Psychic for a day: Or how I learned Tarot cards, palm reading, astrology, and mediumship in 24 hours

From: Skeptic | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2003, I FILMED a television show with Bill Nye in Seattle, Washington, for a new PBS science series entitled Eyes of Nye. This series is an adult-oriented version of Bill's wildly successful 100-episode children's series Bill Nye the Science Guy. This 30-minute segment focused on psychics and talking to the dead. Although I have analyzed the process and written about it extensively in SKEPTIC, Scientific American, How We Believe, and on www.skeptic.com, I have had little experience actually doing psychic readings. Bill and I thought it would be a good test of the ...

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