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@@mostawesomecomment6553 Lol, psychic powers never have been proven in the first place! It's so refreshing to see how all those mumbo-jumbo folks make an utter fool of themselves!
i am obsessed with the fact that not a single one of these individuals had the psychic foresight to predict that agreeing to publicly debunk themselves would destroy their credibility
Unfortunately both Uri Gellar and Peter “The Ripoff” Popoff kept many devout followers. To them, keeping the faith no matter how ridiculous it was was more important to their lives than giving it up. I do not necessarily criticize them because it is even worse today then it was back then and many of us today are guilty of the same thing.
I am sure Allen, Alfred, Alice, Ann, Bill, Charlie, Colin, Connie, David Derek, Eileen, Ellen, Florey, Frank, Fred, George, Jim, Joe, John, Karen, Kathern, Kevin, Lilian, Lisa, Liz, Lynn, Mark, Mary, May, Michael, Rob, Ron, Shirly, Sidney, Stanley, Sid and Steve all agree.
Sad part is that he is part of that bunch... I did challenge his people over at his own forums and was banned without breaking a rule. Calling out their lies.
@@RightfootWestHam It depends. If your challenge was highly moronic it makes sense to just wave you away. And lets be frank, there are a lot of people trying to prove bullshit using the same moronic arguments over and over and over again, without checking if what they are saying has been debunked OUTSIDE their echo chamber forums/church groups. The dumb arguments/people vastly outnumber those who have the time to waste answering them, so yeah...
@@gerasimosskarakis811 It was well documented highly respected person that no one dared to look in to. Can you do me a favor, go and read those rules for the test. Then come back to me and tell me the issue with that contract. If you cant, then I explain it to you and you can sit there like everyone else: "Yeah that is not cool" . You are displaying the same issue as back in the day in those forums, you dont want to put in effort and time to research something. But go ahead, prove me wrong. I be waiting. Everything I have stated stands as truth.
That's exactly what testing is. He's not there to debunk anyone, just test if they're correct. If they are correct, they should be able to pass the test
Theres a very important reason why he only does so indirectly. People get very defensive over their beliefs, and challenging a belief is the same as a personal attack to 99% of people.
@@Arizona_lilly And yet both sell there services all the time. They just don't ever seem to do them in situations where they can't con their way out when things go wrong.
@ IRBADL TALD - Some hospitals actually using healers to this very day, and i´m talking about USA, Europe etc.. Scary how those Quacks, can get their tentacles in anywhere.
Hehe I noticed that laugh too, it was such a tell/giveaway that he was full of it. I don't know why I still feel a little bad for these guys knowing they are conning people, but they are definitely conning people.
What he should've done the same thing as usual, I mean when the Styrofoam fly's everywhere because of his blowing he could've just said "I can't focus my powers on the page alone" or something, that way he wouldnt have looked like a total buffoon
"We said that by chance you would find it on your third or fourth attempt, you found it on the third attempt so your results, sadly, seem to be no better than chance." That was just a completely hilarious and spot on conclusion to that segment :D
You do know that is physics anyone can do it lol chi is real but not what we are lead to believe ! its not some super power . Power lol maybe wrong word for it its a form of energy it can after effect throw a stone into water and that is it ! . sorta like how kinetic energy works
Especially in the age of cell phones. Hmmm better use my super power to look up the number for the bat cave...oh sh.t phone books dont exist anymore because we have digital contact lists...better use my other super power...crawling into a hole and dying kapow!!!!
You see the fabric had not been appropriately tuned for the air polarity, this means that my telekinesis cannot be emanated from my puckered asshole. My sphincter magic is very delicate, you see.
The guy at 4:15 is James Alan Hydrick who was convicted of kidnapping and torture in 1977, for which he was imprisoned. Hydrick was imprisoned for child molestation in 1989; he remains in a psychiatric hospital. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hydrick
"He escaped three times: he allegedly kicked through a concrete wall in a Georgia jail, broke through gates at a South Carolina prison, and finally, in 1982, he pole-vaulted over a fence at a state prison in Utah." now THOSE are some real Psychic powers!
I love the way they send them off after failing miserably: "Well, sir - you´re a hack. Thank you for coming." [Applause. Takes emergency exit and boards the Shame Express to oblivion]
I once had a fantastic psychic reading. The psychic not only knew that I had eaten in a restaurant within the last 3 months, but he even knew that the restaurant's name had a vowel. But what was truly stunning was that he knew the waiter or waitress asked me if I would like a beverage at the start of the order process. Now, I ask you, how could anybody in the world have guessed all of those things? Impossible! I'm a true believer now.
You wouldn't believe the amount of people who believe in a man that walked on water, and could raise people from the dead, yet they think this is stupid.
None of these fucks “think they’re psychic.” They PRETEND to be psychic and prey on weak minded, largely unintelligent people and fool them into believing that they ARE psychic…with quite alarming and unnerving success.
I love that James never shakes their hands after their failed 'demonstrations.' The act of clapping and walking away without a backward glance is just so dismissive. Great stuff.
James Randi is a hero. I'm so glad he outlived Sylvia Browne who he was after for years. I could imagine if he had died first, Sylvia would have told everyone that Randi contacted her from "the spirit world" and said she was right about everything, topped with an apology.
I actually remember thinking that at the time, you brought it right back! The nasty piece of work definitely would have pulled some awful thing like that. Vile woman. The whole lot of those cold reading, magic trick using charlatans are scum who prey on anxiety, love, fear, and bloody charge for it!
The 37 names she gave were coincidentally the 37 most common names of the time, giving her the best shot of matching . "Bill, David, Mark, Michael, Rob, Steve " were all in there, and the most common men's names of the time
Yeah, but if he "read" the name Muhammad, he would probably get about 20 people he/she knows. It is the most common name in the world. Unless that person he is doing a psychic reading for is from, say, Taiwan.
@@JudeTavonFenwick no I know. It's just hilarious that they have a team of scientists and an expert magician to debunk such a pretty basic trick. Like it was bound to humiliate this guy
I love how scientific he approaches these tests, making sure the zinc ore was all taken from the same samples, etc. James Randi was a treasure and I've always respected him since my dad first introduced me to his content 20 years ago. I wish i could have met him before he died
@@bubblegumxo and he's thinking f..k me.I just bought this psychic outfit yesterday...well the guy who sold it to him definitely saw him coming!!!! or perhaps the psychics barber was good friends with the outfitter," hi George I've just sold an outfit to a loony tune, he wants a crazy haircut, George " ok send him over I'll do my worst "
Wow, this James Randi guy sure is a sneaky devil. Can't believe he cheated that poor guy out of 10k by putting magical styrofoam around the phone book to block all the psychic energy like that. Outrageous!
Why aren't there TV programmes like this any more? I know you'd need a psychic to be able to get Randi on the show, since he's dead. But this is brilliant! Skepticism, simple logic, and simple tests, that a genuine psychic (or whatever) ought to be able to carry out. But not one of them ever has. Funny.
The problem is that these "psychic" nuts don't feel a need to go on tv anymore. Back in the day you'd have a very small following at best, if any at all. You'd only be able to make it big if you proved yourself to a large group of people, and TV would be the only way. Now any person can go online, pretend to be psychic and post some convincing videos and they'll have a fanbase of idiots right away. It's too easy to find things now. You can just blatantly lie and there will always be some amount of people who'll believe you. Therefore they don't need to go on TV anymore to prove themselves.
People have corners of the internet these days to reinforce things even when demonstrated to be false and the grifters stick to those corners. The reality is that none of them would actually step forward to be tested. It's kind of incredible how much hubris these folks have to think that they were the only people who could think up how to do this stuff.
I think he was also trying to fold the page a little to give a little lip that he could blow under without moving the foam.. Then the presenter turned over a bunch of pages and scuppered his only chance of pulling it off hahaha
"the styrofoam and the light forms electricity" but why should that matter if you're NOT using science to turn the page. gave himself away with thaf sentence
more interestingly< when he showed how the pages were sticking due styrofoam , page fell down, and rolled AWAY from styrofoam. so if anything, that should´ve helped him
Styrofoam can hold an electric charge and I think paper does as well, but you’d be able to see some styrofoam stick to the paper when he moved the page.
Joe C paper is one of the well known insulators. Which means that it really doesn't like to add or remove electrons. It's not impossible, but unlikely you'll get it to hold a charge.
My mustache and my Asian kung fu outfit is causing psychic anomalies.... maybe static charge? Can that be it? Oh it can't. Huh. so I can't do it, since obviously I am breathing on it. Now if you RIP a telephone book in half, that's a real thing, and not as hard as people might think. Actually, telephone books are pretty funny, member when those were a thing? All the numbers didn't start with 555 either. Cause fucking morons would call them. I blame Jenny and Tutone.
The sad thing is he went on to have good career on TV and people loved him. I remember in the 90's people used to put spoons on top of they tv sets when Geller was on and say that they spoon bend lol.
@schoob4822 It shows that excessive politeness can be malignant as it benefits utter charlatans, or at least makes them feel comfortable conning people and getting away with it.
You know, if I were James Randi and someone would admit something like that, I'd give them the money. If any of the people were like "okay, it's fake", I'd respect it.
Uri gellar went on to have a very successful career becoming extremely well known in multiple countries worldwide and becoming a multimillionaire in the process all on the back of basically spoon bending.
3:58 honestly, this is a pretty good trick, to make the page turn this nicely with your breath from that distance without being obvious. Really cool. Shame he didnt become an actual illusionist, rather than a fraud, he could have been real good and original.
Daniel Scholes yes, a living as a scam artist... lets ALSO remember many people who are struggling psychologically and/or vulnerable go to these people, get roped into someone bull shitting them and end up spending a lot of money.
It works on water tho. I’m in uk and a ground worker. A guy came on site with them and found a pipe for us. Being the skeptic I am, I had a go and sure enough the braising rods cross at the point there’s water below. You’d think it’s people angling them themselves but it’s not. That guy looking for zinc tho. Epic fail!
That's the way to do it in my opinion. When you have to be condescending and rude, it makes people think your arguments are weak and don't stand on their own. Some debunkers on RU-vid are like this. (I admit I'm being a bit of a hypocrite since I can be very rude if I get mad, but it's still true.)
I think that's important (that he's calm) and it's where a lot of people trip up. If you stay calm and talk rationally and politely you'll lose the arguement and not make any headway at all
turd burgler that number is close to 75% according to recent polls conducted by Gary Langer found that 83% found themselves to be Christian, however less than 10% truly believed in everything Christian, evangelicals are what they're called. According to the CIA though, they claimed that if you add all forms of Christianity together in the U.S., you get about 73%; they're not that far off, but nowhere near 95%
turd burgler 75%/83% is a huge decrease from 95%, even if we were talking about "North America" and "South America" it'll still be a huge difference, but burden of proof is on you. My last message to you, go and share your shitty facts with someone else, maybe you'll brainwash them.
Abelhawk I've had the theory that he's actually a wizard, a wizard that feeds off the psychic force of others. That's why they all feel weak around him.
“I heard the question, but the question is not valid because it’s making an assumption that is not true.” I’m definitely remembering this the next time my girl wanna argue.
I actually get so embarrassed for them that it's hard for me to watch the whole clip. If I tried fooling people like that I would crack under the pressure of being exposed and confess but not these folks. They just keep going with it.
Replying to an old comment but yes, they are victims, but at the same time, that makes these fake psychics even worse because they're taking advantage of grieving widows to make money off their vulnerability.
I read comments about him somewhere else with these clips people were saying he got in trouble later for other things I don't want to get into details but you might be able find something about him?
For the cold readings; I’d love to see these British and US psychics go to China or Japan, do their readings and try to guess names. “I’m getting a...ummm....uh.......Carl?”
*slowclap* EDIT: The joke was funny but the dude himself is psycho, he actually thought I was disparaging him and/or his joke and because he knows me so well he says "you're not funny". You have a lot of information to base that claim on, don't you my friend? Fuck you
"W..well you see due to the axis of the planet and the fact that Mars is in retrograde, it's a Tuesday and i have a slight ache in my toe the power is nullified"
D sTRUTHers scientifically it is impossible.. the closest we’ll come to telekinesis would be computers that you could control with thought. Like those prosthetics that can be moved with your mind
Esp. Bad is the static electricity excuse. Seems to think styrofoam simply “forms” static in and of itself. Everything can get static, and if it didn’t even touch the top pages it should not cause any static to the pages. And he should be “strong” enough to overcome a little static, anyway!
Brett Triantafillou and their face expressions are just too much ha ha. You know they are thinking "well shit, how am I gonna bounce back from this" lol
@@Quiscalus777 I low key felt so sorry for him. It's just embarrassing to watch to him fumble his way through the static story, but you could hear thr defeat in his voice. And in his little martial art suit. Oh, it's all too much. 🤣🤣
I'm waiting for The Amazing Randi To reveal that he is 972 years old and the one and only true psychic and that he has just been looking for his true equal all of these years
Right? And consider this: Actual money changed hands in an entirely consensual transaction wherein that man offered payment to another human being-likely a professional, at that-in exchange for that haircut. Quite possibly more than once. Apparently there's no equivalent to the Hippocratic Oath for barbers... this is far more barbaric than anything done during the profession's historical role as pre-sterilization/anesthesia surgeons.
Adam 1 really he doesn't aim to be disrespectful, he genuinely wants to know if people have powers. His aim is to find the truth, if somebody is fake he still recognizes them as skilled in their craft of doing tricks
I doubt that he "genuinely wants to know if people have powers". He knows with almost absolute certainty that they don't, and that all those people are just fraudsters. His intent is to expose them. But it is very smart to treat them as respectfully as possible, just as a common courtesy, and to avoid as much as possible allegations of intimidation, cheating or other underhanded tactics. And if as a bonus some of them come out and admit that they were mistaken, all the better.
They are manipulating people for money. It's conniving crafted fraud. The only people commending them are ignorant of what they really are. Quelle dommage
