James Randi demonstrates how to fake psychic powers
James (The Amazing) Randi speaks on spoon/key bending and hidden picture reproduction. UPDATE: Since all videos sent as response to this were obvious attempts by unpopular channels to leech from anything that actually has views, video responses have been disabled.
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@MRTVHERO1 That’s all incorrect.
Years ago, someone that I know was rubbing her fingers/rings while listening to him over the air, and guess what—she needed to get the rings repaired as they had bent so much they were not comfortably wearable after that. I’m sure James Randi would find something wrong with that too.
very nice stuff
Heeeeeaaaaaarrrrrrrrssssssss Johnny!
@gemniangel Did you examine the rings yourself?
@gigisdad I saw them, even tho I was a kid at the time, it was my mother who it happened to, and I remember seeing them bent up.
watch?v=haqr_72NTY4
watch?v=VhWQ-r1LYXY
those linked vids and other events show to me he is extremely biased to the point of blindness to any other possibility than from his own mind.
Randi, you the man!
@gemniangel Not trying to be rude but there are about a million stories like this of people who claim to have personally experienced some sort of magic or miracle. And I do not doubt their (or your) sincerity, but for some reason under controlled conditions it never works.
If it’s not repeatable it’s not science I’m afraid, because who knows what happened to those rings?
Randi: Smoke weed. It increases your rationality.
SOBER= “Son Of Bitch, Everything’s Real!”
@megamarsvin Reality isn’t repeatable.
what a boring sod
You know, narcotics can help you become more “aware”.
@TheSchimmi and your irrational paranoia!
Reality freaks me out enough so I don’t need to use drugs.
@wintermutex85 Tell that to the guys at Cern. Or the doctors at your local hospital. Or the guys working in the refinery that makes the gas for your car. Or the farmer that produces the food you and thousands of others depend on.
@captainLAGER No they really can’t. They trick you into thinking you are experiencing something you haven’t noticed before when in fact all you are doing is tricking your brain into experiencing things that aren’t really there. Drugs don’t “expand” your mind, they create hallucination, whether literally in some cases, or figuratively in the case of something like pot philosophizing. It’s simply an effect on your brain twisting your senses/reasoning into experiencing the false.
@paolo27th The 70’s, bro.
@megamarsvin I didn’t say phenomena. I said reality. You misunderstand me. Science is all well and good, chum. As a method, as a tool. As a growing body of reliable and useful observations. But no one, not even James Randi, can tell me that my experience is less real because I did a drug or because my subjective experience isn’t repeatable or scientifically valid. “It is not about the exclusivity of method, but the combination of method.” JR is a hard-liner. Hard-liners won’t agree with me.
Thumbs up if you got mind-raped at 4:35,
But you’re talking about two different concepts there. Let’s say I’m on drugs and I see some gnomes running around my room. My experience of having seen those gnomes is absolutely real, but obviously no one would ever believe those gnomes are real in and of themselves and other than personal entertainment they have no value in the real world.
I wish that guy was my grandfather, coolest grandfather ever!
I think it’s funny that Randi has the right to say who the bad scientists and who is not, is himself a researcher?
@loeghat sure he has a *right* to. He’s literate and inteligent, so his opinion has some weight, there’s no hypocracy there. But if he were to go out of his depth and, say, make judgements on the latest paper on Non-Abelian Dual Superconductors, I don’t think anyone would take him seriously.