James Randi is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. In this list we see 10 of his best psychic debunking (and have a bonus clip of a lecture of his). These are all extremely damning to the practitioners of these magic arts and Randi makes no apologies for his tough approach; in fact he is offering a reward of $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural or occult power or event, under test conditions agreed to by both parties. As of this time, no one has claimed this prize.
According to Randi, a large number of European businesses uses graphology (the ability to determine a person’s traits by their handwriting) to help in their hiring process. In this clip, Randi tests a professional graphologist to determine whether they actually do have the ability to recognize certain traits, or whether their results are determined entirely by chance.
Astrology is the ability to forecast a person’s life based upon the positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies. In this clip we see a very prolific astrologer giving a reading for a selected person in the audience. The best part of this clip is the series of witty comments at the end made by Stephen Fry. Excuse the sound quality at the start – it does improve.
Psychometry is the ability to determine information about a person through their personal possessions. In the clip above, James Randi sets up a test for a woman claiming to have psychometry abilities. Unfortunately for her, the test did not go well.
Crystal power is the idea that certain crystals effect a person in a particular way. For this reason they are used for healing and psychic readings. In the test above, a professional crystal healer was tested. This is definitely one of the best clips. Despite the result, the “psychic” took it all very well.
Aura reading is the ability to see the aura (a field of color that radiates from an object) around people. In this clever test, James Randi has the reader see the auras of 5 people and then has them stand behind a thin wall. The reader then determines where each person is standing behind the wall based on their auras.
Telekenesis is when a person is able to move objects with the mind. In the 1980s, James Hydrick developed a cult like following due to his abilities. In this clip, we see James Randi debunk him on television. Some years later Hydrick was exposed as a criminal and he confessed his psychic fraud. He admitted that he learnt his trick whilst in jail. I am not sure what he spent time in jail for, but it may well have been crimes against fashion.
Clairvoyants claim to have the ability to communicate with the dead. In this clip we see a reading performed by Maureen Flynn which is analyzed and tested by James Randi. He exposes the various tricks used psychics of this variety.
Dowsing is the ability to locate water, oil, minerals, objects, locations, missing persons etc. using such objects as a metal rod, a pair of bent wires, a forked stick, a pendulum or the open hands.
In this clip, a special device is used to determine whether a person is receiving thoughts sent by a second person. The most interesting comment of the clip is when James asks the man responsible for the device whether he would consent to electricians looking inside he exclaims “I most certainly would not!” Pseudo-science at its best.
This clip demonstrates that psychic abilities and supposed gifts from God are often coupled with fraud and financial gain for the psychic. Peter Popoff, the evangelist seen here, should have done prison time for the web of lies and deceit he wove. At the height of his career (just prior to being exposed by James Randi, he was earning over 4 million dollars a year). After declaring bankruptcy, Popoff is back at work defrauding thousands of people. For more information, see the wikipedia article.
I realize that homeopathy is not related to psychic abilities (though it is about as credible) but this last video had to be included. In this clip, James Randi explains how homeopathic medicine works (or rather, how it doesn’t). An excellent lecture that any person considering using homeopathic medicine should hear.
CSIMMONS: MY Faithful servant, Go forth and find Three lactating virgins. Two of every flavor of jelly belly(R) jelly beans. And to prove yourself once and for all, your Greatest challenge One Cup Of Argyle Socks…. Take This Enchanted UMBRELLA… it’s raining outside.
I’m just glad he called BS on that thievin preacher in Number 1. It’s one thing when you’re doing it for entertainment, but when you are flat-out fooling people and taking their money in good faith…nope, not gonna tolerate it
Overall, an A list!
what’s scary is that there needs to be someone to debunk these, and that people out actually believe in this rubbish!
WOW OH WOW!!! HUGH LAURIE IS ON #9!!! I love him so much!!! I knew it was him before his name came up!!!
Crimanon: Only to Jamie, you are but a slave as well as me, what ever he wants, we get.
Oh, and I hate this talk
Btw: The lactating virgins were on their period so they kinda killed each other, sorry
110. Jackie
As he said over the video, they used equipment to hear what was being said over the specific channel they were using.
CSim: In light of the most unfortunate incident during this last cycle, we must make due. Bring me One gerbil rescued from the home of Richard Gere.
I’m running out of things for you to find and may soon end up quoting Airheads.
Number 5 – I’ve been in china for a couple of years now, and have been to shaolin temple, but the only thing old chinese men have tried to teach me is to smoke or drink rice wine. Maybe I’m meeting the wrong men…
Number 4. Randi makes sense to me.
great, great list. the telekinesis one: hilarious. that guy was a dupe. anyone with a routine like that couldn’t fool anyone. Randi doesn’t even give it any consideration. then he follows up with a four-hit combo to the ego. excellent.
I am damn impressed by Mr.Randi and this list, as i was going through the list i was thinking where is the one about homeopathy(which is the only item i had seen previously) and bingo!! right there it was as the bonus clip.
JF: I think you should do a list on top 10 “Mythbusters” episodes, i love the show and i am sure most of us do too.
With all these comments, I’m excited to actually watch the clips when I get home- these darn laptops at work won’t play anything.
Sid: that is a great idea! I will definitely do that in the future.
I definately loved the last one. Not only Randi was amazing but delivered his speech with great humor. As for the others I never really believed in all that. And if there is such things I think they’re keeping to their faith by not exposing it to the public. As those who do are usually in for fame and fortune.
Thanks for this list!! definately saving it.
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Great list. I am pretty familiar with most of the things on this list and have always been a skeptic. However i had not heard a great deal regarding homeopathy before i watched the bonus video. After viewing it twice i am still searching for any reason a person might have to believe this sort of nonsense.
ps. I love in the telekinesis video how james randi comes right out and moves the pencil in the exact same way that mr hydrick moved it in his demonstration.
Cedestra: Oh I must have missed that :-/ Thanks!
Wow, I learn all sorts of things on this site, for example that I am troubled, weirdo loner. Thanks, Randall. My fiancee (T minus 22 days and counting) will be thrilled to know.
I haven’t looked closely at all of these yet. My attention was grabbed by #5 (telekinesis). I have a strong memory of seeing *Randi* performing the same trick with the telephone book, to the complete bafflement of Hydrick. The clip doesn’t show Randi with the telephone book, only the pencil.
From the wikipedia article about Hydrick:
(Re the That’s My Line performance)
“After an hour and a half of Hydrick staring at the pages (the show was edited for time) without any results, and indignantly claiming that his powers were real, he finally admitted being unable to complete the challenge.
“…
“The failed stunt … effectively ended Hydrick’s television career in exceptionally humiliating fashion (following Hydrick’s concession, Randi himself performed the same trick using the techniques that Hydrick perfected).
“In 1981, Hydrick’s psychic powers were definitively exposed as being fraudulent by investigative journalist Dan Korem. Hydrick confessed his fraud to Korem and admitted that he had developed his unique talent while he was in prison …”
The article doesn’t state exactly what Hydrick was in jail for, but there’s an external link to “Hydrick’s profile in the State of California Registered ***** Offender Database”.
BTW, did anyone see the look on Hydrick’s face at the end of clip #5, as Barker is saying goodbye to the judges?
A couple of general comments: These tricks work because people *want* to believe. As a professional magician, Randi uses the exact same tricks of suspension of disbelief, susceptibility and misdirection to pretty much the same end: to make money, though he puts it on the line by his offer of (now, but not much longer) $1m.
The human brain is capable of amazing things. I can’t, and I don’t think that anyone ever can, categorically state that psychic powers *don’t* exist. However, I agree that anyone claiming to have them ought to reproduce them under any circumstances. Compare the physical phenomenon of electricity: turning on a light switch works pretty much the same here in Korea as it did in Australia, and doesn’t depend on my “faith”. (It might if I was in a dangerous country like Iraq, Colombia or the USA (****tongue in cheek, don’t flame me!!!!****))
I have a book (currently packed in a cardboard box in my sister’s back shed) by someone of similar skepticism debunking a number of psychic and pseudoscientific claims.
Jenna the psychic has turned up at the top of my page only once in all the times I’ve been coming and going from this page today.
I read somewhere that the USA has more professional astrologers than professional astronomers.
more lists where frauds are exposed. this is fun to see these guys try to explain why their skills aren’t working.
lol, the static electricity of the foam is being raised by the heat of the lights. classic.
btw, is “gung fu” real or did he make that up also?
copperdragon:
I had no idea you were an amateur astronomer (or have we had this conversation before?) I’m an astronomer myself–status lying somewhere between “professional” and “amateur” (I get paid to do it, on occasion) and work, after hours, at a local planetarium and observatory.
Anyway…. I think you’d best tell your buddies in Arizona to get used to Pluto’s diminished status. I don’t agree with it either (many pros I know don’t, but they’re resigned to it) though I do understand, of course, the reasoning behind it. At any rate, though, it looks as though the big institutions and big names are lining up behind the idea of Pluto as “dwarf planet,” demoted permanently to the company of Ceres, Sedna, and so on. I imagine once the New Horizons spacecraft reaches Pluto and the rest of the Kuiper Belt in 2015, the support for demoting Pluto will be even more shored up by the evidence.
Ah well. Scientifically it makes sense. But it deals a blow to one’s sense of rightness, I agree with that.
Randall – I thought you lived on Uranus.
buc:
No morning coffee yet, buc? Or just delirious from the medication?
Disc: “Gung fu” has been around for thousands of years. It’s an ancient fighting style of the Chinese Shaolin monks, more populary known over here as…kung fu.
Don’t you think this is a little closed-minded? Even if you don’t believe in it is it really so hard to accept that somebody else does?
TV magic may ensure that Randi’s point is put across every time, but that doesn’t neccessarily represent the entirety of the belief.
The homeopathy video alone had so many fallacies I lost count.
494:
A) belief in these kinds of things may seem harmless–and maybe to some extent, some of them *are* harmless—but in aggregate this unscientific belief in unsupportable superstitions and bogus-science/pseudo-science brings us ALL down—the strong base of civilization is built on rationality and reason–and can only take so much of the fanciful and illogical.
B) How would you feel if you lost a job or were failed to be hired for a job because some crank had determined from your HANDWRITING that you were unreliable and unstable? How would you feel if a relative denied himself or herself needed medical treatment because they instead believed in faith healing? Or took incorrect and self-destructive or pointless, wasteful actions based on the advice of a psychic or an astrologer?
These frauds aren’t harmless, and civilized people who trust in the rational, the sane, and the reasonable need to speak out against them.
494: Well, no it’s not hard to believe that people believe in this stuff, because they do. It’s hard to believe people believe in this stuff when, 1) there is absolutely no scientific evidence to back up any of these claims, and 2) most of the “psychics” and “mediums” and what-have-you are con artists preying on the insecurities of grieving people to make money. As Randi has shown. My question is, if there are any actual true psychics out there, how come they have not taken Randi up on his $1 million offer to prove it?
It’s good to have an open mind, but not so open your brain falls right out of your head.
Randall beat me to the punch…again.
Ooh, new blue clicky names…
And I just have to say it (since I missed it until today):
HUGH LAURIE ROCKS! Dr. House, woohoo!
494: can you tell us what some of the fallacies are in the clip about homeopathy?
Going on what Randall said about the belief in this stuff being harmful…I read an article that this guy wrote about tons of psychics contacting him about his missing daughter. “We know where she is” they said…and of course for the right price, they would tell.
Of course all the psychics told him different things, in the beginning when he hired one pyschic he truly believed she could help but of course his daughter would not be found. When more and more psychics wanted to help he realized what was happening…these psychics EXPLOIT people in their desperate times of need and grieving to get their money.
It’s terrible, these psychics are FRAUDS and LIARS.
I believe this guy now has a website or book or both where he speaks out against them…
And of course there is the horrible Sylvia Brown.
For anyone interested in debunkings..here is an awesome website debunking pretty much everything she says and does.
http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com/
kreachure: blue clicky names are the greatest thing to have ever evre been created..
and i love in number 2, one of his supposed devices is a plasma ball… all those things do is glow pretty for about thirteen seconds until you get bored
Don’t laugh. I went to a farm where my son was staying the night with one of his friends. Theboy’s father comes out with a tree branch and shows how to hold it. I held it, closed my eyes had them spin me around and walked. I SWEAR to you, that stick started moving down when I walked towards the well they just had drilled. When I let og of the stick, it dove right down to the ground. I had seen Randi debunk this but I am not so sure. I did not intentionally move the stick, it twisted in my hands, it was VERY eerie.
Kraeg:
I liken what I do to the Placebo Effect because of the fact that if you don’t believe then it won’t happen. I am not saying that there is no merit, because I have seen those who do not believe be effected by energy work and such. But if a skeptic is looking to debunk something then they will be able to debunk it. It’s like those who find correlations between video games and violence; they were LOOKING for it so there it was.
Another thing, I’m extremely wary of those who activley tell the world about their abilities. Many of the people I know who practice keep their art to themselves and do not activley put themselves out there for the world to see. You do not brag about this practice. That is wrong.
Just to give you some background on myself, I’m majoring in clinical psychology and am very interested in the more *****ytical side of the mind. I believe I have a well rounded idea about both sides and yet still here I am practicing and working with energy.
I do not mind skeptics, they have always been there. But I do not appreciate a skeptic humiliating a fake in front of the whole world and then saying that there is no such thing. True workers do not need to prove their mettle…but having the world shun us for what we do? That gets a little annoying.
Anyway, I hope that explains a bit of what I was trying to say earlier. If it doesn’t I can explain more ^-^
I agree Ari-chan, most of these chaps with snazzy clothes and flamboyant acts probably know what’s coming their way (especially if they’re dumb enough to sign up for Randi’s show), but it’s sad that because of these types many others much more humble and gifted are shunned.
My advice for anyone is this: keep an open mind, cause you don’t know what you may find.
And don’t give up, Ari-chan! I for one am impressed by the path you’re taking in life. Good luck!
Whoa, where did the blue clicky names go?
Now my comment about them won’t make sense!
NO SENSE!
I believe in ghosts still, but like random energy floating about. I don’t think they can’t think or talk to humans anymore than electricity can. I’m glad all this stuff was debunked, psychic and new age stuff bother me
i feel so ignorant… i never heard of James Randi before i read this! it’s a fine list… but it shows a key comparison of the Brits to the Americans…
1.) i am going to assume this show was on a regular (non-cable) channel at a reasonable time-slot
and
2.) that this show pre-dates the eighties…
a few years back (1999-2000ish), one could turn on a regular, day-time television channel and see the show “Crossing Over”, with John Edward cold-reading audience members about their deceased loved ones. I remember EVERYONE at work yammering away about this show, and I was the biggest skeptic.
lets see… over 20 years ago the Brits where debunking paranormal/psychic/mystical phenomena, and in the U.S., just a few years ago, our media was encouraging the belief in false communications with the dead and taking advantage of people in a very vulnerable time of their lives.
Good gravy. The U.S. is so back-ass-wards on evolution and the natural world… our media is actually encouraging Americans (of which a whopping 67% out of 1,010 people with only a high school education polled believe the Bible is the LITERAL WORD OF GOD) to continue believing in the paranormal and supernatural. and the Brits? maybe it’s the earlier isolation of being an island nation, or the fact you’ve been a nation longer than the U.S., but either way, I have to think your citizens are far more grounded in reality than Americans.
I especially despise that such “quality” cable/satellite channels, like History, National Geographic, and Sci-Fi channel have such shows as “UFO Hunters”, “Monster Quest” and “Ghost Hunters” . I mean… can we all say it together here… PSEUDO-SCIENCE?
there is a reason why Cryptozoology, Ufology, and Parapsychology are NOT accepted areas of scientific research and are often conducted in secrecy, due to relatively honored individuals with doctorate degrees being afraid of ridicule or a rebuttal they have now way of defending themselves against…because it is all speculation and based on allegorical evidence… never anything EVER concrete…
i mean it.. seriously… in today’s day and age, with everyone walking around with cell phones with cameras, there is still not a decent, undisputed photo of a ghost, no little alien bodies discovered by archaeologists, and noone has managed to find Bigfoot, using any number of motion-triggered cameras? it just seems like MORE things get made up… like the Florida Skunk Ape, El Chupacabra, and the Virgin Mary’s image in the side of a dirty building. http://revelation13.net/Mary.html
ring-a-ding-ding
ringtailroxy
oopss… just done a little research on Mr. Randi and found out that this show was not British! why did i think that? maybe because he seemed smarter than the average American? oh-that’s right… he’s Canadian by birth!
huh… either way, like i said, i had never heard of him before today… and i still think that the Brits and Aussies and Kiwi’s are far more intellectual, imaginative, and truly “more free” than Americans. and I’m American. I’m Patriotic without being pushy, atheistic without jamming my beliefs down your throat, intelligent by my own research (and college education), i prefer Magners over Michelob, i own American born Australian dogs…and I’m ethical without the moral indoctrinations of the Bible. I hate the war in Iraq but support the American soldiers that are stuck there… simply because the Army targets individuals in poverty-stricken, bible-thumping towns… i better stop now. I’m *****ed and angry and my car is broke so I’m stuck here at home waiting for a “Tax Rebate” that the current presidential administration THINKS I will use to “support the economy”. Ha! I’m saving it, you guys! and not in a bank, either! saving it for the recession that is coming… by summer, gas will cost over 4$ a gallon and the state tuition increases by 15%…
do any of you Aussies have a room i can rent?
ringtailroxy
ringtailroxy:
James Randi got his start as a magician back in the fifties, I believe… and his career began to expand into TV roles in the 70s. The shows Jamie has referenced here probably do *not* pre-date the 70s, however—Randi didn’t become a big name (on TV) until sometime in the late 80s.
And let’s back off cryptozoology a bit. I’m all about the science as anyone here knows, but I keep an open mind. Not all cryptozoologists are cranks and pseudo-scientists.
I did a bit of a James Randi binge on YouTube last week (I’d never heard of the guy)…
…isn’t that really wierd ??
/No.
note to self do NOT accept any invitations to appear of JERRY SPRINGER SHOW or JAMES RANDI….it will not end well
Just a quick comment once more. As much as I am saddened by this post, if I were a lesser being I’d be offended, I am also very glad to see that people on this board have commented with class. When I first read this post I cringed, quite afraid that people would be bashing energy workers with a vengeance and that I would automatically feel less like a person for the path in life I have taken.
So a quick thank you to all you skeptics who still have the grace and the sense to keep from tearing apart a life style you do not live. It gives me a bit of faith in humanity once more.
Would be nice to see Uri and Randi in the same room again.
I’m surprised there isn’t a “Uri Geller” debunking in this list.
I would pay to see a movie about Randi’s crusade against pyschic.
ARGH! Number 5 is so excruiating! How the hell did the host keep his head together?
roxy: let’s see, you get your facts wrong, make way overstretched conclusions about the intelligence of americans as compared to brits and kiwis and then you go on a tirade about all the things you hate about america.
settle down a little bit. did some psychic ***** in your cereal?
This was GREAT, I haven’t gotten to see them all, but i’m interested now. The lady who practiced Psychometry, cracked me up, the whole time she looked constipated, like she’d been busted! I have a friend who subscribes to this so readily, it’s really sad! Great list… missed ya guys
James Hydrick DID NOT FOUND SHAOLIN GONG-FU.
bloody hell. as a Chinese Singaporean, I can GUARANTEE YOU that ShaoLin gong-fu was not founded by a Westerner. (and ShaoLin gongfu practitioners sure don’t dress like that either.) I’m so glad James Randi debunked him.
I found the ‘Astrology’ reading very interesting. If you research the person whose horoscope has indeed been tested you will find that it is in fact the main character of a tv serious called ‘HOUSE’, Gregory House, M.D in fact. Is real name is Hugh Laurie. This reading was conducted in his younger years.
In this clip he denies that the characteristics prescribed to him are inaccurate however, anyone who watches the program would know that the traits given to him completely accurately describe his television personality which he is very famous for. I find this remarkable as this was done many years ago.
Although some may argue and state that this may not be his true personality, one should watch a few interviews with the man and soon we will find many of the same characteristics in particularly his wit and sense of humour which astronomer mentions in this clip.
Like the astrologist described, the tv character House is in fact ‘unusual’, has a very high amount of ‘confidence’ him his conduct (he is the main character of a tv serious), he best known for his very ‘zany’ ‘quick witted’ ‘sense of humour’ that to some can be very offensive making him a ‘controversial’ figure. Yet in this tv serious he is a specialist doctor who always is able to lead in a ‘extroverted’ sense in order to predict the correct diagnosis for patients. He often talks in riddles so that the medical team can guess what is going on and always seems to be one step in front of everyone else. Therefore, he portrayed as ‘philosophical’ and very ‘intellectual.” All these characteristics were stated by the astrologist. Knowing that Hugh Laurie is the sought of person likes to challenge things I would have expected him to talk back in a sceptical manner, which he DID further displays his wit and confidence and showing that the astrologist was in fact accurate in his description of his personality.
This clip DID NOT DEBUKE anything but with a little research in fact stunningly proved that a personal ASTROLOGY CHART CAN can in fact truly show the type of person you really are. WOW!!!!
I work in the field of alternative medicine and indirect with homeopathy.I am glad that I don’t work directly with the patients ‘cuz I always knew that is something wrong with this business.I am just a sales manager and I can tell you that this business is getting bigger and bigger. It seems that people are tired of allopathic medicine. I don’t know what to say, it is a good thing or a bad thing…
I’ve had ONE experience with homeopathy in my lifetime – it was while working as a paramedic in Melbourne, Australia. A “Homeopath” had arbitrarily decided that ‘conventional medecine’ was not helping his 18-year-old asthmatic daughter and took her off her medications – inhalers, injections etc – and began treating her himself.
End result: WE were caled when she respiratorally arrested. Despite defibrillation, CPR, mouth-to-mouth and drug stimulation nothing worked and we were left with a very attractive, very dead 18-year-old.
And herhomeopathic father/ His only comments were – “If you’d left her alone my treatments would have cured her”. It was at this point that I had to be held down by the wo Mobile intensive Care Paramedics and my own crew partner because I was going to tear his head off his shoulders.
I believe he ended up toatally discreditd, and spent time in prison for “neglectful manslaughter” of his daughter (or some such charge, anyway.
DAMN! I have GOt to start checking my speling before i ‘submit’ – I’m a lousy typist and re-reading my post just made it obvious I didn’t pre-read before I submitted.
I have the ability to help women get pregnant.
No I don’t have ***** with them I just lay my hands on them(usually a shoulder rub)and I can feel it soaking in to them.
I have done it three times to two different women.The last woman and her husband had been married 15 years, never used contraceptives.As a matter of fact she had to have one ovary removed because of complications when they had been married 10 years.
She was told by the OB/GYN that she had maybe 6 eggs if that.
They resigned themselves to be childless.
I laid my hands on her(they or my wife didn’t have a clue of what I was attempting)and wished this woman to become pregnant as I *****d her shoulders.
After a “lucky” night with her husband and 9 months later..boy #1.He was 38 and she was 36.
They came to our house 3 months later to visit and to show us their son.He looked just like his dad, spitting image.
I thought that it would be so sad for him to grow up alone and so as she was sitting at the kitchen table,I walked up behind her gave her a shoulder rub and thought now lets give him a brother,nine months later…boy#2.Looks just like his Mom.
The doctor calls them miracle babies.
I call it revenge.
You see they were married the same time as us.While we were making babies,buying formula,diapers clothing etc. on a tight budget, they were both working partying have a good life. The husband chided me about not providing enough for my children and I got incensed,because he didn’t comprehend the cost of having children.
Now at the age when most people are seeing their children off to college and becoming “empty nesters”,as we are,
they’re going through the kindergarten and grade school period. And of course they’re broke all the time.
I don’t know what you call it,the ability I have.I heal really fast if I concentrate on the injury and I never was sick as a child.The family doctor did not know my parents had five children because he never saw me.If I ever felt ill,I just concentrated and healed myself.
In my early adult life I seriously burned my arm on the inside of the arm where it bends(lawnmower muffler,don’t ask now).I had two very large nasty blisters in that area.The doctor said I would have a ugly scar there.
I just smiled at him and said I didn’t think so.I went back 6 weeks later for a check up(it was a work accident,so I had to go)and asked him which arm had I burned? He couldn’t tell.It had completely healed and wasn’t even pink.
Twenty two years ago I was diagnosis ed with a normally deadly condition.The doctor cried when he told me the diagnosis.He told me to get my business in order and to ensure my will was up to date.There was no known cure.I just smiled at him and told him I didn’t think so
I know I am an Empath and I have studied Reiki healing a little bit.I just know one thing though,you can do anything if you put your mind to it.I am still here.They call it a miracle.I know better.
And our friends and their “miracle” sons? Here decide for yourself if they look like their parents.Copy and paste this link.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa176/tmr3513/SAKOS.jpg
astrology sucks astronomy rocks….heheheheeheh
they were so painful to watch, especially the telekineses one, he was just wobbling his arms around haha
when i was on holiday a guy we met said he could see people’s aura and tried to prove to my mum that she would be able to feel his aura. After placing his hand above my mum’s (but not touching it) my mum did say she could feel some warmth.
BUT
Later on we just laughed, obviously the body heat coming from the guy’s hand had nothing to do with it – he coulda just shoved his hands down his pants and then put it near my mum’s palm…
weirdo..
did he ever get slyvia brown?
Am I crazy, or is that “Dr. House” (can’t remember the actors name) in the audience in the astrology clip? Clip 9.
Yes(?) and Yes. The name is Hugh Laurie.
Homeopathy shouldn’t be on the list. My grandmother was a homeopath, but didn’t work in the way that is shown on the clip. I have seen my gran making this stuff most of my life. Gran was a lecturer at Sydney Uni up until her death. Her medications were always locked away because they were concentrated, not diluted, and most were poisonous. Doctors near where she lived would send their patients to her, with a diagnosis, so she could make the medications.
She never diagnosed anyone herself (except for minor illnesses), never told anyone not to use the medications as directed by their doctors, but she had to know everything that the patient was taking so that there wasn’t any side effects (some homeopathy preparations can negate medications, others can kill when taken with other medications).
If the way my gran operated was a fraud, I very much doubt that Sydney University would have had her as a lecturer until she was well into her seventies. She always told us that homeopathy works, but that it can’t work for everything, which is the same for conventional medicine.
She said that they both work and that they work best when both she and the doctor knew what the other was doing. My grandfather had a kidney operation in his sixties, use my grans homeopathy instead of a general, was awake during the surgery, and left the hospital two weeks earlier than the surgeon expected. She also used the same preparation for herself when she had varicose veins removed.
From what I know from my gran, the “HOMEOPATHY” in the video is nothing like what my gran did. It sounded like someone trying to sell snake oil.
As with the rest of the list, there’s a sucker born every minute.
James Randi’s pretty interesting. Not sure if it’s the same as dowsing, but I have used diving rods to find a buried water source and it worked pretty well.