Feb 26, 2019 | Skepticism
If you’re a regular reader of this site — or if you listened to my radio show — you know how much I detest the frauds who call themselves psychics (here’s just a sample of the blog posts I’ve written on this subject). I’ve railed...
Oct 28, 2017 | podcasts, Skepticism
It’s very rare that I criticize another radio host on the same station that employs me, but when I got in my car and turned on KTRS Wednesday afternoon at 4:50pm, I heard Kent Ehrhardt (who does the 3-6pm show Tuesday through Thursday, while I do Monday and...
Mar 23, 2014 | Magicians, podcasts, Skepticism
Last summer, I talked with reporter Kyle Swenson about psychic con artists in south Florida, including Rose Marks who (with her family) scammed victims out of millions of dollars. Two months later, Marks was convicted of various crimes, and this week, she was...
Dec 29, 2013 | Skepticism
Every year, prominent psychics made predictions about what will happen in the next 12 months. These are the con artists who lie about being able to foresee the future, yet make money every year from media outlets and victims who don’t bother checking to see how...
Feb 13, 2012 | Skepticism
Stuart Robbins kept an ear on George Noory’s “Coast to Coast AM” radio show throughout 2010 to hear what we should expect in 2011, as predicted by professional “psychics” and random callers to the show. At the end of 2011, he went back...