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Psychic Says She Was Duped Dalton Man Says Psychic Psychic Says She Was For instance, Bem took an experiment Scammed Him for More Duped on priming, which studies the effect of a subliminally flashed word on a person's Than $10,000 # A ->: !-769; response to a picture, and reversed it. In a traditional priming experiment, subjects would Psychic alleges she was stiffed by a have a word like "Ugly" flashed, and then be & A ->: >>> >,-. +64 shown a picture of a kitten. The result would businessman after working hundreds generally be the subjects taking longer to A Dalton man tells police he got of hours for his psychic hotline. determine whether or not the photo was scammed by a psychic for more than $10,000 pleasant. dollars... LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) -- This is a story that Bem reversed the experiment. He Joel Borja says he gave Psychic Healer some people don't want you to see, and a story showed the picture, asked if the subjects found Senora Magaly cash and even a big screen TV that others - including "celebrity" psychics the image pleasant or not, and flashed the so she would help save his sister and his Walter Mercado and Linda Salvin - probably subliminal word after they answered. The marriage. should have seen coming. results indicated that priming worked both But when went he back... She was gone. It all started with a KTLA viewer, who backwards and forwards in time. He says he's not alone. says she got stiffed after working more than 200 Other experiments produced small Joel Borja says, "It's a lot of money... hours for a local work at home company. results, but statistically significant ones. Test And I've lost it." The company is SCI At Home in subjects were told an erotic image was going to Desperate to save his marriage and his Pasadena, which is owned by Robert Klayman. flash on the screen, and asked to guess which of ill sister's life Borja consulted a psychic, "She Klayman says he signed up Mercado and Salvin two positions it would depict. They guessed says if you don't bring me some money and the to be part of a psychic hot line project. correctly 53.1 percent of the time. TV probably your sister die." But the project has had problems, as The paper has been scrutinized by Borja says Senora Magaly's real name is have other businesses run by Klayman. colleagues, peers, and reviewers for the the Maria Morales. Klayman says his problems are nothing Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Borja took out a $10,000 cash advance out of the ordinary for a small business man. and while some edits were proposed, the paper on his credit card. He also bought a 52-inch See if you agree by watching the video. passed muster. LCD television for Morales to use for two Also, see what you think about how he "My personal view is that this is weeks... As a sort of "crystal ball" she claimed says his company chooses "psychics" to work ridiculous and can't be true," says Joachim she would use to show Borja who cursed his on the psychic hot line. Krueger of Brown University in Providence, family. Sign up for KTLA 5 Breaking News Rhode Island, who has blogged about the work Two weeks later, she was gone. Email Alerts on the Psychology Today website. "Going after Borja says, "I was in shock... I say I lost Though Linda Salvin acknowledges the the methodology and the experimental design is everything." project has had problems - and that she has felt the first line of attack. But frankly, I didn't see A For Rent sign is up in front of the misled at times - she told us she still believes in anything. Everything seemed to be in good house now... But just days ago it was a wreck, Klayman and believes the psychic line will order." with trash everywhere and brand new furniture ultimately be a success. It's a very debatable subject, and the abandoned. A publicist for Walter Mercado never published paper will likely spur more arguments Barbara rented the property to Morales returned our messages requesting a comment than agreements, but it's an interesting subject and her family in mid-October and found it in for this story. [] for study nonetheless. shambles in less than a month. Can we see into the future? Ask me next She didn't want her last name to be used, Science Proves We Can week, when the answer will be "I don't know." but says Morales' customers poured out of the [] wood work as she worked to clean up the home, See The Future "Car after car arrived, and most of them were By Mike Fahey AMUSING too embarrassed when they realized they'd been Kotaku taken." FACTS In just a few weeks time, Barbara says Is the flow of time constant, or can Morales set up shop as a psychic, advertised on events that haven't occurred yet influence our 1. The "middle finger" gesture originates back a local spanish radio station and duped dozens behavior? A new paper provides scientific proof to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds". of people out of their hard earned cash, "They flocked to her... and it was a brilliant con." that humans can see into the future. You 2. Most kisses in a single movie: 127 in the probably saw this coming. Borja filed a report with the Whitfield Can we see into the future? It's a power movie "Don Juan" (1927). Mary Astor and County Sheriff's Department. claimed by soothsayers, oracles, witches, Estelle Taylor got all of those kisses from But Sheriff Scott Chitwood says it's a John Barrymore. civil matter, "He willfully and willingly went on astrologists, and prophets since time began flowing in the direction science generally his own accord to pay for this fortune teller." accepts it flowing in: Forward. In these 3. A Star Wars space craft, the Millenium So... In the meantime Joel Borja warns Falcon was originally inspired by the shape of others not to fall victim to the same lines. technological times, such powers fall into the a hamburger with an olive on the side. He says check out the people you do realm of parapsychology and science fiction. business with, and remember, there's no magic That could be about to change. 4. Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas Daryl Bem of Cornell University in cure, "They never help... Probably destroy more Ithaca, New York has been studying the because they were originally used to advertise families cause lost a lot of money like me." phenomenon of precognition for the past eight soap powder. In America in the early days of The Sheriff's Department told Borja to TV, advertisers would write stories around the take the matter to Magistrate Court. years. Now he's about to have a paper published use of their soap powder. on his studies in the Journal of Personality and Borja says he'd be glad to file suit... But Social Psychology, and even his most skeptical he's gotta find Senora Magaly first.[] colleagues are having a hard time refuting it. 5. Some of the titles that were considered for The weight of Bem's findings comes the hit T.V. show "Friends" were Six Of One, from his methods. Instead of using questionable Across the Hall, and Insomnia Cafe. #6 13- A$ A!-769; original methods for determining his test 6. The trucking company Elvis Presley worked Go To subjects' talent for precognition, most of Bem's at as a young man was owned by Frank experiments were those meant to study well- www.XUFORC.com known psychological phenomenon, only Sinatra. The End reversed.