{"id":11474,"date":"2010-03-10T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/why-are-psychics-ever-surprised-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T20:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:00:38","slug":"why-are-psychics-ever-surprised-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/why-are-psychics-ever-surprised-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Why are psychics ever surprised? | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time a psychic gets surprised by something, the world gets a little smarter. I hope.<\/p><p>If that&rsquo;s true, then our collective IQ went up a solid 8 points when the Securities and Exchange Commission <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/sec_goes_after_psychic_for_scamming_oW2uYFCpYbK0AQJ30hiwHJ\">filed a suit against \"America&rsquo;s Prophet\" Sean David Morton<\/a> on claims he&rsquo;s a big ol&rsquo; phony.<\/p><p>If only he had spelled it \"profit\" instead, then he wouldn&rsquo;t have been falsely advertising. And given that he made a cool $6 million off of gullible dupes, that moniker would certainly fit better.<\/p><p>Now, of course this doesn&rsquo;t mean all psychics are knowing frauds any more than a scientist who perpetrates knowing fraud indicts all other scientists.<\/p><p>However, science has given us spaceflight, agriculture, computers, medicine, telescopes, and a deeper and quantitative understanding of the Universe from the quantum level out to its observable edge.<\/p><p>Psychics have given us, well&hellip; y&rsquo;know&hellip; um&hellip; oh! They make it easier for non-critical people to carry their now much-lighter wallets around.<\/p><p>Right. Well, to paraphrase <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0756878\/\">Philip J. Fry<\/a>: psychics 0, regular science a billion.<\/p><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the crystal ball to Dale Martin.<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Eq4RdqDmsAXeyJztQCtOo6-IMjQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d00b0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Eq4RdqDmsAXeyJztQCtOo6-IMjQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d00b0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d00b0_7uIJ5f7XKL4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d00b0_nP18YyyP7Uo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time a psychic gets surprised by something, the world gets a little smarter. I hope.If that&rsquo;s true, then our collective IQ went up a solid 8 points when the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a suit against \"America&rsquo;s Prophet\" &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/why-are-psychics-ever-surprised-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}