(2020-10-22, 11:27 AM)ersby Wrote: That's a shame but hardly a surprise. And for all his faults, there are some gems among his works. The Faith Healers and his work on Nostradamus was especially good.
His assistant who committed identity fraud in the 80s, stealing someone's SSN as I recall, was involved with a lot of Randi's work correct?
Given how much self-hype and outright propaganda Randi was involved with, claiming to be champion against fraud but having a fraud right next to him, not sure how seriously anyone can take his body of work.
As such I'm genuinely curious what was "especially good" about anything Randi worked on - there can be diamonds in the rough but I think we'd need to get specific examples of that.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
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