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The Rainbow Ruse

By Kevin Steel ⋅ April 21, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Lorne Gunter: ‘Climate change’? It’s whatever you want it to be [Ed. note: In cold reading, the either/or technique is known as the “Rainbow Ruse”–from Wikipedia “The rainbow ruse is a crafted statement which simultaneously awards the subject with a specific personality trait, as well as the opposite of that trait.”