The stage becomes a ship in flames Welcome to our holeThrow your body overboard And we'll play some rock 'n roll

 One of the voices in the back of my head has spent the last two hours singing the lyrics of "Spirit" to the tune of "Get a Grip on Yourself" and then vice versa.

Don't make me pull over and stop the body, voices.

Crisis actors of Busytown

Collateral impact

One of our duties here at the Riddled Research Laboratory and Reality Maintenance Studio is removing on-line copies of the First Encyclopedia of Tlön [Orbis Tertius]. The Library Pixies handle this responsibility, in their own way. sometimes with collateral impact on those persons who ill-advisedly uploaded the Encyclopedia.

The concern, of course, is that W*k*pedia editors would amplify their Wikientries with passages copy-pasted from the Encyclopedia, soon to be followed by the uncredited appearances of those passages in blogs and discussion boards and Pinterest pages, providing those Wikientries with independent sources of corroboration. Each iteration of copy-pasta nudges the Encyclopedia contents one rung up the Ladder of Ontological Status towards the happy state of 'Stuff that Everyone Knows', and then we would be over-run with invisible tigers and towers of blood and Hrönir of the third and thirteenth order, and small cones of an unknown metal of preternatural density, and schools would be invaded by the (conjectural) "primitive language" of Tlön.

Diligently following a camel around

In a related partial irruption from an alternative existence into our own, my campaign against the "Camel-poop-cures-dysentery" hoax has developed not necessarily to my advantage. Academic authors were already retailing the fable by the time that W*k*pedia dropped its wholesale distribution. It turns out that academics are loath to listen when you inform them that they credulously fell for a hoax, and the chances of squeezing that particular genie back into the toothpaste tube have, like Murphy's conarium, "shrunk to nothing".

The camel-poop invention links in turn (via click-bait churnalism) to the 'camel poop bomb' story dreamed up by Jasper Maskelyne ("war magician" and self-promoting fabulist), as fodder for click-bait churnalists.

Camel "apples" became a good luck charm for the German military. The Allies discovered their habit of intentionally running tanks over piles of the droppings for good luck. So the Allies developed and planted land mines that looked like camel dung! When the Germans caught on to the trick, they began to avoid fresh piles of camel manure. In turn, the Allies caught on and began to make mines that looked like camel dung that had already been run over by a tank and therefore seemed safe enough to a Nazi driver. Genius.

Maskelyne contributed more to the Allied war effort in North Africa than any other man including Monty (in his account), or was a skiving credit-grabbing waste of a pair of boots (according to everyone else). Also a waste of a name that was clearly intended for a Jack Vance character. So the movie...

Possible film adaptations[edit]

In 2003, director Peter Weir and actor Tom Cruise were working on a film based on The War Magician.^[21] When questions rose about how much of The War Magician was factual and how much was invented by the author, the project was dropped while still in pre-production.^[21]

In 2015 Benedict Cumberbatch was reported as signing on to play the lead role in a Maskelyne film.^[22] At the time, the project was pending the selection of a director.^[22]

Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast as ‘WAR MAGICIAN’ with Colin Trevorrow set to direct.

The film follows an international “magic gang” who conspired with a British illusionist and a female military intelligence officer to defeat the Nazis.

(Source: Deadline) pic.twitter.com/fSgGquNstR

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) March 16, 2021

Excuse me for the interruption. Any movie could become a gullible parade through Maskelyne's Munchausen memoires, or a more interesting parallax-view contrast between his Walter-Mitty fantasies and consensus reality. The absence of Terry Gilliam and Werner Herzog from the director's chair does not fill me with anticipation.

I also fess up to skepticism about the presence of an anthropomorphic hyaena photographer, Ngorongoro Crater, as a denizen of Richard Scarry's "Busytown". Let alone a terrier named after a Disney animator.

John Parr Miller: A terrier at the town party, apparently a chef, named after a Disney animator who then moved into illustration of children's books.

Ngorongoro Crater: A hyena who is a photographer and whose camera gets a parking ticket.

Both made their way into the 'Minor Characters' subsection of the Whackyweedia Busytown entry on 11 July 2018, when fine upstanding Wikicitizen 'Swiss Frank' added one-line encapsulations of these previously-overlooked characters. The existence of Ngorongoro Crater was subsequently attested by wikisourced copy-paste affixed to Busytown-related Pinterest entries, albeit unaccompanied by corroboratory images, so I remain a Busytown Truther. But no-one ever listens to Uncle Smut.

That should probably become a blogpost label.

Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts

WTF did I just read?

“Quantum Biophysical Semeiotic” sounds like a reboot of the Sokal Hoax, written by people who were worried that Sokal’s original sting manuscript leaned too far in the direction of making sense. Alternatively, QBS could be a Spacemen 3 covers band. It reminds us that there are sub-levels and sub-basements and malebolges of incomprehension and worship-word-ridden cargo-cult cognition, far deeper than being “not even wrong”. The only way to elevate the whole brainfart towards that basic criterion would be to abandon any expectations that ‘quantum’, ‘biophysical’ or ‘semeiotics’ in the title are in any way related to physics, biophysics or semiotics.

The gist of QBS is that the humble stethoscope is not just an emblem of membership in the Medics’ Guild; in trained hands it is a diagnostic tool of scarce-dreamt-of capacity and specificity. For diabetes, arteriosclerosis, lithiasis and Alzheimers Disease are organ-specific outcomes of mitochondrial- / nuclear-gene defects (manifested through Rube Goldberg 'microcirculatory remodeling' mechanisms). Along with the breast-cancer risk-factor variants of the BRCA-1/2 genes, all can be detected early through auscultation, for all have their own distinctive sounds. As explained in a quartet of Opinion pieces and a Commentary by Dr Sergio Stagnaro (“Sempre arzillo a 87 anni”).




You can probably imagine what the References sections look like.

Fortunately Dr Stagnaro can also remediate these genetic shortcomings, with a hand-wavy invocation of Nonlinear Complexity theory... therefore irradiation with low-level 1-mm microwaves, which increase the fractal dimension of blood vessels by stabilising the attractor (I could be wrong about that, for my attention was distracted at this point by a skwirl, and it may be that the appropriate intervention is actually a hermeneutic reinterpretation of symbolism, or a projection of the wave-vector into a different Hilbert subspace before collapsing it).

Now the people of the Frontiers publishing behemoth – outlet for those Opinions – pride themselves on a whole new paradigm of Peer Review, which bypasses Editorial bias and subjectivity by matching peer-reviewers to manuscripts algorithmically (also obviating the old-fashioned notion that Editors should have some acquaintance with a field and be familiar with the knowledgeable authorities). The algorithms work so well that the paradigm is periodically redesigned, relaunched and reproclaimed as a breakthrough. In these five cases, the algorithm decided to skip peer review completely and just let the editors accept the manuscripts unaided. Unless “Just cash the cheque and print the paper” is an unannounced new feature of the Frontiers business model.

Hilarity continues to ensue from browsing the comments on these opinion pieces. They prove to be 100% spam left by an ingenious and industrious cannabis-oil scammer using identities like "Prattless Watterson". So at least the pieces are being read, if only by automated spambots.

Stagnaro brought himself to wider attention by leaving a comment over at Sylvie Cotaud’s blog, refuting her critical calumnies by pointing out the respect he receives from the Scientific Community… the proof of that respect being the unreviewed acceptance of his APC payments by Frontiers. Also the ingratiating invitations he receives to address a Euroscicon mockademic congress. Now EuroSciCon are well-known as a camouflaged polyp of the OMICS empire of academic grift, so boasting that they’re mooching for one’s money is onna par with boasting of the imminent wealth that was promised in emails from a Nigerian prince.



It is not a good look for Frontiers that they were promoting this fraudulent "7th Edition of World Congress on Cancer Research, Survivorship and Management", and had promised to provide it with livestream video services. The advertisement quickly disappeared down the memory hole in response to Sylvie pointing and laughing, though ads for other EuroSciCon scamferences remain on the Frontiers site.

Stagnaro curates his QBS braindrool on the website of the Società Internazionale di Semeiotica Biofisica Quantistica, which he would like you to look at. While another safe place for his output of Condamine calenture Toothpick is NeuroQuantology

NeuroQuantology was an outlet favoured by the much-missed Dr Martin Persinger. It also turns out to be the work of scammers and inept spammers, but I digress.

[h/t Sylvie Cotaud]

When Prophecy Fails #2 (Career of Evil edition)

Can you write a Faceborg entry by muzzle-loading a random pile of words into a blunderbuss and firing them at the screen? The possibility never occurred to us at the Riddled Research Laboratory but fortunately here is John Wanoa (rightful KING WILLIAM IV SURROGATE KING OF UK) to put it to empirical test:

[H/t Hoaxtead Research]

He seems to be angry, and concerned for the state of England, watching from exile but unable to intervene as it teeters on the edge of anarchy... his recent attempt to assume his throne and extend his sceptre of authority across the realm being thwarted, by Border Control and a little mix-up involving visas. It is hard to be sure, though, for Wanoa is writing in a kind of quark-soup gramtax, or synmar as it may be.

The New Accelerator

This is actually our goal with the Riddled High-Energy Jargon Accelerator, where we bang nouns and verbs together at high enough velocity to recreate the conditions of the Big Babel - restoring the broken super-symmetries between strong and weak declensions, and between parts of speech, in a veritable neologasm of fresh verbal coinage - in the search for the God Participle. And I must say in passing how disheartening it is to see shameless charlatans who aren't us teaching this stuff at £70 / lesson as "Quantum Grammar" which will confound the Excise Men and other enemies of freedom (like General Semantics, but updated and dumbed down to better profit from morons).

So Greenish Hugh and Louis Carthorse spent a marathon 8-hour session reviewing Mr Wanoa's prodigious logorrhoea, and before they slumped into catatonia, they were able to table the following older sample of Wanoarrhage. The catatonia may have been related to those three pints of Moai Beer.

Moai Beer

"But who is this Eru Manukau, Uncle Smut?" asked absolutely no-one. For he features regularly in Wanoa's eccentric scholium of thought. Usually capitalised, and mercifully bereft of the special colon-centric punctuation associated with Quantum Grammar, or any other kind.

PARAMOUNT MOHI TE MAATI MANUKAU IV AND HIS SON ERU MANUKAU WITH HIS LAWYERS IN LONDON.

BUT NOW the 20 STATE GOVERNMENTS have signed an agreement with the NEW MAORI GOVERNMENT OF NEW ZEALAND The HEAD OF STATE Ariki ERU MANUKAU under the Protectorate of the 20 Government Sovereign STATES signed in ROME Please go to my WEBSITE to see pictures of the PRINCE OF MALTA and ERU MANUKAU and LAWYERS attesting to this EVENT

I HAVE ALL THAT WHAKAPAPA HERE from Te Maati Manukau IV Founder of the Confederation of Tribes direct to Westminster and "Vatican City" Corporation MALTA KNIGHTS TEMPLAR and "City of london" Corporation London UK
MOHI MANUKAU AND I SENT 20 OF THESE FLAGS TO HIS SON ERU MANUKAU IN MALTA FOR THE NWO NEW WORLD ORDER ST JOHN ORDER IN 2008 JUST BEFORE MOHI MANUKAU DIED
HERE IS PRINCE PETER WITH ERU MANUKAU AND I BELIEVE THE POPE TOOK THEM FROM THEM INTO THE VATICAN NWO 8 POINT STAR OF ST PATRICK CHURCH ORDER AS TITLE TO THE WORLD IT IS KING ERNEST AUGUSTUS V I AM NOMINATING AS THE KING OF BRITAIN UK HANOVER TO RESCUE THE FLAGS AND 8 POINT STAR OF ST PATRICK BACK INTO WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENT UNDER KING ERNEST AUGUSTUS V SOVEREIGN MONARCHY REIGN 2016 INHERITANCE INSIDE THE WAITANGI MARAE KINGS BENCH COURT 28 OCTOBER 2016 WAITANGI

However we the INDIGENOUS MORIORI First Nations People CLAIMED the QUEENS CROWN before HELEN CLARK can Claim it for herself and JOINED 20 Government Sovereign States who confirmed MAORI GOVERNMENT is the Recognized TRUE SOVEREIGN of New Zealand and so ERU MANUKAU who is in ROME is the HEAD OF STATE in a New WAITING MAORI GOVERNMENT who has a QUEEN ELIZABETH 11 APPROVAL with the 20 STATES to come back to New Zealand and Take up the NEW GOVERNMENT and since the GOVERNOR GENERAL called ANAND SATYANAND DISSOLVED New Zealand Parliament he will have a PROBLEM opening New Zealand’s Parliament up after the winning Elections because the New Ministers have NO QUEEN to SWEAR their ALLEGANCES to because WE the MORIORI MAORI have the CROWN NOW and so they have to all BOW TO MAORI the SUCCESSORS Democracy is OUT THE WINDOW after that ERU MANUKAU is in talks with your United States Ministers and President Bush right this very present time talk about the FREE TRADE AGREEMENT the Prime Minister of New Zealand signed with USA without the QUEEN and after QUEEN ELIZABETH11 was removed of her BRITISH CROWN and her SOVEREIEGNTY by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and in doing so her surrender also Removed “HER MAJESTY TITLE” from New Zealand and its Government Guess what The Government is still using her name after she had gone and signed the AMERICA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT with NEW ZEALAND FRAUDULENTLY UNDER FALSE TITLE OF CROWN from their Government AUTHORITY Business called “HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF NEW ZEALAND[...]”

This may make it clearer

Crivens! It is as if Samuel Beckett suffered a temporal-lobe seizure and only had a teletype machine through which to express the revelations flooding into his brain on a beam of pink light. I hope you were paying attention as there WILL BE A QUIZ. Anyway, Eru Manukau is evidently the HEAD OF STATE of the legitimate MAORI GOVERNMENT-in-exile of New Zealand, with plenipotentiary powers, in regency or satrapy or vassalage to Wanoa himself (Suzerain King of Everything). Alternatively, Foreign Minister of that Govt.-in-Exile.

TAKE NOTICE THAT YOU ARE ACUSED THE NAMED PERSONS SEVERALLY DIDN’T REBUTT ALL OUR MORIORI PUPONGA MANUKAU CLAIMS HISTORIC LAND CLAIMS before 4pm on the 30th September Our MARAE COUNCIL NOW determined with ERU MANUKAU Foreign Minister of MAORI CROWN SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENT now BILL CHARGED HELL EN CLARK to be extradited back here for TRIAL

Our other Foreign Minister Eru Manukau 9 years away should be back from Rome with our Putea next month I am the Tumuake of the Confederation of United Tribes of Aotearoa Nu Tireni here in Auckland Leading the TU TONU TAHI HAWAIKI MARAE as the Land and Energy Minister of Maori Sovereign State Government for real now Registered in the United Nations ahead of the NZ Government presently with Eru Manukau where our Flag is We have both contributed 9 years of work completed now We all need to register our names into the Sovereign State under the Confederation after I have done so myself in order to get the funding for the Land Blocks and all our projects I been talking about for years is here now

But Eru and his fraudster father Te Maati Mohi Wiremu (William) Manukau were mentors to Wanoa: inspirations, and the source of half of the grifty notions comprising his artistic practice. Devising spurious ancestry-based claims to other people's property? In 1996 the Manukau father-&-son team, presenting themselves as "trustees of the Manukau Māori Trust Board", were asserting their ownership of Puketutu Island, to the entertainment of the Māori Land Court.

There was also a complicated stoush at the Waitangi Tribunal, involving a runanga established to represent tribal interests in the ultimate deposition of assets of the New Zealand railways (which were being privatised, as was the custom of the day) - but enlivened by the irruption of young Eru, arguing that he represented the claimants and should receive all assets and compensation on their behalf.

As connoisseurs of such things, here at the Riddled Institute of Maledictive Linguistics we would like to hear more about that "extraordinarily intemperate and aggressive language".

Remember Wanoa's Maoi Crown Royal / Moai Powerhouse Banks[designed as the Share Holders Bank Account under TagPay France Administered by the new Bank Manager from ANZ Bank Auckland New Zealand very experienced in Commercial Banking philosophy. Will appear in every Country in the World as Electronic Money Transactions against the British Pound Note at the present time]? Totally modelled on Eru's "Sovereign Global Bank Aotearoa" / "Maori Central Bank".

The SGBA is a glorious contribution to the gaiety of nations, with its Haast-Eagle-inspired logo, as awesome as an army with banners; a single Crivens! is not enough, more crivenage please. It instantiates the Maori Electronic Gold Currency System, with a 2% transaction tax and a plethora of diagrams.

SGBA officers are HM Ariki Manukau... it is not clear when Eru ascended to the nobility and conferred upon himself the title Ariki. "With 28 yrs experience and expertise in International Law, Banking & Finance, economic development, taxation and the implementation of the New Maori Nation's diplomatic relations, economic and financial systems and the electronic digital gold backed currency worldwide." Along with "Mr Robert H. Ptak CEO & Director of Treasury Operations & Security Intelligence and HRH Dr Percy Tamayo, Director Member, Legal, Financial & Economic Advisor to the Bank, whom form the Maori Central Bank's Core Management Team." Who further styles himself 'Grand Vizier'. This is truly high-concept grifting.

The SGBA was earlier based in New Zealand (i.e. Aotearoa), but the Reserve Bank of NZ was not well-pleased with the nebulous claims being made on its behalf. Hence the relocation to less well-defined financial jurisdiction, with the Austrian domain name, registered by "Ariki Manuka" of "SGBA Holdings HK Ltd" from an office in Hong Hong.

The Bank was an outgrowth or excrescence of the early-2000s Maori Government of Aotearoa... which is to say, a Maori-autonomy affinity fraud, which co-opted a 1834 Tribal-Independence flag to wrap itself in legitimacy. See here for its pseudohistory. The MGA acquired a military wing in the form of the NZ Armed Intervention Force (i.e. Kelvyn Alp and his cohort of white supremacists), but primarily existed for extortion and selling bogus passports to overstayers desperate to acquire citizenship.

The current abode of HM Eru Manukau is no better defined than the Bank's... sometimes in his Hong Kong office suite, sometimes negotiating in Rome with the Vatican and the Prince of Malta. He does have a physical address somewhere, from which to disown and disclaim any conmen taken on as Ambassadors by his Government-in-Exile.

Satere does not LEGALLY represent Aotearoa Ambassador At Large to The Americas for the Maori Sovereign Tribe of Te Atue E Wa. I know this for a fact because i was able to get Ariki Eru Manukau's personal address, who said, and i quote, "Sorry to hear that you have fallen victim to Mr Karenhatase private scam.
Please be advised that Mr Karenhatase was fired from our organisation several months ago for UNAUTHORISED issuing of a guarantee and abuse of his position."

One can safely say, without fear of contradiction or defamation lawyers, that when someone claims to be running their own bank, backed and underwritten by "52,414 metric tonnes in gold bullion ingots" bequeathed by a fictitious though fabulously wealthy dynasty of Indonesian Sultans, then fuckery and fraudulence are afoot.

Artist's impression of Sacha Stone

"What fresh hilarity is ensuing from Sacha Stone (failed rock star, impresario of the ITNJ troupe of jurisprudential cosplayers, aspirant New Age / Libertarian guru and Friend of Riddled)?" asked absolutely no-one. For Sacha has more grifts in his scampire of websites than anyone not called 'Trump', but there is always room for another. So welcome to the 2019 New Earth Festival -- a Gathering-of-the-Tribes / Youf-Radicalising Event at the NewEarth Haven some beach-side bait-shop in Bali, in the manner of Fyre Festival Redux.

On the Island of the Gods

An immersive week long event at the famed NewEarth Haven in Bali

Featuring a line-up of pioneering international speakers and experts addressing the most critical issues facing people & planet whilst delivering on radical solutions

Film, Fashion, Music, Dance, Art….and Frontline Activism!

Ecstatic dance, yoga, traditional Balinese dance & ceremony

After long labours in the Photoshop Forge his graphic-art minions have wrought new logos, though sticking to their house style of spirograph-fucked-a-biohazard-sign mandalas.



Research reveals that there was a 2017 forerunner. If this was hugely hyped by well-remunerated Social-Media Influencers and Thought Leaders through Snapchat and Instagram, I would not know, but anyway it left no footprint on the Interducts other than Sacha's own Faceborg videotics and on-line pantechnicons of stolen artwork.

Né Mr. Simon Jean Paul Sacha Adams

By the time we enter the Land of WTF, it is too late to back out of the dumbassery rabbit-hole:

Te Kaha is a Maori Wisdom-Keeper beloved by many including the sisters and brothers of the NewEarth Project, having traveled from his sacred home in New Zealand to Bali, Indonesia for Symposium Workshop and Panel Talks at the Ancient Futures Festival at the NewEarth Haven, 2017.
“As a whaanau we made a choice to return to the Rohe Potai Oo Tuuhoe to grow our tamariki (children) in the ways of our tipuna (ancestors), on land stolen from us at the point of a gun. As a result we live on a mountain, off the grid, home-educating our tamariki (children), rewilding ourselves and regenerating the whenua (land) by planting an abundance of trees, growing our own food with permaculture practices and becoming the voice of the whenua.”
To read more about this extraordinary way-shower Te Kaha, and Pounamu please visit...

Cultural-prostitute scammers. Also spirit animals

WTF? "Wisdom-Keeper"? Way-shower"? Someone trained a neural network on 'Black Elk Speaks', and Grey Owl, and the dialog of every noble-savage character from Rider Haggard novels, and the websites of 17 different cultural-prostitute scammers pimping Vision Quests and Sweat Lodges and Spirit Animals and initiation into ancient tribal lore, to see what it would spew out spontaneously. The outcome was evidently Te Kaha ("The Strength"), who lives sustainably on a mountain in touch with the land, off the grid with only his children and his Whānau and his Faceborg page, webstore and promotional page at Sacha's "NewEarth University", speaking only in Papyrus font. Except when he is accruing air-points with flights around the world, monetarising tribal spirituality and the Traditional Māori Way of Childbirth.

Naturally Te Kaha has a sideline selling greenstone spirit-treasures pendants, which have all the authenticity of a jade vaginal egg from Goop, i.e. likely to be machine-milled Chinese nephrite if not 'cultured stone': he purports to speak for Ngāi Tūhoe ["the first nation people of Aotearoa (New Zealand), representing and sharing the ancient knowledge of his people"], but there is no pounamu in the Urewera region where that particular tribe resides, nor a great tradition of pounamu carving. I would not be too astonished if Te Kaha's real name is Derek and he lives in a nice middle-class suburb in North Auckland when he is not in costume with facepaint moko for imparting wisdom to halfwit Londoners at Māori Childbirthing Seminars.

Of course this is all a digression. But before we proceed, do take a moment to look around the on-line campus of Sacha's NewEarth University, where you can buy a degree in spirituality, and the curriculum features courses in "Owning Your Strawman" (i.e. the usual Sovereign-Citizen flimflam about "Learn this one trick to escape from financial obligations, debts and tax arrears -- Banks hate it!").

The real topic here, relevant to our interests at the Riddled School of Gorse-Flower Ikebana and Bafflegab Appreciation Society, is the "World Health Sovereignty Summit" - a 3-day immersive symposium following the Festival.

Artist's impression of Sacha Stone #2

But wait, there's more! - in the form of a further two days of legal-robe dress-up games from Sacha's ITNJ playmates who have appointed themselves to be a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Chemtrails. All this and a sex / drugs / music / Balinese-culture beach party for financially-surfeited children, can you feel the synergy?

The Summit is a gabfest of Alt-Med scammers and lobbyists ready to speak out for Fraudster Freedom. Just look at the clown-car cavalcade of mountebanks. Have you ever seen such a shower of charlatans?

One notes on first glance that for the big-hitters in the medfraud industry, the invitation to speak was below their dignity ("Confirmation pending"). But Jim "Bleach Enema" Humble was desperate enough to accept, as was Marco Ruggiero, "inventor of Immortalis Klotho Formula, expected to become recognised as one of the greatest innovations in health-science history". Crivens! Ruggerio comes under the aegis of the Mad Scientist Anti-Defamation League. He and Ruggiero are old associates.

Further down the list, we meet Errol Denton, "Harley Street doctor and blood analysis spcialist who has been targeted and professionally molested by elements within the British medical establishment for his pioneering and highly effective methods of treating cancers and other serious illnesses. He is an ITNJ Expert Witness". Which sounds better than "Unqualified fraudster and convicted felon". Anyway, who wants to be molested by amateurs?

And beside him, Robert O. Young, "one of the world’s most accomplished health science innovators and practitioners... developed methods and products which routinely treat and cure complex health conditions. Targeted by rogue elements within the US medical establishment he is an ITNJ Judicial Commission Expert Witness". Which sounds better than "Unqualified fraudster, fined $105m for talking a customer into painful suicide". I didn't even know that his 44-month sentence was over.

[Left: Uncredited stock art]

[Right: Séraphine Pick, "Easy Living II"]