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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Since I'm known to be a thread-hijacker, and it's my thread, I don't mind extended discussion of interesting topics tangentially related. (George told me telepathically that he doesn't mind the heart of the issue, but he gets bored when the discussion gets too academic...) What about the issue of "psychics" employed by police departments to help solve criminal cases? |
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Merlyn
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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Police use polygraph tests as well, and they aren't fullproof. Psychics seem to get credit everytime something turns up after a prediction, but there have been several cases where they've been brought in and haven't succeeded. No studies to back it up though, just from what I've heard on the news and from a few other sources. Always a last resort, so that should tell us something about their reliability.
http://www.parascope.com/en/articles/psychicSleuths.htm
Joe Nickell is an expert in these kinds of investigations. Looking for a Miracle is a fantastic book. This is what he has to say about police psychics. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a quote from Uri Geller (who seems like a trickster...) relating to George:
When you have everything in the world materially, you start to seek for something else. As a matter of fact, George Harrison, just before he died, said something very interesting. I went over to his house (I live about ten minutes away) to bend a spoon for his son's birthday and he said to me: "When are you going to stop all this bloody spoon-bending rubbish? I didn't stay singing 'yeah, yeah, yeah...' with the Beatles forever." - And I was kind of annoyed because I had gone over to entertain his son, you know, to do him a favour, but when I left I realised that he was right...
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/pgeller.htm |
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Merlyn
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When a Pokemon character called Ungeller ?which wielded bent spoons ?was launched in Japan, an unamused Geller slapped Nintendo with a ?0 million lawsuit, for instance.
Geller, naturally, says that it뭩 not about the money ?it뭩 the principle of the thing. 밒 will not let anyone say lies about me. It is for my children, for my reputation and my livelihood.
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That's kind of funny. He was upset that they used a character that resembled his talents in a cartoon, but had no trouble when they paid him money to appear in Marvel comic books in a special issue with Daredevil. "Daredevil" #133 |
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Rteacher
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