- 1. Pretending to be a psychic -"let some ideas sail into your mind" and not to go "overboard on detail". She then drew a boat on water. Despite this all being a trick the psychics completely accepted him and did not once question him on his veracity. He had stated throughout that if they did he would immediately come clean to them that he was a charlatan.
- "Wow I train psychics and to I would say to my trainees , that this guy is the best example I have ever seen"

- 2. Pretending to be a evangelical preacher - maybe he had a plant to start off with - but he eventually converted a whole room of people to belief in God just with a "magic touch", presumabley based on his normal careful choice of words hidden hypnosis routine - the targeted evangelist mentor was well impressed, but was shrewd enough to say that he wanted to meet him again before endorsing him.

- 3. Pretending to be a New Age inventor - dream catching machine - Again by clever cold reading he was able to completely take in the biggest world's biggest New Age Businesswoman ..his box was fake of course.

- 4. Pretending to be a returned UFO abductee - Again by cold reading he was able to convince 2 UFO experst of his new magic skill of diving peoples medical history

- 5. Pretending to be able to speak to the dead - Gave a public session in front of a top psychic.- His cold reading was outrageous - she gave him a ringing endorsement.

- "The moment asks me if I am faking it I will admit it "

- The Moral- He almost always won ringing endorsements from experts in the field even though he was faking it... people want to believe - They take the things that endorse their belief and dismiss and ignore evidence against

.."He adds: "It's not a debunking show. I'm not interested in tearing down anyone's beliefs. I'm just interested in questioning them"."
- He went out of his way to say that he didn't want to insult any ones religion or firmly held beliefs, but he did make them look ridiculous

"true belief of any kind - Christians, new-agers, committed cynics - all fall prey to a similar circular, self-fulfilling logic. "

- another article

- air drive headphones "blow" the sound over your ear hole so don't damage it or blockout background sound

- Material World in Alberta Canada bitumen reserves make it the biggest oil reserve in the world

- Ben Goldacres's I think you'll find it's not as simple as that T-shirt - Radio 4 Loose Ends - Logic project

-richard Holloway - Christian apologist

- I wrote something about Positive Skeptism

- Forgotten UK Tsunamis- BBC TV - Scientists investigating ancient floods were surprised by mentions of things like sparks, one recognised this as like what happens when you get an undersea volcano eruption causing a Tsunami. They realised that over time underesea earth slides, volcanoes and earthquakes must have caused a few tsunamis in the UK in the past. When they investigated other ancient events they realised they to showed evidence of tsunamis.
- The programme used a strange technique of the narrator giving the believers counter explanations before challenging an expert "e.g. A Santa Monica earthquake of 5.1 caused a tidal wave" , then the expert started talking about you need 6.5 to cause a tsunami ..so he always looked stupid.

- I guess people in England would never expect a tsunami so if one did occur it would have always get called bad weather.

- see my climate page about 1159BC event

- http://www.scienceplaces.org.uk/ good science walking podcasts including Manchester and Liverpool

- It's a bit surprising no-one has mentioned this before.