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TRUE-BELIEVER SYNDROME
True-believer syndrome is a term coined by reformed psychic fraud M. Lamar Keene to refer to an irrational, delusional belief in the paranormal. Keene and the community of skeptics characterize this condition as a cognitive disorder, a form of self-deception caused by wishful thinking in which a believer continues to accept paranormal explanations for phenomena or events even after the believer has been confronted with abundant evidence that the phenomena or events have natural causes. For example, skeptics generally agree there is sufficient proof to conclude beyond reasonable doubt that the alleged miracles of Uri Geller, Sathya Sai Baba and Jim Jones are or were false; they therefore have often reasoned that believers who have been given the extant evidence of fraud in these cases and yet continue to believe in these men suffer from this condition
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