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	<title>Comments on: Psychics: Why Believe Them At All?</title>
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		<title>By: Kian Gray</title>
		<link>http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2009/11/psychics-why-believe-them-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-3906</link>
		<dc:creator>Kian Gray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i like the magic tricks of David Blaine but Chris Angel is much better.;;,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i like the magic tricks of David Blaine but Chris Angel is much better.;;,</p>
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		<title>By: Damian</title>
		<link>http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2009/11/psychics-why-believe-them-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2248</link>
		<dc:creator>Damian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To be fair to Derek, his turn on last week&#039;s TV Burp almost makes me forgive him for everything he&#039;s ever done...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be fair to Derek, his turn on last week&#8217;s TV Burp almost makes me forgive him for everything he&#8217;s ever done&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Gittins</title>
		<link>http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2009/11/psychics-why-believe-them-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2243</link>
		<dc:creator>Gittins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nope, but I&#039;ve listened to all the skeptics with a K podcasts, if that counts for anything.

Being the football fan you are Marsh, what&#039;s your take on this one then?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8364226.stm

&quot;Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie has flown to Serbia for a novel form of treatment - placenta fluid is to be dripped on his injured ankle.&quot;

Sounds like a deleted scene from one of the Saw movies.

A bit at the bottom also caught my eye, when someone from Bristol University said that usually we would use acupuncture. Because sticking pins in him would really sort out a torn ligament, right?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nope, but I&#8217;ve listened to all the skeptics with a K podcasts, if that counts for anything.</p>
<p>Being the football fan you are Marsh, what&#8217;s your take on this one then?<br />
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8364226.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8364226.stm</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie has flown to Serbia for a novel form of treatment &#8211; placenta fluid is to be dripped on his injured ankle.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sounds like a deleted scene from one of the Saw movies.</p>
<p>A bit at the bottom also caught my eye, when someone from Bristol University said that usually we would use acupuncture. Because sticking pins in him would really sort out a torn ligament, right?</p>
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		<title>By: Marsh</title>
		<link>http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2009/11/psychics-why-believe-them-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2240</link>
		<dc:creator>Marsh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ahh, Gittins, clearly not a listener to Righteous Indignation then! Where I spoke about this story in detail. Expect to see it on the blog on Saturday (it&#039;s scheduled you see...)

Still, thanks for the linkery!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahh, Gittins, clearly not a listener to Righteous Indignation then! Where I spoke about this story in detail. Expect to see it on the blog on Saturday (it&#8217;s scheduled you see&#8230;)</p>
<p>Still, thanks for the linkery!</p>
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		<title>By: Gittins</title>
		<link>http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2009/11/psychics-why-believe-them-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2237</link>
		<dc:creator>Gittins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/06/police-psychic-leads-death-ghost

&quot;A police force has defended spending £20,000 investigating a man&#039;s death after his ghost was said to have told psychics that gangsters had forced him to drink petrol and bleach.&quot;

A man in Wales committed suicide after a fight with his girlfriend, but psychics told police he was murdered by a gangster called &quot;Tony Fox&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/06/police-psychic-leads-death-ghost" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/06/police-psychic-leads-death-ghost</a></p>
<p>&#8220;A police force has defended spending £20,000 investigating a man&#8217;s death after his ghost was said to have told psychics that gangsters had forced him to drink petrol and bleach.&#8221;</p>
<p>A man in Wales committed suicide after a fight with his girlfriend, but psychics told police he was murdered by a gangster called &#8220;Tony Fox&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: LZ</title>
		<link>http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2009/11/psychics-why-believe-them-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2236</link>
		<dc:creator>LZ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I propose that henceforth Mr. Acorah should be referred to as Dreck Acorah. Why? From the dictionary....

dreck  –noun 
Slang. 1. excrement; dung. 
2. worthless trash; junk. 

Q.E. and, if you will, D. I thank you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I propose that henceforth Mr. Acorah should be referred to as Dreck Acorah. Why? From the dictionary&#8230;.</p>
<p>dreck  –noun<br />
Slang. 1. excrement; dung.<br />
2. worthless trash; junk. </p>
<p>Q.E. and, if you will, D. I thank you.</p>
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		<title>By: Colin H</title>
		<link>http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2009/11/psychics-why-believe-them-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2232</link>
		<dc:creator>Colin H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shermer&#039;s book is one of those that I will eventually get round to reading. Like so many!

I think what got to me was that even the audiences on Derek Acorah&#039;s shows seem unconvinced. You can almost see them thinking, why the hell have I come here? Yet the media still treat him like he&#039;s credible. Same goes for so many well-known psychics. I wonder whether the reason people don&#039;t publicly criticise psychics is because they&#039;re worried about upsetting the very small number of grief-stricken widows who believe in it. No-one wants to tell someone in mourning that they&#039;re being tricked, because it may come across in the wrong way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shermer&#8217;s book is one of those that I will eventually get round to reading. Like so many!</p>
<p>I think what got to me was that even the audiences on Derek Acorah&#8217;s shows seem unconvinced. You can almost see them thinking, why the hell have I come here? Yet the media still treat him like he&#8217;s credible. Same goes for so many well-known psychics. I wonder whether the reason people don&#8217;t publicly criticise psychics is because they&#8217;re worried about upsetting the very small number of grief-stricken widows who believe in it. No-one wants to tell someone in mourning that they&#8217;re being tricked, because it may come across in the wrong way.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Guess what? I have done a little bit of researching and found a comment on a psychic blog from a former fan of Derek- it is quite revealing. After reading it the guy posted back informing the bloggers that Derrek&#039;s missus (also his manager) threatened to sue if he didn&#039;t remove it.
Here is the link- it is quite a good read and only takes a couple of minutes.
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33281

HaDeHaHa</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guess what? I have done a little bit of researching and found a comment on a psychic blog from a former fan of Derek- it is quite revealing. After reading it the guy posted back informing the bloggers that Derrek&#8217;s missus (also his manager) threatened to sue if he didn&#8217;t remove it.<br />
Here is the link- it is quite a good read and only takes a couple of minutes.<br />
<a href="http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33281" rel="nofollow">http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33281</a></p>
<p>HaDeHaHa</p>
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		<title>By: Damian</title>
		<link>http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2009/11/psychics-why-believe-them-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2230</link>
		<dc:creator>Damian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I notice he still refers to the readings he does from objects as &quot;psychometry&quot;, even though the correct term is now &quot;Token Object Reading&quot;. This was renamed so as to avoid any confusion with  &quot;psychometrics&quot; ... perhaps Sam should inform Derek of this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I notice he still refers to the readings he does from objects as &#8220;psychometry&#8221;, even though the correct term is now &#8220;Token Object Reading&#8221;. This was renamed so as to avoid any confusion with  &#8220;psychometrics&#8221; &#8230; perhaps Sam should inform Derek of this.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Colin. Calm down dear. &quot;Why do people believe in weird things?&quot; is a book by Michael Shermer. For those who don&#039;t know Shermer, he is the editor of Skeptic Magazine and author of several books (quite a few have recently been released in Audible form as they are recordings of his lectures).  This book would be a first stop in finding out why people go for this woo. He has actually investigated quite a lot of woo, from Holocaust Deniers to Remote Viewing (which starts the book off).  Shermer is a psychologist and a former evangelical christian. He is a keen cyclist and was &#039;experimented&#039; on by a nutritionist who was using Shermer as he PhD research guinea pig, by giving him additives and special drinks to assist him in an across America cycle race. Hilarious isn&#039;t the word to describe what happened and then Shermer found out about the PhD thesis which was from some non-accredited nutritionist university.  Shermer does a good bit of research on a TV psychic which shows &#039;how fixed&#039; these things are and how much editing goes on. Shermer also describes the &#039;type&#039; of people who become &#039;believers&#039; some through tragic  circumstances. The oddest group are those who think they have been alien abductees. These appear pretty normal but have this deep rooted fear which comes out of post hypnotic suggestion- which is really dangerous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Colin. Calm down dear. &#8220;Why do people believe in weird things?&#8221; is a book by Michael Shermer. For those who don&#8217;t know Shermer, he is the editor of Skeptic Magazine and author of several books (quite a few have recently been released in Audible form as they are recordings of his lectures).  This book would be a first stop in finding out why people go for this woo. He has actually investigated quite a lot of woo, from Holocaust Deniers to Remote Viewing (which starts the book off).  Shermer is a psychologist and a former evangelical christian. He is a keen cyclist and was &#8216;experimented&#8217; on by a nutritionist who was using Shermer as he PhD research guinea pig, by giving him additives and special drinks to assist him in an across America cycle race. Hilarious isn&#8217;t the word to describe what happened and then Shermer found out about the PhD thesis which was from some non-accredited nutritionist university.  Shermer does a good bit of research on a TV psychic which shows &#8216;how fixed&#8217; these things are and how much editing goes on. Shermer also describes the &#8216;type&#8217; of people who become &#8216;believers&#8217; some through tragic  circumstances. The oddest group are those who think they have been alien abductees. These appear pretty normal but have this deep rooted fear which comes out of post hypnotic suggestion- which is really dangerous.</p>
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