why didn't he just let people enjoy things?

>>213028490 (OP)
Thats like asking why doesn't Kitboga just leave the indian scammers alone.

>>213028490 (OP)
Randy loved magic as entertainment. What he opposed was scammers pretending to have real magical powers

>>213028490 (OP)
The Opie and Anthony segment covering this was hilarious.
https://youtu.be/eZVnaXyu9ug

>>213028490 (OP)
Wasn't he a gay pedophile?

>>213028490 (OP)
The psychic was a pedophile anyway so he ended up doing the world a service by exposing him as a hack on live TV

>>213028810
Had no one been there to tell him you just know Opie's dumbass would think he was real. Given how he acted about the fakest Spud Webb dunk ever filmed
https://youtu.be/qgzA5BxeJAw?si=pWsf8Y1_ndi7XN79&t=317

>>213028490 (OP)
James Randi EXPOSES and DEBUNKS anti-trans charlatans and global climate change deniers, too.

>>213028490 (OP)
so people like uri fucking geller wouldn't milked his scams
this is him now

because the people in question are fucking retards

>>213028490 (OP)
You have no idea how seriously boomers took mumbo jumbo. Astrology in every newspaper. People like Uri Geller in every podunk town. Even the universities had “parapsychology” departments (that shit you see in Ghostbusters it was real) testing psychic powers.
I blame the lead in gasoline, quite seriously. These people were retarded by poisoning.

>>213028490 (OP)
>enjoy things
Because those guys were scammers taking money from vunerable people, like the Warren couple and many others did.

>>213030037
it all makes me angry. homeopathy is still extremely popular. and in the US dowsing rods are still used. it's hard to kick stupid habits for stupid people.

randi knew that psychic phenomena are real but he was an establishment apparatchik, an apostle of atheism like his friends dawkins, dennett, hitchens. atheism is a larp for plebs.

>>213030037
astrology was proven real by sorbonne statistician gaucquelin. parapsychology is still scientifically researched (as it should, psi phenomena are real) but not officially. reality is spiritual. the fact that this cannot be stated in polite society is by design.

>>213029946
one of my favourite quotes from randi: "if geller is truly using his mind to bend spoons, he's doing it the hard way"

>>213028490 (OP)
He had no problem with entertainment. He was a magician. Magicians perform tricks and the audience knows they’re being tricked. They’re not supposed to believe the magician is an actual wizard. The fun is in not knowing how they did it. James Randi, like Harry Houdini, had a problem with people who made bogus claims of having actual supernatural abilities. They make false promises and prey on vulnerable people which is immoral.

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>>213030135
Damn I forgot that shit. They literally walk around waving a stick in the air to “find” things.
Oh and another one I just remembered is the “circling pendant” performance (done over a map or scrying board) where they claim to be “keeping still” but it’s micromovents making it swing or stop. You can even try that out yourself. Just “think” rotate and it will do it. Your hand moves so imperceptibly it’s hard to notice even knowing how it works.
The Clever Hans shit, some of these idiots were fooling even themselves.

"skepticism" is a cult. academic scepticism, Pyrrho "nothing can be known"? yeah, sure.

this is like anti-science. he's not being open-minded. the whole point of the challenge was a "heh, see? i KNOW it's all flim-flam!"

>>213028490 (OP)
>Noooooo my amazing psychic powers couldn't possibly work with styrofoam placed around the phone book
>It's creating static electricity which interferes with my psychic powers
Seeing these grifters get shown up is cringe kino.

>>213029044
no?

>>213030764
you glow.

>>213028490 (OP)
he was gay

>>213029044
>>213030849
He wasn't talking about Randi, he means the fake psychic.

>>213029044
Anyone with a haircut like that has a 95% chance of being a gay pedophile.

>>213028806

This.