Bad news for phone psychics

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

Floria is suing one of those telephone psychic companies.  The 
problem, it seems, is that the company misled its customers about its 
service because it is not actually testing its psychics to make sure 
that they really have psychic powers:

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Barbara Melit, another former telephone psychic, said her colleagues 
"came in off the street. They were alcoholics. They had no experience 
whatsoever as being a psychic. ... They had hit bottom and they 
basically needed a job to keep them supplied with alcohol and drugs."
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Read the rest here:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/psychics_homeless000925.html


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Cornell University, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

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