The Telepathy Tapes

To those familiar with pseudoscience debunking in general and ESP, paranormal, telepathy in particular there is nothing new here. It is the same old tricks, repackaged in a slick sounding podcast. Bottom line we live in the matrix and autistic children are Neo. However, it takes 9 episodes to reveal this. The host pretends to do rigorous experiments; however, the protocols wouldn't be good enough for a High School Science Fair Project. The "experiments" or more like magic trick shows. She even has her camera man test the blindfold to prove it works, just like a magician would. The host and the person guiding her use compelling narratives to convince while providing no real science. One woman interview says she only communicates with her autistic son telepathically in her dreams. Seriously?! Host waits until episode 8 to address any criticism of the techniques used and then quick dismissed them as "ableist" from people who don't know what they are taking about. She has seen it with her eyes and just knows it's real.

All of this would be funny if this were a mockumentary. However, this not only involves really people falling for this scam but disabled children who are unable to consent to any of this. This is sad and this podcast will do immense harm.