2. Riding the wave of Bush Sr.'s policies and Gulf War. (Same kind of economic boom happened after WW1 and WW2-for the winners of the wars, anyways)
Hang on, I take exception with this one. Do you really believe the Gulf War had *anything* to do with the boom of the 90's. Do you think the Gulf War was even close in scale to the two World Wars? If you do, you probably should cut back on the crack.
Just because paranormal phenomena are difficult to observe under controlled conditions, that does not mean they don't exist.
You really should read The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Not that I think you wrong, exactly, but to paraphrase Sagan's example, if you say you have a dragon in your garage, but it's invisible, leaves no footprints, can't be touched, can't be covered in paint, makes no noise, and breathes invisible fire without heat; then your neighbors are going to have doubts.:)
(a recent example of this is the 1994 discovery of Australopithecus ramidus by Tim White which was later found to be too chimp-like to be claimed as a human ancestor, and has been renamed Ardipithecus ramidus -- put in a completely new genus).
And who discovered the mistake? Surely not another one of those deceitful paleontologists?
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Hang on, I take exception with this one. Do you really believe the Gulf War had *anything* to do with the boom of the 90's. Do you think the Gulf War was even close in scale to the two World Wars? If you do, you probably should cut back on the crack.
You really should read The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Not that I think you wrong, exactly, but to paraphrase Sagan's example, if you say you have a dragon in your garage, but it's invisible, leaves no footprints, can't be touched, can't be covered in paint, makes no noise, and breathes invisible fire without heat; then your neighbors are going to have doubts. :)
And who discovered the mistake? Surely not another one of those deceitful paleontologists?
Er, strongly. Sorry. :)
Every one of these has been stringly refuted. You should read the talk.origins archive, but you probably won't.