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EpsomHorse28 karma

The program’s chief architect, Tracy Harpster, is a former cop from Ohio with little homicide investigation experience.

Who cares about his homicide experience?

The woo this man peddles is based on the analysis of speech, and the experts in the analysis of speech of any type are linguists, not cops or psychologists or social workers or sociologists or criminologists. These folks have no fucking clue about speech and language beyond the uninformative, typically wrong and almost always misguided intuitions that any native speaker has.

On this basis alone, 911 Call Analysis should be tossed on the garbage heap along with humors, miasma and phrenology.

The key question here is how many peer-reviewed papers supporting the ideas behind "911 Call Analysis" have been published in reputable linguistics journals.

I'm willing to bet the number is zero.

This garbage isn't even pseudo-science. It doesn't even pretend to be scientific!

EpsomHorse2 karma

Being that so-called rocket stoves can be built with milennium-old technology, why are they still virtually unknown and used almost nowhere? What's the catch?

EpsomHorse0 karma

Read a tiny bit more closely. I am casting doubt on the product's supposedly miraculous nature and asking people to point out its downsides.

That would make for one retarted infomercial!