Uri Geller
oracknows | June 3, 2016After over 11 years at this blogging thing, I periodically start to fear that I’m becoming jaded. In particular, after following the infiltration of quackery in the form of “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM), now more commonly known as “integrative medicine,” because it integrates CAM with evidence-based medicine. Of course, in reality, what “integrative medicine” really does is to integrate prescientific, pseudoscientific, and antiscientific quackery with real medicine, and that’s what I mean. I thought I had seen it all in academic medical centers and medical schools: the faith…
oracknows | April 27, 2010...is to be among the 5 most fraudulent psychics of all time.
Still, this is as good an excuse as any to post one of my all time skeptical demolitions, namely that of Uri Geller on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson:
Yeah, now that's an oldie but a goodie.
Still, I wonder: Who are the young, up and coming psychic frauds? After all, the psychics listed above are all getting rather old, and one of them's been dead a long time. Who makes up the next generation of psychic frauds?
gregladen | June 22, 2008Obviously, Uri Geller is a fraud. Always has been. He had tricks he uses to make people think he's bending a spoon using super natural powers, or moving compass needles, etc. Mainly, he uses cheap tricks to fool gullible ready-to-be-fooled people.
Don't be a ready-to-be-fooled person!
Here's are three videos that are currently popular on YouTube regarding this. The first shows a typical Geller show:
Here's James Randi talking about Uri Geller:
Lately, there's been an obnoxous email being sent around to everyone by a person who as far as I can tell does not exist with the name of David…