Over the past six months or so, more than a few online content-creators, some labeled as “Psychics,” have predicted both the imminent or undisclosed deaths of an ailing U.S. Senator and the President.

As of this date, both men are alive (maybe not well, but breathing).

I have watched online pendulum swingers, tarot readers, mediums, and even medical personnel widely miss their predictions on demise dates, hoping, I assume, their audiences would forget their mistakes and move on.

Most “believers” have, moved on, but not the late James Randi acolytes who take great glee in debunking psychics wherever you may find them – especially those who’ve made bad online predictions.

My eyebrow-raising visits to the sites of psychics who missed their marks, have ended. I don’t want to call-out the wrong-headed sooth-sayers or, as I see them, wishful thinkers. Because, Debunker James Randi (rip) aside, no psychic is ever 100% accurate. In fact, hitting 80% accuracy on a prediction or a series of precogs is considered very good.

I’ve already forgotten and forgiven these recent social media psychic fails. It just seems to me, making headlines as a psychic is both silly and also dangerous to “believers” and other psychics

Silly, because prophetic claims are often out-of-context and frivolous. Believers feel let down. Dangerous, because widely-read, bad psychic predictions tend to disclaim all clairvoyants, especially those who mostly keep their knowledge to themselves and/or their clients.

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