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How To Do Psychic Surgery

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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.

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Brian Brushwood explains and demonstrates the sleight of hand techniques used by scammers to fake psychic surgery.

Spoiler alert, psychic surgery is a devious scam and this is how it's done. Featured Episode: youtu.be/EEeqjapOuk8 Brian's Performance on Penn & Teller: Fool Us: youtu.be/FJEYtEo7c-c For more Scam School, find Brian on social media: • twitter.com/scamschool • twitter.com/shwood • facebook.com/shwood • google.com/+shwood

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What people say. Recommended as an explanation of the theatrical tricks used in fraudulent psychic surgery.

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On “Is seemingly bare-hands surgery (with no instruments) fake?”

Your video is an example of what is known as psychic surgery. The practioners claim to be able to treat and heal many diseases. Psychic surgery is a fake. It does not heal anything. Its practitioners are frauds, taking money from desperate people with incurable diseases. The bits and pieces apparently removed from the patient's body are all animal parts. It is nothing but stage magic. There are no special effects or high tech trickery going on. Nothing but misdirection and sleight of hand. The practioners pretend to be digging into the patient's body while in fact pulling out pieces of animal flesh or organs that they have hidden in their hands. The United States Federal Trade Comm…
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