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Originally posted by Sunshine McGillicutty
As far as the issue of belief goes, the fact Edwards and his ilk refuse to prove their abilities in controlled environments with fair, objective tests is reasonable 'face value' evidence that they are full of shit.
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Looks like you just haven't researched John that much, which is fine, so I'll explain some things.
John has actually done many things in controlled environments. He was part of a study at a university where they hooked him up to machines when he read people. I also saw a special on MSNBC about psychics, and there was part where they had people who claimed to be psychics sit in a room while people would come in and sit behind them. The psychic would then just start speaking about whatever he was seeing, and the person didn't respond at all. The person who was read was then asked to go look at the tape and grade the accuracy of their reading. MSNBC said that the psychics they tested (John Edward was one of them) had an accuracy rating that was somewhere in the 80% range (don't remember exactly), and other people that tried had less than 40% accuracy. This is with no cold reading, not even seeing the person or hearing them.
The reason I said Randi obviously doesn't want to give away his million dollars is because he refuses to look at studies just like these that have been performed on psychics like John. If scientifically proving that John can give a reading that is twice as accurate as a normal person, without even seeing or hearing the random person he is reading...if that is not proof, what would be?