Human beings are slaves to their emotions. How else can one explain society's current obsession with the hoards of "psychic mediums" that plague the airwaves. These should-be criminals prey on the feelings of their audiences by convincing them to believe what their common sense says cannot be true. Thieves like these are a major problem, and need to be dealt with appropriately. The truth of the matter is, there are no true psychics and those who claim to have psychic abilities are frauds.

The psychic hoax is not a new development; fake mediums have been around since late in the 1840's. According to Paul Kurtz, author of The Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology, the first so-called psychics to enter mainstream culture were Kate and Margaret Fox, two young sisters from Hydesville, a small town in northern New York. They developed a method that involved rapping on...