{"id":6369,"date":"2010-11-15T00:32:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T04:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6369"},"modified":"2010-11-15T01:36:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T05:36:12","slug":"new-on-aampe-psychics-with-serious-mental-illnesses-hunting-hitlers-ghost-while-driving-a-big-truck-with-their-freakish-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/new-on-aampe-psychics-with-serious-mental-illnesses-hunting-hitlers-ghost-while-driving-a-big-truck-with-their-freakish-family\/","title":{"rendered":"New on A&amp;E: <em>Psychics with Serious Mental Illnesses Hunting Hitler&#8217;s Ghost While Driving A Big Truck with Their Freakish Family<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another link from Chris Myrick: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2010\/11\/bad_move_ae.php\" target=\"_blank\">Bad move, A&amp;E<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The A&amp;E Channel has a new show coming up: <em>Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal<\/em>. Sounds awful already, doesn&#8217;t it? But it&#8217;s worse than you think: they&#8217;re looking for disturbed kids who think they&#8217;ve got magic powers, and then they&#8217;re flying in &#8220;professional psychics&#8221; to coach them in dealing with their awesome powers, i.e., indulge their delusions, get off on feeling superior to unhappy kids, and collect a paycheck for psychic child abuse.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re putting kids in the hands of a creepy skeevo like Chip Coffey, <em>all for your entertainment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is quite possibly the most loathsome thing I&#8217;ve ever seen on TV, and my cable gives me access to the Trinity Broadcast Network, so that&#8217;s saying a lot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/psychic-kids-letter-writing-campaign-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skepchicks are mobilizing the skeptic hordes<\/a>. Call or write to A&amp;E and let them know that their schlock has reached a new and despicable low.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another link from Chris Myrick: Bad move, A&amp;E. The A&amp;E Channel has a new show coming up: Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal. Sounds awful already, doesn&#8217;t it? But it&#8217;s worse than you think: they&#8217;re looking for disturbed kids who think they&#8217;ve got magic powers, and then they&#8217;re flying in &#8220;professional psychics&#8221; to coach them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,73,16],"tags":[374,156,504,101],"class_list":["post-6369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-randomness","category-science","tag-children","tag-fail","tag-teenagers","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1EJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}