Go Medium

Earlier today, I was reading Derren Brown's blog (where I should confess I get a noticeable amount of material for this blog from) and I came across a link to this ridiculous story about Police in the UK who blew £20,000 (about 33,400 American dollars) investigating the "murder" of a man who's death was already ruled a suicide until so-called psychics spewed forth stories of animal-related imagery.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6508875/Detectives-launch-20000-murder-inquiry-after-bogus-tip-off-from-mystics.html

Once again, if you choose to believe in the psychic phenomena, that's your business... but no mater what country you live in, before you spend public or taxpayer money on something supernatural, please ask yourself first: "If any psychic is so real, why haven't they either won the lotto or collected a million bucks from James Randi?" Because let me tell you, if I had any kind of supernatural intuitive powers, I'd help lots of people, sure ...but I'm getting paid first! ;)

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Cooper PhD - Future Ghost Doctor

Here's one to piss off anyone who's ever had a hard time paying for university courses. It's a news story about a British kid who got a "psychic scholarship" from folks here in the US so he can study ghosts and psychic phenomena in his final year as a psychology undergrad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8334945.stm

Now, if you choose to believe in telepathy or want to study allegedly haunted houses for a living, that's cool and it's totally your business. Also, in fairness, this is not exactly a huge scholarship this kid is getting... but still ...until such things as ghosts and psychic phenomena can be quantifiably defined as something other than fantasy or pseudo-science, they should be kept out of academia and no one should be giving young people money to promote said phenomena as if they are subjects of real science.

...and if you have any real reason to say I'm wrong in my opinion, don't bother telling me. Just go take it up with these people and get paid: http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html