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From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: memetics list <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: taboos
> On 03/30/01 08:55, Douglas Brooker said this-
> >why would subliminal advertising be so controversial? The ad-maker is
> >aware of the content, the perceiver isn't. (?)
> Subliminal advertising is controversial by virtue of it's being a figment
> of some people's imagination, and having no verifiable evidence for its
> existence.
> The admaker is only aware of having done something he or she thinks might
> make a difference, but, in all clinical forays, no difference has been
> found.
>
> Subliminal advertising is an urban myth.
Hi all,
I don 't know if I for one were on the right track here, but a few years ago
the main news on TV started off with a sequence of pictures shown to us
at a very high rate.
I suppose the pictures I saw were not the same as those who my wife
saw, due to a certain level of awareness or conscious activity.
I suppose that the TV channel did not mixed ads for coca- cola or for
burgers among those pictures...I for one did not saw one and for all I
know nobody ever mentioned seeing one either....
As to the subject of advertising, subliminal or not, here in Belgium it is
forbidden by law to ad as by comparison, product X is better than
product Y. If you, for whatever reason, say that your product X is better
than product Y, you have to proove it.
Also forbidden is to ad as by misleading, product X washes whiter than
white, you have to proove it.
Best regards,
Kenneth
( I am, because we are)
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