Authors@Google: James Randi

#1 · #1 by **MattHunX** » Feb 01, 2011 10:45 am

Also, he gives some very shocking and angering information on how much money is spent on homeopathy and devices and by whom.

#2 · #2 by **matt8819** » Feb 01, 2011 10:51 am

MattHunX wrote:Also, he gives some very shocking and angering information on how much money is spent on homeopathy and devices and by whom.

This man is a legend! His videos talking about homeopathy are some of the best things on youtube. I don't know if he mentions his Uri Geller/James Hydrick debunking in this video, I'm still in the process of watching it, but his justice is swift and brutal. :cheers:

#3 · #3 by **MattHunX** » Feb 01, 2011 8:18 pm

RRRRRRRandaey....on Astrology

#4 · #4 by **matt8819** » Feb 02, 2011 7:03 am

One of my favorite Randi videos, and the follow up

#5 · #5 by **MattHunX** » Feb 02, 2011 7:35 am

matt8819 wrote:One of my favorite Randi videos, and the follow up

Oh, yeah! That was the first I watched. Brilliant! Fraud exposed. Plus, there was that faith-healer fraud and that guy is back to his old tricks. :nono:

#6 · #6 by **matt8819** » Feb 02, 2011 8:49 am

MattHunX wrote:
Oh, yeah! That was the first I watched. Brilliant! Fraud exposed. Plus, there was that faith-healer fraud and that guy is back to his old tricks.

Peter Popoff? Yeah, he's a right cunt.
Apparently Hydrick is now in prison as a sex offender :naughty:

, which is convenient, since that was the place he learned to blow real good in the first place...

#7 · #7 by **MattHunX** » Feb 02, 2011 8:56 am

matt8819 wrote:
MattHunX wrote:
Oh, yeah! That was the first I watched. Brilliant! Fraud exposed. Plus, there was that faith-healer fraud and that guy is back to his old tricks.

Peter Popoff? Yeah, he's a right cunt.
Apparently Hydrick is now in prison as a sex offender :naughty: , which is convenient, since that was the place he learned to blow real good in the first place...

Read that in some YouTube comment yesterday. :lol:

#8 · #8 by **matt8819** » Feb 02, 2011 9:07 am

And the miracles of graphology...

#9 · #9 by **stijndeloose** » Feb 06, 2011 8:08 am

**#10** · **#10** by **stijndeloose** » Feb 06, 2011 8:10 am

One for Nancy:

There's a story to it, too:

Skeptic James Randi challenges sellers of scam medications as hundreds stage worldwide "overdose" on homeopathic pills

Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.—To expose a scam industry that endangers and rips off millions of consumers a year, world-renowned conjuror, escape artist, and skeptic James Randi has put one million dollars on the line.

In a video statement released at 10:23 a.m. (ET) today, Randi joined hundreds of consumer advocates in more than 25 countries in exposing so-called homeopathic remedies—scam medications with no active ingredients that are sold by major retailers with no warning to customers. Demonstrators around the world swallowed homeopathic products by the handful, in a worldwide day of action inspired by a lecture by James Randi in which he downed an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills to show they had no effect.

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**#11** · **#11** by **MattHunX** » Feb 06, 2011 9:14 am

There were these kind of demonstrations where people took homeopathic pills and gulped them down by the dozen, weren't there? I heard of at least one such demonstration. That didn't wake people up, apparently. :nono:

**#12** · **#12** by **matt8819** » Feb 06, 2011 9:56 am

MattHunX wrote:There were these kind of demonstrations where people took homeopathic pills and gulped them down by the dozen, weren't there? I heard of at least one such demonstration. That didn't wake people up, apparently.

One of those moments is in this video, along with a right entertaining lecture of sorts

**#13** · **#13** by **matt8819** » Sep 24, 2011 4:04 am

Super pumped for going to this probably!!

**#14** · **#14** by **Grace** » Oct 21, 2011 4:43 pm

I wonder if James Randi would do an exposé on psychiatry. Now, there's a field of medicine that needs some critical analysis. Dose anyone have connections?

The fact that millions of children are getting hooked on powerful mind altering drugs for profit is not only wrong, it's dangerous. James Randi, come to our rescue.

**#15** · **#15** by **Shrunk** » Oct 21, 2011 6:46 pm

matt8819 wrote:One of my favorite Randi videos, and the follow up

Unfortunate, too. Hydrick was obviously a talented man.

Grace wrote:I wonder if James Randi would do an exposé on psychiatry. Now, there's a field of medicine that needs some critical analysis. Dose anyone have connections?

Well, he certainly could have done an expose on that psychiatrist-judge on the What's My Line clip. I mean, what's a shrink supposed to know about static electricity?

**#16** · **#16** by **Moonwatcher** » Nov 21, 2011 5:50 pm

James Randi is the Houdini of our time and maybe takes it a step further because he believes in no religion himself. He is the epitome of the open-minded skeptic. He "believes" nothing but always gives the benefit of the doubt that something could be true. He just won't accept it without evidence. So far, no evidence has ever been produced.

**#17** · **#17** by **matt8819** » Jan 01, 2012 5:36 am

Was going to post this pic ages ago, but forgot to take it. This is the deck of cards Randi signed for me when I saw his talk in Edmonton in September.

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When I go to Vegas again, I'm going to take it to get Penn and Teller to sign it too, hopefully.

**#18** · **#18** by **matt8819** » Jan 17, 2012 7:38 am

**#19** · **#19** by **the_5th_ape** » Feb 01, 2012 8:32 am

Simply brilliant. Thank you all for the videos

**#20** · **#20** by **matt8819** » Feb 20, 2012 9:59 pm

This is going to be awesome.