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- From: hathaway@stsci.edu
- Subject: Re: Psychics' Predictions Fizzle For 1992
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.171125.1@stsci.edu>
- Lines: 38
- Sender: news@stsci.edu
- Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
- References: <1993Jan2.044622.25437@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:11:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.044622.25437@netcom.com>, sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
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- > Bay Area Skeptics
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- >
- > PSYCHICS' PREDICTIONS FIZZLE FOR 1992
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- >
- > President Bush was not re-elected. Madonna did not become a
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- .. long list of failures deleted
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- > Based on the continuing failure of the "psychics" to make
- > accurate predictions over the years, the Bay Area Skeptics urges
- > everyone - especially the media - to exercise some healthy
- > skepticism when "psychics" and other purveyors of the paranormal
- > make extra-ordinary claims or predictions. Anyone who swallows
- > the "psychics'" claims year after year without checking the
- > record is setting a bad example for students and for the public.
- ..
- >
- >
- > Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
- >
- > Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
- >
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- Do you really think people actually believe ("swallows the "psychics'"
- claims") this obvious entertainment? Like, wow, next you'll be
- worrying about whether people believe Soap Opera stories are real.
- I mean, does _anyone_ put any $money$ on these things, like betting
- in Las Vegas on the number of orgasms Madonna will have with Elvis in February?
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- Just being a pest - my three cars all have brake trouble and I'm feeling
- nasty, Wm. Hathaway
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