{"id":11086,"date":"2014-11-25T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T10:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11086"},"modified":"2014-11-22T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:20:56","slug":"the-unbelievable-skepticism-of-the-amazing-randi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11086","title":{"rendered":"The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been a fan of The Amazing Randi<\/strong> since I first heard of him decades ago.<\/p>\n

Despite The Amazing Randi’s<\/strong> stage name, and ability to perform what appear to be supernatural feats, The Amazing Randi<\/strong> is quite the opposite of what you might expect.<\/p>\n

While it is true that Randi<\/strong> can perform mind-reading stunts, bend spoons<\/strong> just as those who claim to do so via mental powers, escape from padlocked chains<\/strong> and the like, The Amazing Randi<\/strong> claims no supernatural powers.<\/p>\n

In fact since 1964, Randi<\/strong> has been offering up an ever-increasing amount of his own money to anyone who can show scientific evidence of supernatural powers<\/strong>. \u00a0The amount is now up to one million dollars<\/strong> and no one has ever collected<\/strong>. \u00a0The challenge has become so popular it is now an annual weekend event attended by over 1,000 believers and skeptics alike.<\/p>\n

The NY Times.com<\/strong><\/a> recently posted The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Adam Higginbotham<\/strong> and it is well worth a read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a fan of The Amazing Randi since I first heard of him decades ago. Despite The Amazing Randi’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11090,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions\/11090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}