From: george murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>
> Lucy Masters wrote:
>
> > OK - am I the only one reading this who found it to be a joke? My
> > training is in clinical psychology, and I found it too amusing. Surely,
> > surely, this is a spoof.??? Lucy
>
> Lucy -
> You may be right. But I can assure you that there are plenty of
> people like this who are
> dead serious. (I used to teach a course called "The Fringes of Science"
and
> was expelled - I am not making this up - from the International Flat Earth
> Research Society.) Never underestimate the capacity of people for
absurdity,
> especially if they think they know something about science and have a
> religious bent.
>
> Shalom,
>
What makes this worse, is that it will probably be taken seriously and
referenced on pseudo-science web pages, just as other hoaxes have been taken
seriously to their embarrassment.
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