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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (12017)	4/29/2007 6:24:12 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 36917

And, more from the files... Nils Axel-Morner Water dowsing expert Axel-Morner, James Randi and "dowsing" Axel-Morner claims to be an expert in "dowsing," the practice of finding water, metals, gemstones etc. through the use of a Y-shaped twig. Axel-Morner's attempt to prove his dowsing abilities is chronicled by James Randi, the well-known myth buster, who has offered the longstanding One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. Axel-Morner and the NRSP Listed as an "allied expert" for a Canadian group called the "Natural Resource Stewardship Project," (NRSP) a lobby organization that refuses to disclose it's funding sources. Dietze, TASSC, big tobacco and the "European Science and Environment Forum" Dietze was listed as an "Academic Member " (pdf.) of the European Science and Environment Forum, an organization that was formed in 1994 by Roger Bate, Dr John Emsley and Professor Frits Böttcher with an aim to be the European version of the tobacco industry funded front group TASSC. The European Forum touted itself as "an independent, non-profit-making alliance of scientists whose aim is to ensure that scientific debates are properly aired, and that decisions which are taken, and action that is proposed, are founded on sound scientific principles." Like TASSC, the European Forum issued reports questioning the scientific evidence linking second-hand tobacco smoke and the risk of lung cancer. Dietze and the "NRSP" Listed as an “Allied Expert” for the Natural Resource Stewardship Project (NRSP), Message 23397651