From owner-skeptic@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu Wed Aug 20 07:14:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: from listproc.hcf.jhu.edu (listproc.hcf.jhu.edu [128.220.35.183]) by atlas.sfpcug.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA00387 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 07:14:44 -0700 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by listproc.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <8513-6>; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:14:34 -0400 Received: from post-ofc05.srv.cis.pitt.edu ([136.142.185.10]) by listproc.hcf.jhu.edu with SMTP id <2296-1>; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:14:19 -0400 Received: from med1.dept-med.pitt.edu (med1.dept-med.pitt.edu [136.142.137.116]) by post-ofc05.srv.cis.pitt.edu with ESMTP (8.8.7/cispo-2.0.1.7) ID for ; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:05:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from DEPT-MED/SpoolDir by med1.dept-med.pitt.edu (Mercury 1.21); 20 Aug 97 10:05:05 EST5EDT Received: from SpoolDir by DEPT-MED (Mercury 1.31); 20 Aug 97 10:04:45 EST5EDT Message-Id: <1B957C14A88@med1.dept-med.pitt.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 02:04:35 -0400 Reply-To: skeptic@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu Sender: owner-skeptic@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu Precedence: bulk From: "Winglab" To: skeptic@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu Subject: FWD: Consumer Reports & a psychic claim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.53/R1) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Status: RO The following is quoted from the September, 1997, issue of _Consumer Reports_, in the regular feature "Selling It" on humorous/erroneous marketing claims: Crystal Clear? The card below [pictured in the magazine], "from the desk of Dianna Spencer, director: American Assn. of Psychic Advisors," offers Ali Goldberg 10 free minutes with a "real, genuine psychic!" It reads, in part: "Dear Ali, This is important!...Ali, I have been a world famous psychic astrologer for over 20 years....Dear Ali, there ARE real psychics!...Ali, you will be shocked!" The only person shocked was the recipient of the card, a [_Consumer Reports_] staffer who says there is not now and never has been an Ali Goldberg living at her address. Some psychic.