Oct 23, 2020 13:13:00

[Obvious] James Randi, who spent his life uncovering psychic fraud, died

James Randi, a magician and a lifelong psychic scam, died on October 21, 2020. In the 1980s, Randy made a 'fake psychic' a popular person on TV, and later conducted an 'experiment' to reveal that he was 'not a psychic', crushing the face of the TV station and angry with the media. The person who caused the fuss of buying. He continued to raise awareness about how easy it is for people to be fooled, saying that there are many people in the world who lose a lot of money and despair due to psychic fraud.

James Randi has died. --JREF

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Randy was born in 1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When he was 15 years old, he uncovered the lie of 'the art of descending the gods' that was being performed in a religious church, but an adult sued the police for 'defiled a gathering of sacred religions' and was detained in a detention center for four hours. That thing . From this time on, Randy vowed to retaliate against the Ikasama psychiatrist for the rest of his life and has uncovered many Ikasama in his life.

From the 1960s to the early 1970s, there was growing interest in paranormal phenomena. Randy is also known for his confrontation with Uri Geller , who claims to be a supernatural power, and has faced off on TV many times, and the book ' THE MAGIC OF URI GELLER ' that says that everything Geller is doing can be reproduced. Also published. After that, Geller filed a proceeding against Randy, and Randy lost a lot of money. Randy considers Geller to be the epitome of 'attractive, likable, handsome, kind, pure and positive' scammers, while Geller considers Randy to be 'the most influential and important.' I'm in charge of my own PR. '

The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi --The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/the-unbelievable-skepticism-of-the-amazing-randi.html

In 1987, Randy turned a 25-year-old young man named Alvarez into a 'psychic Carlos' and caused a fuss about tricking Australian television stations. Randy taught Carlos a magic trick and used tricks such as holding the ball aside to slow down the pulse to show off 'possession experience' on TV one after another. Randy reveals everything when Carlos gains popularity and produces a large number of followers. Of course, the TV station was furious, but Randy dismissed media criticism that 'journalist didn't even do a simple fact check.'

You can see what Randy is like by watching the movie released on TED. In a movie released in 2007, Randy gives a lecture while taking a lethal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills.

James Randi: James Randi's bitter criticism of psychic fraud | TED Talk

Randy, who stands on the stage, begins to say, 'Magic uses people's beliefs.'

'For example, do you think that what I have is a microphone? I take it from the desk and hold it over my mouth to talk, so I think it's a microphone.'

'But it's actually a shave.'

'You think I'm looking at the audience right now? But I'm not actually looking at them because these glasses don't have lenses,' he says. It is a magic trick to use what people think 'that's not the case', and at the same time, many of the psychic frauds performed in the world use magic tricks.

Randy swallows the whole bottle of medicine containing 32 tablets. Actually, this medicine is said to be a 'lethal dose of homeopathic sleeping pill', but Randy is alive even though Randy has been taking the medicine every time he gives a lecture for many years.

Some psychic scammers charge $ 700 (about 73,000 yen) in 20 minutes. It is said that these people are 'pretending to interact with the dead' using a technique called

cold reading . Randy is giving a prize of '1 million dollars (about 100 million yen) if you can prove the dialogue with the dead', but it seems that no one actually tried it.

'Once on TV, Sylvia Browne was challenged but didn't contact me saying'I don't know the contact'. She can talk to the dead, but she doesn't know the contact.' Randy.

Some people think of this kind of psychic fraud as 'not a big deal,' but Randy described it as a 'cruel farce' and a 'problem to solve,' as well as problems such as poverty.