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Cold Reading: Confessions of a ‘psychic’
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This article is based on an interview with OSSCI executive member Timothy Campbell.

A diligent channel surfer should notice a new trend in TV talk shows: psychic guests supposedly channeling the dead relatives of audience members, often conveying information they could not possibly have known in advance. Can psychics really divine the future by speaking to the dead, or do they, as skeptics insist, just use an old magician’s parlour trick called “cold reading”?

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