S-V no doubt got a lot of his info from this very forum. I noticed on several occasions how someone would mention some fact or another, and then soon afterward he'd stick it into one of his many edits. The one about the tensile strength of Lexan is a good example. Everything else he probably got from googling.

Of course, it's been well pointed out that the original source of most of his rants was Bill Kaysing, who does not exactly have a stellar track record on getting the facts straight himself.

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