<p>James Randi waxes intellectual:
“A billion dollars are spent each year on psychics.  Sylvia Browne charges $700 for a 20-minute phone call. She doesn’t even see you. And you will have to wait two years, because she is booked that far out.”
</p><p>“How come when you pay to speak to a dead relative, they <i>never</i> call back from hell?”
</p><p>He reminded me of  the sobering statistic from my &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://jurvetson.blogspot.com/2004/10/spooks-and-goblins.html">http://jurvetson.blogspot.com/2004/10/spooks-and-goblins.html</a>"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;  that one out of every three U.S. adults believes in ghosts and communication with the dead.
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