A Lecture by James "The Amazing" Randi 

But it is a better place post Randi than pre Randi!

No, JIMNSHO, it's not. Maybe as a human, he was a fine man, IDK, as a Scientist he was full of shit & Another jerk-,off, a zillion light years from being a Scientist, a real skeptic, or a worthy researcher. Worthless.

@@marcsalzman8082 omg Randi has died? I honestly did not know this...... When did this happen?

less stupid

@@richardmiller3998 He died just a cpl weeks ago. Yet another reason 2020 is the absolute worst!

those who assume take u and me up the ass , as they say

Watch closely, he is wearing lenses at the beginning but switches out to no lenses before the explanation.

@@howardsternisbatman you sure?

@@edwardmcmanus 8:35 From the side, you can see his glasses refract the back wall. They even seem to be bifocals. And from the front, his glasses refract the spotlights on him, making it shine more brightly in focused areas on his face.

@@howardsternisbatman so he fooled by not really fooling! Does that mean I wasn't fooled, two negatives make a positive. Or did I get fooled twice. Or is it you who is trying to fool me.

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btw, I saw that NOVA clip he refers to before Q&A, with the students and their horoscopes, and I think that knucklehead may have just been trying to impress the girl next to him. I could be projecting, but just maybe... and possibly another reason some people get into these sorts of things? ;P

On the one hand, it's understandable where they come from. Life can be really frightening. In fact, since I posted this I've been through a family loss and found myself almost naturally gravitating toward such thoughts -- just wondering, sort of like being watched. In the end, though, a certain level of action comes from trying our best to face simply, clearly, and honestly what is set before us, and it's a relief to find the courage to make it through... so yes, even if more difficult in other ways, a world concerned with realism while seeking a natural sense of virtue would certainly be more balanced, I think.

my favorite person in modern times

@@NitpickingNerdHe is definitely in my top ten, but I think Christopher Hitchens might take #1. (I assume you mean anyone active in the last, say, 50 years)

I was sad to see him go but he lived a long life

I’m thinking of John, Jack, James? James! Yes, James wants you to know that he appreciates your warm memories of him. Wait, now I sense someone else. Does Maria or Margaret enter your mind at this time?

@@NitpickingNerd really? why? is he a philosopher then? what does he believe? he seems to disbelieve everything and everyone! remarkable, right?

Thanks for putting his DOB and day of death. That’s a lot of amazingly years.

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That’s an oof from me

Willing to give up your organs for transplant into him? May you wake up and leave the cult one day Devil Beard. Dominus Fobiscum.

@@Mrch33ky there is a middle ground between dying for somebody and helping to keep them survive. I hope you have people in your life you would die for :(

+kingdom0aerith What has he done that anyone with common sense couldn't do?

she wee Common sense is rare, I guess. I don't understand what you're trying to say.

kingdom0aerith Common sense would tell you these morons James Randi debunks are fraudulent. James Randi points out the obvious. Did anybody really think Uri Geller or Peter Popoff were the real deal until James Randi debunked them? And how many years has Johnny Carson been dead? Yet Randi is still using his Carson show debunking on his resume? He is a retired magician/illusionist. He now spends his time ratting out the tricks of the trade and calls it debunking. Check out his FB page and see what Randi charges to "save" you from scammers. His million dollar challenge is a fraud and he has NEVER debunked a medium.

she wee ok, cool. What does that have to do with my original comment?

kingdom0aerith Alrighty then. So now we see why you would find James Randi your favorite "celebrity"

@BWGgy what a stupid comment

@BWGgy I’m not the one making assumptions on what is or what isn’t, without at least some shred of evidence to back my claim. You are declaring that god exists, yet you have provided no proof. So please tell me again how stupid my comment is. And before you say that I can’t disprove god let me tell you this. You can’t disprove the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Alah or any number of other gods because there isn’t anything there to disprove. It’s an impossible task that need not even be attempted. Instead we focus on what CAN be proven. We look at the evidence and based on that evidence we draw a likely conclusion. If that conclusion turns out to be false then so be it. We update our understanding and move on. This is the opposite of religious belief, where what is written is the truth no matter what even in the face of evidence. While we may not be able to disprove the existence of a god, we are more than able to pick apart the “holy” texts.

@BWGgy Again. Trying to use the Bible as proof to validate the Bible. Please come back when you have an actual argument other than, “the Bible said so.” Even if some historical contexts of the Bible turn out to be true, that still doesn’t prove the existence of an omnipotent being. It’s clear to me that you have no scientific knowledge whatsoever. Nobody is saying that nothing came from nothing. That is preschool thinking that people such as yourself like to jump to. You also seem to be jumping to the conclusion that just because something exists that there has to have been a creator. This statement is also false. There is no evidence to suggest that there had to be a creator. In fact all evidence suggests that there WASN’T a creator.

@BWGgy did God teach you how to copy paste?

Science is just the logical brain's form of self defense against it's fear of dying. Which completely falls apart on the quantum level ..... no one knows what's going on, but in my belief this man will be blown away when his consciousness survived his death

+truemanc Truly!

James is a Bad Guy he broke the laws of the US for over 20 years, keeping a too young illegal alien hispanic male lover in the US changing his name and lying to everyone about his Homosexual life and the immigration laws he was violating for his own sexual needs. He's a fucking liar.

"A young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Source please

batmmannn oh yeah, he's terrible.... much worse than the guys that "heal" people and then let them die for a bit of money.... much worse.. a bit like your face

34 minutes ish... wasnt looking...

It’s when they show the Carson video at just over an hour in.

Akhamesh Perhaps her pen, when circling the word, went through the paper and marked the next page. She tears out the page, he takes the rest. He has a second copy of the issue with him and checks what the word is.

Akhamesh Ever been to one of these and screwed the magician? One time one was doing a watch trick and while he was handling the watch I reached over with my other hand and tapped the back of his three times to mess him up. Looking back...it was a lame thing to do. The guy was just an entertainer doing his job.

Wow I thought I was alone in here- lol

Look up James Randi debunking on the Tonight Show. It’s toward the end of the segment

it does slow down, that why when you're at the swimming pool or in the bath things look slightly out of place. When light bends it's either slowing down (if it goes into something with a higher refraction index)or speeding up( lower refractive index) if you want to read more into this i would encourage you too look into refraction. The reason why we say the speed of light is a constent is when in a vacuum it always travels at the same speed of roughly 3x10^8.

@@totallynotlogic9849 in a vacuum, eh? sure! yes, so i guess i was right, that i had heard this before! thank you, sir!

@@tinfoilhatter No worries friend, always happy to share!

Absolutely ❤

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