Is Reverse Speech a ‘Real’ Science?

We continue our discussion about ‘science’ and ‘pseudo science’ by taking a look at one idea that purports to be ‘scientific’, namely the idea of ‘reverse speech’. The website ‘reversespeech.com’ is owned by David Oates who claims to have invented, or at the very least, was a pioneer.

With the advent of magnetic tape in the 1950’s, sound engineers noticed ‘voices’ coming out when the the tape was played backwards. This phenomenon had long been known before Oates was born, so to claim discovery of this phenomenon by him is false.

More silly is the critics who deny that it exists at all, simply because it cannot be heard by some people. Often these people will also quote irrelevant scientific qualifications and percentages of random, untrained listeners who also cannot hear it on a web test.

The ancient Greeks thought anyone who could not speak Greek to be a barbarian, just making ‘bah bah’ noises like sheep. We could indeed call all those ‘Reverse Speech Deniers’ barbarians too!

So who discovered what? In the late 1980’s, Greg Albright discovered Indian and Hindu cultural reversals in recordings of central Australian Aborigines, contrary to all expectations of the ‘scientific knowledge’ of the day.

Rather than be ridiculed, he left the field to David Oates, despite newer evidence in DNA studies that do indeed show connections between South India and the Australian Aborigines.

Also in the late 1980’s, Oates found that a conversation between two TV journalists, conducted completely by a speech reversal on a TV recording, which accurately documented the true feelings of the journalists rather than the bland and non-defamatory (forward spoken) words.

In revealing that speech reversals were received and responded to in a meaningful, Oates has probably supplied the complete explanation to ‘telephone listener intuition’

So why is Oates not a darling of scientists? Why is he considered a ‘crackpot’ and a ‘loony?’

Like Franz Mesmer (1734 – 1815) (of ‘mesmerisation’ fame), who made money from stage hypnotism, Oates entertained his audience by revealing ‘Christian’ singers who had genuine beliefs (boring), but who really just wanted money – for example televangelists of the 1960’s, Jim and Tammy Bakker. By making wild pronouncements about certain prominent people, Oates made some money and lots of bitter enemies,  including ‘scientists’ who saw him as a rival for their grant money.

Science broadcasters love reporting on, and indeed, setting up crowd research projects, so that everyone thinks science and scientists are really nice, as well as being figures of authority. Rarely is it revealed how much crowd-science is sabotaged by competing rival scientists. Like the rest of us, scientists are human with all our associated flaws. For example,  the ‘Climategate’ scandal, where climate scientists knew their data was false but still peddled the same lies to get grant money.

Similarly, David Oates is a human being with flaws. When speech reversals revealed a parent’s feeling of guilt after a child’s death, he leapt to the conclusion that a crime had been committed. A newsworthy, but risky leap that could potentially be defamatory.

His web site offers therapy, but with no statistical evaluation of past results. Now bearing in mind that this is also typical of much of the typical medical treatments, at least with those,  more is expected of them to gain any form of acceptance in current times. Oates may just be doing it for the money (like so many other scientists!)

Like climate change protagonists, who often have vested interests (for example, Tim Flannery’s financial interest in a failed geothermal plant in the Australian outback), and themselves pointing out the vested interests of their opponents (‘Climate Change Deniers’), anyone who questions the claims of these individuals, or indeed the details of them, may choose to reserve their judgment.

Why We Should Be Nice To Christians

None Of Those Pesky Baptists Here!

There has been great excitement at Noble Prize Winner Paul Davies using the word ‘God’ in the past. The Christians have screamed that now science has proved them right and that atheists are totally wrong.

But when Paul Davies was questioned on his belief in ‘God’, he talked of vague possibilities of a universal designer/guider, etc, to which he applied the G word.

There was really no genuine support for the Christian God so much versus Allah, Zeus, Odin or something Wiccan.

But it seems the slightest smidgen of false hope makes you the blessed and beloved of those whose lives are built around what many of us believe to be false hope in the extreme.

So let us be kinder to Christians etc. and like Paul Davies, receive blessings from them.

Frames of Reference… choose your centre!

Can the anti-Christians prove that the Earth is NOT the centre of the universe? Of course not! If you use a model of the solar system with the sun in the centre (as we will do below), then you have a much simpler model to understand. 

But simpler models have been produced over the centuries with the Earth as the centre, and while they are more complicated mechanically, it does not make them false, and by itself prove Christianity false in any way.

Apparently some heathen South Pacific islanders stick their outrigger paddles in the water, and believe they remain stationary while they pull the world behind them.

Many New-Earthers, Wiccans, etc gasp in admiration at this ‘insight’. At this point Christians might gasp and complain how illogical the anti-Christians are in attacking them for an Earth centred Solar System, but applauding some heathen for having a personal self-centred world.

On the Full Moon near the June Solstice

On the June Solstice, the North Pole inclines towards the Sun, and the Northern Hemisphere has long days and short nights. The full moon rises near sunset and sets near sunrise, thus making a short full moon period.

In the Southern Hemisphere the converse is true: the days are short and the nights are longer and there are longer periods of a full moon in the night sky.

So again, what’s this got to do with Birthdate Traits?

There are already many reported medical and other types of differences between summer and winter births. For example, winter babies score better in IQ tests than summer babies.

As so often happens, one set of observations could lead to many questions as to what may be seem to be correlation but are not necessarily causation.

For instance:

• Do the results change with latitude and varying levels of sunlight?
• Do the results vary between pre-electric light communities (India still has many) and those with electric lights?
• Do the results change with altitude and outside temperature?
• Do the results vary when air conditioners are adopted in various communities?

Well, if the above questions can provide baselines for future research, perhaps you can get funds from Climate Change funds.

Until the next full moon, may the big ‘G’ bless all those who fly first  class on the flying spaghetti monster!

Are the Chinese Monkeying With The Weather?

Full Moon: May 21st 2016, UTC 21:14 h

One of the excuses for the delay in Global Warming alarmist projections is for the 11 year (or so) weather cycle from out of the Pacific Ocean, which is in turn related to the 11 year solar sunspot cycle.

So we are told that we must reward past failures and incompetence with more money for longer studies and more research. Does this sound like Wall Street from 2007 onwards, where Ponzi like projections evaporate into the air, or Obamacare…? Meteorological research has always been a good investment for future agricultural purposes so far, but some caution as to where research money goes is justified on recent behaviour!

With an 11 year weather cycle, we would expect that crops would experience different periods of rains, frosts, dry spells, etc. differing from year to year depending on where they were in the cycle. Similarly a child in each of their crucial years of development to the age of eleven or 12 would experience different nutrition types and amounts due to the weather patterns, depending on which of the 11 or 12 years of the cycle they were born in.

Of course, Chinese scholars may have observed these variations and attached memorable names to these years, namely rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. It is possible to believe that in wet years there were plagues of rats getting into dry homes or grain stores, but so far no stories of dragon plagues have been heard, unless it is a veiled reference to the Emperor and Imperial power being cut off or granted access by certain weather events.

But time to mount some fresh hobby horses (provided this does not connote anything illegal!)

Has anyone noted how left wingers seem to idolize mass-murderers such as Joey Stalin and Mao Tse Tung?

Just Stalin alone was responsible for 20 to 30 million deaths during the purges. Additionally, Stalin starved between 3 and 7 million Ukrainians in the Holodomor (1932-1933) by rejecting foreign aid, and together with Johnny Hitler started World War II, itself responsible for another 27 million Soviet deaths and about 75 million people worldwide. (See http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm)

Not to mention the 70 million Chinese that were deliberately starved by Mao in order to avoid the embarrassment of accepting food aid from the US.

And what the Left also conveniently forget is that Hitler was not a ‘right wing’ mass murderer – he was the leader of the ‘National Socialist German Workers Party’ a left wing totalitarian party. There, the state reigns supreme over the individual just as in the Soviet Union or China.

Similarly, lefties hate world wide trade, which enables individuals or even countries to buy food from overseas rather than starve, and is a genuine protector of the poor. So in any climate change scenario, “deniers” such as Professor Lomborg are totally evil if they promote World Trade!

But how the hell does all this relate to Birth Date Traits???

Where food has not been globally traded, it would be easier to find not mere correlations of birth year and people’s traits (e.g. post famine traits). So for our Birth Date Traits information search, we must join with the lefties in praising Mao’s starving of the 70 million. If Mao had not coerced his imperial subjects into the mass destruction of historical records during the Cultural Revolution (1966, see http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36309248), records from the starvation of 70 million may have been very useful to analyse birth year traits in China.

Oh well… you can’t win all the time!

Is Bjorn Lomborg the new Christ?

At the recent (Jan 2nd 2016) inaugural Perihelion meeting of Ancient Order of Camel Train Navigators (M.A.O.C.T.N.) we remembered the good old nights (and sometimes days) when the lives of navigators were protected and respected by all.

But then…

Even Hollywood movies about mutiny get it:  the captain is dispensable and can be hung, drawn and  quartered. But never the navigator! Why…? think about it…!

When the camel navigators truthfully proclaimed “our path is written in the stars,” the fools that were listening thought this must be magic and created superstitious nonsense. Then the greedy preyed upon the superstitious and created ‘Astrology’, with its predictions of dire doom. As the modern media knows, ‘if it bleeds, it leads!’

Have you noticed that the current prophets of doom tend to travel First Class and don’t use Skype to conference? We suppose if each of them maximizes their carbon contribution, then they would easily hope to bring about the doom they predict. It’s almost like they don’t really believe what they say themselves… ‘what the hell, let’s enjoy the ride while we can. Who cares when we ain’t paying and the bloody rubes are!’

The only true believer with rational responses seems to be Bjorn Lomborg. Of course, just like the Pharisees, who wanted Christ crucified for interfering with their currency trading scam (conveniently placed within the temple walls), our current profits of doom want Lomberg crucified, and they have plenty of dumb things to help them.

Many so-called intelligent people follow their varied interests and follow the best paid path of mice and men, and go into Medicine, Dentistry, Law and Commerce. The leftovers, those troglodytes, just get a Science, or Heaven Forbid, an Arts degree!

Thus the Pharisees have many dumb things trying to crucify Lomborg, who is a true believer but preaches rational preparations rather than blind panic.

Now the lesser rent (er, grant money) seekers in the science industries seem to have a consensus. Firstly, there is little or no profit to be made from traits associated with someone’s date of birth. Secondly, you can easily and very cheaply damage competitors for research grants if you can slur them, e.g. call them nutters, who talk about, support or investigate astrology.

So any research into birth date associated traits must come in from outside of the science grant seeking industry. While many might secretly and anonymously be fascinated, the ones who can provide initial data are probably those who are in such occupations as Human Resources, i.e. the now bored ones who did Commerce degrees!

So with that in mind, we ask now those in this noble profession to assist us: if you have access to such data – not personally identifiable, of course – we would be very happy to hear from you. Please visit the following page for instructions on how to participate: Occupations and Month of Birth Survey

Until Next Time…