The Naked Quack: Exposing the Many Ways Phony Psychics and Mediums Cheat You!

Work such as this helps to bridge the gap between years of extensive research in fields such as Parapsychology and the closed minded out dated belief that biology has the answers to everything. For example they're starting to wonder if the big bang theory is actually plausible. Wendy suggests that ESP is scarce, but not impossible and there is 100 years of research to back up this claim. The CIA also came to the same conclusions, psychic ability is scarce but not impossible. Wendy herself has achieved the reputation she has by performing brilliantly on a regular basis. No other profession is open to so much analysis, cynicism, ridicule or sabotage as this one; and it's a wonder that any genuine psychics have the courage to do what they do at all. The book is fairly well written, easy to follow, but a little padded and repetitive. However I think it's fair to say the work is original and fascinating. My only criticism is that Wendy chose to use such harsh statistics, thru my own research I believe the figure is more like 70% bogus and 30% genuine. There are many psychics that refund people when they can't lock on, others are less honest. For the record I do think Wendy's fee is a little high, but she does have a fair amount of E.S.P! She isn't making this up! Maybe she could have explored the realm of those that have a slight dash of Extra Sensory Perception, they usually mean well - but just end up out of their depth, to say virtually all psychics are frauds is a little severe. I've also met very talented mediums who refuse to charge for their work, now surely that's worth noting. Wendy was brave to write this book, she'll help many!

After having the privilege of a personal reading with Wendy, I read her book and was absolutely amazed at how many times I have fallen victim to the "quacks" that are plastered all over the internet and even within my home town. Wendy, in her humorous way, takes one through the many ways that the so-called "psychics" demonstrate their "incredible abilities". As you read the book, you begin to see the tactics used to make one "think" that the readings are legitimate. I hate to think of the many times I've been taken. Wendy clearly illustrates these tactics through examples of real readings. I wish I had read this book before the many readings I have had over the years. Save your time, money and a lot of aggravation and read this book before your next reading! By the way, my personal reading with Wendy was the best ever...no wonder she's the Psychic's Psychic...a reading with her is like no other you've had before! She's great!

As I was reading The Naked Quack, I got angrier and angrier at myself for wasting thousands and thousands of dollars over the years on phony psychics, some of whom have huge reputations. Every page of Wendy's book showed me how I kept on being tricked by these frauds, while I kept on believing they were awesome! I even listened to the tape recordings of those readings and I was shocked to hear how easily I was getting taken in by the methods Wendy exposes. What has horrified me even more is when I realized that the techniques in The Naked Quack are being used by three of the most famous psychics and mediums in the country -- I don't want to name names but you see them on TV every day and night. I used to admire them and thought they were amazing. Now I know better. It's an absolute crime that these three frauds are fooling millions and millions of people every day! I'm so angry I could cry. And I'm so embarrassed, because I recommended some of those charlatans I consulted to my friends.Now I'm going to recommend The Naked Quack to them and hope they forgive me!

I'm a computer professional in my mid-40s, college educated, and have been fascinated by psychics for as long as I can remember. I love listening to them on t.v., radio, and enjoy going to them. My job involves a lot of reading, so the thought of picking up a book to read, in my precious spare time, doesn't thrill me. However, when I stumbled across, "The Naked Quack," I happily found I could quickly and easily read and learn from it. (It is a fast-reading book.)It taught me how to easily identify fraudulent psychics. I was surprised at the number of techniques that (even who I thought were "real") psychics use! With a primarily middle-age audience, for example, they might say, "I see someone in the audience whose name begins with R-O... R-O-B... who works with...around... computers(!) and has a friend who recently passed away from cancer who wants to say they're ok." Get real - someone going by the name of Bob, Robert, Robert, Robin, etc. would think it's him or her. The odds are good they have something to do with computers and, being middle-aged, it's very likely someone close to that middle-age person died recently. The "friend" could be a family member or a friend and the odds of dying from cancer are great (two of my own family members died from it in the past three years). That's just one type of generality used by so many psychics the book taught me to quickly spot. There are numerous other things they use that I can now identify.Thanks, Wendy!, for teaching me something fascinating! I love finding easily seeing their smooth, fraudulent techniques now. It's fun!

If you go to psychics, you absolutely must have this book! I've been going to psychics for years and I always thought they were good and I had no idea I was being manipulated and short-changed by them. It's incredible but I actually recognized many of their techniques in the book. I loved the examples of real-life quack readings. Some of them made me laugh and then I realized people fall for them. My favorite part was about how the media helps make quacks famous. I especially liked the story about the quack who hired a detective to find things out about a talk show host. The author makes two very important points. First, that not all quacks are frauds. Many quacks are just not very good psychics and, as she says, "They have no business being in the business." And second, we're all a lot easier to fool than we think. I recommend The Naked Quack very highly. It's filled with important information and it's fun and very easy to read.