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From: dgary@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: Strange results in Nature article
Summary: Randi no longer professional magician
Keywords: homeopathy debunking CSICOP Randi
Message-ID: <5533@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 88 14:15:17 GMT
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Reply-To: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
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In article <1666@microsoft.UUCP> gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin) writes:
>Randi doesn't receive much, if any, income from debunking.  He's a professional
>magician and earns his keep that way.  

Randi's current main source of income is a MacArthur Foundation
"genius" grant.  He also gets funding from CSICOP and from lecture fees
about pseudoscience.

>. . .  In fact, Randi's role in these things is usually
>as an aid to the experimenter to keep the subject(s) from cheating.

Agree completely.  Even when, sometimes, the experimenter doesn't want
to be helped!
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