Carefully crafted subliminal suggestions
SILENT CDs are not the only form of “subliminal” fruitloopery to be found on the net (17 April). A palaeontologist browsing Amazon stumbled upon a “Superior Subliminal” CD at which would enable you to “Learn Paleontology now Faster and Easier with Subliminal Programming”. The palaeontologist, who had spent years studying the subject, wrote sorrowfully on a palaeontology forum: “If only they’d had this when I was in school.”
Feedback had to investigate. The palaeontology CD is only one of some offered by a company called Lavish Life. Topics range…
