Hindsight Bias
via Unnatural Acts that can improve your thinking “The mind that makes up narratives about the past is a sense-making organ. When an unpredicted event occurs, we immediately adjust our view of the...
View Article2012 Failed and Forgotten Psychic Predictions
via Relatively Interesting Another year has come and gone, and with it, a slew of failed and forgotten psychic predictions. Each year, the world’s “leading” psychics lay down their predictions in...
View Article2012 Psychic Predictions Roundup: Laypeople and Professionals Both Continue...
Reblogged from Exposing PseudoAstronomy: Download the Predictions Roundup Document (PDF) Introduction Continuing a tradition that I started in 2010 and continued in 2011, I am posting a "psychic...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons Humans Are Obsessed With the Apocalypse
by Alpha via Listverse Readers – the end is nigh. Any day of the week there always seems to be some terminal apocalypse just around the corner, poised to finally bring ruin to us all – and severe...
View Article5 Things I’ve noticed about… Doomsday Prophecies
Via The Soap Box There’s been a lot of doomsday predictions and prophecies over the years (and I mean a lot), and fortunately none of them have ever come true. While I have noticed a lot of things...
View ArticleBelief in Psychic Abilities Increases Sense of Control
By Christine Hsu via Counsel & Heal A new study reveals that people given scientific evidence that supports the ability to predict the future feel a greater sense of control over their lives....
View ArticleSeptember 11: Who Needs Nostradamus?
Shortly after the tragic events of that day, people stormed the Internet with searches on what Nostradamus might have predicted about it. Why? Via paranormal.about.com It didn’t take long after the...
View ArticlePsychics Boost Believers’ Sense of Control
by Benjamin Radford via Discovery News A new study has found that people who believe that psychics can predict the future tend to feel more in control of their lives than those who don’t. A group of...
View ArticleThe great psychic con
Georgina Guedes via News24 Last week, I read an article about how a “psychic” in the US duped a whole bunch of clients out of $25m. Why don’t you remember this headline? I am not a believer in or a fan...
View ArticleThe Death of Sylvia Browne
by The Locke via The Soap Box Yesterday one of the world’s most famous fake psychics (I know, that’s redundant) died. Sylvia Browne, who had made many appearances on TV (most notably The Montel...
View Article5 Thing’s I’ve noticed about… 12/21/2012
by The Locke via The Soap Box It’s been almost a year since 12/21/2012, the day that the world was suppose to end… or change (depends on who you asked). Now there was a lot that didn’t happen that day...
View Article10 People who predicted the end of the World… More than once.
by The Locke via The Soap Box With the recent Blood Moon there are several people going around that are “predicting” that the end of the world is near… again. Most notable of those predicting the end...
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