From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 09:51:31 PST
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From: Barry Karr
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 11:23 AM
To: CSICOP-ANNOUNCE_at_LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Tabloid Psychics Fail Again In 2002.
Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Failed Psychic
Predictions, by Gene Emery
Amherst, N.Y.-The Super Bowl will be cancelled after the first half of play.
People will be able to go back in time, although there won't be any way to
bring them back home.
Psychic forecasts for 2003? Nope.
Those are events that were supposed to come true in 2002 according to the
supermarket tabloids whose editors say they gathered the forecasts from some
of the world's best psychics.
Actually, psychics and astrologers seems to have fallen on tough times
recently, said science writer Gene Emery, who has been following tabloid
forecasts since 1979 in the still-fruitless quest to find just one psychic
with predictive ability. Emery's annual evaluations frequently appear in
Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
"The September 11 terrorist attacks graphically illustrated the idea that
people who claim to have psychic powers are frauds or are deluding
themselves. Witness the fact that nobody predicted the destruction of the
World Trade Center towers, otherwise thousands of deaths would have been
averted," said Emery. "Here was an event whose impact resonated around the
globe, yet it never resonated with the folks who tell you with great
certainty where you misplaced your TV remove control."
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http://www.csicop.org/articles/psychic-predictions/2002.html
PS: We here at CSICOP and the Skeptical Inquirer magazine wish you a safe, productive and very Happy New Year!!
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