I got this email from an apparently bogus address since it was returned
as undeliverable, just thought you'd like to see the 'believer syndrome
at work';
> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:32:19 -0500
> From: "Jerry W. Decker" <jdecker@keelynet.com>
> Reply-To: jdecker@keelynet.com
> Organization: KeelyNet
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> To: test@reach.net
> Subject: Re: FOOLS
>
> Hi Wolfgang!
>
> You wrote;
>> While you are still in April some other already sell solid state
>> Free Energie stations see for youself
>
>> http://www.rqm.ch/indexeng.htm
>
>> let me know if they are fools too
>> Greetings
>> Wolfgang W. Scherer
>> Picton Ontario Canada
>
Shall we do a reality check?? It appears you are a believer. I am too
but ONLY WHEN I HAVE TESTED IT MYSELF. Have you bought a motor from
RQM? Have you measured the input/output and otherwise tested a motor
from RQM? Have you seen an RQM motor running on its own and producing
excess power?
How long has this been claimed? Isn't it on the order of 15 years
now?? Isn't the inventor now dead?
I have been to the site many times in the past. At no time could you
EVER BUY A MACHINE, though I think there was one notice that units would
be available in 1999 for $5000....I tried to go to the site using your
URL and just the http://www.rqm.ch URL and both said it was not
responding....will try again later.
My point is....if you don't have direct experience with the unit and are
relying simply on reports, then you are in error because you ASSUME they
are telling the truth.
That was the ENTIRE POINT of my hoax document, to see how many would be
caught in this totally bogus claim....and it was INCREDIBLE how many
were...most got mad, emailed me calling me names and hurling insults
BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN CAUGHT AS A BELIEVER...
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The earth is flat.
If man was meant to fly, we would have wings.
Everything has been invented so close the patent office (<>1885).
Birds are devolved dinosaurs.
If we move faster than 35 mph our breath will be sucked from our lungs.
Here are some interesting URLs for fallacies on the web
Gardner Fads & Fallacies of the pseudo-scientist;
http://members.aol.com/cennbuie/fadsandfallacies.html
Some of the techniques used by Dennis Lee and other con masters;
http://www.propaganda101.com/newpage1.htm
Wonderful page on how to protect YOURSELF from scams;
http://www.atri.curtin.edu.au/~andrew/Investments/classic_mistakes.html
Practical dreamer fallacies;
http://dunedinmethodist.org.nz/just/flcy.htm
The power of words;
http://www.aniota.com/~jwhite/words.html
Informal fallacies;
http://www.aracnet.com/~atheism/writ/fallacy.htm
Logical fallacies;
http://www.mainstream.net/~bryan/stss/debate.html
Research fallacies;
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/fallacy.htm
Common argument fallacies;
http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/fallacys.htm
Year 2000 fallacies;
http://members.aol.com/PanicYr00/Fallacy.html
Internet fallacies;
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/net.fallacies.html
Biblical fallacies;
http://www.webster.sk.ca/greenwich/bible-a.htm
Afrocentrist fallacies;
http://www.shss.montclair.edu/english/furr/afrocent.html
And the BEST FOR LAST - Star Trek fallacies per Dilbert;
http://enterprise.me.adfa.edu.au/Humour/ST_Fallacies.html
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