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JREF should sponsor a “Psychic fair”

kedo1981

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Forget a stinkin table; you’d just get your butts kicked out.
But sponsor the whole thing ; and make it big, make it almost imposable for the major woo’s to not go, massive promotion, bring in some big names to hold seminars, demos, even provide camera crews and include the video footage shot of the event to the woo-woos as a “perc”.
Here’s how it might work
The JREF sets up a subsidiary foundation to act as a “mouth piece” to sponsor said event.
Promote the event as a serious “yea right” psychic fair in the same way that they have been for years; be serious about it.
Make it part of the contract that the sponsor will have video crews with total access to all areas in the fair including the event floor, seminars, behind the scenes at the classes and so forth.
Wire a “Crossing over” type set for sound and to detect any thing “out of the ordinary”
On day one hold a kind of psychic business conference, with our own well-planted “agents”.
Day two: Set loose a couple of skeptic camera crews on the event floor to challenge the nut jobs; also hold a few alterative health demonstrations that are in reality a test of the claims made by the woo-woos.
Day three: code named (WOO-WOOmageddon ) get the biggest named psychic you can and bust them in the style of Penn and Teller’s ********, and at the last minute, out walks Randi who says YOU”VE BEEN PUNKED BE-ACTH.
Day Four: let the law suits begin.
 
Somehow, I just can't picture Mr. Randi saying (let alone yelling), "You've been punk'd, bitch!"

But I would pay good money to see it. :D
 
I don't know... I think he'd do it.

Maybe we should take up a collection....
 
I think it would be fun to get magicians and mentalists to do all the psychic tricks done by the real deceivers and then tell them how some of them are done.

I'd love to be able to experience a good mentalist doing a fabulous cold reading session where I can experience what it feels like.

We could have a dowsing challenge! Dowse where the hidden water it and the closest wins a prize!

Selling bent spoons and homeopathic remedies for thirst would be a big hit as well.
 

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