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Re: The policeman and the psychic         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Shrikeback
Date: Aug 11, 2008 00:40

On Aug 11, 12:05 am, "bigflet...@gmail.com" gmail.com>
wrote:
> The final episode of the search for Australias best psychic had a very
> interesting finale.
>
> The final task was for the remaining three was to find the body of a
> murder victim, Peter Falcone. A very well publisised crime under the
> lable of the "backpackers murder".
>
> They each had hundreds of km2 to look at, and each took a helicopter
> ride, and each homed in to an area of a few km2. The police decided
> not to follow up , thank heavens.
>
> Being such a high profile case, imagine what would have happened if
> the body had been found on national tv?The disruption would have been
> enormous.
>
> What is interesting though,is the number of US police departments who
> are willing to acknowledge the validity of the help of some pychics
> have produced, on documentaries such as 'psychic detectives', and the
> fact the individual officers are willing to be identified on camera.
>
> BOfL

"We discovered that the work of the psychics was not just
ludicrous and laughable. it was sinister and evil....None of it
ever led anywhere except to despair and disappointment,
misery and confusion." --John Tate, father of Genette Tate
who disappeared in 1978 (quoted in Investigating the
Unexplained, p. 42)

Uncritical news reports and pseudocumentaries continue
to tout the alleged successes of "psychics" who supposedly
assist law enforcement agencies in solving crimes or locating
missing persons. Exaggerated claims notwithstanding,
most police departments (72%% according to researchers)
have not used psychics (Durm and Sweat 1994). And of t
hose who have, few have done so officially or claim significant
success for them.

<http://web.archive.org/web/20060409101139/http:/www.parascope.com/en/
articles/psychicSleuths.htm>
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