TagsTagsAs someone who’s always had a great deal of respect for skeptic James Randi, I was disappointed to read his piece at the JREF Swift Blog: AGW, Revisited. Randi cites the Petition Project (a bogus list of “skeptical scientists” packed with ringers, frauds, and people who never even signed it) as ...
At James Randi’s “Amazing Meeting,” Neurologist Steve Novella gave an interesting talk on the benefits of vaccination, and the growing danger of the anti-vaccination movement. (This is an introduction to a panel discussion that hasn’t been posted yet.) [Video]
Vaccines, Medicine, Health, kooks, Pseudo-Science, Jenny McCarthy, Steve Novella, James Randi
Classic debunking by James Randi, destroying Barbara Walters’ child-like faith in the psychic powers of Uri Geller. Barbara is so disappointed when Randi duplicates Geller’s hoaxes... [Video]
James Randi, Skepticism, Uri Geller, Barbara Walters, psychic
It’s time for the James Randi Foundation’s “Pigasus” awards for 2008, and lo and behold — some of our favorite kooks and cranks are “honored,” including anti-vaccination airhead Jenny McCarthy and Ben Stein’s horrible creationist propaganda film “Expelled.” [Video]
James Randi, Skepticism, Ben Stein, Jenny McCarthy, kooks, quacks, Creationism, Vaccines, Paranormal
Some small good news this morning: the James Randi Foundation account has been restored on YouTube. Phil Plait explains that the problem was apparently related to a copyright complaint about video footage: The JREF YouTube Account is back online! However, some videos that should be deleted, not due to copyright violations but ...
Wow. I guess I should have known, when YouTube blocked his account, that there are people out there who really really hate James Randi. Case in point: this email from a belligerent Randi-hater, who equates science and rational skepticism with “arrogance” and “book burning.” You might wish to do some ...
You have got to be kidding me. YouTube has suspended the account of the James Randi Foundation, one of the foremost rationalist organizations in the United States? This is an outrage. YouTube — where you can easily find disgusting, violent jihadi videos, and vile antisemitic garbage like this — is now protecting ...
The James Randi Educational Foundation has a standing offer of a million dollars to anyone who can prove that they are able to dowse—the woo-woo practice of detecting hidden objects like water, pipes, wires, etc., with the aid of metal or wooden rods. Here’s Randi’s classic response to a dowser ...