Has Derek Acorah 'asked' for this?

ttaskmaster said:
Half their audience know it's fake and just like to be entertained, in the same way we know magic is just trickery but fun to watch. The others are more the sort who are actually still grieving, so are not thinking straight anyway and thus are being taken advantage of. Nothing to do with being inherrently moronic.
The silly ones who really do believe everything Derek comes out with are thankfully few... and most of them end up graduating with at least one GCSE in something!
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Not far off with your numbers: about a quarter of Britons have been to see a psychic with over half believing what they saw was truthful.

I don't believe psychics and magicians are comparable, though - whilst superficially similar, their raisons d'être differ as the former is clearly meant as supernatural and the latter as skill (or preternatural).
 
doesn't bother me - he takes advantage of emotionally vulnerable grieving people for monetary gain. The fact that he may make some of them feel better is no excuse for being a con artist.
 
aardvark said:
doesn't bother me - he takes advantage of emotionally vulnerable grieving people for monetary gain. The fact that he may make some of them feel better is no excuse for being a con artist.
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And counsellors get paid by the tax payer for "Helping" people. What's the damn difference?

So what if someone who feels like committing suicide or is at a severe depression comes home smiling or happy they've spoken to a dead loved one.
 
Neil79 said:
And counsellors get paid by the tax payer for "Helping" people. What's the damn difference?

So what if someone who feels like committing suicide or is at a severe depression comes home smiling or happy they've spoken to a dead loved one.
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One is fraud, which can lead to a custodial sentence; the other isn't, which can't. :)
 
Thompson_NCL said:
Indeed. There is a time and place to criticise, when someone is mourning the death of a friend, its really not on.
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I'd have more sympathy to the time and place argument, with respect to being so soon after his friends death, if it wasn't for the fact that these people make their livings preying on vulnerable and desperate people who are struggling with grief, by filling their heads with lies and deceit.
 
Well, i think one should respect the dead at the very least. Yes, they are in the public eye and have to expect that not everyone care about others grief!
 
To be fair if Derek Acorah can speak to the dead it's not that much of a loss is it? He's been trolling people his whole career by disrespecting the dead and making money from vulnerable people, so he should expect it. Not that I agree with it. Much.
 
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There is a medium that advertisers locally to me on Facebook. People then say they are going to attended his event.

Now call me cynical but I wonder if he then scouts their Facebook profiles. ;)
 
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