It has come to my attention that you are planning to do a show Monday, Oct. 15, promoting the use of psychics to help in cases of missing persons. I strongly urge you to reconsider.
There is no reason to believe that so-called "psychics" have any ability to help locate missing persons. There is every reason to believe the only ability they have is to delude people - including themselves often enough - and bring about real harm.
The harm should the psychic's guesses be believed, of diverting searchers' time and efforts from useful clues, is, of course, very real; the harm, emotional and financial, when families become dependent on a psychic's messages of false hope and bogus information, is, of course, very real; the harm by doing this show, of advertising these sociopaths as legitimate options for vulnerable families, is, of course, very real.
But, so is the potential for good a show like yours could do by exposing them.
Please, for the sake of all the families out there who will surely be harmed by it, do not do this show. Run a rerun or something instead Monday. Then get in touch with projectjason.org and the James Randi Educational Foundation: there are plenty of folks here ready and willing to work with you to put together a show on the reality of missing persons and the dangers posed to them by psychic predators. Wouldn't that be a great show, and wouldn't that do some real good for these families, instead of the harm the show you're planning is sure to do.
I think these families have suffered enough. Please choose good over harm.
p.s. Because I have exactly as much psychic ability as the psychics you have invited to your show, I am going to make a bold prediction: that, in spite of this email and others condemning it, you will go ahead with the show. Please prove me wrong.
