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Reply to John Voris' comments regarding NLP. Are you saying that there is a view that NLP is not as effective as the billion dollar industry that has grown up around it claims? Are you an NLP skeptic?
When major universities exhausts their resources after failing to validate NLP and terminate further exploration, yes I become a skeptic.
In fact, mainstream academia
today call NLP an occult following along with other metaphysical unscientific theories such as Tarot, Astrology, Psychic and Tea Leaf reading. (Also billion dollar industries)
NLP is a pseudoscience and cannot make any legitimate, consistent, verifiable claims, utterly failing scientific scrutiny. At best it is a placebo.
While NLP was first subjected to scientific examination in the 1980's, people were already making too much money. Even Tony Robbins later climbed on board. Because of the money, they had to somehow discredit not only Berkeley but other academic institutions that came to the same damaging conclusions.
They soon made unfounded and vacuous claims of errors made by researchers, holding the acedemics to standards greater than what NLP could ever meet.
Nevertheless, research is a business and once the funding stopped, NLP was put on the shelf. With academic opposition slowing, the NLP proponents could move forward with new freedom making even greater exaggerated claims.
While the present amount of information that discredits NLP would overload this venue, such opposition has long been muffled by the NLP exploiters. Anyone who teaches NLP or has any financial connection with NLP, will naturally say its the best thing since sliced bread and deny solid opposing evidence.
More importantly, there are presently web locations dedicated to real life sales people, reporting their anger with NLP fraud.
As I said before, NLP can work but only as a placebo and by definition, this cited cause for the intended result is an
illusion. -John Voris
Aloha... :cool: -rattus58