Re: Don't Forget The Cannoli (was Re: [tips] Failure of Critical Thinking: When Advertising Trumps "Truth"

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Brandon
Great! On Jan 8, 2013, at 11:19 PM, drnanjo wrote: > > Here's Obi Wan for you all > Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato pkbra...@hickorytech.net --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: htt

Re: Don't Forget The Cannoli (was Re: [tips] Failure of Critical Thinking: When Advertising Trumps "Truth"

2013-01-08 Thread Ken Steele
Sent from my iPad On Jan 8, 2013, at 6:54 PM, Mike P wrote > > -Mike Palij > New York University > m...@nyu.edu > > P.S. The singular form of cannoli is cannolo but Americans treat cannoli > as singular and wind up using cannolis for the plural. Since I'm not one > of those anal-retentive A

Re: Don't Forget The Cannoli (was Re: [tips] Failure of Critical Thinking: When Advertising Trumps "Truth"

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Brandon
First of all -- in the words of Obiwan Cannoli: NO ONE has just one cannola. And more seriously First, is this legal thinking or medical reasoning? Second, is this a weakness on the part of "Business Insider", or on the part of their readers and consumers in general? And third, this is ass

Don't Forget The Cannoli (was Re: [tips] Failure of Critical Thinking: When Advertising Trumps "Truth"

2013-01-08 Thread Mike Palij
I don't understand why but I'm starting to feel like I'm writing in Portuguese or something because some key points keep getting missed. Let me refer interested readers to the pro-business "Business Insider" which has a short article on this case and praises the decision to let Big Pharma market