# Psychics are for real. I saw it on TV last night **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-for-real-i-saw-it-on-tv-last-night/19279 "2000-05-12T00:28:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-for-real-i-saw-it-on-tv-last-night/19279/1 "2000-05-12T00:28:50Z")
Where does FOX get this stuff, anyway? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DAYIUZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DAYIUZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAYIUZ)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-for-real-i-saw-it-on-tv-last-night/19279/2 "2000-05-12T00:45:10Z")
You watched it didn’t you. That causes rating, which makes FOX money… ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-for-real-i-saw-it-on-tv-last-night/19279/3 "2000-05-12T00:54:43Z")
We didn’t get that programmme in England. Could you send it to me telepathically, please? ---
**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-for-real-i-saw-it-on-tv-last-night/19279/4 "2000-05-12T01:00:07Z")
Well, I felt, as a skeptic, that I ought to give the believers a chance to prove thier case. Yeah, that’s it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DAYIUZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DAYIUZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAYIUZ)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-for-real-i-saw-it-on-tv-last-night/19279/5 "2000-05-12T01:01:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Well, I felt, as a skeptic, that I ought to give the believers a chance to prove thier case. > > Yeah, that’s it. > > 😉 > \*\* Your fairness in the face of stupidity is greatly admired. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-for-real-i-saw-it-on-tv-last-night/19279/6 "2000-05-12T21:36:23Z")
I felt so torn. I didn’t want to participate so as to give FOX reason to believe anyone watches such crap or to improve their ratings. Yet I just had to watch, I couldn’t help it. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2000, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-for-real-i-saw-it-on-tv-last-night/19279/7 "2000-05-13T06:09:13Z")
I was busy watching “Friends” and taping “Who’s Line Is It, Anyway?”. Then I got a phone call. I did catch about a minute of the show around 8 during a commercial break/show transition. It was the hypnotist who was “curing” the lady’s fear of spiders. First of all, the box of bugs weren’t spiders - scorpions and roaches, but no spiders. But that’s really irrelevant. The “hypnotism” job was a tacky poor performance where she play acted what he asked of her. _Yawn_ If the rest of the show was that good, call James Randi. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2000, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychics-are-for-real-i-saw-it-on-tv-last-night/19279/8 "2000-05-13T13:03:45Z")
Just remember, for ratings it doesn’t matter if you watch or not unless you’re a Nielsen family. For your sanity, it can matter a lot. As Joe Nickell, of CSICOP, said about this show: “Those of us who thought the FOX television network had nowhere to go but up… should have been more, well, skeptical.”