Comments on: My Amazing Meeting with James Randi

By: Mrs.Q

Mrs.Q — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:21:21 +0000

This is pretty neat!!!

By: Fender

Fender — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:12:04 +0000

Luzyviento-Here is a short list who’s who of notables in the movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_skeptics_and_skeptical_organizations

The list doesn’t include literally thousands of other scientists (examples Michio Kaku, Isaac Asimov), podcasters (examples Reginald Finnely, Richard Saunders), Journalists (Christopher Hitchens, Salmon Rushdie), Medical Doctors (examples Dr. Rachel Dunlop, Henry Broch), even “smart” actors (Hugh Laurie, Julia Sweenie). Find a more qualified and diverse group of intellectuals and academics with a passionate common interest, then will decide their weightclass. I have to admit that last line was good.

By: Luzyviento

Luzyviento — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:45:58 +0000

While I was aware of Randi’s character from stories I’ve heard, I was unaware of his role in the Skeptic’s movement. Actually, I was unaware of a Skeptic movement in our day other than a few intellectual middleweights I routinely visit to keep myself in “the know”. I found the article interesting and educating. I thought a little more detail might have made it more entertaining, which is what I craved. Unfortunately, a good magician never reveals his tricks … or does he?

By: Fender

Fender — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:04:17 +0000

Lori-Skeptrac at DragonCon is an excellent idea for our local, The SGU crew goes there as well.

Tom-I don’t know if I can adequately explain the trick Randi did for us, but I will try. My friend and I were instructed to choose any two books of approx. same size out of about 2000, while we were left alone. Mr. Randi returned with a large note card and a marker. He asked for one of either of the two books and started flipping pages for me to stop him. He read out the page number and my friend found that page in the other book and selected a word in the top line of that page. Positioning his body so he couldn’t read my friends body language but so we could clearly see what he was writing on the note card. The penmanship was a terrible scrawl we had trouble reading, Mr. Amazing seemed to be in doubt of the accuracy of what he was writing, till he realized, the word was scribbled upside down. The word was “importance”. We are still amazed.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:31:13 +0000

It’s great to know that Randi is willing to be so actively involved with random guests to the foundation. It shows how much he really believes in education.

Can you describe the \’minor miracle\’ or is it confidential?

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:45:51 +0000

Wow, what a nifty experience! Thanks for sharing…

I stood near Mr. Randi once or twice when he attended the 2008 DragonCon Skeptrac and he is a phenomenal amount of energy in a very small package. I’ll have to check out JREF HQ the next time I’m down that way.

By the way, if those who can’t manage to get to Las Vegas or London to go to TAM can manage a trip to Atlanta, I also highly recommend Skeptrac at DragonCon over Labor Day weekend. Most of the usual (skeptic) suspects show up and it’s a lot of fun…