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Friday August 29, 2008
Psychic SurgeryPsychicsQuackery:
psychic surgery A row has broken out between a ‘psychic surgeon’ who believes he once cured a man of cancer and a campaigner who says he is a con man.

Gary Mannion says he has been psychic since he was 13 but is furious a website called badpsychics.com ridicules his beliefs.
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Wednesday June 18, 2008
Psychics:
Colleen Leduc An Ontario mother is demanding an apology after the Children’s Aid Society began an investigation into sexual abuse allegations after a visit to a psychic.

She said she was told that her daughter Victoria’s teaching assistant had been to a psychic recently…
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Friday April 25, 2008
ExorcismOccultismPsychics:
The advert on DD-India channel in Hindi said that Pandit Bharatraj Shastri was an expert in “palmistry, birth kundali (horoscopes), vastu expert, marriage issues, troubles in business, dissatisfaction at work, warding off affects of black magic, family problems”.
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Monday April 7, 2008
Psychics:
Mediums are fighting new EU rules designed to protect the public from dodgy traders, fearing that honest spiritualists could be targeted.
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
FraudPsychics:
Sylvia Browne is famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are – but she gets it wrong. A lot. So why does she still have such a massive following? Jon Ronson took a cruise with America’s most controversial psychic to find out.
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Friday October 26, 2007
Psychics:
Plenty of people are still skeptical, though the naysayers are losing ground.
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Monday October 8, 2007
Psychics:
Sophie Evon, 77, is wanted for allegedly bilking a love-lorn woman from Seattle out of her family’s savings of $220,000.
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Tuesday September 18, 2007
Psychics:
Uri Geller got rich insisting that his supernatural abilities were real, so a number of magicians and skeptics — most notably James “The Amazing” Randi — mounted a campaign to discredit the performer. Randi exposed Geller during numerous TV appearances, demonstrating that his mental feats were nothing more than trickery.
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Wednesday July 25, 2007
Psychics:
Norway’s Princess Märtha Louise, daughter of King Harald and Queen Sonja, has emerged as a clairvoyant, and is launching an alternative school aimed at training students to contact angels. Officials at the Royal Palace won’t comment on the princess’ latest business venture.
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Monday July 9, 2007
Psychics:
Geller’s tireless attempts to silence his detractors have extended to the popular video-sharing site YouTube, landing him squarely in the center of a raging digital-age debate over controlling copyrights amid the massive volume of video and music clips flowing freely online.
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Sunday May 27, 2007
Psychics:
Lawyers have the bar exam. Accountants have the CPA exam. Should Salem’s fortunetellers have to pass a test of their own to prove they’re psychic?
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Friday May 11, 2007
Psychics:
The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation this week jumped into a legal battle involving efforts by self-described psychic Uri Geller – who is famous for claiming to bend spoons by mental forces — to censor video clips of him posted on YouTube.
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Thursday May 10, 2007
Psychics:
Geller’s company, London-based Explorologist, filed a copyright lawsuit on Monday against a critic who is trying to debunk claims that the self-described psychic really is one.
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Psychics:
Uri Geller is up to his old tricks — and attracks a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Saturday April 28, 2007
Psychics:
As usual, psychics did not see a crackdown coming
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Tuesday January 23, 2007
Psychics:
To say Sylvia Browne is confident is putting it mildly. Gesturing with her giant curved fingernails, she makes statements about the dead and the missing with such authority you could swear she actually sees these people — even as she’s spouting a load of crock.
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Thursday January 18, 2007
Psychics:
Montel Williams’ psychic pal Sylvia Browne told the family of missing Shawn Hornbeck he was dead shortly after the Missouri boy vanished – and later allegedly offered to help locate his body for $700 per half hour.
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Tuesday January 9, 2007
Offbeat NewsPsychics:
Psychic Carole Peach, who foretells the future for other people, did not see her own mugging coming.
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Friday October 6, 2006
Psychics:
A 40-year-old woman has been charged with stealing more than $1,000 through tarot card readings and fortunetelling. Dorothy Adams of Summit Avenue in Nyack ran Psychic and Tarot Cards Readings out of a storefront at 269 Route 59, Clarkstown police said yesterday
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Tuesday September 26, 2006
Psychics:
Former psychic Miss Cleo reveals she is a lesbian.
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Tuesday August 8, 2006
Psychics:
No crystal balls, no flowing robes Interest in the paranormal has reached an all-time high on the Central Coast, where people are finding it more acceptable than ever to turn to clairvoyants for answers
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Saturday August 5, 2006
Psychics:
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Lun Lun the giant panda may be pregnant.
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Monday July 24, 2006
Psychics:
How Much Would You Pay to Remove a 'Curse' From Your Family?
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Sunday July 2, 2006
Psychics:
On an evening more fitting for hunting an ocean breeze than packing into stuffy City Council chambers, many of the town’s magic-shop owners and psychics turned up, Tuesday night, to discuss regulating the business of psychic readings.
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Monday June 19, 2006
Psychics:
Psychics and mediums may be in hot demand, but a shrill chorus of naysayers warns that many of them are out to snow you.
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