Special #004
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2010
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Marsh from ‘Skeptics with a K’ calls into BBC Radio Oxford to talk about psychics and psychic healers - including an encounter with “Energy Worker” Adrian Pengelly.
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| 0:00.0 | So this morning we're asking you about psychic ability, whether or not you reckon it exists. |
| 0:17.0 | If you've been to one of these theatre shows, these sort of entertainment shows where they pick people out to the audience and they're being contacted by the spirit world |
| 0:24.8 | and they sort of send that information through. |
| 0:27.8 | And also about healing, all this kind of idea, whether or not it works if you're skeptical, |
| 0:32.0 | why are you skeptical, maybe you believe in it |
| 0:34.4 | we've got quite a few balls in the air at the moment we still got with us in the studio |
| 0:38.8 | Dr Matthew Smith from Tame who just a recap he's spending the year investigating the world of psychic belief, he's completely open-minded about the whole thing. |
| 0:48.0 | Also still on the line, Adrian Pengele, who is a psychic and also a healer. |
| 0:52.6 | And bringing into the conversation now Michael Marshall, who, well, you're probably aware |
| 0:57.8 | of Michael because he was been involved in the Darren Brown program on channel 4, which has been |
| 1:02.4 | exploring the world of psychics and |
| 1:04.3 | specifically he spoke to a man that claimed to be in regular contact with John |
| 1:09.5 | Lennon now the man was called Joe Power and Michael Marshall is one man who's confronted |
| 1:15.4 | Mr Power as well. It's good to talk to you. Thanks ever so much for coming on the |
| 1:18.8 | program Michael. |
| 1:19.8 | Hi, thanks very much. Hi, thank you very much. Now talk to me first of all about why you're so skeptical about psychics and about |
| 1:25.6 | healers. |
| 1:26.6 | I think I guess because a lot of people believe in them and a lot of people place an awful lot of |
| 1:30.9 | interest and an awful lot of money in them and especially when it comes to |
| 1:33.8 | healing you know a lot of people will place their health in the hands of these people if there's |
| 1:37.8 | no evidence to back up what they're doing then how do you know that what they're |
| 1:40.6 | doing is actually real and it's very important when it |
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