From: Harvey Newstrom (harv@gate.net)
Date: Thu Nov 06 1997 - 19:59:13 MST
At 5:59am -0500 11/7/97, Damien Broderick wrote:
>Mr Randi is a fun guy, with his heart in the right place (and of course
>I've read FLIM FLAM), but while he's an excellent prestidigitator he's
>pretty awful at add-ups.
I have seen Randi in person. He is very intelligent and a great showman.
His method of debunking, however, is not any more scientific than the psuedo-
scientists. Most of Randi's debunking logic goes like this:
1. Someone "demonstrates" something unusual.
2. Randi fakes demonstration that looks like the same thing.
3. Since Randi's demonstration is fake, he claims he debunked the original
demonstration.
Faulty logic, even if I agree with all of his conclusions!
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Harvey Newstrom (harv@gate.net)
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