Criticisms of Chiromancy
Skeptics usually criticize chiromancy because of its clairvoyant nature, especially when palmists start to make forecasts as to the person’s future.
They said though scientific studies have been made to correlate palmistry to several physical and mental disorders, there have been no significant results to the studies that would support the claims made by palmists as to the validity of the art. These skeptics contend that there is no evidence to link the palm lines to a person’s character.
In addition, some palmists have found themselves as being labeled as false physics that practice cold reading. Defenders of palmistry say that even though fortune telling is one of the practices in palmistry – palmists study the fingers to tell a person’s future – chirognomy is focused on reading a person’s character rather than guess what his future holds for him.
Unfortunately, skeptics tend to associate the art with the more common fortune telling rather than character reading.
Some take chiromancy sessions with palmists just to test what these clairvoyants could say accurately about them.
These skeptics generally regard palmistry as a pseudoscience due to the unorthodox and non-scientific methods that palmists use to derive their divinations.