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James Van Praagh on Dr. Phil

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Yes, sadly, you read that correctly. Van Fraud, err Van Praagh is going to be on Dr. Phil. Unfortunately it is not going to deal with his psychological delusions, but will likely deal with bad cold readings to the audience, and, apparently Van Praagh discovers a ghost haunting the Dr. Phil studios. Dr. Phil said he was a skeptic about ghosts, but in the preview said something happened during the ghost hunt in the studio that shocked him. Hmmm, probably will hear an unidentifiable banging noise or something equally uninteresting.
 
Not too surprising. Two con men sucking up to each other. Both founding members of BCA, the Blatant Scumbags of America.
 
I've seen Dr. Phil here and there but don't know much about him. Is he known to be a jerk?
 
Eh, prove Van Praagh is a fraud. Until you do what you're saying is faith.

I've seen the guy on plenty of shows. He seems nice enough and seems to believe what he's doing.
 
AmyWilson said:
Eh, prove Van Praagh is a fraud. Until you do what you're saying is faith.

I've seen the guy on plenty of shows. He seems nice enough and seems to believe what he's doing.
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If you are seriously interested in this guy, then do a search on him across all sub-forums. You'll find out a lot.
 
AmyWilson said:
Eh, prove Van Praagh is a fraud. Until you do what you're saying is faith.

I've seen the guy on plenty of shows. He seems nice enough and seems to believe what he's doing.
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Can you provide evidence that Van Praagh isn't a fraud?

Hint: being nice enough and seeming to believe what he's doing isn't evidence that he's not a fraud.

-Bri
 
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I've seen Dr. Phil here and there but don't know much about him. Is he known to be a jerk?
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Yeah,bigtime. He is another one of these TV Psychologists who can diagnose somebody's mental problems on the basis of a five minute phone conversation.
He recently got bad press by trying to exploit the problems of Britney Spears for publicity.He tried to schedule what amounted to a session with Britney on His TV show until her family told him to go to hell.
He is a major scumbag.
 
Well, considering Dr. Phil is not even a allowed to practice clinical psychology, I do not understand how he has allowed to give psychological advice on his show.

Interesting facts about Dr. Douche, I mean Dr. Phil:

"In 1989, McGraw was sanctioned by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists for an ethical violation involving a 19-year-old patient and employee (see "Criticisms & controversies: Sanctioned for unethical behavior", below). Due to the sanctions, McGraw was unable to practice psychology independently."

"As of 2008, McGraw has not completed the conditions imposed by the Board of Examiners of Psychologists, and he is not licensed to practice psychology in Texas, California, or anywhere else."

"One professional psychologist filed a complaint with the California Board of Psychology alleging that Dr. Phil practiced clinical psychology without a license and violated doctor-patient privilege by discussing Spears' case with the media. He also started a petition to have the Dr. Phil show removed from the air."
 
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well and Van Pragh is super scum. At one TAM there was film of him contacting a dead child for the parents. A very young child.

I cried, and I think almost everyone else did.

When I think of Hell, I think of people like HIM being there. I can't even think clearly about those idiots, since the reason I joined JREF was because of damage of the most serious kind done by a psychic.

For Dr.Phil to have this man on, it's just sick.

My mom adores Dr.Phil (I don't know why). I'm sure I'm going to hear from her about how "THIS man is real, even if that other one wasn't".
 
I watched this show today...

Van Praagh is such a douchebag!

However, it seemed Dr Phil wasn't really buying any of it. They had one lady on who was obviously mentally ill, who thought she had a little spirit boy following her around. He was apparantly talking to her and constantly shocking her (she had to bury herself in multiple covers all over her body at night to avoid his shocks). Of course it was a previous psychic who told her this. Van Praagh did his usual cold/hot reading bs... only for Dr Phil to suggest she may have a mental disorder not a 10 year old boy spirit bothering her. Then Dr Phil asked Van Praagh how he knows its not a mental disorder, to which Van Praagh replied "Well... I'm Psychic". Dr Phil responded by questioning, "Well you didn't seem like you knew I was going to ask that question". :shocked: Van Praagh told the woman he would help her later, after the show (for a "reasonable" amount of coin I'm sure).

They also did a segment on someone who was addicted to Psychics. They estimated she phoned psychics 4 times a day and spent $4000 per year (good thing she didn't use Sylvia Browne, or else she would have spent $1,022,000 per year). Again Dr Phil actually seemed reasonable, calling these psychics frauds and charlatans... right in front of Van Praagh... If only Dr Phil had the balls to turn to Van Praagh and really challenge him... damn.

They closed the show off with some extremely weak cold reading by Van Praagh, and a very uninspired pitch by Dr Phil for Van Praagh's new book.

Overall... it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but it was clear Dr Phil was having trouble buying Van Praagh's bad performance.
 
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One question for everyone: I watched this episode and he guessed that some lady loved to do crossword puzzles. Now one can say that this was a mere coincidence, but I do not believe it was a coincidence. I am not say he is psychic, because I think he is the biggest douche in the universe besides John Edward. But, is there any other way he could of guessed that she liked to do crossword puzzles?
 
Having not seen it, I don't know exactly how he worded it or how big into them she said she was. But suggesting an older woman likes crossword puzzles is about as spectacular as getting a signal she likes hot tea.
 
Showmeproof said:
One question for everyone: I watched this episode and he guessed that some lady loved to do crossword puzzles. Now one can say that this was a mere coincidence, but I do not believe it was a coincidence. I am not say he is psychic, because I think he is the biggest douche in the universe besides John Edward. But, is there any other way he could of guessed that she liked to do crossword puzzles?
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He didn't guess she liked crossword puzzles. He just put crossword puzzles out there... it was the audience member who made the connection "who does crossword puzzles?". Well... it could have been anyone, her, her dad, brother, sister a friend, grandparent etc etc. No matter who she said it was, it would have counted as a "hit". You know, I'm sure pretty much everyone knows someone who likes crossword puzzles, therefore it is not really that risky of a guess. Plus we don't know how the program was edited, so we have no idea how many other guesses he got wrong before he got a hit with the crossword puzzles.
 
Showmeproof said:
Well, considering Dr. Phil is not even a allowed to practice clinical psychology, I do not understand how he has allowed to give psychological advice on his show.
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There's a disclaimer at the end of every show saying it's not meant to be psych advice but for entertainment purposes only bla bla bla.

In the beginning on Oprah he was alright, beating people upside the head with advise but his show has started to devolve into rating hungry freak shows with lots of hype, and he started whoring out his Christianity to appeal to the masses. It won't surprise me if he actually will run for office in any capacity in the future.

I'm also pretty sure he had his first wife's site shut down because she was calling him out on the hypocrisy about divorce. I remember her selling "Wife of a Phil-anderer" coffee cups.
 
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These talkshow hosts aren't people I look up to. Look at how Oprah didn't ask Tom Cruise any tough questions about scientology. I mean, there are horrible things that cult does and oprah made it seem like a normal religion.

It doesn't suprise me that Dr. Phill will have this fake on his show.
 
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