Of all the people James Randi has debunked over the years, his number one nemesis has always been Uri Geller. In 1975, Randi wrote “The Truth About Uri Geller,” in which he provided evidence that Geller was a fraud who used simple magic tricks, not the power of his mind, to bend metal objects and […]
In 2005, British balladeer Katie Melua had a hit record called “Nine Million Bicycles.” Among its lyrics were these lines: We are 12 billion light-years from the edge That’s a guess No one can ever say it’s true But I know that I will always be with you. That September, science journalist Simon Singh took […]
Here’s the Phil Plait piece I referred to on KTRS/St. Louis today about whooping cough — a disease easily preventable through vaccination — which has made a comeback in California to the point where that state’s board of health just classified it as an “epidemic.” Some of the blame for this has to be laid […]
When Indian guru Pandit Surender Sharma claimed he could kill another man with only his mind, Sanal Edamaruku said, “Kill me.” Edamaruku is not a suicidal nutjob. He’s the Indian skeptic equivalent of James Randi. Remarkably, the guru accepted the challenge. A TV channel carried the whole thing live, even preempting other programming as the […]
I have written many times about Sylvia Browne, the evil woman who claims psychic powers and the ability to talk to the dead. I have interviewed Robert Lancaster of StopSylvia.com, James Randi, Phil Plait, and others about her. All of them have developed evidence through the years of Browne’s lies. Now Ryan Shaffer and Agatha […]
I have long been a supporter of the James Randi Educational Foundation. Randi has appeared on my radio shows many times in the last quarter-century, and I have attended several of his annual Amazing Meetings, where hundreds of skeptics from around the country — and world — gather to share stories, listen to speakers, and […]