James Randi Exposes Uri Geller (part 3 / 4)

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Excerpt from Skeptic's Society Convention '98. The complete set of videos of Randi's talk can be purchased at skeptic.com

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Uploaded: May 11, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Author: pateli

Length: 00:07:24
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jonsaintgermain (August 15, 2008 at 6:11 pm)
Randi spent much of his life writing about a guy who bends spoons...what a waste.
mkarnerfors (August 20, 2008 at 4:22 pm)
Exposing frauds is not a waste of time. Working against tricksters that tries to exploit people's wish to believe in something bigger can never be a waste of time.
therrydicule (August 23, 2008 at 11:55 pm)
Well, He does wasted his time for people, he want them to not wasted their money and time on stupidities like that...
But Randi, if he wanted, he could be one of the best magician at the place, but I guess after some years...
HughHue (August 8, 2008 at 12:33 am)
The Amazing James Randi (and remember, he's fleeced at least a million bucks out of people too) is telling his audience what they're seeing, and what is happening.

Can't anyone see the contradiction? If 9 out of 10 people draw "a house with smoke coming out of it" [?!?] ~ hey! skeptics ~ your skepticism just evaporated... if that is so (and it's total bunkum)... then... why would Uri Geller need to peek?

If they've hidden cameras, then have they planted this woman? DON'T BE A SUCKER TO ANYBODY
LovelyYTRocks (July 14, 2008 at 8:50 am)
I'm going to draw a picture, let him peek, and when he's turned away, I draw a different picture with a different piece of paper.
mike4ty4 (July 13, 2008 at 3:33 pm)
"Those who believed in geller at one time are pissed off that those of us who knew he was a fraud are laughing at them!! "

But if they don't believe in him any more then continuing to laugh at them is wrong.
mike4ty4 (July 13, 2008 at 3:32 pm)
"Professional" magicians tell their audiences that what they see is all illusion, they don't go and falsely claim it is genuine "supernatural" power (i.e. fraud.).

This video makes me want to go and see this guy just to try and get him into a situation he can't wriggle out of with trickery and be forced to say "I CAN'T DO IT!!!!" :)
sieyk (July 12, 2008 at 12:24 pm)
i would have drawn a ladder
Dboz1984 (July 2, 2008 at 9:07 pm)
Society needs rational, skeptical minds to keep fraud and fantasies from being accepted as fact by the culture as a whole. If it wasn't for skeptical, scientific minds we'd still drill holes in peoples heads to release the demons from the mentally ill. Have an STD? We'll "fix" it by opening your veins and bleeding you out for a while. Your crops are dying? It's because of witches and the devil... time to get out your torches and pitchforks! Really, people need to learn to think...
Sabino372 (July 20, 2008 at 9:47 pm)
So true. I was actually watching a doco about a tribe in Africa and the poor buggers had an ant invasion along with termites etc - and rather than use the remedies provided by the earth, they just asked their chef to pray to the gods to make the bugs go away - then gave them offerings. Food out of the mouths of their children to apese the 'gods'. If they had just thought rationally it would have been a different story.