Michael Shermer Debunks James Van Praagh & Psychics

Michael Shermer explains how psychic James Van Praagh appears to talk to the dead by using such mentalism tricks as cold reading and hot reading.

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• psychics
• paranormal
• pseudoscience
• science

[drstrangelove09]

It's perfectly fine to be closed minded to preposterous things.

[BlameRepublicans]

I am open minded to all scientifically demonstrable things.

[BatmanOneOhOne]

@RastaBloodification Psychologists are scientists who study the brain. Psychiatrists are the ones who put you on a couch, charge you like $200 and then say you're only depressed because you wanna bang your mum. I'm with you: Freudian psychiatry is mostly horseshit, but psychology is legitimate science.

[vgstratocaster]

When your dead, your dead. No coming back to talk to loved ones. Or giving messages beyond the grave.

[thewarriorsrok]

Who is this narrator? I recognize his voice from basically every bullshit TV show there is.

[Elementboy6522]

I have a blue unicorn in my backyard. Wait! A-a-a-a-a... Don't say its incorrect now! Be OPEN minded!

[RastaBloodification]

Psycho-logists are just like fake psychics except they are far worse and charge way more money. Psychologists make up shit as well and take advantage of people who are vulnerable. The sad thing is, people of science can't prove anything either. They have no idea of the after life. I think James Van Praagh is one of the few genuine psychics out there. I would rather spend my money on him than a psychologist any day.

[Demelza1964]

Skeptics are fearful of the "afterlife"?! How funny! It's the other way around. People who are fearful of death need to believe that death is not the end. The "Pascal's wager" approach is just as fearful. Carl Sagan said "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (he may have been paraphrasing someone else). If someone wants me to believe in life after death then they need to show me proof, not tell me I need to take it on "faith".

[dmagron]

@Obelisk2290

Yea, but I think Dawkins phrased it better.

[dmagron]

@Paghmani1sher

And you have a terrorist in your background picture. At least you tell the truth. Good for you.

[ebrobaru]

@carriemaizey Yes you should.

[carriemaizey]

@ebrobaru Well, what an intelligent and comprehensive overview of psi phenomena. Dear me, how I have missed out on that 'adult conversation' with you. I'm kicking myself LOL!