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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
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Subject: Re: 'Mazing Randi vs Popoff
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Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 15:50:53 EDT
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> Amazing Randi one of 25 MacArthur Genius Winners
> 
> James Randi (the Amazing Randi), the magician known to scientists for
> shooting holes in research on paranormal phenomena, has been awarded
> one of this year's MacArthur Foundation grants for "outstandingly talented"
> people.
> 
> Randi was cited for his work in exposing the fraud behind "psychic surgery"
> and for his recent campaign against television evangelists for mulcting their
> audiences and gulling the sick.

That's great news!  Randi's a frequent writer in Free Inquiry magazine, 
and in last Summer's issue the actual investigations of Popoff and others
are discussed by Randi and some of the folks that helped him out on them.
Randi as a magician is trained in the various "mind-reading" techniques of
magicians, like language coding with an assistant, etc.  Popoff seemed to
be doing much better than these techniques allow.  Until they got their 
radio expert in on it.  I think Randi still carries around a $10,000 check
for anyone who can prove they have supernatural powers (which would 
include this talking to God and healing espoused by the TV evangelists)
under laboratory conditions.  

> 
> Gary
> HASA
> H-Division
> 
> (allegra,ihnp4,hplabs,glacier)oliveb!oliven!gnome
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