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My friend just went to a medium......
vespine:
Part of the problem that I've encountered when having conversations with people who believe in psychics is they "know" there are a lot of frauds and people who are not "genuine", but the ones they've seen are the real deal.
341gerbig:
--- Quote from: vespine on Jun 24, 2012, 10:45:33 PM ---Part of the problem that I've encountered when having conversations with people who believe in psychics is they "know" there are a lot of frauds and people who are not "genuine", but the ones they've seen are the real deal.
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Bingo and Ditto for me
khendar:
--- Quote from: 341gerbig on Jun 24, 2012, 10:50:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: vespine on Jun 24, 2012, 10:45:33 PM ---Part of the problem that I've encountered when having conversations with people who believe in psychics is they "know" there are a lot of frauds and people who are not "genuine", but the ones they've seen are the real deal.
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Bingo and Ditto for me
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Classic No True Scotsman.
seaotter:
Just kills me. If you show me how the trick is done.... Fool me once.....
vespine:
This is sort of on topic, just doing a bit of a search I found this:
Ray Hyman reviews "The Afterlife Experiments" a book supporting the "talking to the dead" hypothesis by Gary Schwartz PhD (Psych Harvard). (TV psychic John Edwards was one of the participants of these studies)
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/how_not_to_test_mediums_critiquing_the_afterlife_experiments/
Reply by Gary Schwartz
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/how_not_to_review_mediumship_research/
Hyman's reply to the above
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/hymans_reply_to_schwartz/
I've only ready half the 1st article but it's quite interesting so far.. Probably doesn't help with the OPs (or mine) specific query, but further demonstrates just how nuanced and difficult such a subject can be to properly and skeptically assess.
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