Archive for the ‘psychics’ Category
Michael Marshall versus ‘psychic’ Joe Power
June 22nd, 2010 | Author: Tom
Viewers of Channel 4′s excellent series “Derren Brown Investigates” will be familiar with Joe Power. He is a psychic medium who has the uncanny knack of knowing things about his sister’s next door neighbor and television actresses who he parks next to. However, Richard Wiseman took us through the techniques of cold reading that Joe was “allegedly” using, and when Joe was tested to read the mind of a believer who wanted to contact her deceased friend, he failed miserably.
Recently I found that Michael Marshall (aka ‘Marsh’) of the Merseyside Skeptics Society, host of the Righteous Indignation and Skeptics With A K podcasts, has a history with Joe Power. When Marsh challenged Joe Power to the James Randi million dollar challenge, Power went on the offensive, comparing all skeptics to paedophiles.
Well, it seems that Joe Power is now making frivolous complaints to the police about Marsh, based on so-called “threats” on the MSS Facebook group. In response, Marsh has written a very nice history of Joe Power, including his shameful involvements in the cases of Madeline McCann and Shannon Mathews. Enjoy.
Posted in Psychic Drawing Fail
March 11th, 2010 | Author: Tom
The ‘Psychic Drawing’ is a pretty simple concept. The psychic scribbles on a bit of paper, and people read into it what they will. Read what you will into the results of this video, from the irrepressible failblog.org: