Hy. There are a lot of mediums, and other psychics who are very popular, have their own shows, and a lot of people are believing them. But... do you know some of the very popular self-declared psychics who have been debunked?

Depends on what you mean by psychics, but one of the most famous examples are probably Uri Geller and Peter Popoff:

You might want to check more of Randi's videos and his own forum.

I'm sure we've had this thread before.

This title seems a bit odd. It sort of suggests to me that maybe there are popular psychics that are legitimate.

Fallible wrote:I'm sure we've had this thread before.

Yup. I suggest Transylvanian that reads the answers he ignored the last time he posted the same inane question

http://www.rationalskepticism.org/post2 ... l#p2037773

Ohh.. Damn it.. I have forgotten that topic. Sorry guys, please delete this

John Oliver's main feature this week.



One thing I was wondering was whether there is anyone who genuinely believes that they're psychic, and I honestly can't find a single example. Obviously people currently making a living as a psychic is going to maintain the pretence that they are being genuine, so they're not reliable. With religious people, I know that they're (generally) not faking it from atheists who used to be religious and admit that they genuinely believe it. But I've never seen or read an interview with a former psychic who says they genuinely believed that they had special powers and now realise they were mistaken, although I have read about former psychics who admit it was all a con. But you'd think that there might be a few who genuinely believe themselves to be psychic. A bit like those martial artists who genuinely think they have special powers and so invite a proper martial artist to fight them and suddenly realise that they don't.

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I get the same. Which is stupid since I can watch it on TV in the UK a couple of days later...

Alan B wrote:I get the same. Which is stupid since I can watch it on TV in the UK a couple of days later...

That's why you get the same, no doubt.

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I knew that was going to happen.