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Originally Posted by Zizu

If these con artists could speak with the dead and predict the future - they’d all be billionaires so I don’t really think they’d be working in shoddy little rooms charging some poor sod £25 for a reading ..

Well that's the thing isn't it Zizu... if it was real these people with this "rare gift" would be worth millions and would be working on the payroll of governments and large companies... none of them are... they're in carnival tents and - if they're especially good at it - maybe booking out lecture halls etc... the only sensible conclusion is that it isn't real.

There's also the spanner-in-the-works of there being several high-profile people who are very skilled at it - more skilled than your average Mystic Meg in a hut outside Tesco - who do these reading techniques on people and amaze them whilst freely admitting that it is NOT in any way supernatural.