So, the event upon which Allison based her life as a medium - the case upon which the first episode of Medium is modeled - is denied by the very people she supposedly helped. We received the following reply within three business days, from Lisa Block of the Texas Department of Public Safety's Public Information Office: According to Texas Ranger senior management, the Rangers have not used psychics, including Ms. We decided to go straight to the source on this claim, so we contacted the Texas Rangers via email, citing the above statements. That's a powerful testimony and one easily fact checked. The things you would think couldn't be true happened. The officer that had the heart problem, that happened. So that was very accurate, and there was a child that disappeared. The Texas Rangers was the first case that I worked. In the Januedition of Science Fiction Weekly, Allison again refers to this incident, and affirms that it happened: How much of Medium is real?ĭubois: The pilot episode was very accurate to my life. Uncomfortably, The Texas Rangers contacted Allison shortly after receiving her information and asked her to come to Texas to assist them with a missing persons investigation. In the January 17 issue of Haunted Times, the following statements appeared in the introduction to an interview with Allison: sent details about crimes she could not possibly have known to law enforcement agencies around the country. We've seen mention of this in numerous articles around the internet, as well as in statements attributed directly to Allison herself. That said, Allison's big claim to fame, which she maintains started her career as a medium, was her work with the Texas Rangers. So, if Allison's claims along these lines are true, and she has been contacted and utilized by law enforcement agencies, it only points to the credulity of the decision makers within those agencies, and not to any genuine 'medium' abilities on Allison's part. In the same way psychics might seem to be real to civilians, they can also dupe law officers. Even taken as true, the fact that a psychic is used by law enforcement agencies is not by any stretch 'proof' of their powers. Today, we'll discuss Allison's claims that she has assisted various law enforcement agencies on murder and missing person cases.īefore we get into this, it is important to note that these claims actually mean very little. Gary Schwartz's theories, methods, and conclusions surrounding the tests which medium Allison DuBois leans on for validation. In our previous Rant, we discussed the perceived problems with Dr.

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