I know I appear to harp on the poor psychics more than they merit. But do I really? They continue to get thoroughly credulous coverage in the popular press. On Oprah. On Montell. On Larry King. On the Eleven O'Clock News. On The Medium! And so on. It seems to me that science teachers have an obligation to cast a little light into the demon-haunted world whenever they can. (If my students know KE=1/2mv^2 but call up the Psychic Friends to inquire about the future, have I done my job?)
So where were the psychics, clairvoyants, etc., on 9/10/01? Did the events of the next day not register on their radars? Was the attack not significant enough to carry psychic energy (or whatever) through the temporal aether to them?
With their vast abilities to "see" and "feel," how did they miss something so huge?
Are fabricated Nostradamus quatrains the best they can do? (After-the-fact, as is always the case with Notradamus.)
I'll pose the question--simply as a question to be pondered by anyone who doesn't see that "real psychic" is an oxymoron. I'll pose it in class. Not on 9/11. That day is reserved for other things. But it's a fair question on 9/12.
Where were the psychics on 9/10?
As I read this, I kept thinking it said, "where were the physics on 9/10?"
ReplyDeleteI had to read it twice before I realized what it actually said.
Very good point. I don't personally believe in anything supernatural, even without physics.