Deceptive Title of EVP Article

[prewitt81]

The article (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/sweden_voices_dc) is fairly well written (at least they let the skeptics speak), but the link to it from the Yahoo! main page read "Scientists Explore White Noise Phenomenon."

I read where a scientist gives his opinion on EVP, but this article is not about scientists investigating anything.

I guess I just worry that the ill-informed will look at that title without reading the story and think that scientists are actually devoting lots of time to this or that they're on to something.

[ma1ic3]

Ya... that is annoying. Especially when you actually want to read something that has to do with the title and it doesn't even appear in the article.

I don't get what the point is. Ok, good job, you created a deceptive title that got me to read an article that I wouldn't have read otherwise. Was that little trick supposed to get me to come back to your website or buy your magazine so I can read more of your unfulfilling articles that trick me into reading them? What a great strategy, while we're being so clever, lets starting selling tubs of chocolate icecream that are labeled as vanilla. People love suprises!

From article
I find the idea of EVP simply ludicrous. The human brain is designed to find meaningful patterns, even where there's only randomness. So it's not surprising some people believe they have heard something in the noise," said Joakim Westerlund, who does research into parapsychology at Stockholm University.


Exactly what they need to realize. I can hear my name in my fan if I try too.