Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions

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James Randi is internationally known as a magician and escape artist But for the past thirty five years of his professional life, he has also been active as an investigator of the paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims that have impressed the thinking of the public for a generation ESP, psychokinesis, psychic detectives, levitation, psychic surgery, UFOs, dowsing, astrology, and many others Those of us unable to discriminate between geniune scientific research and the pseudoscientific nonsense that has resulted in fantastic theories and fancies have long needed James Randi and Flim Flam In this book, Randi explores and exposes what he believes to be the outrageous deception that has been promoted widely in the media Unafraid to call researchers to account for their failures and impostures, Randi tells us that we have been badly served by scientists who have failed to follow the procedures required by their training and traditions Here he shows us how what he views as sloppy research has been followed by rationalizations of evident failures, and we see these errors and misrepresentations clearly pointed out Mr Randi provides us with a compelling and convincing document that will certainly startle and enlighten all who read it. New Read [ Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions ] author [ James Randi ] – kino-fada.fr Now hold still while I read your aura Yes, my spirit guide is telling me something, that you are experiencing some kind of pain or discomfort in your back, or perhaps your shoulders And this is typical of someone born under your star sign, you know Of course you do your type is very insightful, even if you do sometimes let little things escape your notice from time to time Here I have a medicine that will help you, a special homeopathic formula that I mixed myself It s proof against all Now hold still while I read your aura Yes, my spirit guide is telling me something, that you are experiencing some kind of pain or discomfort in your back, or perhaps your shoulders And this is typical of someone born under your star sign, you know Of course you do your type is very insightful, even if you do ...Another reason to think humanity is doomed.Also, nothing changes.Also, I needed to read the debunking of TM just to remind me that, as much as I admire David Lynch as one of the great artists of our time, his faith in this wacky cult is misplaced which is why knowing the artist is almost always a bad idea.Of course, on the other side, I did read Catching the Big Fish Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity.One thing...Although writing style is quite dry occasionally, the book does a great job in discrediting various fradulent and simply nonsensical an mystical practices.This was probably aexciting read thirty years ago, when it was written, because so many of the parapsychological organizations or ideas Randi writes about debunking don t exist any Randi s frustration at the continuing gullibility of people who fall for psychic cons comes through a little too loudly at times, making some sections seemstrident than necessary I was particularly interested in his account of Arthur Conan Doyle s fairies, as well as a few of the stories of people This was probably aexciting read thirty years ago, when it was written, because so many of the parapsychological organizations or ideas Randi writes about...This is a book written by James Randi, a famous magician and also a famous pre MythBusters exposer of ESP magic UFO etc frauds I really love James Randi, and I m glad he s still around and at 90 years old still seems as sharp and with it as ever But this book, well, mainly it s a little too dated The edition I have has a foreward from 2010 I think, and he himself notes that it s a little outdated, but still valid The thing is though, the things he s exposing in this book, Bermuda Triangle, C This is a book written by James Randi, a famous magician and also a famous pre MythBusters exposer of ESP magic UFO etc frauds I really love James Randi, and I m glad he s still around and at 90 years old still seems as sharp and with it as ever But this book, well, mainly it s a little too dated The edition I have has a foreward from 2010 I think, and he himself notes that it s a little outdated, but still valid The thing is though, the things he s exposing in this book, Bermuda Triangle, Chariot of the Gods, etc., are things that almost no one would take seriously today, unlike when I was a little kid and there was actually a copy of Chariot of the Gods in my school s library Which is nothing against Randi, it s just too contemporary with the world when it was written that it got a little left behind The ot...If we found something paranormal, we wouldn t call it paranormalJDN 2456387 EDT 16 50.Since I won 2500 of his money The James Randi Educational Foundation scholarship , I felt I should probably read some of James Randi s books I happened upon Flim Flam , which is older than I am, and yet the nonsense it catalogues and refutes is pretty much the same stuff we re dealing with today Why, just this last Tuesday I had someone try to convince me that quantum mechanics allows precognition, citin If we found something paranormal, we wouldn t call it paranormalJDN 2456387 EDT 16 50.Since I won 2500 of his money The James Randi Educational Foundation scholarship , I felt I should probably read some of James Randi s books...I have yet to read a skeptic book that I didn t like, but Randi s is particularly loveable He s seen the same garbage a million times over and doesn t give a shit Yet he curses like a country vicar an...James Randi s first major study of pseudoscience and the paranormal is lively, passionate, and incredible well reasoned It made a huge impression on me when I first read it as a teenager, and it s held up surprisingly well over the years, largely because the methods of buncombe he condemns rar...Flim Flam 0 87975 198 3Having been born in the 80 s and relatively insulated from the majority of the claims presented in the book, I can honestly say that James Randi s book is still useful today, if only as a guidebook to the past If those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, then similarly those who do not read Randi s book are doomed to...James Randi also known as The Amazing Randi very thoroughly provides evidence debunking many forms of pseudoscience including TM, parapsychology, psi effects, water dowsing, and biorhythms However, his major problem is that he does not simply provide evidence he rages against those who believe such things, and this arrogance is a complete turn off.A second point the book was initially published in 1988, but many of the items discussed biorhythms, for example have long since lost their pop James Randi also known as The Amazing Randi very thoroughly provides evidence debunking many forms of pseudoscience including TM, parapsychology, psi effects, water dowsing, and biorhythms However, his major problem is that he does not simply provide evidence he rages against those who believe such thi...

Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
  • English
  • 20 January 2017
  • Paperback
  • 342 pages
  • 0879751983
  • James Randi
  • Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions