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Letter: Stringing us along

Published 18 January 2006

From Dick Jackson

I was reading Feedback’s piece on new-age “medicine” to my wife. It warns that dodgy products can be detected by their promoters’ use of words like “vibration” and “energy” (17 December 2005).

“Reminds me of string theory,” she commented.

Arroyo Grande, California, US

Issue no. 2535 published 21 January 2006

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