Teaching in the Psychological Sciences digest wrote:
Subject: Re: Terror in the Skies (Was: More on profiling) From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:28:18 -0500 X-Message-Number: 4
Stephen Black wrote:
Interesting note: Annie Jacobsen, the author of the scare piece was educated at Dalhousie in Halifax, Canada, and teaches creative writing in Toronto. She's also a Jungian psychotherapist (so praise be, we now have psychology relevance to this thread).
This and the Anne Coulter reference immediately arose my skepticism. One tiny detail really got to me. How does one observe who is sitting in seat 1A "closest to the pilot" and at the same time the rear lavatory? I also had this sense of involved sleuth and covert agent on her part. The collaboration with the flight attendant who asked Annie's husband to write down the description of a passenger because if she wrote it down it might appear suspicious. I've been on dozens of flights and notice flight attendants writing things down all the time why would this be suspicious?
It the story that I find suspicious or at least hysterical. My bet is that when a serious news organization (if there are any left) investigates we'll find that Ms. Jacoabson was trying her creative hand to show how people come to believe what they believe or some such excuse.
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