Sucker Every Minute PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But the corollary to that idea is that we are suckers because we are willing to believe things that are too good to be true. And when it comes to modern snake oil scams that we keep falling for […]
The Death of Hippocrates
Health Expo I went to this health expo a few weeks ago. It was kind of non-main stream expo, mostly supplements, lots of homeopathic based medicine. They had a lot of booths, mostly books and supplements. They also had a lot of talks, some by doctors, some by dieticians, but they were […]
Bacon Defense Patterns
Vegan Dinner Invitation A friend of mine invited me to dinner a couple of weeks ago. He warned me that it was going to be a vegetarian dinner. Which meant that there would be a lot of vegetarian dinner. Since I love to eat meat, I was a little worried I might […]
Long Game Occultist
License Scams Getting a license these days to sell something is difficult. A hundred years or so ago, if you wanted to sell something, you just sold it. An interesting problem from game theory is why it’s illegal to advertise cigarettes on TV. Why No Cigarette Ads? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug11Loop.mp4 Most people assume that […]
Myths of NLP
What The Heck Is NLP? NLP has been around for a long time. It is a very peculiar set of communication tools. There are many beliefs surrounding NLP that are just plain false. The truth about NLP is that it is very simple to learn, and extremely powerful. But at the same time, there is […]