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    James Randi, my favourite sceptic, stages his own disappearing act.....



    RIP.
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    Can we actually PROVE that he’s dead ? LOL... Highly skeptical! I'll give him 10k if he can prove he's dead..

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    Fondly remember Don Lane having a huge dummy spit a James Randi on the "Don Lane Show".
    Randi was debunking Uri Geller's spoon bending trick as well as doubting the physic capabilities of a woman called Doris Stokes.
    Don Lane got terribly upset, told Randi to p**s off and stormed off set. Live TV was fun back then.
    He was a great sceptic, who offered rewards for anyone who could demonstrate paranormal powers; he never had to pay out.
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    Hehe.. I remember that.. Awesome stuff. Great clip.

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    survived by his husband......??? :O

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    Yes, he always was so far in the closet that you could say he lived in Narnia.

    Don Lane was a right royal dick and classic case of a victim protecting their scammer for fear of looking stupid.
    Of course there is also the publicity and Don's bad behaviour paid off for him. No so much for his viewers who must have given billions of dollars to scammers like Geller.
    Decades later when Don was retired and did a bit of a review of the show and that incident he said, "I might have been wrong." But no apology to Randi.
    It was Dick Smith who brought JR to Australia because of the rise in spoon bending psychic bullshit caused by Geller.

    But if you think this shit has gone way. Bullshit is more rife than ever. The James Randi foundation still offers $1,000,000 for proof of something paranormal etc.
    The Australian skeptics still also offer $100,000 for proof of the same thing. The Australian skeptics just awarded this year's Bent Spoon Award to Pete Evens

    The skeptic community holds James Randi in very high regard. Just as they do for Harry Houdini, Penn & Teller and many others.
    Steve Novella is one of my personal favourites.


    SPOCK LIED TO US!
    As I type this I'm watching the cream of bullshit on TV. "In search of".
    Like the guys from the SGU, I liked the 70's show as a kid, it was interesting and we swallowed that bullshit whole.
    Of course as we grew up we started to discover some aspects of the show were bullshit. When he look back at it we can't believe that it was all bullshit.
    So when the new series came out we hoped that it might right the wrongs of the old show. Nooooo. We can't believe now is how much worse the new show is. The bullshit is so thick that I now watch it too see how low they can sink and maybe they might accidentally get something right.

    Classic Skeptic saying, "I can't believe you believe that bullshit!"
    Yes I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.

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    A little confused as to Dr Norman Swan. Spent his time on the ABC spreading panic and being completely and totally wrong about Covid 19. He wasn't alone in that of course, most of the media were doing the same thing.

    At the same time, his company was lobbying the federal government for the contract to promote and advertise their policies, policies he was continually attacking on the ABC.
    The fact that there's a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic flow.

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