An open letter to Richard Branson.

An open letter to Richard Branson asking him to stop giving airtime to evil conmen who explit vulnerable people in the name of entertainment, ie so-called "Psychics" and "Mediums".

For those in the UK who also want to write to Richard Branson, his address is

Sir Richard Branson
Virgin Group Ltd,
120 Campden Hill Road,
London,
W8 7AR

I will post any reply I get from Richard Branson, please let me know if you get any replies to your letters.

If you are outside the UK you may instead wish to write to the owners of channels in your country which show so-called "psychics" and "mediums".

Dear Sir Branson,

I am writing to you regarding the programming on your TV channel "Living" and "Living2". I am most dismayed to find that you are continuing to show programmes such as "6ixth sense with Colin Fry".

I know that you are an intelligent person and you are well known for your philanthropic activities, so it is clear that you care for your fellow humans. It puzzles me therefore that you give air time to these dangerous charlatans.

All so-called psychics and mediums, use psychological tricks such as cold reading to make high probability guesses about their victims quickly picking up on signals from their subjects as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, and then emphasizing and reinforcing any chance connections the subjects acknowledge while quickly moving on from missed guesses.

If you are in any doubt that their so-called abilities are nothing more than trickery, then please take the time to review the work of famous sceptics James Randi and Derren Brown who are able to replicate the results of the "psychics" and "mediums" using the same trickery that the charlatans themselves use. James Randi has had $1,000,000 on offer for many years to anyone who can prove any sort of paranormal ability, to date nobody has succesfully won the challenge and I am confident that this will continue to be the case.

I would also suggest that you speak to any mainstream grief counsellor who will tell you that the only way for a greiving person to recover from their grief is to learn to accept the loss and come to terms with the fact that their loved one is no longer around. So you can see that the cynical manipulation of the bereaved by these evil charlatans such as Colin Fry will only lengthen the greiving process.

Please stop this awful exploitation of vulnerable people and stop showing these awful shows on your TV network as soon as possible.

Yours Sincerely

G Edwards.