Skepticism of trickery and pseudoscience is one of my little hobbies.

Study sometime how astrologers work.  Actual, literal astrologers.  They do make many predictions that prove accurate.  If they didn’t often seem astoundingly prescient, they would have no business.

Similarly as for all manner of psychics, New Age gurus, etc.

Although I can’t be sure without the power to read minds, I suspect that some of them may even sincerely believe in their own powers of prediction.  The rest just take payola to shill for shitcoins on Twitter fleece the fools without conscience.

Though that’s nothing.  Look into how Uri Geller tricked some incautious “scientists” into publicly making fools of themselves.  (Then, check on Geller’s known net worth; his scam is highly profitable.)

Such a hobby tunes up the b.s. detector.  It also gives great pessimism about the unresolved question of whether or not non-artificial intelligence exists.


I always heard the aphorism as, “A stopped clock is right twice per day.”