Responding to arkathon:
Do you believe everything that you hear?
Not if there is good reason not to, what's your good reason why Uri would not really be hired?
'Cause he's a fraud, a liar, and a loon who has never succeeded in any of his many attempts to affect the world psychically. The claim that he was hired was yours, you provide the evidence for it.
But no psychic has ever provided significant aid in a police case.
Funny that so many would bother to use them then, if you are right!
You claimed that the police use psychics, let's see your evidence. Claims by psychics aren't reliable evidence, they're too obviously biased. Court records, police records, official police communiques, those are evidence. Should be easy if "so many" use hem.
I acknowledge certain phenomena, such as stigmata, esp, police psychics, ufos, etc. Explaining it, or swallowing it all, is another matter. Unless you have some real reason to doubt the witnesses, I'm not sticking my head in the sand on it all.
"Acknowledging certain phenomena" and promulgating the stories the way you have indicates clearly that you think the phenomena exist; that's 99% of the way to swallowing it all.
There are no witnesses of police psychics, because there are no police psychics. Psychics have claimed to have aided the police; there has never been any evidence of such aid other than the (obviously biased) claims of the psychics.
Eyewitnesses are well-known for being wildly unreliable. When the only evidence for something extraordinary is eyewitnesses, the eyewitnesses are almost certainly wrong.
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Added in edit, from another message in re police psychics:
Hey, would you brag about something like that?
Ah, the good ol' "it's true but nobody will admit it".
I might not brag about it; but I would acknowledge it in official documents, if the psychic were paid there would be records, the police keep detailed records on everyting that happens in an investigation and who they talk to and when, and if asked about it I wouldn't lie. And I'll bet that most police officers would do the same. Certainly not
all would lie to hide using a pshychic.
It appears that you've certainly swallowed "police psychics" 100%.
From
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Except in the extremely rare case in which a psychic was actually involved in the crime or had apparently received secret information (as from a tip), psychics rarely lead police to concealed bodies or unknown assailants. Of course they may use their own logical skills, or they may benefit from luck or perseverance, but there is no credible scientific evidence that psychic power ever solved a crime. Instead, crimes are invariably solved by police who search crime scenes, interview witnesses, and perform all of the myriad tasks necessary to locate a missing person or to convict a criminal.
This message has been edited by JonF, 06-24-2004 09:46 PM
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