Why it's dangerous to believe in magic

"Unfortunately for Colleen and her family she lives in a world where people still believe in magic. They are the victim of a chain of gullbility - people who should have known better victimizing her out of pure stupidity." I couldn't have said it better, so I'll quote Dr. Steven Novella.

To summarize, a psychic told a teacher's assistant that someone whose name starts with the letter "V" was being sexually abused. So the assistant reported that one of her students, Victoria, was being abused. The school board inexplicably called in Children's Aid.

To their credit, Children's Aid promptly found no evidence that anything bad had happened, but everyone in the chain before them behaved badly, from the despicable fraud--sorry, the "psychic"--to the teacher's assistant to the school board. Well, except for poor Victoria and her family, who did nothing wrong.