{"id":1694,"date":"2011-03-08T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T23:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2011-03-08T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T23:52:01","slug":"part-1-parents-of-kid-featured-on-%e2%80%9cpsychic-kids%e2%80%9d-lash-out-at-scifake-go-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/03\/08\/part-1-parents-of-kid-featured-on-%e2%80%9cpsychic-kids%e2%80%9d-lash-out-at-scifake-go-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 1: Parents of kid featured on \u201cPsychic Kids\u201d lash out at Scifake. Go figure!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am really upset with one parent who viciously attacked me via Facebook because I questioned her son\u2019s psychic abilities after watching a sophomoric interview (and one sided) about his pretend powers.<\/p>\n<p>See the interview below and captured screen shots of my communication (via Facebook) with her son. You\u2019ll determine there is <strong>NOTHING inappropriate with my emails<\/strong> and this lady (in my opinion) is a lose cannon and possibly she needs help. This article will be broken down into various parts. I don\u2019t have time right now, but believe me, there is an epic rant coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psychics<\/strong> \u2013 I\u2019m holding nothing back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"iseebull\" src=\"http:\/\/scifake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/iseebull.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"200\" \/>All the psychics provide to people, who lets say, want to communicate  with a dead loved one is platitudes and things <strong>they want to hear<\/strong>. It\u2019s always responses like, \u201cYour father loves you and wishes you will move on\u201d it\u2019s never \u201cYour father was unfaithful to your mother for 20 years and wishes that he never had you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psychics fall into two categories. They are either scammers or well meaning yet delusional people who honestly think they have some kind of power.\u00a0 Psychics prey on grieving, desperate emotional people who have suffered some kind of loss or tragedy and are looking for closure or comfort. People also base important life decisions on the word of the charlatans and spend huge amounts of money on readings. Look up cold reading or hot reading to see how these people operate.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s \u201cPsychic Kids in a nutshell. The producers\u00a0look for disturbed kids who think they\u2019ve got magic powers, and then they\u2019re flying in \u201cprofessional psychics\u201d to coach them in dealing with their awesome powers, i.e., indulge their delusions, get off on feeling superior to unhappy kids, and collect a paycheck for psychic child abuse. Not only are kids and their parents getting sucked into believing things <strong>with no solid  evidence<\/strong>, but targeting children with documented psychological problems and giving them bogus solutions precludes them getting professional medical therapy and assistance they obviously could use. Even worse, televising the entire process normalizes the idea for the audience, which might include other troubled kids and parents who decide to try the same \u201csolutions\u201d with \u201cparanormal experts\u201d that aren\u2019t monitored by\u00a0 TV cameras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scifake.com\/?p=4594\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really upset with one parent who viciously attacked me via Facebook because I questioned her son\u2019s psychic abilities after watching a sophomoric interview (and one sided) about his pretend powers. See the interview below and captured screen shots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/03\/08\/part-1-parents-of-kid-featured-on-%e2%80%9cpsychic-kids%e2%80%9d-lash-out-at-scifake-go-figure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}