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Why We Get Fooled

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Deception of the Audience

"I saw Edward do a really clever technique I hadn't seen before. The people are doing the readings, not the psychic," he says. "The performer is just thinking ahead to what the audience is going to assume and then playing off of that." 'It's like the Peter Popoff stuff when Randy exposed Popoff as a con'

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