You know, if a medium came to me with a personal message from my granmother (either, they're both dead) that could only apply to me, I'll remember it to my grave.
I am not making up anything. The messages I got from my grandmother were mostly just comfort and advice. So they were not particularly memorable, and they were a long time ago in the 1970s.
So you're going with the "no evidence is necessary to prove my assertion, no amount of evidence is sufficient to disprove it" line then.
Again, if it was personal and unique to you, you'd remember. The only person you're fooling is yourself.
Nobody thinks that the messages you got were wrong. They were just comfort and advice given by the fraud medium, and you took it as real because you wanted to think it was real. This is what mediums do, and many do it very well.
And therefore not particularly hard to fake. You don't have to suffer from schizophrenia to be taken in by that. You just have to be gullible.
I'm guessing the reason the messages from his grandmother were "not particularly memorable" is because they were not, even to him, things only his grandmother could have told him.
That's assuming Scorpion had any interest in actually testing them (or his faith); it seems pretty clear he does not. And even so...hasn't he said something to the effect that testing the spirits offends them somehow, so they wouldn't respond, or give false answers? I may be mixing him up with some other wooster, but it seems like a common cop-out for them.
The reason mediums give people generally nonspecific messages of comfort and advice is that it's easy to make them apply to anybody, and easy to make them stick. It's an easy, low-effort gotcha that requires neither prior knowledge nor a great deal of imagination.
I would also hazard the guess that if something happens to his brain, his thinking is affected. In fact, we know that brain damage can completely alter the personality of a person, which should not happen if his spirit was doing the thinking.
I don't think the claim was about brain damage, although what you say is inarguably true. A normal brain doing brain things produces data we can see via electroencephalography, electrocorticography, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. Something "using the brain" in any way that affects how the brain operates or how the brain registers sensation or mood is susceptible to investigation by means of that data. We can register such simple effects as closing your eyes with such crude tools as EEG. And we can feed tiny amounts of electricity back through EEG contacts, or apply precise magnetic fields, and obtain a subjective change in sensation that correlates to measurable electrochemical factors.
As can mental illness, such as schizophrenia.
What do you know about schizophrenia? I fought my way off heavy medication against psychiatrists advice during the 1970s.
