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Originally Posted by KathyT
I just want to get the facts.. the truth. So I wrote Mr. Brent Miller of the Horizon Project, and challenged his data. I got his response. His response was
11/29/2008
“Please read the news article carefully as the data is in relation to "deadly" or "historic" quakes. The data and graph are correct. Below is the link...”
And he links me back to his graph, not to the “data” behind his statistics.
My opinion is this: He and the Horizon Project are manipulative forecasters.... They’ve cherry picked the earthquake data that suits them. They’ve picked an average of 40 earthquakes out of an average of 150 strong earthquakes PER YEAR for the past century, and failed to tell us which ones “they’ve picked”. No explanation of where, when, or why. Then they’ve produced a graph to deceive the public by representing a graph that is “Worldwide” and don’t tell the public they’ve dropped another 90 earthquakes off their graph. That graph is going around the internet, and the message it visually tells, is “earthquakes are recently increasing by a huge scale”. They use this to prey on people’s emotions (their quote: “earthquake data shows frightening trend”), so that people will believe somehow they know more than the average guy… and, oh, by the way, maybe you’ll donate money to them. Geeze.
Mr. Brent Miller kind of reminds me of a snake oil medicine seller.
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excellent work Kathy and thank you very much for following this up. after reviewing your latest work i must say i feel disappointed in the integrity of THP. this is not to say all that they presented is to be dismissed. what i feel though is that your statement about them using certain key bits of selective material as a tool to 'prey' on people is pretty accurate. this realization is disheartening because the nature of the topic, especially if there is any truth in it, is serious as it is and furthermore if their research is forthright then i can't understand the need to dramatize it more than the nature of its content already is unless of course this dramatization could perhaps boost revenue.