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Jaycee Lee Dugard & the Bad Science of Relying on Psychics
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 2:03 pm
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| Dayle Shear claims to have predicted Jaycee Lee Dugard's return |
In this instance, he's speaking of Dayle Schear, a Reno psychic who was hired by Jaycee Lee Dugard's parents in the abduction of their daughter 18 years ago. On her website, Shear claims credit for "solving numerous cases including finding lost possessions, locating missing items, missing persons, murders, by seeing into the past, present and future."
And now she's claiming she envisioned where Jaycee was generally being held, and predicted the girl would return to her parents one day: "I looked her [Jaycee's mother] in the eyes and I said... eventually she'll walk through the door, you're going to see her again."
But Radford has a different word for it: Bullshit...
Writes the columnist:
"If Shear's psychic powers told her that this poor girl was being kept in the most horrific conditions -- being subjected to continual sexual and physical abuse for nearly two decades -- then it's puzzling that Jaycee was not found 18 years ago...
"One common trick psychics use to make themselves appear accurate is
to give very vague information open to later interpretation (most
missing persons are likely to be found "near water," even if it's a
lake, puddle, river, drain, etc.). When bodies are found it is always
through accident or police work. Despite repeated claims to the contrary, there is not a single
documented case of a missing person being found or recovered due solely
to psychic information. In February 2004, Court TV launched a series
about psychic detectives investigating cold cases "Haunting Evidence."
The show was cancelled after three seasons, without having solved a
single case."
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