Dear Mr. Randi,
In your commentary at the link below, you quote some paragraphs from Dr. Puthoff, attributing it to something else. However, I believe you erred in citation. You see, those comments by Puthoff were to me in a private email, which I posted to your JREF forum. I can even show you the email which you got those words from, in fact. I saved it in my file years ago. Somehow, you attributed it to him through another source though. I don't know why, but perhaps you'd like to make the correction.
Here is the part I am referring to:
http://www.randi.org/jr/042304seven.html
Targ and Puthoff reacted to mybook strongly, of course. They put out a lengthy attempt at rebuttal inthe "International Journal of Psychoenergetic Systems" — now defunct —in which they stated, incredibly:
In Flim Flam, [Randi] gives something like 28 debunking points, if mymemory serves me correctly. I had the opportunity to confront Randi ata Parapsychology Association conference with proof in hand, and intape-recorded interaction he admitted he was wrong on all the points.He even said he would correct them for the upcoming paperback beingpublished by the CSICOP group. He did not.Incase one thinks that it was just a case of our opinions vs. hisopinions, we chose for the list of incorrect points only those thatcould be independently verified. Examples: He said that in our Naturepaper we verified Geller's metal-bending. Go to the paper, and you seethat we said we were not able to obtain evidence for this. He said thata film of the Geller experiment made at SRI by famed photographer ZevPressman was not made by him, but by us and we just put his name on it.We showed up with an affidavit by Pressman saying that indeed he didmake the film. Etc., etc."
W: Again, the above text are from an email written to me by Puthoff, which I posted on your forum. You might want to correct it. I just hope that Puthoff doesn't get angry about this.
Regards,
Winston
In your commentary at the link below, you quote some paragraphs from Dr. Puthoff, attributing it to something else. However, I believe you erred in citation. You see, those comments by Puthoff were to me in a private email, which I posted to your JREF forum. I can even show you the email which you got those words from, in fact. I saved it in my file years ago. Somehow, you attributed it to him through another source though. I don't know why, but perhaps you'd like to make the correction.
Here is the part I am referring to:
http://www.randi.org/jr/042304seven.html
Targ and Puthoff reacted to mybook strongly, of course. They put out a lengthy attempt at rebuttal inthe "International Journal of Psychoenergetic Systems" — now defunct —in which they stated, incredibly:
In Flim Flam, [Randi] gives something like 28 debunking points, if mymemory serves me correctly. I had the opportunity to confront Randi ata Parapsychology Association conference with proof in hand, and intape-recorded interaction he admitted he was wrong on all the points.He even said he would correct them for the upcoming paperback beingpublished by the CSICOP group. He did not.Incase one thinks that it was just a case of our opinions vs. hisopinions, we chose for the list of incorrect points only those thatcould be independently verified. Examples: He said that in our Naturepaper we verified Geller's metal-bending. Go to the paper, and you seethat we said we were not able to obtain evidence for this. He said thata film of the Geller experiment made at SRI by famed photographer ZevPressman was not made by him, but by us and we just put his name on it.We showed up with an affidavit by Pressman saying that indeed he didmake the film. Etc., etc."
W: Again, the above text are from an email written to me by Puthoff, which I posted on your forum. You might want to correct it. I just hope that Puthoff doesn't get angry about this.
Regards,
Winston
