Graphology, Bill Gates and Tony Blair
The recent Davos World Economic Forum has brought this little strange story to light. The media find some scraps of paper with ‘doodles’ on which they think were made by Tony Blair. They hired graphologists to have a gander at them, and they found Blair to be “struggling to concentrate” and “not a natural leader”. Unfortunately, they weren’t Mr Blair’s writing but one Bill Gates of Microsoft. From the BBC article, with the reaction from a Downing Street spokesman:
“We look forward with amusement to explanations by a variety of psychologists and graphologists of how various characteristics ascribed to the prime minister on the basis of the doodles, such as ‘struggling to concentrate’, ‘not a natural leader’, ‘struggling to keep control of a confusing world’ and ‘an unstable man who is feeling under enormous pressure’, equally apply to Mr Gates.”
“We are astonished that no-one who ran the story thought to ask No 10 if the doodles were in fact Mr Blair’s, particularly as it was obvious to anyone the handwriting was totally different.”
And it shows, again, how the media are duped by these idiots. ZDNet describe how the Times and the Mirror were taken in by these graphologist idiots. And Slashdot have been weighing in.
Oh, and the Downing Street response would be funny, but it’s somewhat hypocritical for those representing the Prime Minister to condemn graphologists, when Mr and Mrs Blair are enjoying Mexican mud-bath rebirthing ceremonies, consulting Carole Caplin (who, according to this report sounds somewhat like a psychopath with a ‘detox’ addiction) and Lilias Curtin, has interests in various altmed things including ayurvedic, crystals and acupuncture. Those crazy graphologists, eh? Misdiagnosing Blair’s instability for Gates’. Good old Tone and Cherie. They don’t get taken in by these crazy things like the press do, see?
