A great story about how a skeptic group set a trap for a famous psychic/dead person talker a la John Edward.
https://www.csicop.org/specialarticl..._-_thomas_john
Summary:
They created a fake backstory of the woman having a dead twin named Andy and her husband having a recently deceased father. That's pretty much all THEY knew about it. Meanwhile, they created a sham facebook account for her where there was a bunch of discussion (by their collaborators, they never saw any of it) of her upcoming visit to see the psychic guy, and in that course of that discussion there were a lot of faux details shared about them.
So they go to the "reading" and sure enough, the psychic brings up her supposed dead twin brother and her husband's dead father and starts rattling off a bunch of details about them... that only existed on Facebook. Whoops. Amazing psychic guys, so good at hot readings....
The story is apparently going to be in the NYT this weekend.
https://www.csicop.org/specialarticl..._-_thomas_john
Summary:
They created a fake backstory of the woman having a dead twin named Andy and her husband having a recently deceased father. That's pretty much all THEY knew about it. Meanwhile, they created a sham facebook account for her where there was a bunch of discussion (by their collaborators, they never saw any of it) of her upcoming visit to see the psychic guy, and in that course of that discussion there were a lot of faux details shared about them.
So they go to the "reading" and sure enough, the psychic brings up her supposed dead twin brother and her husband's dead father and starts rattling off a bunch of details about them... that only existed on Facebook. Whoops. Amazing psychic guys, so good at hot readings....
The story is apparently going to be in the NYT this weekend.
via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/2IFV6I3
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