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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/16/2002 : 06:32:18
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Ya just can't keep a good grifter down. I do hope everyone concentrates hard at all of the approprate times and all broken watches get fixed, even the one I ran over with the lawn mower last year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_1868000/1868943.stm
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 03/16/2002 : 09:20:22 [Permalink]
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As part of the Wrexham Science Festival, he has urged internet users to concentrate their minds on fixing watches or bending spoons.
WOW!!! All that psychic power concentrated together and all they want to do is bend some cutlery and try to take some business away from the local jeweler! And why the hell are the people running a science fair aligning themselves with this dork anyway? Methinks they deserve a visit from our black helicopters...
BBC Wales North East Producer Nick Bourne said: "Uri Geller agrees these aren't proper experiments, but they are a way for people to see for themselves whether there is something in ESP.
I could be drunk for three days and still see the contradiction there.
...billed as the biggest science festival in England and Wales.
The Welsh are often thought of as a rather pious people, but there are, still amongst us, we pagans who worship the spirits of water and wood. By the blood of Owen Glendower I'll see this charlatan exposed!
Now, where's my sprig of mistletoe?
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@tomic
Administrator
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Posted - 03/16/2002 : 09:24:20 [Permalink]
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It really bothers me that the link read like his press release. Why was he called a "paranormal expert" and not a "thoroughly discredited charlatan"?
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Lars_H
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Germany
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Posted - 03/16/2002 : 09:26:50 [Permalink]
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It really bothers me that the link read like his press release. Why was he called a "paranormal expert" and not a "thoroughly discredited charlatan"?
Isn't this kind of synonymous? 
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 03/16/2002 : 10:13:56 [Permalink]
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Perhaps but Geller was so famously shown to be faking it that it's amazing that the press won't do their job and inform the people. It's shameless.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 03/16/2002 : 10:48:57 [Permalink]
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Lets face it. Geller is the most famous spoon bender on the planet. He just wont go away. As for the press, unless you have been lost in a jungle somewhere, you have probably noticed that sensational stories are pretty much the mainstay these days. Especially when covering psi and alternative medicines.
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The Rat
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Canada
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Posted - 03/16/2002 : 10:59:40 [Permalink]
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Lets face it. Geller is the most famous spoon bender on the planet.
Congratulations, you've put it all into perspective! Kind of pathetic, isn't it? If there weren't so many people taking him seriously and hanging off every pronouncement, it would be laughable.
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 03/18/2002 : 15:28:17 [Permalink]
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Funny, wonder why he never went into some type of automotive hail damage psychic repair service or the like.
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DVF
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 03/18/2002 : 15:48:03 [Permalink]
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Now that would be useful. Instead of spoons how about straightening the frame on my pontiac.
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Mespo_man
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 03/19/2002 : 07:35:51 [Permalink]
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I never understood why Geller didn't bend knives and forks as well as spoons. Then he would have had complete designer place settings and could have had them marketed by Martha Stewart. 
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Omega
Skeptic Friend
Denmark
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Posted - 03/20/2002 : 18:42:24 [Permalink]
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I sometimes wonder if there's an human instinct "to believe". And then it doesn't really matter what's believed in. Spoonbenders, faith-healers, ufos... you name it.
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Tim
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USA
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Posted - 03/27/2002 : 06:08:41 [Permalink]
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I'm just curious - What ever happened with this guy's lawsuit against James Randi, I think, and the Skeptical Enquirer?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/27/2002 : 06:50:01 [Permalink]
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I read somewhere, possibly on Randi's site but it was a while ago and I'm not sure, that they got dropped. I also read that Randi would love another go at him.
Geller has a history of knee-jerk lawsuits against skeptical critics. As far as I know, he's yet to win one.
To me, the all-time best Gellerism was at the beginning of the Oz Olympics, when the rising platform of the torch got stuck. Uri, ever the opportunist, quickly claimed to have caused the problem by some sort of psyhic conniption. Dunno if he made any money on it.......
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