This is a bit off topic, but hey, it's in response to T'ai Chi, the guy with whom every conversation sounds eerily similar.
This is just you not agreeing with what they charge for their services.
So?
So I'd rather be scammed for $10 than for $200? Pointing out the particularly ludicrous amount being charged is just insult to injury. The simple fact is she can't do what she claims, and yet still makes money on it. That for a similar amount of money you can get actual professional advice from someone who has a good chance of knowing what they're talking about and who has actual legal obligations to provide their service well just demonstrates the silliness of the whole concept of paying someone to pretend to talk to the dead, or to pretend that by looking at your hand, some cards, or the stars that they can tell you anything you don't already know.
And yes, I'm gonna go around calling every police department in the world on every palm reader, tarot card shuffler, and assorted BS artist in their jurisdiction because I have an infinite amount of time to waste on telling people what they either already know about or wouldn't listen to me about anyway, particularly because I have no standing to press charges against any of them.
I know of at least 2 places around here where people have neon "palm reader" signs up in their windows along major roads. Clearly the relevant authorities are already aware of the people, and haven't gotten rid of them. In point of fact my hometown tried for many years to get the local one to move or at least take down the horribly tacky signs in the windows and couldn't even manage that. Front of that place looked like a cross between a bar and a whorehouse.
The law isn't really set up to deal with paying money for someone to talk to you. Fraud is awfully hard to prove when it's something so nebulous being payed for in the first place. And really, getting the government involved is just in general unlikely to solve a problem that a large chunk of the population doesn't want stopped. Though the idea of back alley psychics is kinda funny. "Hey man, wanna dime reading?" Grainy black and white educational films on the dangers of "psychic madness." "Just say no... to tea leaves." "Mothers Against Palmistry"
Back on the topic, I didn't know Randi performed in the Philippines, I'd only heard of the psychic surgery debunking. So I've learned something today. It is kind of amusing that Mr. Licauco was unable to get basic facts correct, lending one to automatically question the rest of the article. In point of fact I seem to recall a couple reporters getting national attention in the US for making up their stories and sources... perhaps the Philippine Daily Inquirer is rather less demanding of it's reporters? I suppose if it's a sleazy tabloid then there's little point in trying to shame them into doing better.
