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Of course, all the chaos was blamed on Percival Lowell, who had mapped a system of canals on Mars that he saw through his telescope. Even though he was wealthy, influential and very insistent, a few scientists hesitated to support his views because they couldn't see those canals for...
When a leader such as California Gov. Pete Wilson believes that immigrants cause people to lose jobs and pay large taxes, can we expect anyone to truly question it? If a leader believes strongly in an optical illusion, history will remember him or her as just a misguided fool. But...
Experts saw the Friday free fall as part of a long-overdue correction. But the most consoling, if perverse, thought for market watchers like Donald Straszheim, chief economist for Merrill Lynch, is that the employment surge may have been a statistical illusion. Says he: "We have never had an economy...
Last year in these pages some fool (well, it was me) predicted that the populist fever would dissipate now that the Republicans had gained control of Congress. The theory was that a popular anger built largely on amorphous complaints would be satisfied by largely symbolic solutions. The illusion of unhappiness...
Such well-intended confusion reaches a crescendo for Forbes when it comes to health care, an issue that exemplifies his intellectual style. On one hand he delights in bucking the consensus of officials and analysts in both parties, saying it's wrong for Washington to tell us we're spending...