Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

The market for nonsense is infinite.

No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.