So tonight at the pub, a few of the girls brought up Sylvia Brown. The laughter that ensued amongst 3 of my friends and me really upset them, and when we were trading points on why she's a horrible liar and evil person I realized something...
These girls didn't grow up with James Randi, they didn't see Johny Carson expose two of the biggest frauds of the 80's and early 90's in destroying Peter Popoff and Uri Gellar the infamous psychic who bends spoons. I remember as a kid trying to bend spoons with my mind seeing him on TV once.
Thankfully Johny Carson was a skeptic and brought on James Randi to completely destroy both of them. Too bad modern entertainment television is filled with scam artists claiming psychic abilities and almost no skeptics to give us the real answers.
Anyhow, so since I had to get home and send one of the girls some links about the stuff we brought up I thought I'd share my favorites, and I'd love to see if anyone has other great moments in time where these frauds were publicly humiliated.
Uri Geller debunked on the tonight show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKmh...eature=related
Peter Popoff (long but truly awesome)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUkCmkcuU4U
I saw this one as a kid, still sticks in my mind.
James Hydric (claimed to move things with his mind)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlfMs...eature=related
James Randi explaining the absurdity of
Homeopathy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWE1tH93G9U
The crown jewel, Sylvia (Bitch) Brown gets fully busted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUCECDBOOjw
If you have any other gems, please share
