News from skepticblog at http://skepticblog.org/2010/06/26/brits-do-something-about-phony-mediums-three-cheers/ that the United Kingdom is considering tougher laws to protect against fraudsters such as psychics, mediums, and spiritualists. Good. We’ve lived far too long in the Dark Ages and in the clutches of liars. Time to break free from these shackles and move forward. One of my previous posts that’s [...]
Fantastic! This has already been posted at a number of other blogs recently, and I think that this was originally on the BBC. Dara O’Briain explains, with humour, what he really thinks of pseudo-scientists, preachers of woo woo and other modern witch-doctors. Great line "homeopath horseshit peddler". And "psychics, astrologers and priests" all get the [...]
We all know that the mechanisms that psychics use are based on lying to people, fooling people, to fraudulently represent what they are doing. So I am at a loss to explain why the government knowingly awarded cash to “self styled” mediums Paul Rees and Deborah Rees. If anything, in my opinion, those who claim [...]
Actually, that’s a bit unfair to leeches. I got quite fond of them (eventually!) in the jungles of Borneo. Quite attached, actually! But these so-called “psychics” are obvious frauds. I’d even call them liars, cheats and criminals. Larry King, Oprah Winfrey and other TV presenters pander to these psychics and it’s all about ratings and [...]
