If research is done to empirically prove that water is wet, there is no reason not to spend time and resources proving other truisms. For example, the Anne Germain scam. For the youngest and most forgetful, Germain was a British lady who became famous in Spain and Portugal with programs in which she put the famous (and not so famous) in contact with her dead relatives.
Well, it turns out—hold on—that it was a scam. They say in Public mirror that Germain invented everything to make a fortune from the gullible living. This is how they spent the week in the Antena 3 magazine, with an enormous display of explanations and testimonies. Who would suspect that a psychic could betray the strict code of ethics of her profession? What will be next? Is Aramís Fuster not a collegiate and reliable professional? What a world this is: we won’t even be able to trust the card readers anymore.
Formal logic is insufficient for this fallacy: accusing a psychic of fraud must be one of these paradoxes that short-circuit robots, incapable of processing them. It’s like reporting Santa Claus at the shopping center for identity theft. The only deception that could be attributed to Anne Germain would be that she was not British, but from Móstoles, like the proverbial empanadas. That would be scandalous, since it would have exploited a secular Iberian weakness: from the Duke of Wellington to James Rhodes, passing through the Hispanists, the Spanish are crazy about the guiris who prefer Rioja to Bordeaux. A Germain de Móstoles could have taken advantage of that weakness, but Germain is as British as ghost stories, and if there is something that the Spanish public loves more than a clairvoyant who talks to the dead, it is a clairvoyant who makes the Spanish dead speak in English.
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