Regarding stage performers and "psychic hot lines," which of the following statements is FALSE?

a. Miss Cleo was really an actress from Los Angeles, not a Jamaican psychic.
b. People who paid $4.99 a minute for a reading from Miss Cleo actually reached one of several hundred
operators, hired through ads that read, "No experience necessary."
c. The owners of the Miss Cleo psychic hot line were convicted of felony fraud.
d. Unlike telephone psychics, psychics who perform ESP on stage are demonstrating true telepathic and clairvoyant abilities.


ANSWER: d

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