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From: tino@hou2f.UUCP (A.TINO)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Newman's Energy Machine
Message-ID: <544@hou2f.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 10:00:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 10:00:56 1985
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>The people who should go to demonstrations of such machines are not
>physicists nor engineers, who are notoriously gullible in such matters,
>but rather magicians.  Magicians are familiar with the techniques of
>getting people to believe that they have seen something that they have
>not (or v.s.) - and they are very very good at it.
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James (The Amazing) Randi is one magician who specializes in debunking
fraudulent claims of all sorts.  He's written several books, including
"Flim-Flam", and is a regular contributor to "The Skeptical Inquirer."

Al Tino