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Post by westldner on Oct 29, 2020 23:55:53 GMT
www.BBC.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54642107Known for devoting his life to exposing fake psychic and other paranormal powers. The Magician James Randi offered a $1 million challenge who would take this tests to approve that the claimant has psychic and supernatural like powers. To this date, no one ha s claimed the money, despite taking the test, to prove to the world that those who've claimed such power are frauds in what they were trying to claim. James Randi had died on the 20th October 2020.
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Post by pr1 on Oct 30, 2020 2:41:05 GMT
Rest In Peace. He did some interesting TV specials here in the U.S. exposing the tricks so called psychics etc. use.
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Post by westldner on Oct 30, 2020 3:50:42 GMT
Rest In Peace. He did some interesting TV specials here in the U.S. exposing the tricks so called psychics etc. use. I'm surprised there were even shows over the premise and they were extremely popular. It blows my mind how the "psychics" even continue and stand there, slowly snaking their way out of being exposed and failing the test they signed up, too. Yeah, it was great! |
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Post by ontheslate on Oct 30, 2020 11:30:03 GMT
I didn’t realise he died until reading this as there was no media coverage. He was great how showed how these tricksters performed their tricks, he proved Uri Geller was fake on an American tv show in the seventies but somehow Geller made a fortune
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Post by pr1 on Oct 30, 2020 12:57:59 GMT
I didn’t realise he died until reading this as there was no media coverage. He was great how showed how these tricksters performed their tricks, he proved Uri Geller was fake on an American tv show in the seventies but somehow Geller made a fortune Randi helped to expose Geller as a fraud when he advised the “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” on what to do when he was a guest on the popular late night talk show. Carson had experience performing magic and was skeptical of Geller and sought professional advice to prevent any trickery and Randi told the production staff not to allow Uri Geller or his people access to any of the items he would use to prove his “abilities” before the taping of the show. Not coincidently Geller’s famous powers didn’t work so well that night. 😄 Randi also appeared in person on Carson’s show exposing how “psychic surgeons” worked. He also amusingly demonstrated how seances worked and exactly why the mediums use tables with four legs. Randi played the part of the medium with Carson seated at the table. The camera and studio audience could clearly see all the tricks Randi was pulling but because of how Carson was positioned at the table he couldn’t. Randi also demonstrated how the mediums ask questions that get people to reveal more information than they think they are so the mediums come off as “knowing” things they supposedly couldn’t. I read a couple of Randi’s books and found them very interesting but the titles escape me at the moment. Randi also appeared as a magician in an episode of Happy Days. |
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Post by ontheslate on Oct 30, 2020 14:42:14 GMT
Geller said he couldn’t sense the water in the containers because of the lights effected his senses yet still was on tv for years claiming his powers
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Post by pr1 on Oct 30, 2020 14:56:06 GMT
Geller said he couldn’t sense the water in the containers because of the lights effected his senses yet still was on tv for years claiming his powers Geller claims he can bend spoons with his mind powers but has to touch the spoon in order to do it! 😜 I tried to find my copies of Randi’s books I read but they are packed away. I read the one he wrote about Nostradamus which was part biography and part exposing how crazy some people are at manipulating and blatantly lying about the so called predictions. Another dealt with various so called mysteries and phenomenons that he criticized and exposed. |
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Post by pr1 on Oct 30, 2020 15:11:43 GMT
These are the books by James Randi I read and found interesting,
Flim Flam! : Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and Other Delusions (1982)
The Mask of Nostradamus:,The Prophecies of the World’s Most Famous Seer (1990)
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (1995)
I was never able to find a copy of his book on Uri Geller
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