- Normal villagers always ask "where is your wife", they assume that everyone has a wife/girlfriend especially Westerners. I always tell them ;" In TV-land there are lots of beautiful women, but I live in the real world !"
- This is from the myth that "there is someone for everybody", No, this isn't true.

- Why do people think there are 2 sexes ? no there are 4
- women like men ? Yes
- People think men like women .. but No men don't really like women .. they like Babes - most men are Babe-sexual
- but there is another sex .. sleazy men

- So there is the problem there are 80% of men chasing the 5% of women who are babes, but even then they have to compete with the 20% of men who are sleazy and chase women when even when they already have a partner.

- How can men like normal women,when they are usually too fat ? etc

- Also sometimes some normal women seem like "babes", cos of make-up and dress.

- So will evolution bring about a world of Babes and sleazy men.

- He can't get over the difference between something like a magic card trick which appears to work in front of our eyes and the same "magic" not working in a proper scientific test. - Scientists are not anti-psychic if it worked in tests then that would be proof , but the fact is paranormal doesn't work in scientific tests so it doesn't work. There's the 1 million dollar prize for anyone that can demonstrate it scientifically.

- Could it be his marketing machine knows this, but knows their is more money to be made from the believer vote than the scientific ? .. From his website it seems he still believes

- someone has done a good debunk

- It's a real dent to climate rationalism that Crichton who speaks so rationally against global warming panic appears not to understand proper scientific process .. he must be faking ignorance surely ?

http://forums.randi.org/tags/index.php/michael-crichton/ , http://forums.randi.org/archive/index.php/t-15396.html , http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=15396

- in his training he formed the opinion that much illness is caused, because we want to get ill. He quotes how ulcers often come after stressful Christmas time. This theory later became very fashionable, but is now falling out of fashion as better statistics emerge. We now know ulcers are caused by bacteria and stress is less important in hear attacks. Doctors think more like t e collegues he despised.

- He lists 4 occasions when bad doctoring harmed patients. Then he says that's the main reason he quit be a doctor. No, no, no, if half the bridge engineers are incompetent do you quit and leave the bridge to falk or do you stay in the team and do your bit to show the correct way.

- He quit medicine just after graduation so he's not a doctor.

- He belittles psychiatry, but then really benefitted from it himself.

- How can he write about his friend taking them to see prepubescent prostitutes in Thailand in such an off-hand way ?

- His personality has many flaws, but his stories are very readible usually exciting cos something happens.

- This book about travel and inner travel

- Writes a lot about the Paranormal etc
- On Psychics he says try them for yourself
- Claims psychics have helped him ... but I think it's come from his own consciousness like dreams.
- gets angry at science disbelievers, .... but he doesn't understand the theory of proof

- his special experiences :
- he can see auras
- claims to have an entity removed
- talked to cactus

- based on idea that prehistoric farmers used charcoal for fertilizer
- 1. if it was so great why did we stop it 1000s of years ago TREES
- 2. Do the numbers stack up. - you already have 100m Tonnes of forest - each year 1% growth so 1m of C is absorbed - after 10 years you have 10m extra growth - burn it 20% is released in CO2 - bury 8m lose further 12% in decomposition - simplified maths leaves 7m in the soil
(- on the now empty land you certainly don't recover 1m in the first year do you ? - Well if you start with 1000m of forest and you harvest 100m each year then then it should average out.)
- remember unless we start with blank land then we burn stuff which was sitting as forest. ie 100m after burning = 70m stored as biochar, but if you'd left it as forest you'd have 100m stored) in that first burn you send up 30m so that's very bad. NO GOOD where have existing plants !

- BUSH - a crop which grows fast fast increasing by 10% year growth per year
- in 10 years grow 100m absorb 30m loss = 70m stored

- weed - 5% growth per year 50m -30m = 20m

- GRASS 100% growth per year 1000m -200m - 100m =700m

- something is wrong we seem to be saying the more natural burning there is the better that is for nature ?

- it sends a bad signal - hey what's all that burning ..emm I'm naking bio char -- oh that's OK then

- It's natural CO2 scrubbing - if you get the wood/grass in a big box you would keep 100% of the CO2, but the other nutrients would be trapped.

- Is Burning to charcoal is a natural CO2 scrubbing, the carbon is trapped back in the soil as charcoal how longs it take to decay if it didn't decay we could dig up 1000 year old charcoal and use it as fuel surely ?

- but marshland to peat is a natural CO2 scrubber. Hang on don't marshes release methane ?

- He's getting confused with polarisation of light which happens when it is reflected off water etc.

- e.g. when house prices ,bio fuels, houses, gold they seem like one-way bets, but sometimes the price crashes and - you get caught out

- It's like pass the parcel you can seem to make money, but when the price crashes you can lose a lot of money. Those on the outside not playing the game miss out on big profits, but at least they don't lose all their money.

- rising fuel prices are bad for environment cos they give the incentive for sellers to develop new sources

- Tool for finding out which budget airlines leave a city whichbudget.com

- Headline - One Town in Punjab has 1000 male births to 300 female - Wow sounds amazing, but remember India is a big country so out of all the statistics it's easy to pick out one town which is a statistical anomally, the average for Punjab is shocking but it's more in the line of 1000 to 950

- from Radio Netherlands talking about people paying to eat at Italien Grandmothers houses. They showed how Business relationships based on unbalance e.g. You have good cooking skills, but You stay alone

- do homeopaths use homeopathic contraceptives ?

- From SGU- The Brain Gym is a Californian scam - but is widely used in UK schools