If Anything Really Bad Should Happen To Ann Althouse: The Rest Of Us Must Be Sure To Loudly Laugh And Point

This is a man caught committing the crime of theft. He tried to fool the car owner's neighbor, but the neighbor knew better, so the thief got locked in the car and arrested.

 

This is James Randi explaining how psychics commit the crime of theft. They try to fool a mark and, if the mark doesn't know any better, the thief gets away with it. 

Discussing a psychic crime that netted the criminal $48,000, Ann Althouse - supposedly a law professor - calls this theft "entertainment and unconventional psychological therapy."

Putting "entertainment" and "psychological therapy" in the same sentence, without flinching from cognitive dissonance, is a pretty neat trick (wouldn't that be playing with someone's mind - for fun?). But I'll ask you to consider, if true, psychic fraud would be the only "entertainment and unconventional psychological therapy" that, unbeknownst to marks or their loved ones, can destroy their life's savings, along with any trust in man, or womankind ever again - which (small point) society needs to function. It can also lead to an uncontrollable sense of alienation, and severe fits of rage, so severe marks lose the ability to function in "normal" society ever again. And, once revealed, it can also damage the mark's loved ones, in much the same way, so, over time, the injury can be dispersed much-farther-and-wider than the immediate, initial crime scene.

To put it mildly - I strongly disagree with Ann's view:

If anything, "entertainment and unconventional psychological therapy" is what I'd call the crime of reading her blog,...