Psych, Science and a 65 mil. y.o. man

[UnrepentantSinner]

I don't watch Psych (http://www.usanetwork.com/series/psych/) so I'm not familiar with the premise, but I noticed a blurb in TV Guide for the episode airing 20 July.
When the remains of a man wash ashore, Shawn and the Santa Barbara police department disagree over the time of death - by 65 million years.

I won't be able to watch the episode, but I'm going to try and tape it and see if there's something to clever by half about the premise or if this is something I hope will show up on Bad Astronomy shortly after airing.

[Lonewulf]

65 million years?

That seems a bit... much, doesn't it?

[UnrepentantSinner]

65 million years?

That seems a bit... much, doesn't it?

Yeah, by about 64.8 million years. I'm just wondering if there's some gag in the premise of the show I'm unfamiliar with and thus, in this episode, the reason "Shawn" thinks the remains are 65 million years old is because the wounds are consistent with a dinosaur attack.

As I said though, I've never watched the show.

[Broes]

Demand C14 dating!

Shawn also needs to apply Occam's razor... Wouldn't it be more probable that the wounds are cause by a now living animal with large sharp teeth?

Bruce Jongejans

[Freethinker]

He only pretends to be a psychic to drum up business. Pretty off-the-wall.

[TobiasTheCommie]

I like the premise.. but found the execution appalling. But Psych is, indeed, not a real "psychic" show, it actually makes fun of real psychics quite a bit(imo)

[opqdan]

My wife and I love the show (a man with exceptional perception and deduction skills can only be part of police investigations by pretending that he is psychic when he really just picks up a lot of clues).

It does a failry good job of showing some cold reading skills, and makes fun of psychics pretty heavily. Plus, it is funny.

I have no worries that they wouldn't show this has a completely rational explanation.