Psychics, Pies and Challenging Lies
I love a psychic story. It’s like catnip to me. Give me a local reporter shamelessly pandering to the nonsense of a purported sage or mystic, and I’m instantly all fired-up with lovely apoplectic ire....
View ArticleTwittering The Dead: 140 Characters Of Crap
In the wake of Derreck Acorah’s derisable attempts to pretend to be contacting Michael Jackson last weekend, it occurred to me just how busy Jacko has been of late. Aside from having his barely-cold...
View ArticleHandwringing Over Handwriting In The BBC
This week the BBC reported on the condolence letter written by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to the mother of a fallen soldier. Labelling a spelling mistake in the note as ‘disrespectful’, the BBC then...
View ArticlePsychics: Why Believe Them At All?
Psychics and their antics are a common presence on our blog. Whether it’s Joe Power being grumpy on a Liverpool street or Jayne Wallace contacting the spirit of Michael jackson through twitter, we’ve...
View ArticlePolitical Astrology: Star Guff In The Huff-Po
As our educated, smart and – I’ll say it! – downright sexy readers are doubtlessly aware, the Huffington Post is a great source of… well… crap. For one thing, there’s Dana Ullman making wild statements...
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Another Psychic, Another Dead Celebrity: Deb Webber ‘Meets’ Steve Irwin
In recent weeks and months we’ve seen many celebrities contacted from beyond the grave – including Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, Kurt Cobain and Jade Goody. Or rather, we’ve seen psychics...
View ArticleDerren Brown Investigates… Joe Power
Sometimes, just sometimes, I could almost be convinced that there’s someone up there listening. Not all the time, of course, and only half-heartedly – I’m not about to go all Goddy on you guys – but...
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Psychic Joe Power And The Two Man Mob – Revisited
Joe Power - psychic or not? You decide In the wake of Derren Brown’s stinging exposé on ‘Psychic’ Joe Power, I thought it worth sharing with the world a conversation I had with Joe back in June 2009,...
View ArticleJoe Power, non-Psychic non-Detective: A Clarification
From time to time in the world of skepticism, something happens which you really don’t see coming – something totally unexpected. Often, these are positive things – like the media interest in our 10:23...
View ArticleDisturbing Reports From ‘Psychic’ Sally’s Theatre Tour
Simon Singh – supporter and friend of the MSS and all-round skeptical legend – has had the unfortunate and somewhat masochistic experience lately of seeing ‘psychic’ Sally Morgan at one of her many...
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