Page 01

Title

Welcome to The Placebo Effect

Date:

May 10, 2010

Story:

Jeff Walker & Arling Boddy

Art:

Jeff Walker & Arling Boddy

The time has finally come that we had to, as my dad so colourfully says "crap or get off the pot!" Well that's what we did! We took a giant steamer, and slapped a fresh coat of vector colouring on it. All fun and crude fatherly advice aside, this marks the first of many pages by The Placebo Effect. We hope it's something you come to look forward to every week.

• H1N1 Update

• Neurologica Blog

• Can we go outside yet? Remember when Swine Flu was going to be bigger than Lady Gaga? What ever happened with that? I know people who had it, and I might have even caught a case of it myself. However it didn't seem to hit as hard as the media made it seem like it was going to. Take a look at Neurologica Blog for an update on the situation. We know you still care!

• The Science of Star Trek

• Live Science - Article

• It's always fun to see if the science fiction could ever be science fact. For those of you who saw me colouring this page at the Calgary Comic Expo, this is how it turned out.

• Derren Brown - Cold Reading

• YouTube Video

• It still amazes me that people still fall for this technique. If you watch it being done it seems so blatently obvious it's almost laughable. Yet, there are millions of people, giving away millions of dollars to these quacks. In this video Darren Brown shows how easy it is to use this technique on normal everyday people.