Robert Todd Carroll

Robert Todd Carroll is the editor of The Skeptics Dictionary, an online book that provides definitions, arguments, and essays on the supernatural, occult, paranormal, and pseudoscientific subjects. In the following viewpoint, he argues that no one has been able to scientifically prove that he or she has psychic powers despite several long—standing offers of substantial monetary rewards. According to Carroll, psychics live by the same laws of nature as everyone else; therefore, their claims of being able to communicate with the dead contradict natural law. He asserts that most psychics who perform a reading are able to deceive their clients by making educated guesses based on conscious and unconscious clues from their marks. He believes the world would be very different if psychic power truly existed. Carroll concludes that people who claim...