---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote :
Free-to-view BBC documentary chronicling magician James Randi's debunking of faith healers, fortune tellers and psychics, including spoon-bender Uri Geller and tent-show evangelist Peter Popoff. Interesting. http://tinyurl.com/l2s7q9t http://tinyurl.com/l2s7q9t Recommended by me. Especially the Popoff debunking, that was hilarious. Seeing Uri Geller again brought back memories of trying to bend spoons myself in the 70's. Seems that everyone fell for it. Except Randi... But the most fascinating bit for me was the vehement response he got from the public for his efforts, it turns people don't like being told their sacred cows aren't real, they like the make-believe and not hard facts. I thought he was doing people a massive favour! And parapsychology is stronger for Randi having pointed out their weaknesses, we'd probably be sitting here thinking that people actually have magical powers if it wasn't for him....
