Cal;

I can't comment on the vinegar book although having tried vinegar and honey at one time I suspect there may be something to it.

The problem with quake anecdotes is as I said; cherry picking. Everybody talks about the odd thing they noticed before such and such a quake. But when the odd thing is compared to all quakes it doesn't hold up.

You can separate out the pseudoscientists at that point. They look at the tests and pretend nothing happened.

Sound familiar?

BTW, my article will (finally) appear in the July-August issue of Skeptical Inquirer, due out mid-August.

Roger