Psychic Readings - Do You Think You Said Much?

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Psychics use leading questions and open ended statements that they're trying to elicit some kind of thin back. The subject isn't even aware of but if you look at video, the subject is constantly doing this. And i mean, they're literally sitting there, yes, no, that's not andting. The psychic is just adjusting what they're saying.

The most fundamental lesson that all magicians learn is that seeing is not believing. In episode 195, Michael speaks with internationally acclaimed sleight-of-hand artist and 35-year activist for scientific skepticism, Jamy Ian Swiss, about his lively, personal book, The Conjuror’s Conundrum, that takes readers on a magical mystery tour of the longstanding connection between magic and skepticism. Shermer and Swiss discuss: Swiss’s first encounter with fraud, the paranormal and supernatural, magic and mentalism, hot/cold/universal readings, pychics, talking to the dead, James van Praagh, belief, the afterlife, “the amazing” Kreskin, the Alpha Project, and more…