James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud

http://www.ted.com Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world's psychics: Prove what you do is real, and I'll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.)

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[puddinmandotcom]

his waistband reflects how high his level of awesome is

[Songsmirth]

Taking mourning people's $ is absolutely horrible but to give them hope is the worst. I just lost my dear brother and I can't imagine someone taking advantage of me at this time for money! At a person's lowest time in their life is beyond shameful. And I've seen a couple of these people. They can seem so sincere. The older I get the more I believe the old saying, "people will believe what they want to believe." And the unknown that these scam artists say they know is their angle.

[mcnowski]

@paraplegicgiraffe look up hallucinogenic plants or shamanism

[paraplegicgiraffe]

@mcnowski look up Schizoaffective disorder



[mcnowski]

Ive seen lotsa of spirits. Its not all BS,

[linkuei83]

@kevinjessicaparker He's the REAL santa! 

[glammer]

@rolling126r I looked him up. He charges a lot of money and has a book out. A review said a woman paid a lot of money but died shortly after and he didn't predict it. In the UK we have a guy called Derren Brown (clips on here) who uses auto-suggestion and reading of micro-gestures for entertainment purposes. It' no more mystic than hypnotism. Psychics use their skills to take money from grieving people in such a cruel way and Drinnon looks like one of those charlatans.

[kevinjessicaparker]

He's so cute!



[ziatease]

@puddinmandotcom Randi is an old man. He's earned the right to wear high waistbands. But you are right, he is awesome. I love the way he debunks these crooks.

[rolling126r]

@glammer You don't understand Drinnon. He doesn't advertise or want to be famous. In fact he was offered his own tv show and radio show but turned it down. I would say that he could pass James Randi's test. But he's probably never heard of James Randi. And I have to say that I love watching James Randi outing these fakes. But for any doubters about Bobby Drinnon, you should look him up on the web.

[glammer]

@rolling126r So this is somebody who charges for their services and yet hasn't claimed Randi's $1m prize? Even I could've predicted that. I also predict Drinnon never will.