Allison DuBois was born on January 24,1972 and is an American author and purported medium.
13 Facts About Allison DuBois
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Allison DuBois was born in Phoenix, Arizona, where she attended both North High School in Phoenix and Corona del Sol High School in Tempe.
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Allison DuBois refers to herself as a medium and profiler, rather than a psychic, because of the negative connotation she feels is associated with the term "psychic".
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Impressed, Schwartz conducted a series of interviews, including one in which Allison DuBois stated she contacted the late husband of a woman in England, knowing only the woman's name.
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Several details of Arquette's character match Allison DuBois's life, such as the name of her husband on the show and the fact that he is an aerospace engineer.
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Skeptic James Randi says that people such as Allison DuBois give the appearance of psychic powers through cold reading techniques.
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For example, Allison DuBois, when doing her first reading of Schwartz, told him that his deceased friend was telling her, "I don't walk alone", which Schwartz understood to be a reference to his friend's confinement to a wheelchair, which Allison DuBois could not have known about.
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James Randi 8.
Randi asserts that experiments that allegedly yield positive results of psychic powers, such as the ones done with Allison DuBois, are not conducted using proper scientific controls.
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In light of Schwartz's assertion that "some" of his experiments with Allison DuBois were performed under such conditions, Randi questions why the rest of them were not, and points to a report demonstrating that a few of Schwartz's experiments were not performed according to standard scientific protocol.
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In 2005, Randi offered to have Allison DuBois tested for his One Million Dollar Challenge.
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Allison DuBois is married to Joe Klupar and they have three daughters: Aurora, Fallon, and Sophia.
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In 2010, Allison DuBois made a one-time appearance on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills at a dinner party hosted by Camille Grammer.
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Allison DuBois is the author of six books dealing with mediumship.