby people tend to think that, if it's in the newspaper (or on a self-proclaimed new tv channel), it must be true. The converse is, of course, almost worse: the trait of birthers, teabaggers et al to assume that anything told to them by conscientious sources is, because of its source, by definition false: they regard Glenn Beck as a reliable information source over, say, the ICCC because the latter is a properly accredited body of people who know what they're talking about.
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Re: My Bogus Science wishlist
Date: 2009-11-13 04:39 am (UTC)Many thanks for all the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the book.
Spontaneous combustion is one of the odder bogus phenomena -- you're quite right. After some umming and hawing I decided to leave it for the book I'm working on at the moment (although it has yet to be signed up by a publisher, my current publisher having decided to wind operations down, dammit), called something like Psi High.
am much more frustrated than you seem to have been by these problems
You underestimate my frustration levels here! I am equally frustrated by the phenomenon you mention whereby people tend to think that, if it's in the newspaper (or on a self-proclaimed new tv channel), it must be true. The converse is, of course, almost worse: the trait of birthers, teabaggers et al to assume that anything told to them by conscientious sources is, because of its source, by definition false: they regard Glenn Beck as a reliable information source over, say, the ICCC because the latter is a properly accredited body of people who know what they're talking about.
Anyway, again many thanks for your kind words.