Dear God, the Tankies are fundies!

Can someone pleae tell me the name of the game so I can be sure I don’t have it

I know psychic powers aren’t real because no one saw this shit coming

People thought the Blair Witch was a Documentary…

I’m sadly seeing a lot of right wingers call for her to be arrested for “aiding Robinson”

I say hey to mine, but that’s about it.

Nothing irrational about it, the man’s an asshole without scientific training of any kind. He didn’t really do anything except for yell “FAKE!” loudly and run a sham contest.

And yet everyone treats him like a paragon of logic. Gimme a fucking break. The man was a pseudo-skeptic who just yelled at anything he didn’t like and that was enough. He gave the impression that showmanship and flair was more important than data. It is for this reason he was kicked out of the very skeptic organization he helped found, no not JREF, the other one that he served on with Susan Blackmore, a skeptic I actually do respect.

No Carl Sagan got Randi right when he called him an angry little man in his book the Demon Haunted World.

James was a charlatan, he acted like a charlatan, called himself a charlatan, brought nothing to the table outside of his bad attitude and a rigged contest that serves no purpose outside of a headline. He was not a scientist and should not be honored as one.

No, this is the only link I should have bothered giving you, because I wasn’t the only one who noticed that Randi was a fraud - https://mitch-horowitz-nyc.medium.com/the-man-who-destroyed-skepticism-be35a6e5c5e4 - He was quick witted and good at talking to the press, but a real scientist he was not!

And yes, he did serve as science advisor on the False Memory Foundation? Don’t know what that is? It was a group of pedophiles accused by relatives of sexual assault, so they formed an organization that without any real evidence of any kind dedicated to gaslighting women into thinking their own sexual traumas were the result of false memory and not any real rapist.

Where I work they’d fuss at you for skipping lunch

Okay I confess I just don’t like the guy in general… as for my reasons… it’s complicated

Dude was the science advisor on the Falssr Memory Foundation

Well right now he’s not doing anything. He’s dead

James Randi was to skepticism what Charlie Kirk was to debates.

An inflammatory phony

https://qz.com/613270/brazen-sexism-is-pushing-women-out-of-americas-atheism-movement

I had a better source but I can’t find it rn. This should do for now

I don’t just have a problem with the man. I find his methodology questionable. Yelling “FAKE” and doing a bit of showmanship is not good science

In fact he had no science training at all being a high school dropout

If you must know the phone sex thing turned out to be debunked. Here is a source for it and the debunking https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-and-accusations/198094/7

You are absolutely not on the right track

Sorry I didn’t give this link earlier. I am on my phone and its hard to get more than one link at a time. I will give you a sauce on his climate change denial next

Randi on climate: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rationally-speaking/200912/james-randi-global-warming-and-the-meaning-skepticism

No there isn’t. You heard I didn’t like James Randi and you resorted to calling a transwoman socialist a conservative homophobe

Btw I double checked. Apparently the phone sex tapes are actually fake but I still do not like him

“You don’t like the guy I worship. You must be a conservative!”

No I think we are done with this conversation

PS: You should look up the phone sex tapes… nvm went to go get them and found they were fake

If I didn’t know better I’d say Dems and Republicans were playing good cop bad cop

He was a misogynistic climate denying pedophile

Edit: Turns out the phone sex tapes were fake. I still don’t like him and he still denied climate change

You don’t get it, it wasn’t just religious nuts believing in the Satanic Panic, today only Fundies and Evangelicals go for that nonsense. Back then this was a mainstream belief, heck Christianity itself was incredibly mainstream… Richard Dawkins hadn’t helped start New Atheism yet, no one knew who he was. Churches weren’t in decline yet, you were there every Sunday or you were seen as weird.

The concept of not believing in a God was itself very strange and novel. Not believing in psychic powers or astrology made you look close minded and dumb in mainstream eyes.

Now you are allowed to not believe in magic, in fact it seems to be slowly becoming the dominant position.

I’m sure there’s similar madness today and it will be looked upon as nonsense by hindsight. I know for a fact Donald Trump will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in America’s History if America is even still around

There were so many adults in the 90s that believed esp was real.

A lot of the media at the time was very pro-“Mysticism” and things of that nature. Typically there were two characters, a true believer and a skeptic, and the skeptic was always vilified with the believer turning out right at the end. X-Files, one of the most popular shows of the 90’s, ran on this.

Police used psychics to help solve murder cases and Ms. Cleo was seen as legitimate.