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The Skeptics Guide #1 - May 4 2005

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Mentalist Trick

Mentalist trick has been around for hundreds of years. Uses deception and misdirection to make it seem as if you hadt oty you don't have. It's also human psychology that comes into play. Edwards yill say, i seean older female figure associated with you. I'm getting the letter m is int her name, om ni mahte. He chee e a worm reading and a end. But someone who's half way decent at cold reading could do a better job than he did in pretending to talk to the dead.

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