Here's a video of Geller perfoming under controlled conditions
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WWu777 — 17 years ago(October 15, 2008 12:29 PM)
If you've been brainwashed by James Randi that Uri Geller has never performed under controlled conditions or that no scientist or magician thinks that Geller is real, which he declared on various news interviews that you can see on YouTube, see this video and the links below to get educated on the REAL facts that Randi has hidden from you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzKiODWx1gc
In this video, psychic spoon bender Uri Geller performs successfully under controlled conditions at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), conducted by scientists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ back in 1973.
The results were published in Nature, the most highly accredited scientific journal, which concluded that Uri Geller did in fact pass controlled psychic tests that were double blinded.
You can see a copy of the report in Nature yourself here:
http://newsite.uri-geller.com/remote_perception_at_stanford_research_institute
Here is what the scientists at SRI told the public media about the Geller experiments:
"We have observed certain phenomena with the subjects [including Geller] for which we have no scientific explanation. "
"As a result of Geller's success in this experimental period, we consider that he has demonstrated his paranormal, perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner."(The results of these experiments were published in the respected British journal Nature,Vol. 251, No. 5).
Dr Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ (Stanford Research Institute - California, U.S.A.)
"Laser physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff of Menlo Park's Stanford Research Institute admit their kind of research invites chicanery and trickery. They have taken special precautions, they said, to conduct the Stanford Research experiments under doubly strict laboratory conditions."
"Under these conditions, they said, no magician has beenable to duplicate through trickery the psychic feat performed by Geller and others. Some won't even try."
Los Angeles Times, Monday July 28, 1975
Remember folks, Puthoff and Targ were there and conducted the double blind controlled experiments. Randi wasn't, so he can only guess and remain in denial.
Regarding Randi, Puthoff himself told me this:
"Again, these claims of inadequate controls are generally just repeats of what Randi says. The truth of the matter is that none of Randi's claimed suspected inadequate controls actually had anything to do with the experiments, which of course Randi was not there to know of. This has been independently reported by Scott Rogo somewhere in the literature, who came out specifically to check each of Randi's guesses about inadequate controls and found them inapplicable under the conditions in which the tests were conducted. In fact, all of Randi's suggestions were amateurish compared to the sophisticated steps we took, suspecting as we did everything238 from magician's tricks to an Israeli intelligence scam."
To see a long list of quotes from REAL scientists who tested Geller and testify that he is for real, see here:
http://www.uri-geller.com/uri-biography/uribiog3.htm
So you see, Randi's claim on "This Morning" that no scientist considers Uri Geller to be psychic was flat out wrong. The evidence in these quotes is overwhelming and impressive.
And to see what magicians have said about Uri Geller, click here:
http://www.uri-geller.com/uri-biography/u16d0ribiog4.htm
So you see, Randi's claim in his Town Meeting speech that no magicians consider Geller to be real, was false again.
Thank you for watching, and I hope I've enlightened you on the facts vs. Randi's misinformation.
I have been a researcher, explorer and debater of the paranormal for years. To see my full treatise debunking the major arguments used by paranormal skeptics and debunkers, go to this link on my home page:
http://www.happierabroad.com/Debunking_Skeptical_Arguments.htm
Thanks,
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gerryrival — 14 years ago(December 04, 2011 11:50 AM)
i assume these are the vids the poster originally meant to post but has been removed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_I3vs539So
all i have to post in reply is this:
James Randi: Scientists Fooled by a Match Box Trick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbwWL5ezA4g&feature=related
also checkout Derren Browns stuff. he makes it clear that he is not psychic but he does many of the stuff this jerk Uri does and a lot more impressive tricks and mentalist feats.
A belief in an afterlife makes death so much easier.