James Randi is a fair as they come - he asks hucksters and frauds to prove they can do what they claim they can do. Some of them believe they can do these things, but so far, no one has collected that million. And you can rest assured the TMO will NEVER attempt to collect it, greedy as they are cuz they know what scammers they are. -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 4/14/14, salyavin808 <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Are the TM-Sidhis nothing but Placebo Effect? To: [email protected] Date: Monday, April 14, 2014, 6:48 AM Some of the people Randi have had to put up with! He had a guy who could turn pages of a book with his mind. He'd sit with a book in front of him and the pages turn without him touching them! I saw the film even. Randi asked if him he could do it with a sheet of glass between him and the book and he said of course he could. He couldn't obviously, how anyone could be so deluded they weren't aware they were just breathing on the pages is beyond me. The human capacity for self-delusion must be near infinite. Which is why believers can't be trusted to examine themselves properly. He's had harder subjects than that though, telepaths and mind readers that turned out not to be are common as muck, cold readers even if they aren't aware that is what they are doing. Loads of them still make a living even after they failed in the test Randi set. "It was set up to fail" they claim afterwards. Whereas before they were keen to demonstrate their powers under conditions they themselves agreed to. To keep their belief in their powers intact they scapegoat Randi as unfair. Go figure. ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 7:54 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Are the TM-Sidhis nothing but Placebo Effect? ---In [email protected], <authfriend@...> wrote : As to Randi, I'll stand by what I said about the strength of his bias; and I'll just add that his professional integrity is, er, not of the highest. He undoubtably thinks you're all mad but it's up to you to prove otherwise. He will organise an experiment and you have to agree that it's within your powers before he will go ahead with it. This is what is called "pre-biasing the audience." I suspect that the very *definition* of Randi's supposed lack of integrity is the fact that he thinks people who believe this shit are all mad. It's up to *them* to prove they're not. They just can't, except to each other. As for "all mad," I'm with Anartaxius on this -- it's becoming more and more difficult to read FFL. It's a madhouse, except for a few voices like Salyavin's and his.
