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href="psychic.html">psychic</a>, but she got her biggest boosts in show business from US TV personality <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_Margolis">Regis Philbin</a> and from the youngest son of singer Dean Martin. </font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3">Philbin's relationship with Margolis goes back to the 1980s, but Philbin gave her a mighty bump when she appeared on his show in November 2000 and told the world that Kelly Ripa was pregnant. This news was presented as if Margolis had tapped into her psychic reservoir to get it. Philbin acted surprised and <a href="http://www.people.com/people/kelly_ripa/biography">Ripa</a>, who was co-hosting in a tryout role that day, said: "I haven't told my boss yet."</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3">In addition to appearing several times on Live With Regis and Kelly, Margolis has appeared on Larry King Live, The View, The Ricki Lake Show, and Geraldo, among others. <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/09/lkl.00.html"> Larry King</a> calls Margolis "a master at psychic intuitiveness" who "teaches people how to hone their own intuitive skills." Of course, Larry King's job is to hype his guests, not investigate them to discover if what they claim has any merit.</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3">Margolis claims to <a href="medium.html">get messages from dead spirits</a> and to be a valuable <a href="psychdet.html">psychic detective</a>. Like Sylvia Browne, however, she failed the reality check. An investigation of her claims found that she was exaggerating her abilities or just making stuff up. She claimed to have helped locate missing pilot Dean Paul Martin, the son of singer Dean Martin. Paul Martin's younger brother Ricci supports Margolis's claim. He wrote in his memoir <i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1589791401/roberttoddcarrolA/"> That's Amore</a> </i>(2004):</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3">Even though Char had never been over the area, she seemed to be familiar with the terrain, giving the helicopter pilot directions just as the Air Force captain did. As we neared the site that Char had pinpointed, the pilot suddenly announced that we had to turn back. The military had located the crash site, cordoned off the airspace, and was ordering all civilian craft out of the area. The wreckage of Dean Paul's plane had been found in the precise spot where Char had said it would be.”</font></p> </blockquote> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3">Martin was a California Air National Guard jet fighter pilot. He was on a training run in his F4-C Phantom jet. Two other fighter pilots in their F4-C Phantoms were also on the mission. They took off from March Air Force Base and were flying maneuvers near the San Bernardino mountain range when Martin's plane crashed. It's not like he was on a secret mission in the middle of nowhere. The <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-24/local/me-317_1_dean-martin-s-son"> <i>Los Angeles Times</i> reported</a> that it was believed his plane crashed into the side of Mt. San Gorgonio, about 22 miles northeast of Riverside, California. (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/27/us/dean-martin-s-son-is-dead-in-jet.html?pagewanted=1">The wreckage was found on the east side of Wood Canyon, east of Potrero Canyon in Riverside County</a>.) In 2008, the Dutch television program Zembla contacted the search team that located the plane. They had never heard of Margolis and denied that she had helped locate the pilot.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_Margolis#Controversy">*</a> But even if she had gone with Ricci Martin in a helicopter to search for the wreckage, the likely whereabouts of the plane was no secret. Furthermore, his claim about her identifying the "precise spot" of the wreckage can't be right, since he admits they were turned away and ordered out of the area.</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3">Margolis's show in the Netherlands is very popular. In 2010, she started her eleventh season on television there. Perhaps her popularity in The Netherlands explains why <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/03/dutch_prisons_using_psychics.php"> Dutch prisons are using psychics to counsel inmates.</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>See also</b> <a href="http://skepdic.com/channeling.html"> channeling</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/clairaudio.html"> clairaudience</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/coldread.html">cold reading</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/evp.html">electronic voice phenomenon</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/ghosts.html"> ghost</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/hotreading.html">hot reading</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/mentalist.html"> mentalist</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/ouija.html">Ouija board</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/psychic.html">psychic</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/channel.html">Ramtha</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/shotgun.html">shotgunning</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/subjectivevalidation.html"> subjective validation</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/spiritul.html">spiritualism</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/warmreading.html">warm reading</a>, and <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/afterlife.html">my review of Gary Schwartz's <i>The Afterlife Experiments</i></a>. </font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b> <a href="http://skepdic.com/comments/mediumcom.html">reader comments</a></b></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b> further reading</b></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b> <a name="bc">My</a> commentaries on various alleged psychics and psychic powers:</b></font></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/bunk2.html#psychic"> ABC Television: Put to the Test II - Billed as a test of psychic powers</a> </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk40.html#courttv"> Court TV's "Psychic Detectives"</a> </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk58.html">How F.B.I. profiling resembles psychic cold reading by Robert T. Carroll</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3">"<a href="http://skepdic.com/news/newsletter70.html#2">Psychic Detectives on TV: how do they affect paranormal beliefs?</a>" </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3">"<a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk44.html#medium">Allison Dubois, Gary Schwartz, and 'Medium'"</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/essays/gsandsv.html">Gary Schwartz's Subjective Evaluation of Mediums: Veritas or Wishful Thinking?</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/bunk29.html">"It's All in the Framing"</a> </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk45.html#renier"> Noreen Renier</a> </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk41.html#reiner"> Noreen Renier</a> </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/bunk15.html#larryking"> Sylvia Browne</a> </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk41.html#sylvia"> Sylvia Browne</a> </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk17.html#browne"> Sylvia Browne</a> </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/news/newsletter54.html#9"> Lynn Ann Maker</a> </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/news/newsletter49.html#psychic"> Greta Alexander </a></font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/news/newsletter81.html#5"> Phil Jordan</a> </font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk53.html#jordan">Phil Jordan</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/bunk30.html">James Van Praagh</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk4.html#vanpraagh"> James Van Praagh</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/bunk4.html#vanpraagh"> James Van Praagh</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/bunk6.html#vanpraagh"> James Van Praagh</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/bunk15.html#larryking"> James Van Praagh, John Edward, and Sylvia Browne</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk16.html#edward">John Edward</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk22.html#misscleo"> Miss Cleo</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/bunk13.html">George Anderson</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/funk44.html#medium"> Allison DuBois</a></font> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/bunk30.html">Dorothy Allison</a></font> </li> </ul> </blockquote> <p style="text-align: left;"><b><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a name="books">books</a> and articles</font></b></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573920614/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Blackmore, Susan J., <i>In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist</i>, (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1986).</a> </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0690268157/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Christopher, Milbourne. <i>ESP, Seers & Psychics </i>(Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1970).</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0690004761/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Christopher, Milbourne. (1975).<i> Mediums, Mystics & the Occult. </i>Thomas Y. Crowell Co.</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879753145/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Frazier, Kendrick and James Randi, "Predictions After The Fact: Lessons Of The Tamara Rand Hoax," in <em>Science Confronts The Paranormal</em>, ed., Kendrick Frazier (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986),</a> first published in the <em> Skeptical Inquirer</em> 6, no.1 (Fall 1981): 4-7. </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879755121/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Gardner, Martin. <i>How Not To Test a Psychic : Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek</i> (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879754079/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Gordon, Henry. <i>Extrasensory Deception: Esp, Psychics, Shirley MacLaine, Ghosts, Ufos </i>(Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1987).</a> </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1401000827/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Hansen, George C. (2001). <i>The Trickster and the Paranormal</i>. Xlibris Corporation.</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573921610/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Keene, M. Lamar. <i>The Psychic Mafia</i> (Prometheus, 1997).</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879751215/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Marks, David and Richard Kammann. <em>Psychology of the Psychic </em>(Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1979).</a> </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060507055430/www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/dailystar/57187.php"> McClain, Carla. "Varied readings on Arizona psychic," <i>Arizona Daily Star</i>. January 17, 2005.</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879756853/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Nickell, Joe. <i><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"> Secrets of the supernatural : investigating the world's occult mysteries</span></i> with John F. Fischer (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1988).</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <font color="#000000"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879751983/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Randi, James. <i>Flim-Flam!</i></a></font><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879751983/roberttoddcarrolA/"><font color="#800000"> </font>(Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books,1982).</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0393059626/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Roach, Mary. (2005). <i>Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. </i>W.W. Norton.</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.ianrowland.com/">Rowland, Ian. <i>The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading,</i> 3rd. ed (2000).</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3"> <a href="http://www.csicop.org/si/show/psychic_defective_sylvia_brownes_history_of_failure/">Shaffer, Ryan and Agatha Jadwiszczok. “Psychic Defective: Sylvia Browne’s History of Failure,” <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> 34, no. 2 (March/April 2010): 38-42</a>.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3">Sefton, Dru. "A Spirited Debate," Knight Ridder News Service, <i>The San Diego Union-Tribune</i>, July 10, 1998, p. E1. </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0805070893/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Shermer, Michael. <i>Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time</i> (WH Freeman & Co.: 1997).</a> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/weird.html">Review</a>. </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573920215/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Stein, Gordon. "Spiritualism," in <i>The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal </i>edited by Gordon Stein (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996).</a> </font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><b><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a name="web">articles</a> on the WWW</font></b></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.holysmoke.org/praagh.htm">Michael Shermer on James Van Praagh</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/review_of_psychic_medium_van_praagh_on_cnns_larry_king_live/"> Review of Psychic Medium Van Praagh on CNN's Larry King Live</a> by Joe Nickell</font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.csicop.org/si/show/john_edward_hustling_the_bereaved/"> John Edward: Hustling the Bereaved</a> by Joe Nickell</font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/investigating_spirit_communications/"> Investigating Spirit Communications</a> by Joe Nickell </font> </p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.gpposner.com/Van_Praagh.html">Talking to the Living Loved Ones of the Dearly Departed </a><br> by Gary P. 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