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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Oxytocin, Your Brain, and Your Gullibility
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Spacefilling model of oxytocin. Created using ACD/ChemSketch 8.0, ACD/3D Viewer and The GIMP. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) One way a conma...
Friday, April 19, 2013
Bad Argument: Pixie-Dusting and "Cool Ingredient" as "evidence" of efficacy
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Lingzhi or Reishi (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) One way the nutritional supplement industry attempt to talk up its efficacy is to claim i...
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Psychology and Physiology of the Gullible
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Vectorized recreation of Image : Gray726-Brodman . png with highlighted prefrontal cortex. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Recent study...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
India rocked by emu Ponzi and sheep Ponzi
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High sheeps (Photo credit: Bertoz ) Various farmers in rural India were cheated into invested in emu farms and sheep farms that promi...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
BREAKING NEWS: SEC says Profitable Sunrise is a Ponzi scheme that sent its money to multiple nations worldwide
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Got an update on PatrickPretty.com. According to documents filed, SEC has determined Profitable Sunrise, which purported to payout up to 2...
Monday, April 15, 2013
BREAKING NEWS: Another report of Tarun Trikha's Arrest in India, also from Bhaskar
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Frankly, the Bhaskar is not a reliable source of information, so this will remain "suspicious" (thus far not contradicted), but he...
Perception of Savings is More Important Than Real Savings
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JCPenney in Frisco, TX (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Human psychology is often counterintuitive. Perception of savings is often more ...
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