You enter the theatre to hear what the psychic you have come to see can tell the audience. You’ve paid your entry fee, milled around excitedly in the lobby beforehand and now the lights are dimming. The psychic gives you the preamble – negative energies interfere with the spirits, no guarantees that your loved one [...]
Archive of posts tagged skeptics
What Is Hot Reading?
13 January 2009, 11:19 pm
Filed under Skeptical Stories.
Tagged hot reading, psychic, psychics, psychology, reading, sceptics, skeptic, skeptical, skeptics
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What Is Cold Reading?
4 January 2009, 5:22 pm
I’ve been pretty lax in my posting. Back in 2007, I posted about the Forer Effect and had every intention of following it up. Now you know why I don’t make New Year’s resolutions! To rectify that, let’s talk about cold reading. With the Forer (or Barnum) Effect, we saw how making generalised, non-specific statements [...]
Filed under Skeptical Stories.
Tagged cold reading, psychic, psychics, psychology, reading, sceptics, skeptic, skeptical, skeptics
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Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2007
8 April 2008, 10:39 pm
Time for a little bit of politics. April 2008 is a great year for sceptics in the UK. Now, does anyone know why? I’ll give you a hint – it’s in the post title. Up to this month, the UK had something called the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 which replaced the Witchcraft Act 1735. Laws [...]
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Tagged consumer protection, fraud, Fraudulent Mediums Act, Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951, mediums, sceptcs, skeptics, Witchcraft Act 1735
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