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CODE H BOOK REVIEWS Monica Lewinsky and Clinton and the It's Ba-a-ack! Bush/Gore 2000 election debacle, and - The Bible Code II his ongoing search for a mysterious CODE H "obelisk" (the "key" to the Bible code, TNI COUNTDOWN DAVID E. THOMAS and to humanity's origin, which he feels is still buried in a valley near the Dead Bible Code II: The Countdown. By Michael Drosnin. Sea). Drosnin states repeatedly that he Viking Press, New York, 2002. ISBN 0-670032-107. doesn't believe in God, but he certainly 292 pages. Hardcover, $26.95. believes an intelligence higher than human created the "code." Drosnin's obsession with his own role as a major "Bible Code" player is nowhere more compelling evidence that careful selec- n June of 1997, journalist Michael obvious than in his introduction to the tion of particular forms of words effec- Drosnin's book The Bible Code was chapter on DNA, the genetic code: tively "tuned" Witztum's and Rips's Ireleased to great fanfare (Drosnin "Early in my search for the key to the method to their data, completely invali- 1997). It quickly climbed to third on Bible code, I may have also stumbled dating the much-ballyhooed 1994 statis- the New York Times bestseller list, and onto the key for the code of life... tical "test." remained on that list for weeks. According to the Bible code, our 'DNA Has Drosnin paid attention to his Drosnin's book discussed "Equidistant was brought in a vehicle.'" Drosnin critics? Not at all. He has been far too Letter Sequences," a way to derive hid- has a whole chapter on the "aliens" he busy trying to convince Yasser Arafat den messages by selecting letters from feels may be responsible for placing and Shimon Peres of the reality of the the Hebrew Torah separated by a fixed humans on Earth. His words might number of intervening let- offer comfort to "Intelligent rorisattackonthesamciwomon O I 1 I ters. As an example, the Design" supporters like the o u ldsuccecdandknock 1>() t h e r to w e r English word generalization i n t(R£ T a i Iain Raelians of Clonaid, but contains the "hidden mes- ®T h a tdaynooncoim u d h J3Ea v c. i a g i n c d i t w surely will disturb most sage" Nazi, at a skip of d uD)li esaidafte i t h a p p n c d t h c w a r evangelical Christians. T)n i h c b i b o w i t w a s s o 3 (every third letter): eforyear In Drosnin's appendix, he cniisiwhodiscov c b i b geNerAliZatlon. r e d t h cxt raordinarycod tabic 0 n s c finally gets around to dis- I discussed the Bible Code dema i l e d i t tomefr h i w t a I wh cussing critics like McKay. in the November/December slcadingauthorit k s i n g roup Drosnin supplies a surprising 1997 SKEPTICAL INQUIRER csquantumphys ics told m c t h revisionist history of the (Vol. 21, No. 6), and also in hcoddsaga ins t i thappc n g b y c h a n m i b i ii I a d e n w a snamed h e b i b 1 c c o codes, often contradicting the March/April 1998 issue seqycncethatdeclarcd i in Ii i mg u i I what he wrote in his first (Vol. 22, No. 2). Much has i tappearedinthesamepf i c e t he o r • book. And he takes a number happened since then, most dtheysawt he s m o k e i sngabovet hell of cheap shots, for example, notably the publication of a Figure 1. HOAX. DISMAL, and OIL hidden in Chapter 1 of the criticizing the rebuttal by devastating rebuttal to the Bible Code II. McKay and his three Hebrew "code," and analyzing new events like original Statistical Science paper co-authors as "written by a team of the terror attacks of September 11, (Witztum 1994) that really got the "Bible mathematicians led by an Australian 2001. Drosnin describes his recent Code" going. The rebuttal, by Australian who did not read the language of the efforts in his new sequel. The Bible Code Brendan McKay, working with several Bible code." On the next page, Drosnin II, released in November 2002 (Drosnin Hebrew colleagues, showed that extols the code-supporting findings of 2002). The first chapter tells how extremely small variations in the mes- Harold Gans, but neglects to mention Drosnin witnessed the attacks on the sages to be located, and in the procedure that Gans doesn't read Hebrew either. World Trade Center, and how he itself, produce far less impressive results He makes a major gaffe in describing quickly found the event predicted as than were obtained by Rips and Witztum the original Witztum/Rips experiment hidden messages in the Torah (the first (McKay 1999). McKay's group presented as "a classic double-blind experiment. five books of the Bible in the original The independent expert [Havlin] who David E. Thomas is an Albuquerque-area Hebrew). Subsequent chapters discuss chose the data did not even know how physicist and mathematician. He is Drosnin's meetings with Arafat and the data would affect the outcome of the President of New Mexicans for Science Peres, his attempts to meet with Ariel experiment." McKay points out the and Reason, a CSICOP Fellow, and a Sharon and President Bush, his search obvious in a new article on his Web site SKEPTICAL INQUIRER consulting editor. for hidden Torah messages about SKEPTICAL INQUIRER Match/April 2003 59 BOOK REVIEWS (McKay 2002): "That's not double- And he says, he wrote in 1997, 'Hidden eighth row (440/55 = 8). Words with blind. In a double-blind experiment, the messages can be found anywhere pro- other steps between letters can appear as investigators (Rips and Co.) would also vided you're willing to invest time and diagonals. The entire (and rather large) not know which data were good and effort to harvest the vast field of proba- puzzle can be seen at the NMSR Web which bad." Drosnin unfairly labels bility. He, Drosnin, underestimates the site (Thomas 2002). McKay's open, public demonstration of power of chance combined with the Of special interest is the stunning what can be achieved by manipulation brute force of computers. He says these seven-step code for hoax, which is of data as a "hoax." And Drosnin even messages are beyond the power of encoded in just seven words from Drosnin's new book: "And I never oshoscinstcadthenextsageswhosccntriesin thought to look in tHe code fOr jurnalanevenmoredctai led staementoFhisro 'airplAne.' As I eXplained to a friend at n e sc incewa s i n f o r m e d inwt i t i n g i nadvAnceby the CIA later that day,..." dol larbil IthatwouldnotprovethatalLmoney I also looked for secret messages in nooneha sfoundanyev idenc etha t r i p s i Swrong Drosnin's Appendix. And, running .findthcmwrotemckayetal ignoringrhBfactt right through his assertion that ". to c s u i t ssof the i r f i rs texpc rimentandofcour s this day, no one has found any evidence that Rips is wrong" is the hidden Figure 2. FALSE hidden in the Appendix of the Bible Code //. message false (figure 2). accuses McKay of initially finding a pos- chance, and I've proven they are not.' Drosnin hasn't learned anything in [Lang 1997] What is your response to itive result, and then hiding it. McKay's the last five years, but perhaps the world Dr. Thomas here?" comment: "This is an absolute lie. has. Drosnin's sequel appeared on the Drosnin's reply: "It's really silly." I Nothing like this ever happened and we New York Times bestseller list at number did not even see this claim before now." agree that the Bible Code itself is 25 on December 22, 2002; by January indeed silly, but my investigations into Drosnin again claims that "No one 5, 2003, it had slipped to number 30, such codes are anything but. I have used has found in War and Peace or Moby three books below Hollywood Hulk Dick* correct prediction, in advance, of only "official" Bible Code methods to Hogan. By January 19, it had broken a world event." Had he bothered to find amazing puzzles in all kinds of into the top 15, at number 10. actually read what his critics are saying, texts, even though believers insist they Will Drosnin drop the Bible Code he would have learned about my pre- can only be found in the Torah. and take up wrestling? I'll guess I'll check diction of the Chicago Bulls victory in I have recendy applied the "Bible the 1998 NBA playoffs, based on Code" technique to die first chapter on what looms ahead in Moby Dick. "codes" in Tolstoy's War and Peace, of Drosnin's new sequel itself, available made months before the deciding game on the Internet. The excerpt consists References (Thomas 2002). of a mere 6,966 characters, or 1,617 Indeed, Drosnin has failed to learn words, but nonetheless contains the fol- Crossfire. 2002. December 2, 2002 transcript. the single most important fact about lowing striking secret message, encoded online at www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ so-called "Bible Codes": this arcane in Drosnin's very own words: "The Bible 02l2/02/cf.00.html. Drosnin. M. 1997. The Bible Code. Simon & technique allows one to find virtually Code is a silly, dumb, fake, false, evil, Schuster.
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