James Randi In Australia, the full documentary.

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Well, here it is.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7461912885649996034

James Randi In Australia, the full documentary from 1980.

Randi has given me permission to put it online as this should
be free for the world to see.

It was just after this that Australian Skeptics came into being.

Next time you have some diviner asking questions, point them
to this documentary. Again, I ask one and all to publish this
link on other egroups etc.

Enjoy
 
Bravo, good show. To be fair they should redo the test on a day without so many sun spots.
 
That video was kind of funny. Little doubt left that some of those people are delusional. I never thought much of water divining before seeing the video. It was interesting that the water divination test resulted in an accuracy above 20% when chance would be 10%. This leaves me wondering what percent the top 3 achieved. And could they repeat it.

I know y'all think the 20+% was just luck. If they maintained that percentage over enough trials it would be statistically significant. Without more testing we'll never know.
 
This isn't the one where the host goes wild after seeing JR bend a spoon, is it? I've only heard about that but didn't think a video was available.
 
Starthinker said:
This isn't the one where the host goes wild after seeing JR bend a spoon, is it? I've only heard about that but didn't think a video was available.
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Randi does bend a spoon (or two) in the first video, so it could be the one you where thinking of. He performs "psychic surgery" at the end too.
 
I can't download it - I get about 30 secs in and it starts to stutter. At this rate, it will take 13.5 weeks to download - I can't wait that long!

How about putting it somewhere we can actually access it with a hope of reasonable success, Richard?
 
Zep said:
I can't download it - I get about 30 secs in and it starts to stutter. At this rate, it will take 13.5 weeks to download - I can't wait that long!

How about putting it somewhere we can actually access it with a hope of reasonable success, Richard?
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Hmm, I have no trouble. Try letting it download for a few minutes before hitting play, or press pause for a few mintues then play. Anyone else finding it slow?
 
Magnificent! I've just sat upt to 1:00Am to watch this video, and now my wife's going bats calling me up to bed.
Randi is so entertaining, he's bad for my health!
 
I just watched the other Randi video on that page, the Uri Gellar one. For some reason the Peter Popoff segment caused me to burst into tears - I guess my skeptic dam finally burst. You can only see so much manipulation and sick scheming before it gets to you, I guess.

:(

And Popoff is up to his old tricks again.
 
tkingdoll said:
I just watched the other Randi video on that page, the Uri Gellar one. For some reason the Peter Popoff segment caused me to burst into tears - I guess my skeptic dam finally burst. You can only see so much manipulation and sick scheming before it gets to you, I guess.

:(

And Popoff is up to his old tricks again.
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Even worse are some of the awful things Popoff's wife would say about the congregants. There are bad people, and then there are downright evil people. They are evil.
 
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