Corruption and credulity are enemies of reason and lead to violence, misery and slavery of the mind. Whoa! Where did that come from? I’d previously written on the scam of fake bomb-detectors being used in Iraq after my trip there: Fake bomb detectors still used in Iraq http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/04/21/597.html That article has a number of links [...]
Some people will sell anything, and some people will buy anything. Sellers can be rip-off merchants, and buyers can be morons. And there appears to be an unhealthily high proportion of both in the Hi-Fi and home-cinema market. You may remember the Pear Cables story from 2008. Here’s a more recent story with an AudioQuest [...]
Following the hard work of JREF et al over several years, there has been much media publicity over the last year or two over the sales of useless (fake) bomb detectors : Questions About Sniffex, ADE651, GT200, H3 Tec, HEDD1, AL-6D and Other Explosive Detectors http://sniffexquestions.blogspot.com/ The ADE651/GT200/Alpha6/H3TEC/HEDD1/AL-6D all a Danger to life http://explosivedetectorfrauds.blogspot.com/ ADE651, [...]
James Randi on Uri Geller’s reversal: James Randi on Uri Geller’s Reversal Although I’ve heard it said that you shouldn’t kick a person who’s trying to apologies, it’s clear that Geller’s actions over the years have contributed in a big way to society’s muddled thinking and resulted in the encouragement of other crazies to exploit [...]
The sad thing is that people buy into this crystal/energy/frequency nonsense: Energy Bracelets: Embedding Frequencies in Holograms for Fun and Profit http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=7717 Here’s an earlier related article: Applied Kinesiology – How it’s Done http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2010/07/21/441.html Quackery? Scam? You decide. Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010
Thanks to Randi’s article, I came across this video. This is great stuff debunking all those scams out there. Brilliant! Now, look at this video below for a product called “iRenew”. These “iRenew” folks must be having a joke, right? Wait, I can see that this product actually appears to be on sale… Article by [...]
Nonsense from Uri Geller apologist Peter Fotis Kapnistos gets a beating from Randi’s incisive article. And Randi floors an idiot. Nice one. Randi’s article is at http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/525-a-champion-grubbie-speaks-out.html As Randi says, so much nonsense, lies, misinformation and misunderstandings. Go get them Randi. There’s too much Stupid out there. Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2009
Pharyngula reports at http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/03/youtube_has_banned_the_james_r.php that YouTube has suspended the account of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JERF). I can confirm that the YouTube JREF videos embedded in my blog no longer work and instead display the message "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.". The problem with YouTube is that they [...]
Good. James Randi’s article http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/487-a-u-n-victory-for-reason.html states that the silly proposal brought to the United Nations to "…forbid critical, insulting or defamatory statements about religion…" has been rejected. Excellent news. I will criticise religion. I will make fun of it. Because clear and critical thinking demands it. Religions have, for far too long, abused their powers [...]
This James Randi lecture at NASA took place quite a while ago, but I was going through the randi.org video archives and reacquainted myself with its content. The full lecture, in 12 parts, is available at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=07A38150C7FC8CCB and is very entertaining and full of golden nuggets. However, for the purposes of this article, part 4 [...]
