Joe Power: Psychic Detective… although not a detective, and not psychic
The Liverpool Echo today runs a charmingly-sympathetic feature on local corpse-finder and celeb-séancer Joe Power. For those of you with good memories for niche outré pieces of pop-culture tat (and why...
View Article‘Psychic’ Joe Power and the Two-Man-Mob
Check out more from us on Skeptics with a K Cool drizzle fell onto the grey Saturday streets of Liverpool, a light breeze tumble-weeded a sweet wrapper down the road in a clichéd fashion, and I was...
View ArticlePsychics, Pies and Challenging Lies
I love a psychic story. It’s like catnip to me. Give me a local reporter shamelessly pandering to the nonsense of a purported sage or mystic, and I’m instantly all fired-up with lovely apoplectic ire....
View Article‘Psychic Detective’ Joe Power Rides Again (And He’s Still Not Psychic, And...
Last week I wrote about the Dyfed-Powys Police force and their investigation into the death of Carlos Assaf - an investigation which saw them spend £20k following up supposed tips from a so-called...
View ArticleDerren Brown Investigates… Joe Power
Sometimes, just sometimes, I could almost be convinced that there’s someone up there listening. Not all the time, of course, and only half-heartedly – I’m not about to go all Goddy on you guys – but...
View ArticlePsychic Joe Power And The Two Man Mob – Revisited
Joe Power - psychic or not? You decide In the wake of Derren Brown’s stinging exposé on ‘Psychic’ Joe Power, I thought it worth sharing with the world a conversation I had with Joe back in June 2009,...
View ArticleJoe Power, non-Psychic non-Detective: A Clarification
From time to time in the world of skepticism, something happens which you really don’t see coming – something totally unexpected. Often, these are positive things – like the media interest in our 10:23...
View ArticleJoe Power: A Career In Freefall
Get your QED ticket now! (I’d just like to point out that this story is sponsored by Schadenfreude – for all your laughing-at-people-who’ve-gotten-their-comeuppance needs) This is actually a story...
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