SEEING into the future is just a load of crystal balls, scientists claimed yesterday.
A report has found that clairvoyants and psychics rely more on a scam called 'cold reading' rather than looking to their star charts and Tarot cards.
Their tricks of the trade also include even more underhand methods such as searching a client's belongings for clues or scanning the internet for background information on them. The only thing that can be confidently predicted is that eager customers are so willing to be taken in that it makes the job much easier.
Scientists studied the methods used by everyone from spirit guides to gyspy tea-leaf readers and found that cold reading covers a range of psychological techniques to make it appear they know a lot about their client.
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