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Anthony

January 22, 2003 05:29AM

<HTML>John,

Well, I must say, I read the entire article with great anticipation only to find out that nowhere does it include the promised instructions: "How to become a Psychic in one day".

What I saw was the confession of a man who told how he learned to FOOL people into THINKING he was a real psychic. This is an entirely different scenario, and frankly, I'm a little disappointed. Oh, I'm not disappointed with <i>you</i>, John. Just with people in general who would "fall" for such chicanery.

This article, however, has no more scientific merit than someone who "claims" they know how the pyramids COULD have been built, but lacks any/all evidence that it WAS built that way. Unless the author is actually "busting" phony psychics specifically by name and action, then all he's proving is that he has discovered a way to fool people. Nothing more.

His article/work/methodology do absolutely nothing to "prove" that SOME psychics/diviners/readers are NOT real. He's only shown that HE isn't. I congratulate him on his honesty... but also question his ethics. He DID present himself as a "psychic intuitor", which definitely implied that he was going to use some form of psychic powers that he actually possessed to talk to these people. He then wantonly mislead them, in a manner no better than any Hancock or Davidovits presentation.

Now... PLEASE don't get me wrong. I fully accept that the bulk of "money for info psychics" out there are absolute bunko artists who scam and flimflam people out of enormous amounts of money. I also know several who do a lot to help people understand the dynamics of their own situations, without telling people that they are seeing "the future". And I know a very few who are actually gifted with genuine psi powers that absolutely cannot be explained away. This article exposes the first group... but at the expense of the other two, who provide perfectly valid and proper services to people, when possible.

Technically, this article is no better than someone claiming Stocks and Solenhofen are dead wrong about lapidary processes because HE tried it for fifteen minutes and it didn't work. There is much, much more to this topic than would be appropriate for this board, and to just "schloff" it all off as scams and mumbo-jumbo is really a disservice to proper scientific methodological research.

Sorry, John, but it is your post that is mislabeled and promises what it does not deliver. Still, a good read, and an excellent example of pseudoscience... on the part of Michael Shermer.

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Subject	Author	Posted
How to Become a Psychic in One Day	John Wall	January 20, 2003 11:54AM
Re: How to Become a Psychic in One Day	Joe_S	January 20, 2003 03:16PM
Sorry, John	Joe_S	January 21, 2003 12:11AM
Re: Sorry, John	John Wall	January 21, 2003 04:09AM
Re: How to Become a Psychic in One Day	Tman	January 20, 2003 03:57PM
Re: How to Become a Psychic in One Day	Katherine Reece	January 20, 2003 04:52PM
Re: How to Become a Psychic in One Day	Garrett	January 20, 2003 05:54PM
Re: How to Become a Psychic in One Day	Katherine Reece	January 20, 2003 08:58PM
Re: How to Become a Psychic in One Day	Joe_S	January 21, 2003 12:19AM
Re: How to Become a Psychic in One Day	Bryan	January 20, 2003 08:19PM
Re: How to Become a Psychic in One Day	Tman	January 20, 2003 05:39PM
Re: How to Become a Psychic in One Day	Joanne Conman	January 20, 2003 07:24PM
Re: How to Become a Psychic in One Day	lone	January 20, 2003 07:02PM
Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 20, 2003 07:17PM
Re: Proving once and for all	John Wall	January 20, 2003 07:23PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 20, 2003 07:25PM
Re: Proving once and for all	John Wall	January 20, 2003 07:26PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 20, 2003 07:52PM
Re: Proving once and for all	John Wall	January 21, 2003 04:11AM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 21, 2003 08:10AM
Re: Proving once and for all	John Wall (aka 'Dipstick')	January 21, 2003 08:17AM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 21, 2003 01:12PM
Re: Proving once and for all	John Wall	January 21, 2003 01:20PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 21, 2003 02:13PM
Re: Proving once and for all	John Wall	January 21, 2003 02:26PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 21, 2003 02:38PM
Re: Proving once and for all	John Wall	January 21, 2003 02:43PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Michael Lehmann	January 21, 2003 02:52PM
:-)))) n/t	Joanne Conman	January 21, 2003 04:14PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Sophie	January 21, 2003 09:43PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 22, 2003 10:28AM
Re: Proving once and for all	Sophie	January 22, 2003 12:19PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 22, 2003 04:56PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Sophie	January 22, 2003 06:23PM
Part 2	Sophie	January 22, 2003 04:18PM
Re: Part 2	Joanne Conman	January 22, 2003 04:38PM
Re: Part 2	Sophie	January 22, 2003 06:25PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Tman	January 21, 2003 11:05AM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 21, 2003 01:08PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Tman	January 21, 2003 01:31PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 21, 2003 02:34PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Tman	January 21, 2003 02:20PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Tman	January 21, 2003 04:06PM
Re: Proving once and for all	Joanne Conman	January 21, 2003 05:16PM
False advertising...	Anthony	January 22, 2003 05:29AM
Re: False advertising...	John Wall	January 22, 2003 06:07AM
Re: False advertising...	Anthony	January 22, 2003 06:28AM
Re: False advertising...	John Wall	January 22, 2003 06:34AM
Re: False advertising...	Anthony	January 22, 2003 06:42AM
ps	Anthony	January 22, 2003 06:44AM
Re: ps	John Wall	January 22, 2003 06:55AM
Now hold on a minute...	Anthony	January 22, 2003 07:02AM
Re: Now hold on a minute...	John Wall	January 22, 2003 07:11AM
Re: Now hold on a minute...	Anthony	January 22, 2003 07:21AM
Re: Now hold on a minute...	John Wall	January 22, 2003 07:27AM
Again?	Anthony	January 22, 2003 07:34AM
Re: Again?	John Wall	January 22, 2003 08:04AM
Re: Again?	Anthony	January 22, 2003 09:22AM
Re: Again?	John Wall	January 22, 2003 09:28AM
LOL	Anthony	January 22, 2003 10:08AM
Re: LOL	John Wall	January 22, 2003 10:13AM
Okay	Anthony	January 22, 2003 10:21AM
You're simplistic n/t	John Wall	January 22, 2003 10:26AM
Thank you.	Anthony	January 22, 2003 10:27AM
Re: Proving once and for all	Tman	January 22, 2003 10:30AM
I agree.	Anthony	January 22, 2003 10:58AM
Re: Proving once and for all	Tman	January 22, 2003 10:37AM
Re: I agree.	Tman	January 22, 2003 11:11AM
I'm definitely not imagining it...	Anthony	January 22, 2003 02:58PM
Re: I'm definitely not imagining it...	Stephen Tonkin	January 22, 2003 03:16PM
Re: I'm definitely not imagining it...	Anthony	January 22, 2003 03:21PM
Corrected Response for Joanne-	Tman	January 22, 2003 11:15AM
Re: Corrected Response for Joanne-	Joanne Conman	January 22, 2003 04:19PM
Re: I'm definitely not imagining it...	Tman	January 22, 2003 04:34PM
Again, Tim...	Anthony	January 23, 2003 11:51AM
Re: Corrected Response for Joanne-	Tman	January 22, 2003 05:11PM
Re: Corrected Response for Joanne-	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 12:59PM
Re: Corrected Response for Joanne-	Tman	January 23, 2003 01:19PM
Re: Corrected Response for Joanne-	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 02:17PM
The perfect label...	Anthony	January 23, 2003 02:35PM
Re: The perfect label...	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 02:38PM
Re: The perfect label...	Anthony	January 23, 2003 02:51PM
Umm Anthony	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 03:52PM
Re: Umm Anthony	Anthony	January 23, 2003 03:59PM
Re: Umm Anthony	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 04:04PM
Bingo... my bad	Anthony	January 23, 2003 04:08PM
Re: Again, Tim...	Tman	January 23, 2003 02:09PM
Re: Again, Tim...	Anthony	January 23, 2003 02:48PM
Re: Again, Tim...	Sophie	January 23, 2003 03:06PM
Beautiful	Anthony	January 23, 2003 03:14PM
You mean Young and RubiCON?	Sophie	January 23, 2003 03:35PM
I smell...	Anthony	January 23, 2003 03:39PM
No you don't!	Sophie	January 23, 2003 03:45PM
Read TWICE. Post ONCE!	Anthony	January 23, 2003 03:47PM
Learning things the hard way.....	Tman	January 23, 2003 03:23PM
Fellow coyotes...	Sophie	January 23, 2003 03:30PM
(licking lips)	Anthony	January 23, 2003 03:36PM
:-) n/t	Sophie	January 23, 2003 03:39PM
Re: Fellow coyotes...	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 03:44PM
ROFL!!	Sophie	January 23, 2003 03:50PM
Pre-date...	Sophie	January 23, 2003 03:51PM
then all we need to do is	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 03:57PM
Re: then all we need to do is	Anthony	January 23, 2003 03:59PM
Re: then all we need to do is	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 04:07PM
Re: Learning things the hard way.....	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 03:42PM
Re: (licking lips)	Tman	January 23, 2003 03:45PM
Not YOU!	Anthony	January 23, 2003 03:54PM
Re: (licking lips)	Sophie	January 23, 2003 04:03PM
Re: (licking lips)	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 04:10PM
For Tim	Joanne Conman	January 23, 2003 04:17PM
Tim, Joanne	Sophie	January 23, 2003 04:44PM
Oops...	Sophie	January 23, 2003 04:49PM
Hey... you read my mind!	Anthony	January 23, 2003 04:52PM
I know, I know...	Sophie	January 23, 2003 05:02PM
Re: (licking lips)	Tman	January 23, 2003 04:10PM
Re: (licking lips)	Sophie	January 23, 2003 04:24PM

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