Two Boeing 747s collide on the runway in the Canary Islands. More than 500 people die. A few days later, it emerges that a certain Lee Fried, from North Carolina, had delivered this exact prediction in a sealed envelope to the dean of the local university, and was spot on. News of the prediction spread around the world. What journalists, to sensationalize the news, omitted (despite knowing it, because Lee Fried honestly stated it), is that Fried is a magician, and he declared it to be a trick (without revealing it, of course—it’s a classic envelope swap, after all).
