For those of you who watched the latest television special by Derren Brown, Derren Brown Investigates: The Man Who Contacts the Dead, this might be of some interest. For those who haven’t, please feel free to either immerse yourself in the scenario or else simply to avert your gaze and twiddle your thumbs for the next few moments.

The show, which aired on Channel 4 at 10pm on Wednesday of this week (you can watch it here on 40D) featured the self-styled psychic medium Joe Power. Derren approached the show from a sceptical perspective, which means that he suspended his opinion the subject of psychic mediumship until his investigation was finished and he was able to draw a conclusion based on a convergence of the available evidence.

Joe Power, however, seems to have taken umbrage to this and made a recent post on his website, which you can view here. In the post, he criticises Brown’s sceptical approach, apparently misunderstanding the meaning of the term, and accuses him of using foul play and coercion in an attempt to publicly defame him.

I composed a quick guestbook entry on Joe’s website, the content of which is moderated before posting. The entry in question suspiciously has not yet manifested on the website, which seems odd since others have been able to post quite freely since my attempt. For fear that it might never see the light of day and be condemned to lay lifeless on the cavernous floor of my laptop hard drive I have decided to reproduce the email here. You can read it in full by clicking here

I genuinely am curious as to what his reply might be and welcome any explanation that he might be able to provide in regards to my questions.

Feel free to peruse it at your leisure.

Filed under: Funny Stuffs, Like Woah... Interesting..., Reasoning, Scary Shiz-am!, Supernatural?, The Mind and Suggestibility by Mark Brewer
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