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Richard Saunders is chief investigator for Australian Skeptics Inc, and producer and presenter of the Skeptic Zone podcast

https://skepticzone.tv/

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The Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project finds ‘psychics’ perform worse than random chance

Richard Saunders - 18th March 2022

Richard Saunders concludes a 12-year investigation by Australian and international researchers, covering over 3800 predictions from more than 200 self-professed psychics, and the results are not encouraging… for psychics.

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Richard Saunders

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Faking the faking of fake news, 1910 style: the ‘death’ of film star Florence Lawrence

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Animals, acupuncture and alt-med: the Brazilian penguin being subjected to Enya

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