One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

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

[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.