You think you can be smarter than him when you are as old as him ???? Of course everyone make mistake but he is at least smart enough to accept that he was wrong and learn from that mistake.... I bet some religious person posted that video........ who is not smart enough to accept THE FACT and always talk shit about science.... that science is not accurate....... stop using internet........ God didn`t invented internet... WE DID
my rebuttal to those supporting this way of someone correcting someone else to look at how over time, if this social act becomes accepted to accept fault without indignation will change and evolve into argument. I have experienced this in intelligentsia society and I hear contempt in Randi's voice as he simply makes false eye contact and uses colloquialism to distract everyone else.
I love James Randi. I don't understand anyone that wouldn't. And I don't understand what the point of this is. He made an error about a quote. So what?
lol, who cares what the guys name was, right or wrong his point was the same. Could have said the guys name was dick face and the quote may never have existed and he made it all up. it's still a valid quote for the point he was proving. Also, he had the good decency to accept his error, that is a rare characteristic.
so he made a mistake, hes and old man give him a break. Guys like him are bringing the humanity out of stoneage where every guy with a optic or physic trick could fool and manipulate people. Thing is, while all this esoteric bullshit -> ghosts, mind readers, guys who talk with dead, psychics etc have no fundamental proof what so ever! never mind millions of people are saying they have these powers or experiences few are willing to step up and those few who strep up have been exposed by randi
I always thought there was a difference between being wrong and simply misspeaking. I know lots of people who say "irregardless" or "I could care less," but come on, we know what they're talking about. Now people who say, "There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," or "God doesn't want certain people in our country to get married..." Well perhaps these are more deserving of the labels "right" or "wrong."
What a classy guy, admitted he was wrong with dignity. It is to bad that many of the paranormalists will seem to hold on to things that have been proven to be crap.
@BambooLulu Although, as point of interest, a computer was in fact a human long ago. A computer was a person who's job it was to compute mathematical equations for the purpose of a company, an organization, etc.
@ProbableFiction Well, Randi wasn't calculating mathematical equations in this video. He had just mistaken who had said a quote. So, my statement still stands legit, He is human and not a computer. (Technology computer or Human Computer, he is neither.) Just human.
He was wrong about a quote...wow, like every single person can remember every single quote of noteritery, and who said it, and at what period in history! Especially at Randi's age...Randi is always right.
Oh no! I've been operating all this time on the illusion that James Randi has never been wrong in his life! Now excuse me while I spend the next 7 days wandering around in confused disbelief.
Randi made a mistake in this video. Therefore, the only conclusion is that we should ignore everything he says and believes related to reason and skepticism. Uh...go astrology whoo-whoo!
Was this supposed to make him look like a fool? He just got the speaker wrong. When a teacher writes down a math equation and puts 30 instead of 13 by accident, is he stupid? No.
Randi could have made a lot of money with form. It's a trick. An illegal trick. But...
Market your tips. Split the takers into as many horses as in the race, each group gets one horse. Some fraction of them are convinced you know your stuff and pay again. Pull the same trick.
Eventually you have a handful of customers who have won many times in a row and will pay a fortune for your next tip.
Isn't it refreshing to see someone be told they are in error, and not freak out, as though they have been mortally insulted.
Just listen to the alternate and if you think there's a good chance they are correct and not you, accept it. After all, you've learned something, or corrected an error in your knowledge.
Why do so many people have such a problem with being corrected?
we like to think of ourselves as repositories of vast knowledge, and when we find we don't know everything or that we were wrong or partially misinformed we rail against it because we feel it diminished our status a tiny bit.
a man like Randi on the other hand you might argue has a big enough ego (justified without a doubt) that he can take small correcting without a problem. literally his IS a bigger man then the rest of us.
@martiangrundy because everybody is a genius nowdays. Even Paris Hilton knows more about nuclear fission reactors because she saw a documentary on the discovery channel.
@martiangrundy Multifaceted criticism complex. People don`t mind being corrected under acceptable circumstances (even if they aren`t aware of the circumstances and often they`re not!). Hence the term "Sheepeople", although most people aren`t aware they are actually "Sheepeople"!!!
I find his overall arrogance amusing
potterfinatic12 1 month ago
That's the kind of detail EVERYONE gets wrong from time to time. Big deal! Randi's still bloody brilliant.
rldickie 3 months ago
He's still my favourite little smurfy Magician :)
P.S lol at 0:20
8bobthebuilder 4 months ago
You think you can be smarter than him when you are as old as him ???? Of course everyone make mistake but he is at least smart enough to accept that he was wrong and learn from that mistake.... I bet some religious person posted that video........ who is not smart enough to accept THE FACT and always talk shit about science.... that science is not accurate....... stop using internet........ God didn`t invented internet... WE DID
4242263 4 months ago
Damn people, He's just a human being like us,everyone make mistakes..
blacksealers1 4 months ago
my rebuttal to those supporting this way of someone correcting someone else to look at how over time, if this social act becomes accepted to accept fault without indignation will change and evolve into argument. I have experienced this in intelligentsia society and I hear contempt in Randi's voice as he simply makes false eye contact and uses colloquialism to distract everyone else.
thelloyd89 5 months ago
lol if it wus bill o raily think wut wud have happened
nextblain 5 months ago
You need to call this video "Randi James is corrected." completely different meaning
noBush322 6 months ago 3
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Does he give or take penis?
rudenoodle 7 months ago
James Randi is amazing!
James Randi is a genius!
James Randi is a great role model!
James Randi cured my cancer!
James Randi's picture, which I have hanging on my wall cries tears of blood at night!
Ant1Live 8 months ago
Wow, you people worship this guy.
Ant1Live 8 months ago
@Ant1Live theres a difference between worship and admiration.
Vermin298 8 months ago 2
@Vermin298 Theres also a difference between worship and thumbtacks.
Ant1Live 8 months ago
@Ant1Live i wasnt starting an argument with you, i was merely pointing out that noone is worshipping this guy.
Vermin298 8 months ago 2
@Vermin298 Except his worshipers.
Ant1Live 8 months ago
@Ant1Live we'll you may be right but ive never seen or heard anyone worshipping him.
Vermin298 8 months ago 2
if i ever reach 105 i hope im allowed to be wrong just once 'n a while..KAY?
euroman32589 9 months ago
He wasn't actually wrong.. He was simply using the five senses to create the ILLUSION that he was wrong. A true master indeed.
bushiyo2 9 months ago 3
excuse him for being 82 years old.
prithwin 9 months ago 3
James Randi tells great stories. :)
uriituw 11 months ago
I love James Randi. I don't understand anyone that wouldn't. And I don't understand what the point of this is. He made an error about a quote. So what?
MISTERASMODEUS 11 months ago
James Randi may mean well but I know what I have experienced and no man can take that away from me. Nice try though!
supreme12 1 year ago
Gotta love a man of science when corrected....note: No suicide bombs.
thegoonden 1 year ago
santa is looking abit skinny
monkeydust100 1 year ago
@monkeydust100 He was on chemo to kill his cancer.
Pgs3000 1 year ago
lol, who cares what the guys name was, right or wrong his point was the same. Could have said the guys name was dick face and the quote may never have existed and he made it all up. it's still a valid quote for the point he was proving. Also, he had the good decency to accept his error, that is a rare characteristic.
AndyDrewww 1 year ago 2
James Randi is wrong 'cause you're always right correct?
WazzuliofRunetotem 1 year ago
so he made a mistake, hes and old man give him a break. Guys like him are bringing the humanity out of stoneage where every guy with a optic or physic trick could fool and manipulate people. Thing is, while all this esoteric bullshit -> ghosts, mind readers, guys who talk with dead, psychics etc have no fundamental proof what so ever! never mind millions of people are saying they have these powers or experiences few are willing to step up and those few who strep up have been exposed by randi
KottLoom 1 year ago 2
this title is stupid the source of the quote is meaningless
theoddsender 1 year ago 4
I always thought there was a difference between being wrong and simply misspeaking. I know lots of people who say "irregardless" or "I could care less," but come on, we know what they're talking about. Now people who say, "There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," or "God doesn't want certain people in our country to get married..." Well perhaps these are more deserving of the labels "right" or "wrong."
FallenSparrow 1 year ago 3
What a classy guy, admitted he was wrong with dignity. It is to bad that many of the paranormalists will seem to hold on to things that have been proven to be crap.
michiganmoon 1 year ago 5
imagine if a paranormalist was in his position
redryan20000 1 year ago
Class!
pabobfin 1 year ago
no one is perfect you can't expect him to remember EVERYTHING he isn't a computer. He is human.
BambooLulu 1 year ago
@BambooLulu Although, as point of interest, a computer was in fact a human long ago. A computer was a person who's job it was to compute mathematical equations for the purpose of a company, an organization, etc.
ProbableFiction 1 year ago
@ProbableFiction Well, Randi wasn't calculating mathematical equations in this video. He had just mistaken who had said a quote. So, my statement still stands legit, He is human and not a computer. (Technology computer or Human Computer, he is neither.) Just human.
BambooLulu 1 year ago
He was wrong? And so?
paolo27th 1 year ago
He was wrong about a quote...wow, like every single person can remember every single quote of noteritery, and who said it, and at what period in history! Especially at Randi's age...Randi is always right.
surgeyX 1 year ago
Oh no! I've been operating all this time on the illusion that James Randi has never been wrong in his life! Now excuse me while I spend the next 7 days wandering around in confused disbelief.
balios1 1 year ago
Randi made a mistake in this video. Therefore, the only conclusion is that we should ignore everything he says and believes related to reason and skepticism. Uh...go astrology whoo-whoo!
EspnNBAGeneral 1 year ago 5
Randi is Awesome. fuck you
BipedalHumanoid 1 year ago
Great great man I love James Randi !
phulme61 1 year ago
blasphemy!
elmersglue11 1 year ago
Was this supposed to make him look like a fool? He just got the speaker wrong. When a teacher writes down a math equation and puts 30 instead of 13 by accident, is he stupid? No.
notanon666 2 years ago 4
Randi could have made a lot of money with form. It's a trick. An illegal trick. But...
Market your tips. Split the takers into as many horses as in the race, each group gets one horse. Some fraction of them are convinced you know your stuff and pay again. Pull the same trick.
Eventually you have a handful of customers who have won many times in a row and will pay a fortune for your next tip.
bdf2718 2 years ago
True. more like 99.9999%
IronOxideCorset 2 years ago
People make mistakes. He is very gracious. And he is still more right than 99% of people.
IronOxideCorset 2 years ago 2
Isn't it refreshing to see someone be told they are in error, and not freak out, as though they have been mortally insulted.
Just listen to the alternate and if you think there's a good chance they are correct and not you, accept it. After all, you've learned something, or corrected an error in your knowledge.
Why do so many people have such a problem with being corrected?
martiangrundy 2 years ago 120
just ego.
we like to think of ourselves as repositories of vast knowledge, and when we find we don't know everything or that we were wrong or partially misinformed we rail against it because we feel it diminished our status a tiny bit.
a man like Randi on the other hand you might argue has a big enough ego (justified without a doubt) that he can take small correcting without a problem. literally his IS a bigger man then the rest of us.
DonHoraldo 2 years ago
@martiangrundy because everybody is a genius nowdays. Even Paris Hilton knows more about nuclear fission reactors because she saw a documentary on the discovery channel.
FailingTube 1 year ago
@FailingTube
HA HA HA!
Yes that's a good observation.
Though a pretty small downside to the upside of the explosion of information, and ease of which one can find access to it.
Nice one.
martiangrundy 1 year ago
@martiangrundy
because of EGO
SpellStorm 1 year ago
@martiangrundy Multifaceted criticism complex. People don`t mind being corrected under acceptable circumstances (even if they aren`t aware of the circumstances and often they`re not!). Hence the term "Sheepeople", although most people aren`t aware they are actually "Sheepeople"!!!
AClarke2007 9 months ago
@martiangrundy
beautiful beautiful perspective. to be corrected, is a good thing.
IslamIstheWayforMe 7 months ago 2
@martiangrundy i know right dude?
halolove12 5 months ago
James Randi is God
aussieage 2 years ago 7
So are you.
CHVNX 2 years ago
Whether he was right or wrong is not the real point here, the fact that he openly accepted his fault without indignation is.
TheAwesomeClub 2 years ago 160
@TheAwesomeClub Like a true skeptic would.
ProbableFiction 1 year ago
james is getting old and tired but he still a kool person.
tuberesistance 2 years ago 6
These are the amount of slip ups to be expected by mere chance alone XD
Randi is great! ^^
jwkokosmakroon 2 years ago 9
If you put a camera on me 24/7 you will find a few slips.. And im not over 80 years old..
harryknarry007 2 years ago 6
ha ha, james is still great:D
he looks quite frail here though:(
soupie 2 years ago 2