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I saw this woman for about 10 minutes on the TLC program she has.
BTW, they are called "Mediums" because they never are rare and they never are well done.
She's a con artist. Nothng more, nothing less.
Long Island Medium is a television program on The (so-called) Learning Channel featuring Theresa Caputo doing readings as a psychic medium in the tradition of Sylvia Browne, James Van Praagh, John Edward, and thousands of other men and women claiming to get messages from dead people. What are the odds that Caputo is not deluded or a fraud? I'd say they're about the same as those for Gordon Smith or Allison DuBpois or Char Margolis or Noreen Renier or Sylvia Browne or Rosemary Althea or Lynn Ann Maker or Greta Alexander or Phil Jordan or James Van Praagh or John Edward or George Anderson or Dorothy Allison.
Theresa Caputo is just one of many unsinkable rubber duckies, as James Randi calls them. No matter how many of these characters skeptics expose, dozens more will pop up to replace or join them. Why? Not because they really get messages from the dead or have special powers, but because people want to believe in them, people are easily deceived, and most people don't understand subjective validation and how it works. For more on how subjective validation works see "Gary Schwartz's Subjective Validation of Mediums."
http://www.skepdic.com/longislandmedium.html
Logical
(22,457 posts)Archae
(46,312 posts)All have been accounted for now.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Today both channels are all about UFOs and ancient aliens.
The History Channel is not about history.
MTV is not about music.
And AMC is full of crap.
Thank God for digital downloads!
I thought they were the "American Pickers" Channel now.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)trixie
(867 posts)Makes more sense to me then the "God" thing.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)More people are interested in woo-woo and "reality" shit than facts. Woo-woo gets more viewers and thus more ad money. TV never, ever makes you smarter.
randome
(34,845 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)In favor of cheaply-produced reality shows and paranormal/conspiracy nonsense. Seems to be a pretty common trend.
Too bad.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)The eldest is 22 now. I still have it on videotape.
I am a skeptic, generally, but she was extraordinarily insightful.
Archae
(46,312 posts)And was that her actual "prediction" or what you think she might have said?
Or what she claims to have said?
Without some actual evidence, the actual videotape that can be proven to be from that time, your testimonial is worthless.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)I was there, she said it. It's on videotape.
Believe it or don't believe it. I don't feel like digitizing the vhs tape or the 8mm original. Your credence on this topic isn't important enough to me.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)The name of the channels need to be changed to the Gullible Channel or The Goober Channel!
Woody Woodpecker
(562 posts)I'm in the mood for some "Ow, my balls"
tabasco
(22,974 posts)It's been a propaganda/de-learning outlet for years.
TURN OFF THE TV.
JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)but it couldn't last
jp11
(2,104 posts)"The Learning Channel" because they shunned their origins and want to be known as TLC cause they show such crap all the time.
provis99
(13,062 posts)Are there any mysteries on the Mystery Channel? Are there any music videos on MTV anymore? does the Bravo channel have any high art, or is it all about the Kardashians now?
Come to think of it, why does MSNBC convert into the Prison Channel on the weekend?