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It strikes me how unscientific this guy is. He gets the data, finds some correlations, implies casuations from them, and even "laws" that don't work 100% of the time.

I'm sorry, it was interesting, but kind of lame.

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I agree with you. While other people above have bantered above about how absolute a "law" is supposed to be, in my opinion if you are going to call something a scientific "law" you had better be prepared to explain or at least enumerate all the exceptions. This guy just seems to get flustered and run off when people point out the exceptions to his oversimplified conclusions.

I found the adulatory tone of the article more than a little annoying, as well.

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