The REALL News - June 1999

<body> <div id="main-title"><img src="/images/main-title.gif" width="329" height="81" alt=""></div> <div id="global-navbar"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/letters/">Letters</a></li> <li><a href="/calendar.html">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/search.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/email.html">E-Mail</a></li> </ul> </div>  <table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td><font size="2"><a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html" target="_blank"><i><img alt="Get Acrobat Reader (712 bytes)" border="0" src="../../../images/logos/getacrobat.gif" align="right" width="88" height="31"></i></a><a href="reall-news-v07-n06.pdf" target="_top">Also available as an Acrobat PDF file</a> (8 pages, 76K file)<br> <i>You can download this issue as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. You will need the free <a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html" target="_blank">Acrobat Reader software</a>, available from <a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe's web site</a>, to view it.</i></font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"><font size="2"><i>(<a href="index.html">Toggle Frames</a>)</i></font></p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>Volume 7<br> Number 6</b></td> <td><h1 align="center">The REALL News</h1> <i><p align="center">"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense."<br> -- James Randi<br> <br> </i></td> <td align="right" valign="top"><b>June 1999</b></td> </tr> </table> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <th align="left">Features</th> <th align="left">Departments</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="selling-irrationality.html">Selling Irrationality at a Holistic Health Fair</a>, by David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="daily-dose.html">A Daily Dose of Skepticism</a>, by Wally Hartshorn</li> <li><a href="braun-update.html">Braun Update</a>, by David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="reallity-check.html">REALLity Check</a>, by David Bloomberg<br> <br> </li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="chairman.html">From the Chairman</a> - David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="editor.html">From the Editor</a> - Wally Hartshorn</li> <li><a href="masthead.html">Masthead</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><h2>Selling Irrationality at a Holistic Health Fair</h2> <p align="center"><b>by David Bloomberg</b></p> <font FACE="Imprint MT Shadow" SIZE="2" COLOR="#330033"><p></font><img src="medlogo.gif" alt="*" align="right" hspace="2" vspace="2" width="161" height="207">I dressed as inconspicuously as possible, wearing jeans, a <i>Star Wars</i> T-shirt, and a Blackhawks jacket. But it didnt matter  I still stuck out like a sore thumb.</p> <p>I was at the Holistic Health Fair (April 24, Signature Inn, Springfield) and I cant 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 wasnt 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).<a href="selling-irrationality.html"><img alt="More" border="0" hspace="2" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" width="33" height="14">More</a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div>   </body>