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James Randi on Nova

Let me say...that show and that specific segment was what first turned the tide for me from bleever to skeptic.
 
Thanks bjb, I had forgotten all about that until I saw it.
 
So many good videos I'm seeing today. And that one's a classic. I like this "YouTube" thingamajigger.
 
The Gellar video from Tonight show is on YouTube also. :)


ETA: It's true
 
We watched those tapes in my skepticism class in college, last summer.
The woos in class were not convinced at all. Sigh.

(They were also sorry they had taken the class, as they hadn't realized it would be a debunking and skepticism class. Hee.)
 
That's awesome. Thank you bjb. I actually used to do 'natal astrology charts' years ago and I came to the same type of conclusion. Actually, the incident that was a real 'reality check' for me was when my boyfriend at the time had me do his astrology chart and he had lied to me about the year (he was a year younger than me and didn't want me to know, I was 18 and he was 17). He had claimed that everything in the chart was 'spot-on', and when the truth came out I did his chart again and he had the same reaction, even though most of it was completely different! LOL
 
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Slightly off topic, but the NOVA episode contains Randi exposing Peter Popoff's scam. I would really like to see the footage that Penn & Teller mention on the "Bullsh!t Season 1 DVD" (in the extras section). As they explained that Randi has some really bad (racist and sexist) video of Popoff.
 
I just checked out the Carson show clip. I wish I could have found part 2. That's just priceless.
 
There are a few places on Youtube who have the same segment from that Nova episode. I have to confess I stole my copy from another site, but that site probably stole it from these guys:

http://www.reitstoen.com/randi.php

If you don't see a James Randi clip on this site, it probably hasn't been uploaded to the web. Yet.

I felt stupid about uploading video that turned out to already be on Youtube, but quite a few people watched them so far. If you have a good video, put it on Youtube and it *will* be watched. I think it's a great way to get your message out there, as the Loose Change people have discovered. If there should be more skeptical content on Youtube I'm sure a lot people would watch it.
 
miracle spring water

Questioninggeller said:
Slightly off topic, but the NOVA episode contains Randi exposing Peter Popoff's scam. I would really like to see the footage that Penn & Teller mention on the "Bullsh!t Season 1 DVD" (in the extras section). As they explained that Randi has some really bad (racist and sexist) video of Popoff.
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I was watching an interview on CBC (Canada) with Billy Connelly

http://www.billyconnolly.com/

and he mentioned how he watches, with amazement and incredulity,
televangelists. Perhaps James Randi have already commented on this product
Billy mentioned how Peter Popoff was selling or "giving away" bottles of
"miracle spring water" from Chernobyl. I did a google search, and
sure enough, there are many comments from many peoples' blogs about
this scam.

eg

evil coffee chick's blog

http://www.coffeechick.com/main/2005/12/peter-popoffs-invisible-spring-water/

Thanks for you work for exposing these faudsters Randi.

Dave
 
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