Long Island Medium – The Learning Channel
Long Island Medium is a television program on The (so-called) Learning Channel featuring Theresa Caputo doing readings as a psychic medium in the tradition of Sylvia Browne, James Van Praagh, John...
View ArticleLong Island Medium: A Tall Story
Theresa Caputo is the winner of the 2012 Pigasus Award for Performance. But she is better known as the Long Island Medium, which is also the title of her reality TV show aired on the ‘Learning’ Channel...
View ArticlePsychic Defective: Sylvia Browne’s History of Failure
The most extensive study of alleged psychic Sylvia Browne’s predictions about missing persons and murder cases reveals a strange discrepancy: despite her repeated claim to be more than 85 percent...
View ArticleAutomatic writing (trance writing)
via The Skeptic’s Dictionary Automatic writing is writing allegedly directed by a spirit or by the unconscious mind. It is sometimes called “trance” writing because it is done quickly and without...
View ArticleLong Island Medium – The Learning Channel
via The Skeptic’s Dictionary Long Island Medium is a television program on The (so-called) Learning Channel featuring Theresa Caputo doing readings as a psychic medium in the tradition of Sylvia...
View ArticlePsychic Tricks, Fraud and Forer
Forer Effect via Unnatural Acts that can improve your thinking The Forer effect refers to the tendency of people to rate sets of statements as highly accurate for them personally even though the...
View ArticleMedium
via The Skeptic’s Dictionary “Death is a part of life, and pretending that the dead are gathering in a television studio in New York to talk twaddle with a former ballroom-dance instructor is an insult...
View ArticleSkeptical ‘Zombies’ Attack Alleged Psychic James Van Praagh (VIDEO)
A slightly dated story from October 2011, but still fun. Mason I. Bilderberg (MIB) via huffingtonpost James Van Praagh plays a kind of twenty-questions game with his audience. Psychic James Van Praagh...
View ArticleTalking to the Dead: James Van Praagh Tested
This video is almost an hour long. Maybe a bit slow moving for some. But psychics are one of my favorite targets. I don’t believe in psychic abilities, i believe they’re all charlatans. So for that...
View ArticleThe Stuff of Nightmares
James Van Praagh and the Afterlife by Ingrid Hansen Smythe via skeptic.com There are a number of different methods of exposing an individual as a liar and a charlatan. One way is to engage the person...
View ArticleIs ‘Long Island Medium’ Theresa Caputo A Fake?
Some People Certainly Think So By Laura Rosenfeld via Bustle Every show on TLC really knows how to tug at your heartstrings, but The Long Island Medium does it pretty much better than anyone else. That...
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