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Luke T. · 6th March 2006, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by KellyJ

There's a few things I would like to have.

1) A dialog between a missing person family and a psychic that shows the methods the psychic uses to extract information and convince the family that they really do have paranormal abilities.

I think you would be better situated to come up with what kind of sales pitch a psychic makes to the family of a missing person. I'm kind of curious myself. It must take incredible nerve for someone to initiate contact with a grieving family.

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3) An article about the tricks used by TV psychics: what really goes on behind the scenes

We can only speculate what goes on behind the scenes on a TV show.

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4) I don't know much about Remote Viewing, so I'd like an article about what that is and why it's another false claim

An excellent article on Skeptic Report that I mentioned earlier: http://www.skepticreport.com/psychics/psitechsmart.htm

Kelly, I told you in a PM that every time I hear of a psychic on the news being given any credibility, I write to the reporter or editor of the story to give them hell.

I am going to link to a topic on Skeptical Community in which I used some pretty strong language, so you are forewarned.

The topic is here, and I deconstruct the story that was on the news, and then post what I wrote to the reporter.

If you would like me to write a short article about this story to show how the media allows itself to be manipulated and gives psychics validity, as well as an excellent example of how it makes it look like even law enforcement is validating the psychic, I'd be very happy to do so.

ETA: It appears that the Fox web site removed the video which I make reference to. Fortunately, I copied some of the transcript into my post in the aforelinked topic.

6th March 2006, 05:46 PM	#299
Luke T. Guest Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 14,716	Originally Posted by KellyJ There's a few things I would like to have. 1) A dialog between a missing person family and a psychic that shows the methods the psychic uses to extract information and convince the family that they really do have paranormal abilities. I think you would be better situated to come up with what kind of sales pitch a psychic makes to the family of a missing person. I'm kind of curious myself. It must take incredible nerve for someone to initiate contact with a grieving family. Quote: 3) An article about the tricks used by TV psychics: what really goes on behind the scenes We can only speculate what goes on behind the scenes on a TV show. Quote: 4) I don't know much about Remote Viewing, so I'd like an article about what that is and why it's another false claim An excellent article on Skeptic Report that I mentioned earlier: http://www.skepticreport.com/psychics/psitechsmart.htm Kelly, I told you in a PM that every time I hear of a psychic on the news being given any credibility, I write to the reporter or editor of the story to give them hell. I am going to link to a topic on Skeptical Community in which I used some pretty strong language, so you are forewarned. The topic is here, and I deconstruct the story that was on the news, and then post what I wrote to the reporter. If you would like me to write a short article about this story to show how the media allows itself to be manipulated and gives psychics validity, as well as an excellent example of how it makes it look like even law enforcement is validating the psychic, I'd be very happy to do so. ETA: It appears that the Fox web site removed the video which I make reference to. Fortunately, I copied some of the transcript into my post in the aforelinked topic.
Luke T. Guest Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 14,716