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Thursday, Jun 14, 2012 5:21 PM UTC We’ve been brainwashed It's no accident that Americans widely underestimate inequality. The rich prefer it that way Joseph E. Comments: Comment by Victor, 28 May, 2006. In your 'Sensing Murder' articles the allegedly rebuttals are technically . They are not worth anything. Where We Stand Reading: A Lifelong Love By Randi Weingarten HTML . For the Love of Reading Engaging Students in a Lifelong Pursuit By Daniel T. A Friend in First Book HTML . I read Book Whisperer because it was mentioned in an article I recently read. It was like striking gold. Thank you for writing it. I have taught for sixteen years now and coming out of college I felt that teaching reading was. I may have been an early beneficiary of Keith Thomas’s working methods as a historian, which he explained in his Diary (LRB, 10 June). Some years ago I tried out my first paper on the.
Silly Beliefs - Sensing Murder. Comment by Victor, 2. May, 2. 00. 6. In your . They are not worth anything.
The only difference between psychics and magicians is that the magician will tell you it's a trick. You will have to PROVE that. When a psychic specifically identifies names and Rebecca states that came from the psychic him/herself !
Instead, work out the probabilities of that coming by chance. Now, if you add all the correctly identified names, issues, localities and work out the probabilities . Being a retired lawyer, you seem to base your arguments on the law and court proceedings, yet science, reason and critical thinking is not bound by the law and the outcome is not determined by who can afford the better lawyer. That said, we believe any decent judge would throw out the case for the psychics as totally unreliable and their evidence of talking to ghosts as worse than hearsay. I myself had a reading with Deb Webber, she never told me anything, I told her everything and she give me a reading through that. So to prove that maybe she was faking I called her several months later and made out I was pregnant with triplets, owned a hairdressing salon and was with husband no 2, the 1st had passed away.
She said one of the triplets would be smaller than the other 2, I would sell my business and invest the money and then work as a mobile h/dresser or for someone else and my dead 1st husband set me up with hubby no 2 and that money would be tight and I would have to get baby clothes from charity. This was all fictional, lies I gave her and yet she still managed to read for me. Says a lot doesn't it.
I bet you I could ring her next month and say I'm a clown in a circus and she would be able to give me a reading from that. She's amazing isn't she. I would love to hear what you think. Comment by the 'Silly Beliefs' Team, 2. Jul, 2. 00. 6. Hi Melissa, thanks for your comments on Deb Webber. I couldn't agree with you more. The client provides all the information to these fake psychics and they then just feed it back to them, a method known as 'cold reading'.
I guess that most psychics work on the assumptions that only believers consult them, that the believer will do their utmost to find some meaning in their vague pronouncements and that those of a skeptical nature wouldn't waste their money. I've also thought of writing some bogus letter to those psychic pages in the likes of the 'Woman's Weekly' magazine but what would it prove? Only I would know that she was talking rubbish, and I already believe that, but to all the readers it would be another example of her psychic powers.
They asked her to contact a dead husband, a dead daughter and a dead sister, respectively. All of these people were fictional, yet Webber managed to get in touch with each of them. That's quite a success rate. And obviously gullible people believe her as she's still working as a psychic. He got an actor to pretend that he could channel the spirit of some long dead person. The actor did public shows in Aussie and went on TV shows like 6. Minutes etc to demonstrate his skills.
Then Randi broke the news that it was all a hoax and everyone was very embarrassed. No one checked the claims that the channeller made, either regarding his descriptions of his past life or of his real claims to fame in the USA. It would have been simple to determine that this guy didn't exist in the US and that everything he claimed was a lie, but no one did.
It proved that the media just pump this crap out as entertainment. They often don't take it seriously but unfortunately many viewers do.
They came up to him on the street and apologised for those that attacked his channelling skills. Even the evidence of fraud and a confession is not enough for some believers. It's depressing to think that people this stupid are still allowed to vote and serve on juries. We were going to write up a few more episodes but I'm not sure whether it would be worth our time. As the Randi bit above shows, a million transcripts wouldn't convince a true believer and our example episodes are probably sufficient to convince those of a skeptical nature. I would love to see a write up on fundamentalists. If you haven't seen this site yet (Extremeprophetic.
We're just putting the finishing touches on an essay looking at Magnetic Therapy. Once that's finished we'll look at writing a bit on fundamentalists. Possibly starting with Ian Wishart. He's written quite a bit on Creationism, Intelligent Design, evil homosexuals etc in his Investigate magazine. Then there's the Destiny Church and the Seventh Day Adventists with their .
There is just so many to pick on. But no, they were serious. Just how gullible, unintelligent or desperate do you have to be to believe this crap?
I guess that's the advantage with religion, you don't need good reasons to believe something, just blind faith. I was wondering whether I could use it (with credits given) at badpsychics. We've done a little bit on Deb Webber and your article would help to reinforce her lack of psychic abilities.
We're happy to play a small part in helping to expose these fake psychics and to encourage people to think critically about what they are seeing. Great to find a kindred spirit (if you'll pardon the expression) across the Tasman. I'd like to know a few things about the NZ version of . How many seasons has it had? We only had one season (6 eps) in Australia and they only showed them at random non rating times. As I've said in my articles and on the Wikipedia entry, the Australian cases were all very high profile.
Before I deleted it as . Have any of the cases been solved since the show? I hope you haven't received too much hate mail about your Sensing Murder article. I got a bit, people telling me I was protecting murderers etc.
Although we haven't heard anyone say they thought the program actually solved any murder, plenty have said that the police are following up positive leads from the show and most believe the psychics were amazing in what they revealed. I'm continually surprised at how easily some people are fooled. It's a great pity that we don't teach critical thinking in our schools. I just hope I never end up in a court of law.
Imagine if people that can't see the flaws in programs like . Although they didn't mention it, I think the Aussie series and the NZ series were both run as one series here, with alternating countries each week. The format was identical. I'm sure that anything you wrote about the Aussie version would apply to ours as well. They were run in prime time, had quite a following among idiots and the NZ version even won an award at our annual TV awards show. Series II returns to our screens in 2. Are the cases honestly ?
I'm sure they would have been big news at the time, but I personally couldn't remember any of the cases. That's not to say that others couldn't. They did happen one, two or nearly three decades ago, but then murders weren't so common back then, we are a small country and many people do tend to remember them, especially if you live in the city where they occurred as psychic Kelvin Cruickshank did for one of the cases. Have any of the cases been solved since the show?
I'm sure the media would have made a big deal of it if any had been solved. I also guarantee they won't start the next series by recapping what real progress has been made on the cases from the previous series. If any claims are made, they will be as bogus and misleading as the show proper. I have 8 episodes on DVD — 3 NZ and 5 Aussie. In these episodes, psychics Kelvin Cruickshank, Debbie Malone, Sue Nicholson and Deb Webber featured in the NZ series. Psychics Debbie Malone, Scott Russell Hill, Deb Webber, Ruth Wilson and Barbara Neilson featured in the Australian series.
Debbie Malone and Deb Webber appeared in both the Australian and the NZ series. There may have been others in other episodes. Comment by Jane, 2. May, 2. 00. 7. I am writing with reference to your comments regarding Sensing Murder. Why don't you just calm down a little and have some faith somethings can't be rationally explained.
Leave some room in your heart for mystery. It was to show that what the psychics appeared to do on 'Sensing Murder' can most definitely be explained rationally. We don't need to have faith in their psychic abilities because we can hear the TV production crew giving them the answers.
This is called cheating. We can watch them consistently fail to come up with the names of the victims, or their family and most importantly, the name of the murderer. We can hear the host of the show lying to us and misleading us. There is nothing on the show that can't be explained by reason and critical thinking. Admittedly there are times when the psychic appears to say something surprising but we are never shown what he or she says before or after this statement.
The producers of shows like this blankly refuse to give skeptics access to the entire TV footage. We only get to see what was edited for TV.
If the psychic abilities are real, then what are the producers hiding? They didn't provide one single clue that the police could make use of. Out of 1. 2 murder cases, not one case has been solved in NZ or Australia. If their psychic abilities are real, why didn't they find at least one murderer? This is a 1. 00% failure rate. There is not one well- documented case worldwide of a psychic solving any crime, and even if there was, there is no denying that none of the 'Sensing Murder' cases have been solved.
Even if you do believe that psychic abilities exist, it is perfectly obvious that they weren't used on 'Sensing Murder'. Even if you do support the notion of psychics, there is no good reason to support those featured in 'Sensing Murder'.
I suspect you would tell them that you don't want the thief's identity to be a mystery, you want to know who he is and to recover your money. Even with investigation the thief's identity may remain a mystery, but I'm sure you would at least try to resolve it, wanting to determine the cause of your loss if at all possible.