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| Volume 7 Number 6 |
The REALL News"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense." |
June 1999 |
Selling Irrationality at a Holistic Health Fairby David Bloomberg  I dressed as inconspicuously as possible,
wearing jeans, a Star Wars T-shirt, and a Blackhawks jacket. But it didn’t
matter – I still stuck out like a sore thumb.
I was at the Holistic Health Fair (April 24, Signature Inn, Springfield) and I
can’t remember the last time I felt like such a fish out of water, gasping for breath
(not so much a breath of oxygen, but one of rationality). I was almost certainly the only
skeptic there, but that wasn’t why I stuck out (contrary to their claims, I doubt any
of them could read my mind and know of my REALL affiliation). I was also almost the only
man there (at least during the time I attended). The booths were staffed completely by
women, with the exception of one husband-wife team; women made up almost all the attendees
as well (I saw one man, who came with his significant other). |
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