Bruce Voigt
Critical Thinker
- Joined
- Jun 22, 2009
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In proving Magic Magee I find the easiest is to administer a second degree burn. Within a group I ask if there is anyone who could stand a few seconds of pain. After the first year of burns and cures I started running into people that I had burnt now having brands (yikes!) In experimenting on myself I found that within a couple of hours the burn could be reactivated by the heat of the sun or washing in hot water.
Continuing the burn and cure, I stressed the importance of keeping the injury away from heat for a couple of hours. Considering the human factor I still found some who would not believe that they had been burnt. What I do now is wait five or ten minutes after the cure giving them time to digest the fact that they have no pain or skin damage and doubting that they have been burned. I then ask them if they could stand a couple of minutes, not seconds, of pain and they always say yes. I explain to them that they will have signs of a blister but it will quickly be replaced by new skin. I then ask someone to bring a cup of hot water, a temperature that you could quite comfortably wash dishes in. Dipping their burn in soon activates the injury and they are with the excruciating pain of a second degree burn.
This demonstration is very, very powerful and uniquely shuts up the sceptics.
So with this type of evidence why is it not popular and used in hospitals or at least carried in ambulances and fire trucks? Well, it would be if it weren’t for the human factor.
Greed runs the world. The government won’t upset the economic apple cart. The media is owned and controlled by corporate institutions. The working person is held hostage to their job and in fear will not rock the boat. There has come a time though (computers) that people have had enough and you are hearing terms such as whistle blower etc. Highly respected people are fed up with the dribble and are starting to stand up for themselves. They are still a decade or so behind but I can see an improvement.
James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928) is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and a scientific skeptic[2][3][4] who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.[5] Randi is the co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), originally known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is also the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). He began his career as a magician under the stage name The Amazing Randi and later chose to devote most of his time to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls "woo-woo".[6] Randi retired from practicing magic at age 60, and from the JREF at 87. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi
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