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To: Ichneumon; Flightdeck; jalisco555
Oops, the link to that "Straight Dope" page in my previous post didn't work, sorry about that. Here it is: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpsychicfed.html.
192 posted on 04/20/2006 9:06:51 PM PDT by Ichneumon (Ignorance is curable, but the afflicted has to want to be cured.)
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To: Ichneumon; Flightdeck; TBP; All

Lots to read here. Thanks to all who responded to my posts.


195 posted on 04/21/2006 3:38:31 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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To: Ichneumon

Ok, I'm back with the info about Randi:

In 1990, Uri Geller sued him for claiming that Dr. Wilbur Franklin of Kent State University committed suicide b/c he was ashamed that Randi discredited Geller. He actually died of natural causes, and Randi lost the lawsuit and was ordered to pay half a million $ along with the paper that published his comment. Randi claims to have never lost a lawsuit to Geller, an unabashed lie.

Geller has sued CSICOP, gaining written acknowledgement of error from both the American and British branches.

In 1993, a Baltimore jury found Randi guilty of libel with malice for referring to Elton Byrd as "in jail as a convicted child molester" which was not true. Randi has lied many times since, claiming to have won the case. Ironically, there is a transcript and tape of Randi having "intimate sexual conversations with teenage boys."

The information is from Jonathan Margolis' biography of Geller. Margolis started the book and research as a skeptic and finished with the understanding that current physical theories are inadequate.


Regarding the Lindbergh child, it seems my memory failed me regarding the police confirming one of Cayce's purported locations. However, it is widely suggested that Hauptmann did not act alone, from the local police to the governor's office at the time. At any rate, Edgar Cayce is not the guy I would present as evidence of a psychic reality.

It is only a matter of time before the unassailable evidence of mind-to-mind connections and a "psychic" reality breaks through the conventional scientific bias. It has worked this way for centuries, from Galileo to Newton to Einstein, and it will work again.


245 posted on 04/25/2006 5:47:25 PM PDT by Flightdeck (Longhorns+January=Rose Bowl Repeat)
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