Letters from a clearvoyant

Letters from a clearvoyant by Hans van Maanen In his splendid book, Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos comes up with a beautiful scam to swindle gullible investors. A self-proclaimed ‘investment adviser’, Paulos suggests, sends 32 000 potential customers an impressive-looking letter

Quackery in Holland

Mrs. Sickesz is a [*bleep*] The Dutch Association against Quackery (in Dutch, VtdK) often speaks about quacks. If they didn’t, they would have changed their name. But the judge has forbidden them to use that word for certain physicians. Recently they