mentalists

I was delighted to see that "Ireland AM", the breakfast programme on TV3 Ireland - normally the home of palm-readers, astrologers, and other peddlars of psychic nonsense - finally saw fit to grant a long interview to a skeptic and stage magician this morning. It's a 10 minute interview with...

I have a buddy here in Las Vegas who is a professional mentalist. He has a show on Friday (December 28th) in Illinois he's been promoting for about a month. The highlight of the show, which has been featured in all the publicity for the show, is a newspaper headline prediction. His prediction...

(Forgive me if this has come up before; I can't think of a suitable search string to be sure I've not missed it.) I've often wondered about the proportions of self-deluders, informally-trained scammers, and outright mentalists that are in the business of taking money for "psychic" services. I...

Has anyone heard of this person? http://www.experimentalist.com/ He is a friend of a co-worker of mine, and recently gave a performance in our office that I was unfortunately unable to attend, but which I'm told by many who were in attendance included some impressive feats of mentalism...

I'm new here. Stumbled onto this site through snopes.com. I've been a fan of JR's for years but never knew he had a discussion board. Anyway, I was home a day last week and saw the Ellen Degeneres show. She had on a "mentalist" named Gerard Senehi. Ellen kept stressing that he wasnt' a...

It really pisses me off that mentalists won't tell how they do their most interesting tricks. My guess is that part of the reason is that the explanations are so mundane (ex. the participants are shills - which they often are and which, for my two cents, renders the trick pointless) that...