Physicians, heal thyselves (if you can)

It's like shooting fish in a barrel (which is something I would be very interested to try- if anything I'd have thought you'd just end up with the barrel leaking water onto your feet- I digress) but I cannot resist.

All week I've been seeing news items about changes to consumer law that will affect (amongst a great many others) spiritual healers, mediums (is the plural here mediums or media?), psychics, tarot card readers etc. I've resisted up until now but it's the end of the week so I'm going to in order to give myself satisfaction and release I'm going to shoot all over them (the fish. In the barrel).

Reuters (much more fancy and reputable than that dirge over at BBC "News") have a piece about this entitled (and credit to them):

Psychics foresee big trouble over new laws

The main objection these folks wish to make, it would seem, is that the burden of proof that what they do is legit is now on them. Bascially they're saying that if they promise to heal someone they should actually have the ability to heal someone. Much like if I were to try and sell you The Ritz, I would first have to own it.

Carole McEntee-Taylor who co-founded the Spiritual Workers Association (a trade union for spiritualists and healers- if only two wrongs made a right) says:

By repealing the Act, the onus will go round the other way and we will have to prove we are genuine

Well done Caroline, didn't even need to heal your own brain to understand that one did you, you big retard?

She then says:

No other religion has to do that

Caroline, I don't know whether you're an excellent con artist or just a massive flid but there is little doubt that it's one or the other.

I know what you're thinking. What did that bastion of never ever completely missing the point, the British Humanist Association have to say about all this?

The psychic industry is huge and lucrative and it exploits some very vulnerable, and some very gullible, people with claims for which there is no scientific evidence

They may be morons but they're right this time. However I'm pretty sure that a lot of the time government takes action regardless of evidence.