I just decided to read up on him, after seeing him in PZ's Skepticon 3 video. He's hilarous!
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MattHunX wrote:Also, he gives some very shocking and angering information on how much money is spent on homeopathy and devices and by whom.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTPj9VlNzQ0[/youtube]
matt8819 wrote:One of my favorite Randi videos, and the follow up
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlfMsZwr8rc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7yDLRib5CQ[/youtube]
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.
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...
Fallible wrote:Don't bacon picnic.
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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Fallible wrote:Don't bacon picnic.
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.
matt8819 wrote:One of my favorite Randi videos, and the follow up
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlfMsZwr8rc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7yDLRib5CQ[/youtube]
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?
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