Dr. Oz, Andrew Wakefield and others, um, 'honored' by James Randi
Gotta love Randi.
We doubt that either Dr. Oz or Andrew Wakefield will be proudly displaying these honors on their mantelpieces: Both received "Pigasus Awards" this April 1 from the James Randi Educational Foundation for the dubious honor of being among the "5 worst promoters of nonsense."
https://www.latimes.com/health/boost...,3573991.story
Enjoy your reading.
-Jeff
Re: Dr. Oz, Andrew Wakefield and others, um, 'honored' by James Randi
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha...Randi's tactics are just too much.
Randi Backs Out of Challenge with Homeopath George Vithoulkas
https://www.naturalnews.com/025627.html
https://www.rense.com/general32/randi.htmFrom: Michael Roll
To: Burt Brown
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002
Burt, many thanks for making contact. Please make contact with our lawyer Dr. Victor Zammit. He has really got the number of James Randi.
This debunker is the establishment front man for the whole of the religious and scientific establishments throughout the world. The mind boggles at the sort of funding that he must have access to.
I can only speak for the UK but over here Randi is billed as world's foremost expert on the paranormal. The staggering thing is that whenever the subject crops up on any media outlet this magician holds court on all outlets, especially in front of millions on television. Our professors of physics from Cambridge University, Wadhams and Josephson, who disagree with Randi are never allowed on British TV to balance Randi's case that death is the end of everything! It's this injustice that has made me fighting mad.
The only time the "great" Randi has ever been balanced on the British media was when the Nobel Laureate for physics, Josephson, linked the so-called paranormal with subatomic physics in a blaze of publicity in October 2001. Josephson was invited on BBC Radio 4. The Producer thought he would be very clever and stuck Randi up against this great scientist. Until that moment Randi had only come up against soft tarkets like mediums who did not know hay from a bulls foot about subatomic physics. Needless to say Josephson totally destroyed Randi in debate. All Randi could do was to call him a "scoundrel"on the air! Game, set, match and championship to the scientist. But hardly any person heard this on morning radio.
Randi was given a six part TV series on mediumship and the "paranormal". The astrophysicist, Sam Nicholls, wrote to the Granada studios warning them that Randi was a professional wrecker and that there would be no balance as the law demanded in the UK in order to fall in line with Article 19 of The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinon and expression: this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Nicholls warning was completely ignored and Randi was given the go-ahead! To his credit Nicholls put up a fight. He turned up at the Granada studios when Randi was making the series. Nicholls stood up and challenged this foreign magician. Randi panicked when confronted by a qualified scientist and ordered all the cameras to be switched off! Thankfully, all this was recorded for posterity and I am sure someone will now expose this self-styled expert on life after death and related subjects. As our lawyer Victor Zammit will confirm, Randi's million dollar offer is a hoax, a trick, the same as most everything conected with this magician.
Reference: The Sun August 8th 1991. Last night's verdict on JAMES RANDI: PSYCHIC INVESTIGATOR. ITV. 9 pm.
Journalist Garry Bushell told the truth to millions. He asked, "Why are not scientists who claim there is a rational case for a belief in life after death allowed to speak?"
"Why have their arguments been kept off TV? I hear that comments from astrophysicist Sam Nicholls were cut from the show on mediums. Why?"
"Could it be that Randi, a conjurer and escapologist, is only interested in easy targets?"
Michael Roll
Tel. 0117 9561960
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Gotta love Randi.
We doubt that either Dr. Oz or Andrew Wakefield will be proudly displaying these honors on their mantelpieces: Both received "Pigasus Awards" this April 1 from the James Randi Educational Foundation for the dubious honor of being among the "5 worst promoters of nonsense."
https://www.latimes.com/health/boost...,3573991.story
Enjoy your reading.
-Jeff
Re: Dr. Oz, Andrew Wakefield and others, um, 'honored' by James Randi
Heh heh. "NaturalNews" and Jeff Rense as sources? Heh heh.
Would love to hear about this from credible sources.
-Jeff
Re: Dr. Oz, Andrew Wakefield and others, um, 'honored' by James Randi
I totally expected that response from you. Have a great day!
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Heh heh. "NaturalNews" and Jeff Rense as sources? Heh heh.
Would love to hear about this from credible sources.
-Jeff
Re: Dr. Oz, Andrew Wakefield and others, um, 'honored' by James Randi
I'm sure you "totally expected that response from" me too... but here are some red flags- this excerpt is full of phrases, observations and assertions that lead to an overall lack of confidence in it. It reeks of outraged victimization, and of a world-view that there are powerful single agents controlling what we see and hear. There happens to be a lot more time given to magic and gee-whiz points of view than to scientific rationalism on the media. It's like the right complaining about the left-wing press which somehow happens to be wholly owned by successful corporations and capitalists.
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This debunker is the establishment front man for the whole of the religious and scientific establishments throughout the world. The mind boggles at the sort of funding that he must have access to.
.... over here Randi is billed as world's foremost expert on the paranormal. The staggering thing is that whenever the subject crops up on any media outlet this magician holds court on all outlets, especially in front of millions on television.
..... Our professors of physics from Cambridge University, Wadhams and Josephson, who disagree with Randi are never allowed on British TV to balance Randi's case
.....
The only time the "great" Randi has ever been balanced on the British media....... Josephson totally destroyed Randi in debate. All Randi could do was to call him a "scoundrel"on the air! ... hardly any person heard this on morning radio....Randi panicked when confronted by a qualified scientist and ordered all the cameras to be switched off! Thankfully, all this was recorded for posterity and I am sure someone will now expose this self-styled expert ... "Why are not scientists ... allowed to speak?"... "Why have their arguments been kept off TV? I
I'm glad that you're "sure someone will now expose this self-styled expert" because it'll be interesting to see. As Randi's site and other similar ones point out, their points of view are subject to refutation. Or refudiation.
