Skeptical scientists are particularly scathing of TV psychics and channelers. The difference between them is that the psychics claim to be talking to our deceased friends and relatives, and the 65 channelers have their dead usually wise spirit of own p the someone who lived many centuries oddly enough, that spirit is ago. fluent in the language of the channeler and seems to have forgotten his or her own. There is a very simple explanation for the apparent gift of these two groups. Both rely on a technique called "cold reading" which relies on the laws of probability.