I thought she had mental problems, as in Laura is insane, to lie purposely to others in order to take thier money.

Someone needs to do something about her lies.

If you stand before a glass window, a chicken wire fence, and individual panels each of tulle, lace, silk, polyester, cotton , wool and brick, will you not have visibility of the images and scenes going on behind them ranging from 100% to 0% ? Imagine the human body being made of these materials wrapping around your soul, the core of who and what you are. There is nothing spiritual about being able to view the contents of a person’s soul, or the experiential memories housed therein. The more transparent the wrap, the more one is able to see.Heightened intuition makes for heightened skills of observation, listening and communication. However, if a person is on the phone, or in front of a computer speaking in real time, what are they observing; the screensaver on the monitor ; the cat sleeping in a basket? The same sense that tells you to drive an alternate route home, only to find out later there was an accident stopping traffic on your regular route, is the same sense that a person uses to discern the events surrounding an individual. The more practiced you are at using that sense , the more personally detailed the scenes and images become.Our bodies are surrounded by an electromagnetic field, proven by science. Scenes and images get trapped onto that field like a photograph on film. The person with heightened intuitive acuity can tap into that field and thus “see” the life of that individual , much like looking through a photo album. The better practiced you are, the sharper the photographs. It’s simple and anyone can do this. You don’t need to be special. You can be the stupidest of people and still practice using the circuits in your brain which allow for this sense to work as efficiently as sight, smell, touch or hearing. Some people are better at it than others, just like some doctors are better than others, or some carpenters are better than others. Just because you can do it a little doesn’t make you a master at it, but the sense is just as valid as our other senses. You will find frauds and counterfeiters in every occupation. One corrupt doctor does not make all doctors corrupt.

Both TT (and its timeslot competitor on Australian free-to-air television, A Current Affair) specialise in the “miracle cure”/”fraud exposure” circle of life.

Here’s how it usually works: They’ll produce a “miracle cure” story introducing the scam, milk it for how it’s helped some “battlers” (poor people) for about a week. 6-24 months later, they’ll run a “fraud exposure” story, then milk it for another week with how it’s harmed those “battlers”. In the 6-24 months since, the goldfish memory viewers forget entirely that the tabloid news programs promoted it in the first place.

After exposing this psychic “fraud”, they’ll happily promote the next John Edward style con artist without any sense of shame whatsoever.

HAHAHA!!! I laughed out loud at that. One of the best one-liners I’ve ever heard for this kind of nonsense.

Yes, it’s kind of sad that they call her a fake psychic, implying that others out there that aren’t pulling illegal scams are real. But it was gratifying to see an important psychic (yes, I use that term loosely) tell the camera that she’s a fraud. So much the better if we can get these charlatans to expose one another.

Don’t Blame a rape victim.

Common sense is an oxymoron.

But still, fleecing is fleecing.

[[Logically, if we followed the Venditor philosophy we’d have no churches. And not only are we not allowed to sue them, but they get tax-free status!]]

Anyone can sue a church, Jeff. People do that all the time.

[[That last bit is the key. If they claim they speak the truth but can’t prove it, and the get money for it, they should go to jail, plain and simple.]]

I hope to Christ you’re never elected to public office.

I thought about adding “some” before the word “psychics” in that last sentence, but sod it. Psychics have consistently failed to provide any evidence that what they do is genuine, so as far as I’m concerned, they are all either frauds or delusional.

i would go so far as to say that she shouldn’t be legally liable at all. if you’re so mentally undeveloped that you need the government to hold your hand to protect you from people like this, what are you doing with that much money to spend in the first place?

oh, and for those of you who disagree with me:
i’ve recently come across $23,938,400 worth of unclaimed money in zaire. unfortunately, i need $15,000 for legal and processing fees before i can touch it, so if you can front me the $15k i’ll give you 10% of the money after it is released to me. i believe $2.4 million is more than a fair return on your initial investment. all i need is for you to send me the $15k. oh, and your bank account number so that i can deposit the $2.4 mil in there for you.

any takers? anyone?

And of course the ‘competing’ current affair program “a current affair”
is not much better, running stories on UFO’s and faith healers, the lady hosting it (Tracy Grimshaw) you may remember interviewed Our beloved James Randi on the today show when he was in Brisbane (Can’t remember when sorry)

The skeptical climate in Australia I’m Afraid is still fairly Ignorantly tempered. Running of shows such as Medium and Psychic Investigators (put in a educational program Catalyst’s time slot no less. Winning the Australian skeptics bend spoon award) Isn’t exactly promoting rational thought.

But with a rising generation of from what I’ve seen (My age bracket 21 ^^) we may just have a chance.

As mentioned b4, check out The chaser’s war on everything, you wont be sorry (I love you Chas Licciardello)

“For $40,000 I can psychically remove the curse that’s ruining your life.”

“For $40,000 I can pray to God to make you rich and powerful and get you into heaven.”

They certainly sound the same to me.

How’d she get $310,000 from one person?

Easily, I’m sure. Only a True Believer would give her that kind of cash. Once the psychic’s ‘treatment’ starts, confirmation bias would certainly allow the Believer to interpret any positive event in their lives as proof that the ‘treatment’ was working. And with proof like that, they’d simply continue the treatments and continue buying $2,000 candles.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasers_War_On_Everything for an insight into australian current affairs.

Don’t post Today Tonight videos. Sure they are exposing ONE fraudster but that is it. They never address the issue as a whole, they just target some individual, hounding them and making them look like fools.

This isn’t real journalism, hell they’d probably do a pro moon hoax story if it got them the ratings they needed.