Jeez, these people are completely getting their shit ruined on national television. It's so embarrassing that it's painful to watch but at the same time I just can't look away. I sometimes feel ashamed to be a member of the same species as these assholes and their followers.
I love a skeptic, I am one - but Randi complains about these bullshit artists making money off the delusional - but I joined Randi's web site and ALL THEY DO IS ASK FOR MONEY! Stop it Randy - you have lost a lot of my respect. You are nearly as bad as churches asking for money! Fuck - are there any real authentic people NOT asking for money????
@Lillyvon No, you're wrong, because the money that goes to Randi's foundation is actually spent on debunking a cruel industry that has ruined thousands of lives. It's not cost free to produce and spread this information and, in my humble opinion, I still believe that money can be spent on something good that will benefit the world.
man, i wish these things were available with german subtitles, so i could should them to my parents who believe all that bullshit and apparently don't trust my judgment enough...
@notthere83 you don't need subtitles, just do the same experiments with your parents. and please share your results with anyone who believes this bullshit.:)
@Dailydose13 the thing is... you know how naive people are. they will always find SOME excuse unless you have some real weight behind you. like randi's reputation and him doing the experiments on TV, in front of a huge audience.
if i do it alone at home, they'd probably just say that i cheated... or that it's coincidence and "of course" it wouldn't work all the time (and don't accept that that's the whole point with chance vs. the real thing), etc.
Man i have a friend who recently got into ghosthunting of all things. Its retarded. He says that he is a skeptic because he doesn't exclude evidence. (sigh) A real skeptic won't eliminate the posibillity. What a crok of shit
The power of the crystal is, of course, the power of suggestion, faith, and belief. Without knowing whether you were holding the crystal removes this power. So - Yes! The crystal does have power. (Also, I'd bet money that Randi secretly removed the crysta/bag to give the ladies zero chance of success).
what gets me is one: she said that the rat poison had an effect, well if that were true, then the other 3 bags would have the same effect. second she said that the bag made "the power" of the crystal inneffective, if that were true then why would the single bag of rat poison have an effect?
I would have loved to see James administer that same arm test while the lady was holding the Crystal. I bet if he acted like he was about to push down and didn't, you'd see her arm fly up in the air.
i love how he calls out people and destroys their bullshit scams right to their face yet people all over the world are still morons and believe the horse shit
An interesting experiment to say the least. I was immediately reminded of the iRenew power bracelet ads.
These types of things have incredibly powerful applications folks. What if you were to pay this woman your hard earned money in the hope of improving your strength, or health?
who the fuck let a nut like smurfship comment on this video? and even worse, who are those 22 morons that agree with him?! asshole, go choke on a homeopathic pill and fucking die.
@DarkerKn1ght Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and if everyone in the world choked on a pill and died because you disagree with them on something...you'd probably be the last person on earth. There's no need to put bad vibes like that out there.
I just want to say that this man is a "magician" and can easily screw with the outcomes of these with simple slight of hand, he is no better than the psychic's he debunks.
Another great work by Sir Randi...I kinda felt a bit bad for the lady though..she seemed honest ..maybe she's a true believer in such powers rather than being a con-artist..:)
I had a substitute teacher a long time ago who did this using a rock-like object (it was lightweight though) which was wrapped in tape. Now I know what the heck it was all about.
He wont take on any serious challengers, Only people he can mimic with cheap tricks to make him look smart. One of the many people he refused to test in June of 1999, a German man named Rico Kolodzey attempted to apply for James Randis test saying he can live on nothing but water and "prana" - a supposed divine form of "life energy." This certainly would qualify as a claim of the "paranormal," however, Randi immediately and categorically rejected Kolodzey's application. randi is a fraud.
@smurfship You are full of shit at worst, and disingenous at best. Randi rejected Kolodzey because he wouldn't accept applicants who could possibly harm themselves during the course of testing. People objected, and so Randi agreed to test Kolodzey, but Kolodzey refused to any of the tennants of a controled test, and wanted full control over the test. This of course, would negate the whole purpose of the test, that it be in a controlled environment, and so Kolodzey (SHOCKER!) backed out.
@smurfship I can't believe 17 people liked what you just said. Randi would never accept something that would involve the chance of someone starving themselves to death. And as Corbitwilson said, he did NOT agree to a controlled test. Randi wins again.
Many of these sorts of people have been tested and have either been caught cheating or require extreme medical attention. The foundation doesn't accept these sorts of claims because there's a significant risk of injury to the claimant and it's unethical to test. If I claimed I could jump from a cliff and float with psychic powers or drink arsenic and be unharmed, there's no real ethical way to test such claims.
@smurfship You realise you'd have to imprison him for at least 2-3 weeks in order to see results. And it's in randi's rules that no test that can endanger or kill someone should be accepted.
One must wonder though, why the only "REAL" paranormal things are only the ones which cannot apply. Hmm...
@smurfship He takes all comers, provided they can be tested in a controlled enviornment. How exaclty can one test "Only living on water and prana"? Especialy since, if we only drink water, we can, quite literally, live for quite awhie, there's a diet named after that.
Fact of the matter is, whenever this kind of stuff is tested scientificially, it fails, consistently, every time. Uri Gellr, Hydrick, Magnetic Man, all fail.
@smurfship If you had bothered reading JREF FAQ before posting you might have noticed that James Randi does not accept challenges that might injure, harm or kill the participant. "Because the JREF doesn’t want anyone to get hurt or die, for both legal and humanitarian reasons." If you are dumb enough to believe someone can survive on only water and "life energy" then please contact me ASAP. I sell magic crystals that cures cancer if you stick them your nostrils. Buy now!
@smurfship how can a skeptic be a fraud?! he's not doing anything! he's asking other people to demonstrate their skills. and living off 'prana'? please. no wonder he rejected him out of hand.
@smurfship how does that make randi a "fraud"? Randi is a legend! he's shut down legends like uri geller, and james hydrick. I don't think living on water is anything paranormal, you sir are stupid
How does one test such an act? You would have to watch this person, possibly for weeks, making sure nothing is added to the water, no outside supplement is added at ANY point, you would have to remove them from contact with the outside world for this duration, and considering if this was false, like many other claims, this person could have serious complications due to malnutrition.
How would YOU test this without bringing harm or spending weeks on something that's most likely fake?
lol, you must be above 200 in order to have strong results. This is on the scale in which they provide, and for better results. place it on your sternum. There is a reason i always feel better when i take off my necklace which holds my key
@iliketoreplytovids I beg to differ check out SCEPCOP and also the new book "RANDI'S PRIZE: What sceptics say about the paranormal, why they are wrong and why it matters". Also being a dowser and coming from a family of dowsers, having friends who dowse and do kinesiology and from doing our own double blind tests and being 100% successful I still believe randi used slight of hand and he will never test someone who he cant make look like a fool with his magic/misdirection/tricks. :'>
@psrocket1 all they do is fool idiots into believing it...it has nothing to do with powers of any kind besides those of fooling the mind. Suggestion is mostly what it all is..ive tried out those power balance bracelets and all those fake products myself..they dont give you anymore balance and i dont think pulling down on someones arm is a reliable test for it.
@psrocket1 And he has debunked a lot of fakes..they always have the same excuses too, either their powers "weren't working" or something was interfering. They just cant stand up real tests and its funny how easy it is to fool people.
@BigLundi If i wanted to be tested I wouldnt go to "someone who call himself "the amazing randi". Gary Schwartz has done many controled tests which contradict randi's debunking vids, Explain why companys who drill wells use dowsing to find underground water. As for the crystals, genius-dr harry oldfield who created a way bacteria, cells and other micro-organisms can be studied in a living, moving state, without the need for staining - and thus killing - the specimen. has created his
@psrocket1 And Gary Schwartz's tests have been criticized as being completely different from the normative measurements of scientific inquiry.
Companys use the Dowser who was debunked on Randi's show. By asking that question, all you do is point to the problem of people actually believing things that fail, consistently. People can be extremely intelligent, and very business savvy, and still fail epicly at critical thought. This is a problem that you've highlighted.
@BigLundi watch?v=1pOVoxC_Su0 my neighbour just spent 3000 euros getting a well drilled. the person drilling the well came down with dowsing rods, found the water straight away. drilled the well first go. it is common over here(ireland) and germany for dowsers to find wells. also listen to the two hour interview with gary schwartz on red ice radio he answers all the sceptics questions.
@psrocket1 So a guy came down to a fertile land and struck one of the likely many places where the well could have been drilled, after, possibly, doing research about what other people who actually know what they're talking about(geologists and researchers) had to say about the land. Look, I want an actual experiment that isn't done by a bias researcher, I want a peer reviewed paper that explains what this is, and how it's done. Schwartz's interview answered nothing for me.
@psrocket1 Also, you say it's common for dowsers to find wells over there. Do you think that MAYBE that has to do with the fertility of the land and the fact that the water you can find is, oh I dunno, EVERYWHERE?
I'll betcha anyone could go down there, and drill just about anywhere, and find a good place for a well.
I honestly don't think you've bothered to look at this objectively and with a skeptica mind set. I think you've been brought up to believe it's simply scientific fact.
@BigLundi (part 2) poly contrast interferonatry photography and working with Dr Brian Dailey, MD, FACEP, FACFE, an attending physician in emergency medicine at Rochester General Hospital, has been recording human energy systems (in the same position as chinese medicines chakra points and chi flow patterns) and photographing damaged energy fields and the using crystal healing has corrected the imbalances and photographed it. Eg. He has succesfuly cured crack addicts.Try doint that with a placebo.
@psrocket1 I can cure it with a placebo. People HAVE quit many different addictive drugs cold turkey before, you're aware of that, right? And some don't even show any reliance on religion or homeopathy, or anything other than simple power of will. It's not easy, I know this, but they've accomplished this. Also, I like how you qualify Olfield's title with 'genius' as if that should hold any merit at all. Give me a peer reviewed paper or experiment, or don't expect me to agree with you.
@BigLundi i dont expect anyone to just agree with me, i expect them to look up the information on their own. theres too much information for me to quote in a limited youtube window. eg the md dr brian dailey was Voted America's top physician three times in a row(not a crackpot). Also have you read the book i mentioned earlier and checked out the website i mentioned and read all the tests and everything else on it. are you actually investigating the truth or have you already made up your mind.
@psrocket1 Strange, Brian Dailey turns up an athlete when I look for him, oh well.
You didn't give me a website or a book.
I'm investigating everything you're telling me. All I've gotten are people that I can't find, and the rest are criticized as being bias researchers with agendas. Schwartz claimed John Edwards was 'the real deal', a known fraudulent cold reader, he doesn't have much credibility to me, at least not in that field.
@psrocket1 Oh, and by the way, James Randi has already asked for the work concerning the consciousness surviving death by Schwartz, and offered the 1 million dollars if it passed the peer review. Schwartz rejected because, despite Randi showing the credentials and names of the scientists that would be examining the research, he said because Randi picked the scientists, he knew already that they'd say he was wrong.
But if it's true, why would it matter? Kinda makes you think.
2:04 My first thought: When the woman holds the crystal, the 'healer' pushes nearer to the shoulder than when the woman didn't hold the crystal. This means the force she has to exert to push down the arm (in other words, create torque) is greater. Therefore, you will feel stronger when holding the crystal automatically...
Great...however, rat poisen is what they use as a blood thinner called Warfrin that many people take to prevent blood clots (and do not know to be rat poisen). It would be interesting, and prudent even, to have Fiona be medically tested to see if she needed a blood thinner or was on a blood thiner.
@sustainablelove It would not matter whether she was on blood thinners or not. The reason being, she chose the various lumps of rat poison as both good and bad. The only reason she happened to choose the one that she did, was before that one was chosen, Randi told them that there were only two choices left.
all muscle tests my nutritionist done on me, i knew what i had in my hand. and the shit worked. whatever we established wasn't working for me, removed from my diet, changed my body's general health.
was he testing her ability to see through the bag? no? than what's the deal? btw, i don't believe a crystal can do anything for me or anybody else. the thing is, if she likes crystals, it would probably affect the tests. the whole "experiment" is so not an experiment at all. just a stupid show.
1. Nutritionist LOL. Might as well see a Toothologist. Diatician is someone with a real qualification, Nutritionist vary from sound to quacks, from the sound of it, you got a quack.
2. He was testing her claims about the Crystal's powers. If the Crystal really did make her arm stronger, as she claimed, then when she didn't know if the crystal was in the bag or not, it wouldn't matter. As shown, she couldn't reproduce the test under controlled conditions.
as for her explanation that the bag reduced the crystals power, ive never heard of a substance that can be completely neutralized by cloth. oh if only those poor japanese people at hiroshima just covered themselves in sacks, they might have survived the fallout.
well theres one good thing about crystal healing. anyone stupid enough to believe in this bullshit will eventually die when they try and cure their cancer by sticking diamonds up their ass.
Hmm... Very interesting. I just want to know one thing? Where are he getting these people from because we all know randi's a magican to and ths is a very nice show :)
@xxCaMRocKxx i was about to say perhaps the condition of having a bare crystal wasn't fufilled so the test didn't fully represent the whole crystal power business but the point of having a false positive still stands for something
@causeandmistake That would only have been the case if she was able to put the arm down easily on each bag. But, there was one bagged crystal that made her unable to move the arm. That part proves she was faking.
wats the point of this show...just to humiliate people who believe in this paranormal psychic stuff?? just to prove them wrong??? well, thats just entertaining
Why is everybody that negative about those people? I agree that it is all bullshit, but in most of the cases I think it would be very much possible for the person with 'paranormal' abilities to actually believe they have those abilities.
Gotta love James Randi, he truely mastered the craft of kicking asses in polite fashion.
MightyJabroni 4 days ago
huh, this reminds me of the power-balance bracelet experiments they have at my mall
alexotree 4 days ago
By Golly, this is awkward. XD
willshakeyou 1 week ago
@MrSavedbylove Is that so?
SCRulerShinoda 1 week ago
2:26 "I'm fucked"
DetonatingPasta 1 week ago 3
5:10 close your eyes and listen o_O
CanadianSaudi1 2 weeks ago
Jeez, these people are completely getting their shit ruined on national television. It's so embarrassing that it's painful to watch but at the same time I just can't look away. I sometimes feel ashamed to be a member of the same species as these assholes and their followers.
Olecranon89 2 weeks ago
they do the same "test" when those sales people try to sell you those powerbands! lol like this if you know what im talking about.
MAQUEswag 2 weeks ago
I love a skeptic, I am one - but Randi complains about these bullshit artists making money off the delusional - but I joined Randi's web site and ALL THEY DO IS ASK FOR MONEY! Stop it Randy - you have lost a lot of my respect. You are nearly as bad as churches asking for money! Fuck - are there any real authentic people NOT asking for money????
Lillyvon 3 weeks ago
@Lillyvon No, you're wrong, because the money that goes to Randi's foundation is actually spent on debunking a cruel industry that has ruined thousands of lives. It's not cost free to produce and spread this information and, in my humble opinion, I still believe that money can be spent on something good that will benefit the world.
raffen79 3 weeks ago
neurolinguistic programming on Randi's side.
MrSavedbylove 1 month ago
wow this lady is so stupid
aloopspmmndfpanmfp 1 month ago
that's what she said at 1:53
ifritejr 1 month ago
1:21 i'd very much like to muscle test fiona as well
Diosukekun 1 month ago
actually ANY result could be expected by chance. they could get 100% correct out of pure chance.
JohnF30Music 1 month ago
@JohnF30Music but its the odds
bazellheather 1 month ago
would have been funier if it was a turd
spacecoke 1 month ago
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notthere83 2 months ago
man, i wish these things were available with german subtitles, so i could should them to my parents who believe all that bullshit and apparently don't trust my judgment enough...
notthere83 2 months ago 4
@notthere83 there must be a solution to end your problem... a final solution if you will
panterasux22 1 month ago
@notthere83 you don't need subtitles, just do the same experiments with your parents. and please share your results with anyone who believes this bullshit.:)
Dailydose13 1 month ago
@Dailydose13 the thing is... you know how naive people are. they will always find SOME excuse unless you have some real weight behind you. like randi's reputation and him doing the experiments on TV, in front of a huge audience.
if i do it alone at home, they'd probably just say that i cheated... or that it's coincidence and "of course" it wouldn't work all the time (and don't accept that that's the whole point with chance vs. the real thing), etc.
notthere83 1 month ago
They always have some excuse. Why didn't she mention that them being covered up would affect the power of the crystal before starting the test.
THE CRYSTALS HAVE NO POWER!!!
liamarioeire 2 months ago
I love the fact that he never puts the crystal in the bag...
TheWizard00123 2 months ago
@TheWizard00123
... I don't agree with that at all, but let's for arguments sake say that it is.
It still does not explain why a lump of rat poison has the exact same effect she claimed the crystal would have.
Cimlite 2 months ago
I love the bit when she knows she's fucked and she just keeps trying to laugh on
Arcadian0769 2 months ago 5
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PUNCHD0NKEY 2 months ago
rat poison hahahah
dzonifazoni 2 months ago
Man i have a friend who recently got into ghosthunting of all things. Its retarded. He says that he is a skeptic because he doesn't exclude evidence. (sigh) A real skeptic won't eliminate the posibillity. What a crok of shit
Rhythmicons 2 months ago
Is this a tv-show or something? if it is whats the name of the show? (please reply on this :) )
lightsbacon 2 months ago
@lightsbacon i think it's "psychic investigators".
WarlordOdin 2 months ago
@WarlordOdin
I meant the james randi part :p
lightsbacon 2 months ago
Have to say she took it well though :P
batlin 2 months ago
hahahahahha OWNED!
MrJohndl 2 months ago
her face at 2:27 : realizing she's screwed!
trabladorr 2 months ago 4
@trabladorr I laughed at that exact moment.
Shaidyn 2 months ago
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trabladorr 2 months ago
I can watch these all day long
turboteabag08 3 months ago
"I went through the crystals I had with me and that seemed to be the right one." I love these technical explanations.
mikelheron20 3 months ago 2
lololol dumb bitch
1Pantikian 3 months ago
The power of the crystal is, of course, the power of suggestion, faith, and belief. Without knowing whether you were holding the crystal removes this power. So - Yes! The crystal does have power. (Also, I'd bet money that Randi secretly removed the crysta/bag to give the ladies zero chance of success).
lawshorizon 3 months ago
what gets me is one: she said that the rat poison had an effect, well if that were true, then the other 3 bags would have the same effect. second she said that the bag made "the power" of the crystal inneffective, if that were true then why would the single bag of rat poison have an effect?
rnhtt8 3 months ago 4
Look at that lady. When he whipped out the bag she was like "uuuh oh."
Eivyll 3 months ago 5
I would have loved to see James administer that same arm test while the lady was holding the Crystal. I bet if he acted like he was about to push down and didn't, you'd see her arm fly up in the air.
Jgallstar1 4 months ago
i love how he calls out people and destroys their bullshit scams right to their face yet people all over the world are still morons and believe the horse shit
wearestarstuffsagan 4 months ago 50
i'd tap that!
legauchefrappe 4 months ago
So by her logic rat poison in a bag can have the same effect of a bare crystal in her hand.
luc649 4 months ago 11
@psrocket1 This would be more believable if .... wait this isn't believable at all in the fucking first place. Chrystals... really!?
diedie5 4 months ago 3
I'm not to sure why but fiona is really annoying.
lvmykids1 4 months ago
"all I can say is that rat poison must be good for Fiona" omfg, did she really just say that?
JasonJarred 4 months ago 7
2:24 the blonde lady is going "Oh shit"
Videodrome92 4 months ago
An interesting experiment to say the least. I was immediately reminded of the iRenew power bracelet ads.
These types of things have incredibly powerful applications folks. What if you were to pay this woman your hard earned money in the hope of improving your strength, or health?
ReasonDefender 4 months ago
Does anyone else remember the crystals for the time machine in Napoleon Dynamite? That was fucking hilarious
SHiTJuFro743 5 months ago
who the fuck let a nut like smurfship comment on this video? and even worse, who are those 22 morons that agree with him?! asshole, go choke on a homeopathic pill and fucking die.
DarkerKn1ght 5 months ago 29
@DarkerKn1ght Amen
Nithus0 5 months ago
@DarkerKn1ght Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and if everyone in the world choked on a pill and died because you disagree with them on something...you'd probably be the last person on earth. There's no need to put bad vibes like that out there.
1pompadore 3 months ago
@1pompadore "vibes"????? more bullshit to go along with bullshit "applied kinesiology"
zackboomer 2 months ago
@DarkerKn1ght Can you make yourself sound plausible without wishing death on people?
BeakyRed 1 week ago
@BeakyRed could if i wanted to...
DarkerKn1ght 1 week ago
Randi owns these retards. Anyone who actually believes any of this bullshit is RETARDED.
surtur55 5 months ago 5
@surtur55 Even if he didn't, he's was a famous magician and could have easily changed the place of the crystal.
That's just my oppinion..
heikg 1 month ago
"More than just precious stones, I bring you an ancient power"
eeg10 5 months ago
I just want to say that this man is a "magician" and can easily screw with the outcomes of these with simple slight of hand, he is no better than the psychic's he debunks.
lisafrench79 5 months ago 5
@lisafrench79 I think you may be delusional.
FunkyJunkDisco 5 months ago
Another great work by Sir Randi...I kinda felt a bit bad for the lady though..she seemed honest ..maybe she's a true believer in such powers rather than being a con-artist..:)
ramabudda 5 months ago
I had a substitute teacher a long time ago who did this using a rock-like object (it was lightweight though) which was wrapped in tape. Now I know what the heck it was all about.
GetReadySetTerrible 5 months ago
He wont take on any serious challengers, Only people he can mimic with cheap tricks to make him look smart. One of the many people he refused to test in June of 1999, a German man named Rico Kolodzey attempted to apply for James Randis test saying he can live on nothing but water and "prana" - a supposed divine form of "life energy." This certainly would qualify as a claim of the "paranormal," however, Randi immediately and categorically rejected Kolodzey's application. randi is a fraud.
smurfship 6 months ago
@smurfship You are full of shit at worst, and disingenous at best. Randi rejected Kolodzey because he wouldn't accept applicants who could possibly harm themselves during the course of testing. People objected, and so Randi agreed to test Kolodzey, but Kolodzey refused to any of the tennants of a controled test, and wanted full control over the test. This of course, would negate the whole purpose of the test, that it be in a controlled environment, and so Kolodzey (SHOCKER!) backed out.
corbitwilson 6 months ago 2
@smurfship I can't believe 17 people liked what you just said. Randi would never accept something that would involve the chance of someone starving themselves to death. And as Corbitwilson said, he did NOT agree to a controlled test. Randi wins again.
ninjalah 5 months ago
@ninjalah You're surprised that people like bogus claims yet your watching a show about how people like bogus claims.
mikedamat 5 months ago
@smurfship
Many of these sorts of people have been tested and have either been caught cheating or require extreme medical attention. The foundation doesn't accept these sorts of claims because there's a significant risk of injury to the claimant and it's unethical to test. If I claimed I could jump from a cliff and float with psychic powers or drink arsenic and be unharmed, there's no real ethical way to test such claims.
garith21 5 months ago
@smurfship You realise you'd have to imprison him for at least 2-3 weeks in order to see results. And it's in randi's rules that no test that can endanger or kill someone should be accepted.
One must wonder though, why the only "REAL" paranormal things are only the ones which cannot apply. Hmm...
FlashAstronomy 5 months ago
@smurfship He takes all comers, provided they can be tested in a controlled enviornment. How exaclty can one test "Only living on water and prana"? Especialy since, if we only drink water, we can, quite literally, live for quite awhie, there's a diet named after that.
Fact of the matter is, whenever this kind of stuff is tested scientificially, it fails, consistently, every time. Uri Gellr, Hydrick, Magnetic Man, all fail.
BigLundi 5 months ago
@smurfship True, but not the full story. They eventually tried to agree on a test but Kolodzey never accepted the conditions and backed off.
yourgreatestfear1 5 months ago 5
@smurfship If you had bothered reading JREF FAQ before posting you might have noticed that James Randi does not accept challenges that might injure, harm or kill the participant. "Because the JREF doesn’t want anyone to get hurt or die, for both legal and humanitarian reasons." If you are dumb enough to believe someone can survive on only water and "life energy" then please contact me ASAP. I sell magic crystals that cures cancer if you stick them your nostrils. Buy now!
MrRappScallion 5 months ago 8
@smurfship how can a skeptic be a fraud?! he's not doing anything! he's asking other people to demonstrate their skills. and living off 'prana'? please. no wonder he rejected him out of hand.
majinvegeta2007 5 months ago 7
@smurfship how does that make randi a "fraud"? Randi is a legend! he's shut down legends like uri geller, and james hydrick. I don't think living on water is anything paranormal, you sir are stupid
iAppoh 5 months ago
@smurfship
How does one test such an act? You would have to watch this person, possibly for weeks, making sure nothing is added to the water, no outside supplement is added at ANY point, you would have to remove them from contact with the outside world for this duration, and considering if this was false, like many other claims, this person could have serious complications due to malnutrition.
How would YOU test this without bringing harm or spending weeks on something that's most likely fake?
coreygames 5 months ago
@smurfship I believe you sir is horribly easily led...
Blargaha 4 months ago
@smurfship Funny how you so easily jump to calling someone a fraud, but when proven wrong you don't even have the nerve to retract your claim.
wolverine005 2 months ago
@smurfship That test would take forever
Walnorful 1 month ago
@smurfship fuck off you blue little smuf fuckin, I'm the boss and I fuck you.
hippo459 3 weeks ago
You can see the crystal lady's "oh shit!" face at 2:39.
wiloghby 6 months ago
There could be a placebo effect from the crystal, which could seem pretty real.
baigandine 6 months ago
lol, you must be above 200 in order to have strong results. This is on the scale in which they provide, and for better results. place it on your sternum. There is a reason i always feel better when i take off my necklace which holds my key
JpFuckingFunyon 6 months ago
awesome
AnimaxRex 6 months ago
02:30 > "Now I am fucked..."
InsOMniAcCodER 6 months ago
This would be more believeable if The Amazing Randi - Master of slight of hand never touched the bags.
psrocket1 6 months ago 89
@psrocket1 Hes de bunked hundreds of frauds. Its believeable anyhow.
iliketoreplytovids 5 months ago
@iliketoreplytovids I beg to differ check out SCEPCOP and also the new book "RANDI'S PRIZE: What sceptics say about the paranormal, why they are wrong and why it matters". Also being a dowser and coming from a family of dowsers, having friends who dowse and do kinesiology and from doing our own double blind tests and being 100% successful I still believe randi used slight of hand and he will never test someone who he cant make look like a fool with his magic/misdirection/tricks. :'>
psrocket1 5 months ago 5
@psrocket1 all they do is fool idiots into believing it...it has nothing to do with powers of any kind besides those of fooling the mind. Suggestion is mostly what it all is..ive tried out those power balance bracelets and all those fake products myself..they dont give you anymore balance and i dont think pulling down on someones arm is a reliable test for it.
iliketoreplytovids 5 months ago
@psrocket1 And he has debunked a lot of fakes..they always have the same excuses too, either their powers "weren't working" or something was interfering. They just cant stand up real tests and its funny how easy it is to fool people.
iliketoreplytovids 5 months ago
@psrocket1 Then have it tested in a controlled scientific test, and take James Randi's challenge. He's testd Dowsers before, there's a vid on it.
BigLundi 5 months ago
@BigLundi If i wanted to be tested I wouldnt go to "someone who call himself "the amazing randi". Gary Schwartz has done many controled tests which contradict randi's debunking vids, Explain why companys who drill wells use dowsing to find underground water. As for the crystals, genius-dr harry oldfield who created a way bacteria, cells and other micro-organisms can be studied in a living, moving state, without the need for staining - and thus killing - the specimen. has created his
psrocket1 5 months ago 6
@psrocket1 And Gary Schwartz's tests have been criticized as being completely different from the normative measurements of scientific inquiry.
Companys use the Dowser who was debunked on Randi's show. By asking that question, all you do is point to the problem of people actually believing things that fail, consistently. People can be extremely intelligent, and very business savvy, and still fail epicly at critical thought. This is a problem that you've highlighted.
BigLundi 5 months ago
@BigLundi watch?v=1pOVoxC_Su0 my neighbour just spent 3000 euros getting a well drilled. the person drilling the well came down with dowsing rods, found the water straight away. drilled the well first go. it is common over here(ireland) and germany for dowsers to find wells. also listen to the two hour interview with gary schwartz on red ice radio he answers all the sceptics questions.
psrocket1 5 months ago
@psrocket1 So a guy came down to a fertile land and struck one of the likely many places where the well could have been drilled, after, possibly, doing research about what other people who actually know what they're talking about(geologists and researchers) had to say about the land. Look, I want an actual experiment that isn't done by a bias researcher, I want a peer reviewed paper that explains what this is, and how it's done. Schwartz's interview answered nothing for me.
BigLundi 5 months ago
@psrocket1 Also, you say it's common for dowsers to find wells over there. Do you think that MAYBE that has to do with the fertility of the land and the fact that the water you can find is, oh I dunno, EVERYWHERE?
I'll betcha anyone could go down there, and drill just about anywhere, and find a good place for a well.
I honestly don't think you've bothered to look at this objectively and with a skeptica mind set. I think you've been brought up to believe it's simply scientific fact.
BigLundi 5 months ago
@psrocket1 watch?v=rMtuWymUzz4&feature=related
watch?v=xOsCnX-TKIY
watch?v=7rOqyMykIso
First video is a guy sending Randi a video dispalying his 'dowsing' abilities, and accusing Randi of being a fraud. Randi then debunks the video.
Second video features Randi having a Dowser do an experiment, and fail.
Third shows why Dowsers can honestly think they really have this ability, when they don't.
BigLundi 5 months ago
@BigLundi (part 2) poly contrast interferonatry photography and working with Dr Brian Dailey, MD, FACEP, FACFE, an attending physician in emergency medicine at Rochester General Hospital, has been recording human energy systems (in the same position as chinese medicines chakra points and chi flow patterns) and photographing damaged energy fields and the using crystal healing has corrected the imbalances and photographed it. Eg. He has succesfuly cured crack addicts.Try doint that with a placebo.
psrocket1 5 months ago 5
@psrocket1 I can cure it with a placebo. People HAVE quit many different addictive drugs cold turkey before, you're aware of that, right? And some don't even show any reliance on religion or homeopathy, or anything other than simple power of will. It's not easy, I know this, but they've accomplished this. Also, I like how you qualify Olfield's title with 'genius' as if that should hold any merit at all. Give me a peer reviewed paper or experiment, or don't expect me to agree with you.
BigLundi 5 months ago
@BigLundi i dont expect anyone to just agree with me, i expect them to look up the information on their own. theres too much information for me to quote in a limited youtube window. eg the md dr brian dailey was Voted America's top physician three times in a row(not a crackpot). Also have you read the book i mentioned earlier and checked out the website i mentioned and read all the tests and everything else on it. are you actually investigating the truth or have you already made up your mind.
psrocket1 5 months ago
@psrocket1 Strange, Brian Dailey turns up an athlete when I look for him, oh well.
You didn't give me a website or a book.
I'm investigating everything you're telling me. All I've gotten are people that I can't find, and the rest are criticized as being bias researchers with agendas. Schwartz claimed John Edwards was 'the real deal', a known fraudulent cold reader, he doesn't have much credibility to me, at least not in that field.
BigLundi 5 months ago
@psrocket1 Oh, and by the way, James Randi has already asked for the work concerning the consciousness surviving death by Schwartz, and offered the 1 million dollars if it passed the peer review. Schwartz rejected because, despite Randi showing the credentials and names of the scientists that would be examining the research, he said because Randi picked the scientists, he knew already that they'd say he was wrong.
But if it's true, why would it matter? Kinda makes you think.
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8NCLI8 4 months ago
@psrocket1 Then set up your own controlled test.
GodFree27 4 months ago
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People actually voted this up? Jesus people are fucking dumb...
ChainsawVsGod 4 months ago
@ChainsawVsGod Honestly man, I thought it was sarcasm. Noone is that unspeakably dumb.
ThePredster 4 months ago
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frankd14321 5 months ago
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@psrocket1 So your telling us you believe in this bull shit!!!?!?!
frankd14321 5 months ago
@psrocket1 the point is that she cant tell the difference, it wouldnt matter if i was the one to do it, the results would still be against the women
wearestarstuffsagan 4 months ago
@psrocket1 I see a lot of idiots think you're serious. Don't worry mate i get the joke very clever and funny.
youbetzler 3 months ago
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@psrocket1 Oh please, if you actually believe in this mumbo jumbo you are a sad person.
zackboomer 2 months ago
Fail.
WannabeKiwiBoy 6 months ago
How Could He Stand With These Friggen Liars!...
horrificpunkfreak 7 months ago
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TheAmazingTurd 7 months ago
The problem with her excuse is that the poison WORKED!!!
ManicRaider 7 months ago
this gotta be fake right? i mean the part where the fake crystal woman says rat poison must be good for her.
Kritickos 7 months ago
@Kritickos Nope, she's serious.
TheMightyShell 7 months ago
2:39 her face is like ´´he totally fucked me up´´ haahha
LuKaS2oo9 7 months ago 3
This works the same when you use a bolt, sugar etc. Total crap
ventureelect 7 months ago
2:04 My first thought: When the woman holds the crystal, the 'healer' pushes nearer to the shoulder than when the woman didn't hold the crystal. This means the force she has to exert to push down the arm (in other words, create torque) is greater. Therefore, you will feel stronger when holding the crystal automatically...
TakesTwoToTango 7 months ago
Humanity unite agiaist all these con's!!!!!! Stop falling for this shit...! PLEASE!!!! No? Anyone..?
Norwayflex89 8 months ago
Great...however, rat poisen is what they use as a blood thinner called Warfrin that many people take to prevent blood clots (and do not know to be rat poisen). It would be interesting, and prudent even, to have Fiona be medically tested to see if she needed a blood thinner or was on a blood thiner.
sustainablelove 8 months ago
@sustainablelove It would not matter whether she was on blood thinners or not. The reason being, she chose the various lumps of rat poison as both good and bad. The only reason she happened to choose the one that she did, was before that one was chosen, Randi told them that there were only two choices left.
viciousogg 8 months ago in playlist James Randi
all muscle tests my nutritionist done on me, i knew what i had in my hand. and the shit worked. whatever we established wasn't working for me, removed from my diet, changed my body's general health.
was he testing her ability to see through the bag? no? than what's the deal? btw, i don't believe a crystal can do anything for me or anybody else. the thing is, if she likes crystals, it would probably affect the tests. the whole "experiment" is so not an experiment at all. just a stupid show.
ourscienceisasham 8 months ago
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1. Nutritionist LOL. Might as well see a Toothologist. Diatician is someone with a real qualification, Nutritionist vary from sound to quacks, from the sound of it, you got a quack.
2. He was testing her claims about the Crystal's powers. If the Crystal really did make her arm stronger, as she claimed, then when she didn't know if the crystal was in the bag or not, it wouldn't matter. As shown, she couldn't reproduce the test under controlled conditions.
TheBoyFromNorfolk 4 months ago
even when exposed as a fraud she still tries to back pedal.
PDodds77 8 months ago
Randi wins.
TonyBtheEG 8 months ago
rat poison is good for her? Well I think we have a cure, all people who claim to have supernatural powers, go eat at least 1 kg of rat poison.
gulbirk 9 months ago
2:50....she realises how fucked she is hahaha RANDI FTW
iClubNights 9 months ago 3
Fucking crystals, how do they work?
tiolocmcgrock 10 months ago 2
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chicolatino13 11 months ago
Sylvia Brown you can run but you can't hide
chicolatino13 11 months ago 4
lol, her face says it all
strakha0 11 months ago 4
as for her explanation that the bag reduced the crystals power, ive never heard of a substance that can be completely neutralized by cloth. oh if only those poor japanese people at hiroshima just covered themselves in sacks, they might have survived the fallout.
pyramidheadkitten9 1 year ago 4
Mr. Randi, that was an excellent test. Brilliantly done.
wstevenschneider 1 year ago 2
well theres one good thing about crystal healing. anyone stupid enough to believe in this bullshit will eventually die when they try and cure their cancer by sticking diamonds up their ass.
pyramidheadkitten9 1 year ago 2
"the crystal was covered up" bullshit. Then why did she keep her arm up for the rat poison?
Omircoid 1 year ago
Arsenic is a crystal.
InceRumul 1 year ago
Wait. Aren't MANY materials made of crystals? Metals for example...
InceRumul 1 year ago
I love the look on her face when Randi puts the crystal in the bag. She's like "omg! I'm so fucked! How do I spin this!?"
thecaneater 1 year ago 3
ps. randi your looking in the wrong place for the real one...
MasterMinded1 1 year ago
Hmm... Very interesting. I just want to know one thing? Where are he getting these people from because we all know randi's a magican to and ths is a very nice show :)
MasterMinded1 1 year ago
aww fuck...
Jeffgothro 1 year ago
Lmao! Another one bites the dust!!
XerosigmaZ 1 year ago
Haha at 2:39 the look of sheer panic !
darkdexou 1 year ago
2:29 "shit, there goes my career"
Rocker342 1 year ago
I like the way she can still laugh even after being exposed as a big fat liar. Good for her and her laughing , lying face!
acidarrow 1 year ago
My psychic powers tell me that physics don't exist.
Bananarama7705 1 year ago 3
Bahahaha I love how she blames the bags for ruining the crystal's power. That's funny, how come one of the bags of rat poison "worked" ???
xxCaMRocKxx 1 year ago 4
@xxCaMRocKxx i was about to say perhaps the condition of having a bare crystal wasn't fufilled so the test didn't fully represent the whole crystal power business but the point of having a false positive still stands for something
causeandmistake 1 year ago
@causeandmistake That would only have been the case if she was able to put the arm down easily on each bag. But, there was one bagged crystal that made her unable to move the arm. That part proves she was faking.
xthantos 1 year ago
Thank goodness there are people like Randi to point out the scams out there.
ppporch 1 year ago 7
Randi's smugness amuses me.
PintOThat 1 year ago
I have an idea about something Fiona and I can try that might help her out.
MetaMorphy 1 year ago 2
@MetaMorphy well played haha
causeandmistake 1 year ago
James Randi is my new idol. ALways amusing to see all the rampage in the comments on each and everyone of his clips.
Mahdai 1 year ago
I wouldn't call that a serious investigation.
endofscene 1 year ago
LOL..Once again Randi exposed anotha fake fucker!
UtubeDuDeDuh 1 year ago 2
ok?
ehudakineyah 1 year ago
wats the point of this show...just to humiliate people who believe in this paranormal psychic stuff?? just to prove them wrong??? well, thats just entertaining
fate241 1 year ago
@fate241 I think the point was to debunk frauds that make claims and subsequently, make money from their fraudulent behavior.
Mahdai 1 year ago 2
"Rat poison must be good for Fiona" Wow, thats how a real healer learns to heal ._.
xxSpearMonkeyxx 1 year ago 3
Why is everybody that negative about those people? I agree that it is all bullshit, but in most of the cases I think it would be very much possible for the person with 'paranormal' abilities to actually believe they have those abilities.
Isteinier 1 year ago
@Isteinier and charge money for it
grendelee 1 year ago
@Isteinier did you not see the "oh shit oh shit oh shit" comment? lol
grendelee 1 year ago
Was this show in England? I couldn't help but notice all of the guests were british...
DodecahedronHead 1 year ago