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Randi the fraudster?

The Amazing James Randi Is NOT a fraudster, fake or even a big poopyhead...the proper term is charlatan.:hypnotize
 
You're right Windom. Just as a magician duplicating Geller's spoon bending doesn't prove that it wasn't done by psychic means. (As Randi says--if that's so, then he's doing it the hard way.)

Common sense proves that the "philipinians" are frauds.

Oh yeah--pumping the blood through sheeps' bodies (or the variants already said)--but I liked RSLancastr's answer best.
 
I also got to see Brian Brushwood perform the act once. From a front row, center seat. Got passed up as a volunteer. The guy he picked had a clever response:

Brian: "Oh, and what's afflicting you, sir?"
Volunteer: "Uh, brain cancer!"
(Audience laughs knowingly.)
Brian: "Well, as we all know, brain cancer is caused by stuff in the stomach."
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
Common sense proves that the "philipinians" are frauds.
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I would say it's not a common sense, but results instead.

1. Patients are not healed. As a matter of fact, some of them dies. (remember Andy Kaufman....:mad:)
2. The blood and stuff taken from patient after some scientific examination turns out to be chicken's blood :)


James Randi (Penn and Teller, etc., etc) just offered an explanation how the "surgery" is done. Very good explanation, indeed. The best, so far.
 
Bronze Dog said:
I also got to see Brian Brushwood perform the act once. From a front row, center seat. Got passed up as a volunteer. The guy he picked had a clever response:

Brian: "Oh, and what's afflicting you, sir?"
Volunteer: "Uh, brain cancer!"
(Audience laughs knowingly.)
Brian: "Well, as we all know, brain cancer is caused by stuff in the stomach."
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If you ever get a chance to see his "Scams, Sasquatch and the Supernatural" show, go! It's the most fun debunking session you'll ever sit through. I now know how to magically make a plumb bob move.

Since I am a person of the female persuasion, I never had a chance to be a surgery subject.
 
I just watched the 45 minute "James Randi in Australia video, and at the end there is a brief psychic surgery sequence where there is cloth over the "patient." You can still see Randi's hands and the man's stomach, but in the online video it is hard to tell where the cloth ends and the flesh begins.

I think the cloth was mainly to protect the man's clothes and his modesty, but due to the crummy video quality I can't be sure Randi isn't using the cloth to hide things.

The Tonight Show sequence was done on a TV sound stage with a professional actor. Tom Selleck had the option of showering his buff body changing into a different swank outfit during the commercial break. :)
 
ChristineR said:
I think the cloth was mainly to protect the man's clothes and his modesty, but due to the crummy video quality I can't be sure Randi isn't using the cloth to hide things.
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Given his profession, I've no doubt Randi was using the cloth to hide things.

Marc
 
ChristineR said:
The Tonight Show sequence was done on a TV sound stage with a professional actor. Tom Selleck had the option of showering his buff body changing into a different swank outfit during the commercial break. :)
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Thank god they used a professional actor. All the amatuers could not get off from the restaurants.
 
Note that the the 'surgeon's' knuckles are always visible. This indicates that he does not go very deep.

The video says he has accepted $500,000 for his services. Maybe I am in the wrong profession.

The video also appears to be old. Can this be confirmed?
 
i thought i remembered palin trying to get the "surgeon" to show him his hands to see if he had palmed some giblets or whatever to fake it and the guy was being very evasive and sort of trying to get away. i saw it a long time ago so my memory is sketchy, but i seen to recall that although it wasn't a serious attempt at debunking, palin definately didn't seem to be buying it.
 
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