James Randi
James Randi
James Randiis a Canadian-American retired stage magician and scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Randi is the co-founder of Committee for Skeptical Inquiryand the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation. He began his career as a magician under the stage name, The Amazing Randi, and later chose to devote most of his time to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls "woo-woo". Randi retired from practicing magic aged 60, and from the...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth7 August 1928
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will never forget his face, his smile, his sorrow. He is one of the millions robbed of hope and dignity by charlatans discussed in this book. Wherever and whoever he is, I apologize to him for not having been able to protect him from such an experience. I humbly dedicate this book to him and to the many others who have suffered because the rest of us began caring too late.
The second class of people that I examined in those 104 people, were people who still had the diseases of which they said they'd been healed.
Far from being a curse, it might be lucky to disturb a pharaoh's tomb. These people beat the life span expectation for those days by about a year.
Of the hundreds of those we've tested over the past few years probably 85 percent were dowsers,
Curley - and others - are going to discover that this old chap has a lot of fight in him, and that I've never yet backed down from a fight.
I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.
I would put my million dollars up as well.
I have been through similar situations where believers will insist on believing despite the evidence no matter how strong that is.
I don't doubt the sincerity of dowsers, but even after we've demonstrated that they can't produce results that are any better than chance they'll still go away believing in their abilities, ... It is like the mother whose son is caught shoplifting on tape. She wonders why someone would want to frame her child by producing a fake video.
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
They wanted it to happen. And in every major challenge that came along, they attended that theater not to see him fail, or even possibly fail.
This costs R275 per person, and besides the nonsense, you get tea, coffee and notes'. You're asked to bring a packed lunch'. Alka-Seltzer apparently not supplied . . .
If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way.
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.