Any thoughtful critic of the Book of Mormon is forced to take a position on the Book of Mormon Witnesses.  Were they conscious frauds, delusional or perhaps hypnotized or otherwise misled?  The Three Witnesses described seeing an angel and viewing the plates, together.  The Eight Witnesses described handling the plates, turning the pages and seeing the engravings.  Other witnesses, like Emma Smith, described picking up the plates, while covered with a linen cloth, feeling the pages, making them rustle.  William Smith, another witness, lifted them and moved the pages through the linen cloth cover.  Three of the five five physical senses, sight, touch and hearing, are used by the witnesses. Critics, including Grant Palmer and Dan Vogel, who claim some kind of delusion, hypnosis-like event or vision, are taking a position contrary to the actual, consistent testimony of the witnesses, whose testimony is based on three physical senses.