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Paranormal sighting in Toronto

November 29, 2009 in Psychics by askeptic | No comments

How do you tell what is normal in Toronto anyway?

Okay, cheap shot. But not half as cheap as what passes for journalism in the story: Paranormal sighting in Toronto by David Bezmozgis in the Saturday Nov. 28 edition of the Globe and Mail.

Focusing on Ms. Nateliya Frolova, the story concerns Russian immigrants  bringing with them a fascination with paranormal clairvoyance and healing. In introducing the piece, Mr. Bezmozgis says, what distinguishes Ms. Frolova and many of her Russian counterparts from the regular Western clairvoyants are the Russians’ claims to supernatural healing abilities. Read the rest of this entry »

Who woke up the British Columbia Medical Association?

September 29, 2009 in Health & Medicine, Psychics by askeptic | 2 comments

It’s a little late to get some guts!

The Globe and Mail reported on September 07, 2009 that the British Columbia Medical Association (BCMA) is criticizing Vancouver’s Langara College for training the public in therapies that are “medically useless” and potentially harmful.

The criticism came from Dr. Lloyd Oppel, who, according to the Globe and Mail, monitors alternative health practices for the BCMA. Dr. Oppel is reported as saying that he has watched for a decade as, Langara’s roster of holistic health courses has progressed from recreational classes to career training. The publicly accredited college offers more than 50 classes in things like iridology (divining health from iris reading) and bone breathing, as well as a three-year certificate program qualifying practitioners of integrative energy healing to work on the public. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s flu season. The cure is either a rise in the stock market or in 11 secret herbs and spices.

September 10, 2009 in Health & Medicine, Psychics by askeptic | 5 comments

It turns out that even when on a golf holiday, I just can’t escape nonsense from the media. It’s my own fault really. I’m the one that turned on the TV to watch the CBC news on Friday night (Sept. o4) and I’m the one that bought a copy of the Globe and Mail on Saturday, (Sept. 05). Don’t ask me why. I guess I was tired after 18 holes and not thinking clearly.

The stories in question were concerned about my health, specifically, the risks associated with the H1N1 flu virus. If the agencies mentioned are so concerned about my health, why do they provide information that is so patently stupid? Read the rest of this entry »

The Antiques Psychic

September 18, 2006 in Psychics, Skeptic News by admin | 2 comments

To really waste money, you need government

While researching ASkepticRTN article on psychic predictions (see ASkepticRTN, Psychic Revelations Jan 2005) I came across a reference to Clairvoyant Kim, the Antiques Psychic.

The Antiques Psychic is a television show in which Clairvoyant Kim (Kim Dennis) divines the hidden stories behind various antiques brought to her by guests of the show. Kim describes herself this way at the opening of the show:

I am Kim Dennis. I am a clairvoyant, a spiritual medium. I am a psychic, I have the ability to channel loved one’s spirits, souls who have passed over and some people seem to think I have a cure for death. Read the rest of this entry »

Psychic Revelations

January 9, 2005 in Psychics by admin | 1 comment

Calgary Herald reporter Barbara Balfour discovers that Palm Reading, Clairvoyance and Tea Leaf Divining are for real

Sigh.

You know what I love about the New Year? The fact that it’s new. There is something refreshing about that — the endless possibilities perhaps.

You know what I hate about the New Year? The prognostications. Why, at this time of the year, does the media insist on inundating us with this trash? Don’t they get it? I don’t want to hear about what will happen in the new year. It’s the not-knowing, that makes the future so full of potential. Read the rest of this entry »

Tsunami in Indian Ocean

December 31, 2004 in Psychics, Uncategorized by admin | No comments

The scale of tsunami disaster in Asia is almost beyond comprehension. As I sit down and write this, estimates of the death toll are passing 100,000 and will go higher. Whole towns have disappeared from the face of the earth. Families have been destroyed, some friends will never be heard from again. Read the rest of this entry »