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Victor Zammit offers $500 k to reproduce Physical Mediumship, Rants about Randi

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I actually think that maybe, just maybe, someone could get him to pay up...

If anyone does not know, Physical Mediumship is when someone convinces a group of people that they are tied and gagged, the assistant turns off all of the lights (light makes ectoplasm kill the medium, or something) escape their binds and do a bunch of spooky stuff and pretend to be their relatives, weird people and Louis Armstrong playing a harmonica. Even to the point of dressing up in masks that you can barely see and touching people. Oh and especially making a trumpet with glowing bands on it fly around the room with magic powers.

These tricks were all exposed in the Psychic Mafia. The exact same tricks! And Zammit thinks that the book is a fraud because he knows and that David can't get out of his restraints. I know, it's very strange.

Victor Zammit is truly a remarkable man. I really cannot understand how he does it. Loss Leader from the JREF has had long email exchanges with him I think we can conclude he is totally genuine.

Out of a sense of true self-loathing I subscribe to his weekly newsletter. Today's newsletter is absolutely thrilling and I just know that the JREF is going to find it titillating as well.

I have edited it down and reproduced it here for easy reading and posterity. Some of the blurbs are for youtube videos. This link to the online version will eventually go down.

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Do not post large blocks of text from other sites. Links are OK.
 
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Has Randi himself been in contact with this loon? I'm sure this man would no doubt take the $1m challenge -- if it wasn't such an obvious sham setup to negatively portray honest *choke* paranormal phenoms!
 
They have managed to convince a fair amount of people that it's real, it would be quite something to bust them. And fun too. I always wanted to be in a seance where a ghost appears.
 
This reminds me: spring is approaching and I will soon need to put some fertilizer on my garden.
 
Targ is still around? Amazing....

Aren't these people aware that this is exactly the same schtick that Houdini had such fun exposing way back in the thirties?
 
Bikewer said:
Targ is still around? Amazing....

Aren't these people aware that this is exactly the same schtick that Houdini had such fun exposing way back in the thirties?
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Amazingly, yes he is aware of that. That has absolutely no bearing on them at all...


Victor Zammit Debunks "The Psychic Mafia" with grace and flair.

"THE PSYCHIC MAFIA a book written some 30 years ago attacking psychics. One New York lawyer referred me to it just recently – as some kind of evidence against the paranormal. What’s wrong with it?
1) First, for the record, there is nothing in it that is empirical. It is my view that nearly all of it is pure paranormal fiction. In fact, it is the alleged recollections of a self-confessed cheat, self-confessed liar and a conman scoundrel of how he pretended to be a psychic/medium who cheated many Americans of their hard earned cash. He was an imposter, fraudulently ‘stealing’ money from those gullible people in the American community who usually are the most vulnerable. He has NO credibility at all – and that is why he’s been ignored all this time. The closed minded skeptics are trying to push his name, but he is a loser, a defeatist, a self confessed charlatan.
2) On page 163 this fraudulent rogue admits the afterlife exists! He says, “Life after death? I believe in it. I believe that human beings maintain their individuality after death. I believe that we go on to higher and better expressions of ourselves than those which we are now expressing.” So, this charlatan who skinned money off people admits that there is a life after death – which means that one day he will be held accountable for his huge negative activity. Need we say more?
3) Does this cheat and conman believe in the paranormal, even though he states he cheated doing paranormal tricks himself? Here he is again, “Extrasensory perception and psychic phenomena? I believe that the individual can have his or her own private psychic experiences – that THERE IS such thing as ESP. But when it comes to paying a medium to do it for you-beware!” We don’t need a cheat to tell us about quacks- we warn people all the time to be extremely careful which medium to go to.
4) The book was forworded by the Rev. Canon William V Rauscher – someone who believes and ACCEPTS the afterlife – and warns of fraudulent psychics – something we ALL agree with.
5) The book was published by ‘Prometheus Books’ which specializes in anti-paranormal, anti-afterlife skeptical literature.
6) The book was prefaced by a closed minded debunking skeptic debunker Ray Hyman – who has NEVER ever accepted the paranormal, who ALWAYS reported negatively against the paranormal, who ALWAYS attacked and denigrated the paranormal and the afterlife. Is he credible as an objective observer? OF COURSE NOT!!
7) There are huge number of claims made by the author of the book – I state they are all made up by him to be dramatic and to shock.
He confesses that he dramatizes events to mislead, misdirect, misinform and to deceive people everywhere …"
 
"...the way the challenge is drafted no psychic, no medium, no paranormalist - no one on earth can beat it!!"

Well, he is right there.
 
For a minute, just a minute, I actually believed this woman that the spirit of her brother actually materialized in a seance, her performance seems that genuine.



As always, it is a shame that there is probably no special place in hell for David Thompson but we can at least debunk him in the hopes that these people will find out the truth. There are a bunch of other testimonials on this channel, as well as some written ones on David Thompson's website. So he's pulling it off in the U.S. and the Commonwealth quite regularly.

One of the testimonials was from a construction contractor who inspected the room and found zero evidence of trickery. They are pretty normal people caught in the jaws of sophisticated predators.
 
Vega Nova said:
Has Randi himself been in contact with this loon? I'm sure this man would no doubt take the $1m challenge -- if it wasn't such an obvious sham setup to negatively portray honest *choke* paranormal phenoms!
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Exactly what I was thinking. Isn't "fraud" actionable legally?
 
Joey McGee said:
Victor: I usually do not have any problems with true scientists regarding afterlife evidence. There are now a significant and increasing number of scientists who are open minded and vitally interested in consciousness, spirituality and the afterlife.
Physicists in particular seem to be very open minded. However there are still a number of reductionist (closed-minded) skeptical scientists. Over the last 21 years I found that they refuse to consider any evidence which is not consistent with their own afterlife negative prejudices - they actually refuse to look at the evidence and if they do, they do not see it. Psychology calls it 'cognitive dissonance' and Neurologistic Programming (NLP) calls it 'deletion.' Even if they witness stunning afterlife evidence, they will dismiss it WITHOUT investigating saying that it is either fraudulent or the experimental method must be flawed... because they say there is no afterlife.
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To an believers who may happen to still be here, this is a lie. If he were challenged, he could not produce such. He could produce, however, careful analysis that shoots down the conclusions he thinks are so firm. Randi could point to many examples of real scientists who got duped by simple magic tricks, which is why it's important any study of magic powers include magicians who can look for trickery.


That's all guys like Randi do, look for known forms of trickery. No harm in that, right? Yet these powers evaporate when that is done. Curious.
 
Don´t go to Zammit,

I offer USD 600 k to anyone who helps me to win the Randi Million Dollar challenge.
 
Joey McGee said:
I actually think that maybe, just maybe, someone could get him to pay up...

If anyone does not know, Physical Mediumship is when someone convinces a group of people that they are tied and gagged, the assistant turns off all of the lights (light makes ectoplasm kill the medium, or something) escape their binds and do a bunch of spooky stuff and pretend to be their relatives, weird people and Louis Armstrong playing a harmonica. Even to the point of dressing up in masks that you can barely see and touching people. Oh and especially making a trumpet with glowing bands on it fly around the room with magic powers.

These tricks were all exposed in the Psychic Mafia. The exact same tricks! And Zammit thinks that the book is a fraud because he knows and that David can't get out of his restraints. I know, it's very strange.

Victor Zammit is truly a remarkable man. I really cannot understand how he does it. Loss Leader from the JREF has had long email exchanges with him I think we can conclude he is totally genuine.

Out of a sense of true self-loathing I subscribe to his weekly newsletter. Today's newsletter is absolutely thrilling and I just know that the JREF is going to find it titillating as well.

I have edited it down and reproduced it here for easy reading and posterity. Some of the blurbs are for youtube videos. This link to the online version will eventually go down.
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Edited quoted text. Link remains.


Just the angry, childish tone the man uses says a lot about him. Dummy? Is that a scientific term?

He sounds like randi told him to **** off, and he is replying in kind, not like someone who has reams of facts to end a debate.
 
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sadhatter said:
Just the angry, childish tone the man uses says a lot about him. Dummy? Is that a scientific term?

He sounds like randi told him to **** off, and he is replying in kind, not like someone who has reams of facts to end a debate.
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The irony is that he's this bigshot lawyer who thinks he knows everything about evidence!
 
Joey McGee said:
The irony is that he's this bigshot lawyer who thinks he knows everything about evidence!
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I just couldn't imagine the scene in "Inherit the wind." where a lawyer goes on a mind changing filibusterer , using the word " dummy" several times.

The man has such a poor grasp of presentation and maturity, it is hard to even try and take him seriously.
 
Bikewer said:
Targ is still around? Amazing....

Aren't these people aware that this is exactly the same schtick that Houdini had such fun exposing way back in the thirties?
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It would have been earlier than the 30s, as Houdini died in 1926 ;)

So... according to this article, because Randi, or anyone else, who doesn't believe in the afterlife, won't get an afterlife. So if I believe that upon death, I will be reincarnated with full memories of this life, that is what I'll get??? Cool! :p
 
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