The Bizarre World of Fake Psychics, Faith Healers, and Mediums

Psychics, Faith Healers, Mediums, Astrology, I don’t think these things are very good, I think they are in fact, bad, and fake. *Slight flashing images for the first 48 seconds. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Supereyepatchwolf Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/supereyepatchwolf Lets Fight a Boss Podcast: Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/lets-fight-a-boss/id1048483221?mt=2 Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/letsfightaboss Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCawXJIKUj2o_tFPMZ4xiXBw Other Super Eyepatch Wolf stuff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/super_eyepatch_wolf/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EyePatchWolf Links: Atrocity Guide - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8OYopT9e8tng-CGEWzfmw Sensitive material discussed: https://imgur.com/a/YY5aT1S Sources: Books: Flim Flam - James Randi The Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson The Skeptics Dictionary - Robert Todd Carol Films: An Honest Liar (James Randi documentary) Randi saying Uri sued him 20 times: https://youtu.be/hi-oCgEraqk Barnum Effect https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232554639_The_'Barnum_Effect'_in_Personality_Assessment_A_Review_of_the_Literature Nostradamus is bad at astrology https://books.google.ie/books?id=eww9AQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Seatbelt Psychic Exposed https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/magazine/psychics-skeptics-facebook.html Psychic Industry on the rise: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/style/did-you-predict-this.html https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/market-research-reports/psychic-services-industry/ https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-accesswire/99ea49f86ea4eb8b92f9c56e61893d37#:~:text=The%20psychic%20services%20industry%20is%20booming.,well%20as%20other%20related%20services. Stories of Psychic Scams: https://www.gq.com/story/the-curse-of-psychic-zoe Government study on faith healing rates in Idaho: http://idahochildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IDCARTFtoOtter.pdf Followers of Christ Church: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/13/followers-of-christ-idaho-religious-sect-child-mortality-refusing-medical-help Sylvia Brown Cruise: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/27/usa.jonronson The Science of why so many people believe in psychics: https://theconversation.com/the-science-of-why-so-many-people-believe-in-psychic-powers-102088 Two Neuro Scinetists walk into a psychic fair https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chasers/two-neuroscientists-walk-into-a-psychic-fair/ James Randi 1 million dollar offer: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/psychics-james-randi-offers-million-james-van-praagh/story?id=14382858 Confessions of a psychic medium: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/mark-edward-true-confessions-of-a-fake-psychic/