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A Challenge for Randi

albie

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David Icke is constantly going on about how some hypnotist made a man think his daughter was invisible and that he could see a watch held behind her, and read the inscription.

Wouldn't this be a good chance for his Randi-ness to challenge the madman to replicate this?

Of course, you and I know that's it's a simple trick of suggestion. The guy probably saw the watch earlier etc etc.

But wouldn't this make Icke face look a bouffant idiot?

Get me James Randi on line 2.
 
Icke was on The James Whale radio show last night (Derek Acorah was on last week) The man is a total crackpot and tries to explain his 'scientific' theories without resorting to paranormal arguments. I'm quite sure a schoolchild who has a decent grasp of physics could debunk him in a fair debate.
 
It's all a conspiracy by the Lizard Men behind the New World Order.

They're conspiring to make Icke look stupid too for exposing them.


Oh, hang on. He does that all by himself.
 
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Icke is no scholar of any of the subjects he uses. Nor has any scholar appraised his books.
 
What I love about David Icke is that, by his argumentation, he could just as well be a slug, sent here by the Slug Overlords from EarthCore, to spread disinformation so that nobody will discover that it is really the slugs who control the world.

The reptilian story is just a cover-up. The real culprit is the Slug Conspiracy.

Yeah. David Icke is really a slug. I have this from a seekrit source...
 
albie said:
David Icke is constantly going on about how some hypnotist made a man think his daughter was invisible and that he could see a watch held behind her, and read the inscription.
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Admittedly, Icke is the UK's Crackpot in Chief, but the "hypnosis" tricks you describe are not as outlandish as they first appear. Even Derren Brown (who originally trained as a hypnotist before becoming a mentalist) in his book describes being able to convince someone they really could see a hippo in their apartment, and him leading the "hippo" out through the grounds to a place of safety.

I think something that skeptics of hypnosis often fail to appreciate is that while they (correctly) point out that there's no real power or control or anything like that, that some subjects really are hyper-suggestible and can be convinced (or rather, convince themselves) of all kind of ridiculous stuff, as long as they want to be.
 
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