Uri Geller - What do you think?

I guess it's too late to change the decision, but it is possible to copy this thread back onto the ECP forum and have two discussions going.

I'm really not that invested in it, thanks, Ninshub.

I think this thread demonstrates how polarised the views are, except that most of the proponents seem to be saying merely that there appears to be something of interest happening in the video and the others are insisting: no there isn't, it's just Geller, he's a fraud and so are all those guys who tested him at SRI. It is curiosity versus certainty, open-mindedness versus dogma. It is also a case of sceptics citing other sceptics.

The internet is full of the same dogma which is why this thread and the malaise it highlights are quite depressing and why I feel less inclined to take part. I asked for more evidence and I tried to find it myself. If Google search is an indicator of the state of play, then what you will find when you search are pages and pages of links to sceptical sites and blogs. CSICOP, RationalWiki, even the sceptically biased Wikipedia with its so called Guerrilla Skeptic editors. If shouting down the opposing view is the way to win debates, then the internet is proof that it works. Leuders comes along to this forum and shamelessly cites his own website as though RationalWiki should be regarded as a trusted and unbiased source. A site dedicated to the character assassination of anyone involved with psi research (unless that involvement happens to be for the purpose of debunking). A site where pejoratives like pseudoscience and woo are tossed around like confetti and any semblance of balance is dispelled after reading the first paragraph of any entry.

In short, leave it where it is (or move it back) - I don't particularly care right now.