In fact, sir, I personally know Randi, having met him at events and by
telephone. He is totally NOT a charlatan. He won the MacArthur Prize for
his tireless work on exposing charlatans such as Uri Geller (MacArthur
Prize usually given to prospective young science students, Randi
received it in his 50's), was an amateur astronomer early in his life,
and has a great knowledge of the scientific method. No, he doesn't have
a degree in the sciences. Yes, he had many advisors who were/are
impeccable scientists and professionals. Sorry, you are wrong about Randi.
Cheers! Howard
On 5/16/2019 2:44 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote:
Randi is a charlatan. He (and the people the cite him) has no
understanding whatsoever about how science works. He wants from people
to do instant magic. But that's not how science works. Even the CERN
scientists are making billions of collisions in order to obtain 1
Higgs boson. If it were for Randi, he would never awarded any Nobel
prize for the Higgs discovery, because it was not a shocking amazing
soap opera performance. Lots of people have demonstrated to this
charlatan telepathy and precognition, but he refused to acknowledge
them, because they were not straight out hollywood display.
On Thursday, 16 May 2019 05:03:54 UTC+3, howardmarks wrote:
James Randi, now retired (randi.org <http://randi.org>), had a
million dollar challenge for any type of paranormal and/or psychic
phenomena (such as telepathy, etc.), out for 25 years - only
condition on getting the money (or giving it to one's favorite
charity) was to actually PERFORM. Many many people said they could
perform, but, under impartial conditions (even with only cameras
as observers if that was the condition) = _their batting average
was also ZERO_.
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