Some began saying that they, too, had the power and appeared on TV to demonstrate it. The interesting thing was that they all bent a tea spoon just as the first performer did. Critics of the performers commented that if they had supernatural powers, why didn't they bend something not necessarily hard, such as a thin wire, and without touching it. In this case critics requested the man knock down much lighter and easier objects, such as a cat. When McDonald's first opened business in Japan, there was a rumor that they used cat meat in their hamburgers.
Logical induction suggests that it is much more costly to use cat meat.
Japan is occasionally hit by a big earthquake. In many cases, rumors of possible aftershocks abound. Typically, these warnings state the time and scale of the aftershocks and call for caution. Victims of the earthquake are especially receptive and vulnerable to this information and are easily struck by panic. However, technical attempts to predict earthquakes have so far failed to predict the specific time of tremors in advance.