A video about poisoned, contaminated, and boobytrapped Halloween candy, also known as Halloween Sadism, a widely reported and feared but thankfully quite rare occurrence. It discusses Professor Joel Best’s research on Halloween Sadism and also his research on questionable statistics that often accompany scary stories like poisoned Halloween candy.
Links: Joel Best’s Web Site: https://www.joelbest.net/
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About Me
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).