Episode 199 - Richard Saunders and the Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project
Squaring the Strange - A podcast by Ben Radford, Celestia Ward and Pascual Romero
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After some news on Mike Lindell and a few points about popular TV shows, we are joined by the inimitable Richard Saunders, who gives us the details on his Herculean undertaking, a 12-year roundup of psychic predictions made in Australia's popular media since the year 2000. While there were no surprises, the sheer amount of data he and his teammates collected and categorized provided some interesting insights. How did the media respond? Will there be similar projects? What is the value of having such a macro-view of purported prognostication?