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  • PLEASE NOTE: I do not reply to long, quote-terraced responses which are characteristically filled with nitpicking comments instead of going to the heart of my post and presenting a logical but contrasting point of view.
    I met Randy with Michael Shermer of Skeptics in the 1980s. They were working with my Lorimar TV executive wife to produce a Skeptic program. TV watching people generally prefer their illusions, however, and we could not sell it to a network.

    I remember seeing a great film Randy did on the Philippine "bloodless surgery" healers. They looked to be miraculously removing cancerous tissue from a patient's abdomen without leaving a wound or scar. They just palmed chicken gizzards and a little blood, and made it seem real. The Randi video may well have been what ended the craze.

    A few years ago, Shermer and Randi were planning a fire walking Skeptic event. After they looked at the price of liability insurance, it was canceled. I was disappointed as I would have walked the coals along with the rest.

    I admire Randi's fine work in exposing academic rationalizing---such as the way he exposed how "psychics" duped Duke University researchers. I even include reference to it in my book, "Destiny and Civilization: the Evolutionary Explanation of Religion and History," (Authorhouse publishing) page 305.

    charles
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