Andrés

You're right about politicians, although two Oz Prime Ministers - including the current one - have distinctive tones in their voice which makes it impossible for me to listen to them. I feel the lies in their voices so strongly that it is almost painful to listen to them.

Sledge, if you read what I said at 25-Aug-00 - 08:56 PM about Wolfgang's comment on pattern recognition you'll see that I agree with you, but that a lot of people I know don't use the pattern recognition in daily life and so it seems a bit miraculous when other people who do use it can "jump to conclusions" which are proven to be close to the mark. The same applies to the scientific method. It's of no use if it is not actually being used. Computers do the drudgery, though, after the process has been developed by humans.

The two articles I referred to are in a magazine called The New Scientist - it may be an international magazine or it may only be available in Oz, I'm not sure. I will check the dates and get back to you, but the articles were both only recent, in the last couple of months.

Helen