Posted by Cam W. on April 17, 2001, at 18:58:01
In reply to Re: a question for anyone to answer, posted by Gracie2 on April 17, 2001, at 17:23:49
Gracie - If this James Van Praagh had "proved" he was an authentic medium he would have taken James Randi's million dollar prize for any evidence of true psychic phenomena.
Harry Houdini proved years ago how psychics worked (cold readings, accomplices, etc) and had outed the best of his day. Today James Randi, Penn & Teller, Martin Gardiner, Paul Kurtz, Joe Nichols, et al, have shown the tricks of every one of today's psychics.
Sorry, but psychic phenomena have never held up under strict scientific scrutiny. This is not to say that scientists have not been fooled in the past, but even these events have been shown to be nothing more than parlor tricks.
- Cam
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