Reply With QuoteTony Youens wrote a nice piece on her on a recent commentary, worth checking out
I don't normally watch this sort of crass TV as it's all set up behind the scenes and scripted to make the psychics look good.
But this was on in the background whilst I was on MSN so I left it on.
I can't believe what I'm seeing. ???
Every single test that she's undergone has been an amazing success!! It's so blatantly scripted that I can't believe they have the temerity to broadcast it. Surely they're giving the game away - or are believers really so gullible that they'll fall for it?
Probably - going by the adverts for text messages to find 'your one true love' at £3.00 per text message.
It's more like an infomercial than a TV programme.
Tony Youens wrote a nice piece on her on a recent commentary, worth checking out
Originally Posted by John Jackson
doh that is because she is an exceptional psychic hence her
amazing success what more can she do to prove to you
she is only using her psychic abilities and nothing more ?
RV
That would be a yes then.
Well, she could be tested under controlled conditions and then we wouldn't have to worry about things like her having information prior to giving readings etc.
Remember, what you see on TV is what the programme makers want you to see on TV.
RV:
What she needs to do to show that she has psychic abilities is one straightforward thing: provide a body of evidence which is not anecdotal, but is based on an objective, reproducible protocol and is produced under controlled conditions.
This is the only reliable method of distinguishing between real and make-believe. Anybody who successfully did this would become rich and famous beyond their wildest dreams.
There are many here and elsewhere who would gladly assist her, or any other "psychic", to design a robust method of testing her claims.
Funnily enough, those who claim to be psychic tend to shy away from such objective testing. Why do you think that might be?
I was actually one of the people who Sally Morgan did a reading for on Star Psychic.
I went there with a totally open mind and had no real opinion on whether psychic ability is true or not. There was no deliberate attempt on the part of Fox TV to try to set it up ie: they didn't talk to me in advance and try to get me to tell them information about myself that they could then give to Sally.
But what did annoy me was that we were told that if she 'saw' anything that was remotely relevent to our lives, we had to explain why. I felt that this was basically leading her. She was also given a picture of us before the filming even started so she may have been able to get information about us from that too.
I was quite impressed by what she 'picked up' but I feel that it wouldn't have been nearly so accurate if I hadn't helped her along. If I hadn't told her how and why something she said was maybe relevent/irrelevent or true/false it wouldn't have been that good and she would run out of things to say- it also made me look like a totally gullible idiot. Psychics work on the information that their subject consciously/unconsciously gives them and the TV company made sure that she got a lot of help from me.
Then again, it wouldn't have made nearly such interesting viewing if I hadn't...
Does that mean you're a star then?
If so who?
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This EXACT same message was posted in a comment on my site.
I believe it is a bogus message John
Well it's certainly not a post we can take on authority.
As I said, the show was just far too good to be true. Either they shot a huge amount of footage and only kept the good bits or Sally Morgan knew the information she was coming out with beforehand - hot reading.
I know what I think!
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No, its not a bogus post- I put it on both sites because I thought that people ought to know what really went on instead of just speculating.
I answered an advert asking for people to take part in the series so I thought what the hell, I will. To be honest with you, I didnt watch much of the show on TV, but I presume that the filming they did with me and the other people was aired- I was one of the people in the confessional box set up (done so that Sally couldn't see you and your reactions).
This programme was on last night. I turned it off as I find it pathetic.
Anyway, I put this upon the commentary today: Talking to the dead.
It gives away some of the tricks that TV uses to make psychics look good.
I think with Sally Morgan they go way over the top and it's so blatant that I can't believe that anyone falls for it.
Evidently some do. Someone emailed me today asking if I could put her in touch with Sally!!
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You should have sent them a copy of "Flim-flam"
I watched about 3/4 of the first programme when it was on a few months ago. I don't think i've ever felt so nauseated watching a 'light entertainment' programme before.
Talk about the current media fixation with telly programmes being fixed, well they should watch this!
Did you see the episode last night where she read for Bez from the Happy Mondays?
The essential opening:
"I have no idea who you are"
Amidst a load of non-specific nonsense, some specifics:
"April is important - the 17th or 18th"
"I see police around you. Your son wants to be a policeman"
A quick search for Bez on Wikipedia shows that his birthday is April 18th and that his father was a detective.
And then of course, the revelation:
"I sense that you've been to hell and back, quite literally. Something to do with drugs"
No shit Sherlock!
Funny how she didn't pick up such fascinating revelations on his not-so-famous girlfriend. Hmmm....
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