Why do these testimonials generate feelings of unease and mistrust
on the part of Ron Collins and separately by myself? British understatement
is frequently given credit for success among Americans, because we are not
used to being charmed and not frequently. Sometimes this works, and
sometimes not, because Americans develop a high level of suspicion that
render them immune to the British mode of dispensing snake oil.
But there is an even less complicated explanation. The word
"exciting" simply does not describe their investigations. One doesn't have
to be able to apply complex statistical tests to confuse any audience with
almost any degree of
sophisitcation to conclude that there is nothing worth listening to here.
Maybe the authors were indoctrinated by some of the rhetoric heard at the
recent American national elections
Steven E. Mayer, Ph.D.
