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The appearance on Johnny Carson where Uri Geller failed to perform his magical ability is available online [0]. Johnny Carson used Paul Randi as an advisor to s
by abetusk 3y ago
The appearance on Johnny Carson where Uri Geller failed to perform his magical ability is available online [0]. Johnny Carson used Paul Randi as an advisor to set up the experiment so as to counteract what tricks Uri Geller was using to deduce where the water was in the containers [1].
It's hard to overstate how poisonous Uri Geller and other charlatans were. I won't be able to find it but when I was younger I had a collection of essays from prominent physicists discussing different aspects of mathematics, quantum theory, etc. and one of the articles mentioned Uri Geller by name, talking about how the human brain could access quantum physics directly, using Uri Geller as an example. Apparently James Randi had to defend from a libel suit from Uri Geller for debunking the "magic" acts.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD7OgAdCObs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD7OgAdCObs
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXv3TvB4LNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXv3TvB4LNI
- lisper 3y ago> Paul Randi James. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi > It's hard to overstate how poisonous Uri Geller and other charlatans were. Still are.
- jacquesm 3y agoDefinitely, but not worse than those other large groups of (mostly guys) claiming to have a connection to god, the ones that peddle reiki, essential oils, crystals and a ton of other nonsense to the gullible for a lot of profit. I have some 'true believers' in my surroundings and it always gets me how they are able to delude themselves, but it gets me even more how much energy they put into convincing other, even more gullible people. It's like an MLM for bullshit.