Skeptiholic

Today as I was looking through my Inbox I saw my Google alert for Psychics and noticed one article in particular . Apparently a Psychic in England named Sally Morgan claimed to have predicted Princess Diana’s death. First of all, Princess Diana died in 1997, that is over 11 years ago. This fact alone completely invalidates the claim. Anyone can predict anything that already happened, and do it with a 100% success rate. If that wasn’t bad enough here is her “prediction” of the car crash: “I could see a car. Blackness seeming to crowd in on it. I wasn’t able to make out the car, just the darkness of its colour. And there was a body” “”My hands flew to my mouth. ‘Oh my God, Fiona,’ I repeated. ‘I can see them. They’re pulling a body out of a car.’ I saw the body of a woman on the ground. I knew it to be the queen.” First, last time I checked, Princess Diana wasn’t the queen. Secondly thats a very vague prediction. Lets say that she was doing a reading, she could say, I see a car, and I see Blackness crowding around it. THen follow that by asking if the person drives at night a lot, if they drive through tunnels, if they drive a black car, if they have had an accident, if a person they know has had an accident; either recently or in the past. This is how cold reading works, they through out a claim and use you to get it to fit that claim. Some people are better at it than others. Some people, like Sylvia Brown, fall flat on their face.

On a side note it feels great to be back. I should be posting more next week. I have fall break and I will have more time on my hands.