JP, I hope that what you wrote here was mostly cut and paste from something you penned earlier, because that is the longest response I've ever received to one of my shows - at least the longest response with scholarly citations. It must have taken you hours to research sources if you did this from scratch. Jeez, I spent less time writing term papers.
I want to assure you I'm not one to normally spread urban legends. I was just blindsided by the halo effect problems; somehow I found a ton of pros, and missed all the cons. Had I talked with you before I did the show, the program would have been quite different. (By the way, to show you the other side of the coin, I got a lot of heated response from dowsers when I did an expose show about those "long-distance locators". I'm a Snopes guy all the way.)
I do appreciate the information you provided, and I'd like to do a followup program using your material.
But I need your help.
Can you possibly reduce the pertinencies in your post to about 3 minutes of easier-for-the-masses-to-understand highlights? We have to dumb it down a bit for the masses. (I have an MS in Technology and I don't fully understand a lot of the stuff you referenced). A rough outline is fine. I'll punch it up and air it on the next show, and give you full credit for the help. We'll call it "The Halo Effect Revisited" or some such.
So I'll need your full name and town, too, and any creds you might have behind your name.
Write me at
danhughesmail@gmail.com
Best,
---Dan