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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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Mon Jun 8, 2015, 02:29 PM Jun 2015

Writer bullshits four "psychics," all four just make excuses. [View all]

Naturally.

I Asked Psychics to Connect with My Non-Existent Dead Sister

I was 13 when my mom dragged my brother and I to a "psychic." We were visiting family in Malaysia, and somewhere amongst the palm oil plantations was the house of an old woman who claimed she could channel Buddha. My mother was enthralled during the hour-long ordeal, during which the woman rolled her eyes often so the whites were showing, dropped her voice a few octaves, and made astonishingly mundane statements that could've applied to anyone (examples: our house had ants out front; my grandma was old and having some health problems). Combined with my love of Harry Houdini ( who spent the last few years of his life debunking psychics and mediums) and teen angst that made me hate everything my parents liked, the experience left me convinced that psychics were con artists who separated vulnerable and desperate people from their cash in exchange for poor acting.

http://www.vice.com/read/i-asked-psychics-to-connect-with-my-non-existent-dead-sister

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