Sceptics are often described as negative, because we're nay sayn. This case, definitely not true. Cold readings are when the psychics read a client cold. They've never met im before. And this is actually not that hard to do. I've done it a number of times. These cold readings have different elements to them that make it seem like you're able to get information from them. So in the cold reading, you ask a lot of questions. You know, i'm getting something here about some tension in your financial life. A moment. Oh, my god, yes. Well, what happened to all the other names? A, you know, se
In this AMA Dr. Michael Shermer answers your questions about evolution and creationism, intelligent design theory, the hard problem of consciousness, the origins of morality, how science deals with anomalies, to what extent humans are naturally rational or irrational / skeptical or gullible, and why there is something rather than nothing.