Kodiak
Illuminator
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John Stossel sent this to me in a e-mail last night:
"...Then Bill Ritter quizzes the hottest psychic of the moment, John Edward. Edward makes big bucks claiming he "talks to the dead" on his syndicated TV show. His audiences are often convinced he's speaking to someone's dead uncle or boyfriend. Edward says it's not his job to be right all the time; his job is to be a medium and to pass on the information. Ritter assembled a group for Edward and he did make some connections for them … but he had a lot more misses. I was pleased that Ritter then invited Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society, to comment on Edward's "cold reading." Shermer says that so-called psychics rely on unleashing lots of numbers, names, illnesses, events-things that are bound to resonate with at least someone-until he finds a "hit." Then audiences are impressed. Thank goodness for the Skeptics Society, which offers a more rational explanation for Edward's hits, and continually uses science to challenge claims of the paranormal."
"...Then Bill Ritter quizzes the hottest psychic of the moment, John Edward. Edward makes big bucks claiming he "talks to the dead" on his syndicated TV show. His audiences are often convinced he's speaking to someone's dead uncle or boyfriend. Edward says it's not his job to be right all the time; his job is to be a medium and to pass on the information. Ritter assembled a group for Edward and he did make some connections for them … but he had a lot more misses. I was pleased that Ritter then invited Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society, to comment on Edward's "cold reading." Shermer says that so-called psychics rely on unleashing lots of numbers, names, illnesses, events-things that are bound to resonate with at least someone-until he finds a "hit." Then audiences are impressed. Thank goodness for the Skeptics Society, which offers a more rational explanation for Edward's hits, and continually uses science to challenge claims of the paranormal."
