An interview with James Randi conducted exclusively with The Skeptic Magazine for its 22nd year relaunch issue.
In this video, Randi and Prof. Christopher French http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/apru discuss his Canadian education, walking out of an English Literature exam, truancy, inspiration from magician Harry Blackstone Jnr, supporting Alice Cooper on stage, his 22 jailbreaks and his areas of expertise within scepticism.
4 comments:
Thanks for the post. Glad you liked the interview.
Mark.
Hello from Denmark! That was really great stuff, Thanx!
The Amazing Randi actually changed my life and way of thinking. I'm especially fond of his book called "Flim-Flam!" - everybody should read it!
May the world see more sceptics!
/Jakob H. Heidelberg
http://skepticisme.dk
To Jakob H. Heidelberg: If you wolud share. How did James Randi change your life?
Did you turn from religion or another superstition?
Did you change your job? Have you become a magician?
Sorry for the delay...
We'll I just didn't have the tools and possible logical explanations for certain events my friends and family talked about (not to mention people on the Internet with all sorts of "crazy" claims). I'm talking everything from astrology to religious belief systems.
James Randi was the first guy to give me the tools to understand how and why people get into such matters. After reading his books and watching his videoes (JREF and from television shows) I'm much better suited in such discussions.
Michael Shermer and Derren Brown also provided me with some great "critical thinking" tools, and at the moment I'm reading Jonathan C. Smiths new book: "Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal".
Being a skeptic is very interesting, and Randi showed me "the light" ;-)
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