(August 2, 2015 at 11:32 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Ahhh, psychics.
I heard a couple of women exchanging medium stories on the bus the other day. It still seems to be as accepted by the general public as religion was around 150 years ago. It makes me sadface.
It makes me sadface too. Some of these mediums are very good, even to moderately skeptical people. If the person doesn't know what to look for, and they're going in for a certain answer, they usually tell what they want to know right off the bat, when they first meet the psychic. Then, with clever cold reading, body language reading, and with careful attention paid to every detail what the person is saying, someone can come across as "knowing" things that can't be known. The person doesn't seem to realize, that when they answer a question they reveal too much information, and the psychic has something to go off of. When, in the first place, they shouldn't be answering any questions, they should be saying, "You're the psychic, you tell me."
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
