This week's "big event" on Channel 4 was very disappointing. In a closed studio with high secuirty and no live audience (for security reasons, he claims), psychological illusionist Derren Brown appears to predict all 6 winning lottery numbers in advance.

This whole trick plays into the inherent irrationalism of most people who play the lottery. There is a 14 million-to-one chance that he actually predicted the 6 numbers in advance. And it's highly unlikely that he somehow...