Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams is a magical English woman living from California who lays claim to being a psychic medium. Williams is the granddaughter of Frances Glazebrook, who also claimed to be a medium. She has been widely discredited due to her reliance on "cold reading."

Putting the psycho in
Parapsychology
Men who stare at goats
By the powers of tinfoil
v - t - e

Television

Williams has starred in two television shows. In 2004, Williams gave a "reading" to a senior staff member of television host Merv Griffin. As a result, Griffin worked with her to create a show of her own. Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead aired for two seasons (2006-2007) on the LifetimeFile:Wikipedia's W.svg television network. The following year, she began to host Lisa Williams: Voices From the Other Side five nights a week on the same network. Her shows were also broadcast in the United Kingdom. The shows followed Williams on a typical day, as she "communicated" with the dead, investigated haunted houses, and conducted other spirit-seeking activities. She claims to have spoken with the spirits of Bob Hope, Princess Diana, Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe and Ray Charles.[note 1]

The ethical standards of journalist and television anchorman Matt LauerFile:Wikipedia's W.svg were questioned when he allowed Lisa Williams to state that a ghost was standing beside him. Mediums, psychics and similar practitioners scam Americans out of millions of dollars yearly and Lauer "(...) didn’t challenge or investigate a likely instance of public deception; instead, he endorsed and participated in it." [1][note 2]

gollark: They USED to.
gollark: Anyway, mind-reading is entirely doable but unfortunately most people's minds contain annoying irrelevant content rather than the specifics of the search query they just made.
gollark: Well, Google and Bing have 18246184618746128471289471289 employees ~~who actually know what they're doing~~ and postgres is likely better than the simple thing OSEv1 used.
gollark: What? No. Search engines are hard.
gollark: osmarks.net™ search engine™ plus™ will of course:- have working crawler logic probably- be faster somehow, as opposed to slower- use postgres FTS instead of a homegrown and not very good inverted index

See also

Notes
  1. Anyone else noteworthy? Sure is funny how it's all 20th-century English-speaking celebrities.
  2. As we now know, he was probably busy figuring out how to get her alone so he could try to get in her pants.

References
  1. Matt Lauer and the Medium: Accessory to Deception;The Irresponsible Dr. Oz, Softening The Public Up for Charlatans
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