The messages can understood recording normal speech and playing reverse

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Source: Schick, T., & Vaughn, L. (2010). How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill.

Passage 3.

In the past several years, a researcher named David Oates has been advocating his discovery of a most interesting phenomenon. Oates claims that backward messages are hidden unintentionally in all human speech. The messages can be understood by recording normal speech and playing it in reverse. This phenomena, reverse speech, has been discussed by Oates in a number of books (Oates 1996), magazines, newspapers, and radio programs, and even on television…. His company, Reverse Speech Enterprises, is dedicated to profiting from his discovery…