Was Peter Popoff a conspirator to defraud?

Tony Szamboti

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I am wondering how many people here believe Peter Popoff was involved in a conspiracy to defraud people via religious venues and fake healings.

Does everyone here know that James Randi became famous by exposing Popoff as a fraud?

Does everyone here know how James Randi exposed Popoff's operation?
 
Do you know that we all know that you know that James Randi is famous? Do you know that we know that you know that we know he exposed Poppin' Fresh as an animation? Does everyone in your neighborhood use Bisquick instead?
 
There was an ABC 20-20 special that featured this very thing a little while ago. Popoff was using a hidden ear piece, and getting info on the victims via his partner as he would approach them. I believe Randi et al picked up the radio transmissions.

TAM:)
 
realcddeal said:
I am wondering how many people here believe Peter Popoff was involved in a conspiracy to defraud people via religious venues and fake healings.

Does everyone here know that James Randi became famous by exposing Popoff as a fraud?

Does everyone here know how James Randi exposed Popoff's operation?
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I pretty much think so.

All anyone has to do is view the PBS Nova episode Secrets Of The Psychics, featuring the esteemed James Randi, and that should leave no doubt in the mind of a clear-thinking person.

And a cursory look at the 9/11 events should convince any clear-thinking person that controlled demolition was not employed in the destruction of the WTC buildings 1, 2 and 7. You'd agree with that too, yes?
 
Peter Popoff used to fill entire arenas with people willing to buy his BS.

And we wonder why some people fall for 9/11 twoof.
 
For the second time, let me assert that likely every single person on these boards agree that humans have "conspired" to do things in secret in the past.

There is no need to spam the board with thread after thread because you think getting posters to agree that a conspiracy has happened in the past somehow proves 9/11 was a conspiracy. It doesn't. It doesn't even indicate in a small way that it was a conspiracy, or make the wild conspiracy theories one molecule more likely than they would be otherwise.

This is annoying.
 
CHF said:
Peter Popoff used to fill entire arenas with people willing to buy his BS.

And we wonder why some people fall for 9/11 twoof.
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To be fair, his BS was supported by thousands of years of prior art BS.

"If it's old, it's true" is a powerful meme.
 
realcddeal said:
I am wondering how many people here believe Peter Popoff was involved in a conspiracy to defraud people via religious venues and fake healings.

Does everyone here know that James Randi became famous by exposing Popoff as a fraud?

Does everyone here know how James Randi exposed Popoff's operation?
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Have to be polite on this topic area - can't comment on spamming, ignorance, incompetance, speaking/writing out of alternative body orifices, etc. Therefore, sadly, I cannot comment much on your threads/posts.
I think it's ok to say boring though.
 
CHF said:
Peter Popoff used to fill entire arenas with people willing to buy his BS.
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The sad thing is, he's back on TV again. Granted, it's late-night TV, but he's back, hawking his goods again and talking up the whole God & Jesus line again to get people to buy.
 
Randi was already a noted personality long before he went after Popoff in the '80s. He originally became famous as an escape artist on teevee in the '50s and '60s, then turned his eye to the paranormal by going after Uri Geller in the early '70s. He continued his work as a debunker in the '70s, which earned him an asteroid named after him in 1981, and then he received a MacArthur "genius grant" to keep doing his thing; he used that money to work on his book "The Faith Healers" which was where he turned his attention to Popoff and other such con men. This genius grant was awarded a full 30 years after Randi appeared on the Tonight Show in 1956 doing a daring escape stunt in which he was sealed in an underwater metal coffin for more than an hour and a half, so it's safe to say that going after Popoff wasn't how Randi made his name for the first time.

edit: actually, he first put up the paranormal challenge (initially a thousand dollars, now a million) in 1964, which was a few years before he started going after Uri Geller in earnest
 
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If Randi got an asteroid named after him then at the very least some Dark Matter should bear my moniker. Place is lousy with the stuff, it's not like there isn't plenty to go around...
 
ConspiRaider said:
If Randi got an asteroid named after him then at the very least some Dark Matter should bear my moniker. Place is lousy with the stuff, it's not like there isn't plenty to go around...
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I could be mistaken about exactly when asteroid 3163 Randi was named after our forum's namesake -- it was discovered in 1981 but I'm not sure how long after that it was given its name.

Here's a video of Randi describing his history with pseudoscience:

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I AGREE
 
Actually, in a way, realcdeal has provided us with the perfect prototype, which all the Alex Jones, Jack Bloods, Jason Bermas, Ace Bakers, have followed.

Peter Popoff was the PERFECT SNAKE OIL SALESMAN.

TAM:)
 
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