I notice that the skeptics assume they know what is really going on with Allison Dubois. Two have a hypothesis that 'cold reading' descriptions explain the mechanism of her skills. Without meeting her, without testing her, they are comfortable raising their hypothesis to the level of theory, because it seems to fit some % of the population and their ideas about what must be possible - given what scientific research has proven to date 2008.
Their knowledge about the mechanism of her abilities is, well, practically
psychic.
Ever heard of Derren Brown?
I suggest you look him up and see what he is capable of.
One review he had was that he is the closest thing we (in the UK) have to a Jedi.
Just a couple of his tricks (and they are tricks - he openly admits he is more a psychological illusionist than anything else)...
10 people in each of 3 cities around the world were called into a room and told that Derren Brown could give them an accurate "reading" from just a personal item and an outline-drawing of their hand on a piece of paper.
He took the item and the hand-outline and, an hour later in each case, came back and handed the person a 2 or 3 page reading.
Of the 30 people, i think 1 said that the reading was only about 20% accurate. All the others said 80 to 90% accurate - and some claimed the level of the detail he got right was remarkable.
They then swapped papers (so read what he had written about someone else) and realised they were all identical!!
This was cold-reading to the extreme.
In another series of programmes he went round the US and did things like convert a room full of atheists to a religion in about 2 hours. All went in non-believers and all came out as firm believers (he deprogrammed them afterwards, though).
And he also held a "psychic reading" with an American audience - where he supposedly conversed with the dead with astonishing accuracy that I have never seen anyone else manage - identifying things like bad dreams of elevators, and precise detail of the person.
But none of it was psychic. None of it was any more than using his knowledge of people in general and in reading body language, and in word-play to extract information without the person realising - and in some cases to implant ideas and thoughts.
If you think psychics are real, give him a viewing and watch him debunk the lot as mere parlour tricks (albeit often extraordinary tricks).