[Doctor Stochastic]

Explanation (PDF Alert): Phys Rev D 2003

This article should have been available to "The Economist" had their reporter been scientirically literate. The paper was even in the references to Duif's paper. It's worthwhile to iterate the bibliography operator.

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for that link. We can now return to where we were before the “Allais effect” was noticed:

"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie ... that's amore!"

[Physicist]

By Van Flandern, no less! LOL

But waaaaaait, wait wait waitaminute...

I thought there was supposed to be a global academic conspiracy to keep Van Flandern out of the pages of reputable journals, and here he is in Phys. Rev. D! Things that make you go "Hmmm..."

[mvpel]

It's conclusion is chock full of "mights" and "mays" - basically calling the experiments that detected it poorly controlled. I don't think this is a definitive explanation.

[boris]

AAARGH! Van Flandern! My brain is exploding.

Amazing he got published in Phys Rev D. He is the fellow who continues to claim that gravity propagates at infinite velocity...

[Shryke]

Dammit DS, you had to go and spoil it with that PDF.

On the other hand, I have experienced gravitational anomolies when I was a younger man: a large inhale of a clove cigarette appears to increase local gravity by a factor of 5. Quite an experience.