v3 SCEPCOP Debunks Pseudoskeptics - James Randi, Michael Shermer, CSICOP, etc.

[TheKrottyKid]

You can't just magically "debunk" skepticism. If you claim to have supernatural powers, or that aliens built the pyramids, you have to show evidence to back up your claim.

How about if I told you I was building a machine based on alien technology that could turn water into gold.  I just need some money to buy parts at Radio Shack. If you send me a hundred bucks, I'll send you back a million when my machine is built. Would you send me the money? Or would you find that you too are a skeptic?

[Z1Z121]

RANDI DOES A GOOD JOB EXPOSING FAKES, THE GENUINE PSYCHICS ARE HAPPY ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE THEY TOO, HATE THE TRICKSTERS BUT SADLY, THEY ARE BEING TARRED WITH THE SAME SKEPTIC BRUSH.

THE PARANORMAL IS NOT AVAILABLE DEMAND. AND ANYWAY, RANDI WOULD ASSUME IT WAS JUST A CLEVER TRICK THAT HE WASN'T FAMILIAR WITH.

RANDI WOULD HAVE THROWN AWAY THE PENICILLIN JAR BECAUSE IT HAD "GONE OFF" IF I CRASHED MY PLANE IN A FIELD AND ASKED RANDI WHERE AM I ? HE'D SAY "YOU'RE SITTING IN A PLANE IN A FIELD"

[TheLovesoul1]

you morons bellow me are retards. bye bye.

[Z1Z121]

To give an insight into the fixed mind of Randi, I give this example.

I've crash landed my plane into a field and survived. I open the cockpit and see Randi looking at me.

I call out to him "Excuse me sir, where am I" He replies "You are sitting in an aircraft in a field" He's correct, but completely missing the point.

Have a nice day.

[help4343]

@Z1Z121

What are you babbeling about?

[Z1Z121]

Hello skeptics everywhere. I wish you all lots of abstract psychic phenomena that you'll dismiss and ridical as nonsense because you have no ESP or means of recognition. You would all burn somebody to death in the middle ages if they said that one day people would speak into a little box and be heard miles away or that doors will open as you approach them.

Old Randi would have thrown away the penicillin jar because the contents had gone off. He'll never "see the wood for the trees".

[help4343]

@Z1Z121

What?

[AnduinX]

It's hypocrisy to dismiss everything that conflicts with physicialism because one man has a million dollar challenge. As a skeptic, I'm sure you dismiss anecdotes all the time. The person may be lying? Or the person may be mistaken? Why is Randi above this logic? For all you know, he could have an axe to grind and not intend to give the money to anybody. After all, if he so wishes nobody could pass the test, as he reserves the right to change the terms mid-test.

[FeelGood30]

SCEPCOP=one of the best sites on the entire web

[AnduinX]

Hater's gonna hate - I for one like the music

[FractalBolt]

Damn, what is it with the cheesy Rocky music?

[Norgesmann]

Well, thats two minutes and thirtyseven seconds I will never get back...

[rey982]

Wisdom, knowloedge, science we knows develops always better faste. Until final end

[SexyMelon]

"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science." - Carl Sagan

[angelsssssssssssss]

@SexyMelon Agree. Intuition and opinions, such as Randi's thoughts, is nowhere near knowledge and Science. Scientific knowledge comes from the scientific method. The only criterion for judgment in science is experimental demonstration, not prejudice.

[lager1776]

actually, creationistcrap, the Randi Challenge is rigged becase the judges are members of Randi's own organization, not objective scientists. Also, the Randi challenge uses unscientific criteria and, I kid you not, Randi reserves the right to change the criteria for evidence MID EXPERIMENT!!! That is not science, that is fraud. Also, why don't you ask how much Randi gets paid by his foundation to do what he does? He is in it for the money and his religion of scientism, nothing more.

[angelsssssssssssss]

@lager1776 Amen!

[Ryosuke1208]

@lager1776 So you say, that paranormal phenomenons, mind readers etc are real?

[AnduinX]

@lager1776: I agree, the Randi challenge is proof of absolutely nothing. Those who hold it up as if it were proof are hypocrites.