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James Randi in Australia

submitted by Haldaug

1 decade 5 years 9 months 1 week ago

James Randi tests water diviners and dowsers in Sydney, Australia in 1980.

14 Comments

The music was great!

Moving this video to Haldaug's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*beg

Haldaug cannot send this video to Beggar's Corner because Haldaug does not have enough Power Points - ignoring beg request by Haldaug. (You can always purchase more Power Points.)

Long but worth it. Randi is a legend. How many times does dowsing have to be shown to not work for people to stop believing in it? Seriously,I find I lose all faith in humanity after watching something like this. But I get a bit of that faith back when I realize that I have just watched a debunking and that it's not just me who thinks this way.

I love Dick Smith laughing his ass off at about 10:45 due to Randi's tricks.

Dick Smith is a great patron of science and nature in this country, so I'm not surprised at all that he co-funded this trip back then.

*promote denial in the face of logic.

Brilliant seeing all the excuses afterwords.

Stunning that they can continue to delude themselves in the face of evidence. Also very amusing to see that exact behavior predicted by Randi beforehand.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, February 9th, 2009 11:28am PST - promote requested by spoco2.

*documentaries *magic

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*debunked

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*Dead

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