I want to personally thank Austrian Airlines for being so charming. Austrian Airlines has now gone six months declining — charmingly — to refund the air fare for a blizzard-cancelled fight. “We must respectfully decline,” Austrian Airlines wrote us in their latest email, to send the refund they explicitly promised in February. The flight was going to be my return […]
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Charming Warts (part 2)
Notwithstanding the persistent lack of understanding of psychogenic influences on warts [see our recent glance at the subject] considerable progress has made in documenting the effects of wart hypnotherapy. Some hypnotists maintain that success rates for hypnotic wart removal can reach up to 80%. See, for example: ‘Hypnotherapy for Warts (Verruca Vulgaris): 41 Consecutive Cases with […]
Charming Warts (part 1)
“The process whereby warts, the result of a virus infection, can be affected by psychogenic influences, as occurs in wart charming, is not understood.” A resumé of the state of knowledge as it was in 1956, was presented, in Question and Answer form, in the British Medical Journal, Jul 14, 1956; 2(4984): p.112. [page 2 […]
How to impress an editor
Many of our finest articles were submitted by people I had never heard of. So were many articles that we declined to publish. Yesterday a person I had never heard of submitted an article for publication. He wrote a short cover note. Here is our conversation, in which I played only a small part. The […]