Psychic Labeling
There are a group of individuals who actively manipulate fellow citizens to make money by labeling themselves psychics. Montel Williams, the host of a show who brought a claimed psychic named Sylvia Brown onto the screen, said that he casted her because he found her funny. Unfortunately, this kind of manipulation takes a toll on the viewers when fake psychics give information such as, “your child has been sold into a human trafficking circle,” especially when they end up being wrong.
The media has a great deal to do with the perpetuating belief that claimed psychics can reach out to the dead. Most research, including but not limited to the research of the great magician Houdini and former claimed psychic M. Lamar Keene, have proven the claimants …show more content…
For example, he states that spiritualists will hire someone to go to their victim’s house and deliver a bouquet of flowers. Often times, they will then ask to go into the bathroom, or another silly gimmick to get inside of the house. Once they are in, they will steal anything that they believe has sentimental value but not monetary value (as that would risk greater chances to be reported to the police). Once they obtain a sentimental object, they will then allow it to reappear in the next session. On the other hand, they might even hide it somewhere else in the house and tell the victim that they will find it at that …show more content…
A strong piece of evidence is Houdini’s test code. He, after exposing many psychics, strongly believed that if psychics had real powers to communicate with the dead, a psychic would be able to retrieve codes that he had given many of his acquaintances and loved ones, including his wife. Although all of the code-receivers attempted to get Houdini’s special code from any psychic they met, none of the psychics who supposedly communicated with Houdini could retrieve a single code. From all of this, the scientific community holds that psychic powers fall under pseudoscience, and that using the accumulated evidence against psychics, the truth should be displayed if a psychic is found
The media has a great deal to do with the perpetuating belief that claimed psychics can reach out to the dead. Most research, including but not limited to the research of the great magician Houdini and former claimed psychic M. Lamar Keene, have proven the claimants …show more content…
For example, he states that spiritualists will hire someone to go to their victim’s house and deliver a bouquet of flowers. Often times, they will then ask to go into the bathroom, or another silly gimmick to get inside of the house. Once they are in, they will steal anything that they believe has sentimental value but not monetary value (as that would risk greater chances to be reported to the police). Once they obtain a sentimental object, they will then allow it to reappear in the next session. On the other hand, they might even hide it somewhere else in the house and tell the victim that they will find it at that …show more content…
A strong piece of evidence is Houdini’s test code. He, after exposing many psychics, strongly believed that if psychics had real powers to communicate with the dead, a psychic would be able to retrieve codes that he had given many of his acquaintances and loved ones, including his wife. Although all of the code-receivers attempted to get Houdini’s special code from any psychic they met, none of the psychics who supposedly communicated with Houdini could retrieve a single code. From all of this, the scientific community holds that psychic powers fall under pseudoscience, and that using the accumulated evidence against psychics, the truth should be displayed if a psychic is found