BP: Have you ever thought of using your techniques to fool
people into thinking you were speaking to the dead, or even
have you ever done so?
PE: No.
BP: What do you think of psychics
such as Uri Geller, who do no more than simple magic tricks
and try to pass them
off as real psychic ability? Do you think that morally
this is wrong or do you see it as just another harmless
form of magic? Afterall, didn't someone once say the greatest
magic trick of all time was Uri Geller convincing people
he was really psychic?
PE: This is the tricky one. The
Darwinian in me wants to let people like Geller just do
what they do. If someone wants to pay for a piece of
orange cardboard, maybe that should...