New Law Forces Brittish Psychics to Issue Disclaimers

A new law in Brittain seeks to keep people from being duped by fake mediums by forcing those mediums to hand out disclaimers stating that their work is for entertainment purposes only. Psychics fear they are about to be “persecuted and prosecuted.”

“If I’m giving a healing to someone, I don’t want to have to stand there and say I don’t believe in what I’m doing,” said Carole McEntee-Taylor, a healer who co-founded the Spiritual Workers Association.

Carole McEntee's group, which boasts membership of more than 5,000 people who work as psychics, mediums and spiritualists delivered a petition to law makers protesting the new law.

Of course the law has prompted countless snarking headlines about how the psychics should have foreseen the new law, but the people affected are not amused. They don't appreciate the implication that they are frauds before proven so.

The Brittish Humanist Association backs the law on the grounds that the public needs to be protected from fake psychics. So…why can’t people decide what they want to believe on their own? I am fully aware that most psychics are practitioners of the art of “cold reading,” which is more a canny psychological reading than a psychic reading. But where is the outcry to protect people from the other “industry [which] is huge and lucrative and it exploits some very vulnerable, and some very gullible, people with claims for which there is no scientific evidence.”

That being the organized religion. How about if churches are required to give out disclaimers as to the existence of God, since they can't, in fact prove he's there? People need to be protected from believing silly things, right?

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