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@Brian Weiletz But then every time someone brings it up they'll say "he had a lot of guts!". I can hear the groans already. I can't live in that world.
What's even sadder about that prediction about the missing girl being dead, only to be found alive and kidnapped for several years - that girl SAW this happen on TV from where she was kidnapped. If I remember correctly, she has even said that she knew who this psychic was and believed she was real, and she got excited when she saw her parents were on TV to ask the psychic about her because the psychic lady can tell her parents where she is. And what did she have to watch? Some phony on TV tell her parents that she was DEAD?! What an abhorrent woman.
Reminds me of that one time a fake psychic was brought on a shiw and was shown the picture of a young girl and said she was raped, tortured and killed only to find out that the girl was the woman who was showing her the picture when she was younger to call out the fake psychic
The kidnappers were concerned if they'd be charged with murder and the kidnap victim cried because people were giving up on saving her. Yikes, heart wrenching.
Seeing Randi hated on stage was so heartbreaking, I absolutely love the idea of what he'd set out to do. He passed away just last year, when the internet was already thriving and there were more people aware of this kind of malarchy. He may have been criticised in earlier years, but I hope he was showered with support from fans in later years, knowing what a hero he was to many. RIP Randi.
True. Even when you show them valid counters to their beliefs, the brainwashed will still cling on to it like mad. I hope their kind dies off in the future.
@@akiraigarashi2874 realistically, I don't think it'll ever truly die off. Wherever there's emotional vulnerability, you can bet there will be people to take advantage of it. We can only hope that in the future there's enough awareness of these kinds of mediums in the future that they can be arrested before too much harm is done.
For some people, taking responsibility for their own choices and actions is impossible, so much easier just to rely on planets and make believe star constellations, or whatever, to do this for them. For many, who have devoted much of their lives to make believe mythology, their entire identity is immersed in this. Having to recognize this lifelong devotion has been severely misguided is simply too difficult, a sort of mystic midlife crisis.
My wife systematically removes all business cards for 'psychics' at the supermarket, they now leave signs saying please don't take these, she still does.
I was 5 years old when I almost died from appendicitis. A few months later, our neighbors upstairs came and asked my father (who was a religious leader in our church) to come help them pray for their daughter who had been complaining about stomach pain and vomiting. My father went up to their apt and saw the little girl (same age as me, she and I were friends) vomiting bile. She was sweating and shivering. She had a high fever. He recognized what she had as the same symptoms I had, but far worse. He wrapped her in her blanket and told the parents she needed to go to the hospital immediately. They all got in the car and the father of the girl was arguing with my dad the entire time stating he did not believe in medicine or the ER, that God would heal her if they just prayed enough. This little girl had appendicitis and her appendix had actually burst. If I remember correctly, she had sepsis. She recovered eventually, but had my dad not taken her to the ER, she would have died due her parents believing in prayer over medicine. I'm glad my dad had a mix of belief and medicine. He often told ppl in the church that God created medicine and that people needed to have faith in their doctors along with God.
Tell him the story of the man dying of thirst in the desert, the man refuses water, the man refuses help, the man refuses all forms of aid When he faces god, he asks "Why didn't you save me?" and god replies "I sent you the water, I sent you the camel" I forget the rest, but that's the jist of it Maybe god guided the doctor to his / her career to save the chilren.
@@xDigDoug so in the end, every good thing that comes your way, including modern medicine, doctors and people offering help, were sent to you by god (or total coincidence)
Or, perhaps, maybe people should stop believing in fantasies like a god altogether That would certainly make them less susceptible to denying reality Just food for thought
@@D_Dupa while religion in itself is an issue, the biggest problem that puts believers at risk is when their beliefs leave no room for science. I myself am a non-believer, but having grown up pentecostal, I can understand the thought behind it.
"The reason they can't find him is because he's in water." "No, he died during September 11, he was a fireman." This poor woman is desperate to make a connection, only to be so disappointed. I hope she found peace eventually.
@@PeanutButterZombie00 The worst part about it is it happens a lot. Not just with these scammers, but in a lot of aspects of life. Conspiracy theorists, people attempting to justify wars, political arguments... And when they do, I tell them about my friend who died in the 9/11 attacks. They shut the fuck up real fast. What's interesting is it even happens to people who think they're right. Its like realizing that, for the first time, they're actually talking to someone who was directly affected by it slaps them back into reality, at least for a little while. Long enough for them to slink off. Of course by that point my day is already ruined.
He's honestly the most respectable guy I know. He knew the reasons behind the lies & deceit of psychics, he used scientific methods & explanations behind these illusions & yet he didn't back down no matter how much people yelled at him for breaking their reality. That guy is a true chad.
Hearing Sylvia Brown actually say "i don't care" when the person is telling her that she's wrong should've been the moment her entire scam went crashing down, did no one back then notice she said that?
Nobody else cared she said it because they are so F'd in the head that they more easily accept the idea that she can be wrong on occasion. The idiotic general public actually prefer to believe in people who can be wrong at times, it's a crazy mind F for sure. I don't understand how anyone can believe in religions which make it possible to also believe in all kinds of other fairy tale BS like visiting aliens, bigfoot, ghosts, on and on.
Her "fans" were mostly people struggling with grieving the death of a loved one, which made them vulnerable for falling for her charade. They wanted comfort and they wanted to believe in her, even if it's not logical.
the sad thing is victims will often lash out violently at the people trying to expose the frauds, as you can see in that ridiculous moment on Don Lane's crappy show where he told Randi to piss off
Tearing people's idiot superstitions away makes them terrified and violent, its why atheists have gotten so much hate over time. Not lying about the nature of the universe is a dangerous thing I guess
@@jasonhunter2819 No atheists have gotten hate because so many of them on the internet never fucking shut up about how much smarter they are than everyone else. It's like Vegans, are they probably right? Yeah. But do people hate and disagree with them because some of them bring it up all the fucking time? Yeah.
@@charliecoke7396 why is wrong for an atheist to bring up their beliefs all the time but not wrong from religious people to do the same? I've had tons of religious family members and strangers say they are "praying for me to see the truth" or something along those lines, implying that I essentially know nothing and they understand how the world works better than I do, but in a nicer way. Isn't that essentially the same thing?
@@VoltaVoid Both are wrong. One pretending to be better than the other just for clout is boring and annoying. Discussing about why you believe in God or not in a respectful and inteligent way is a lot better.
Amazing video, but you can probably expect a DMCA notice from that quack Geller. He's done this to a few youtubers already Interestingly, that failure on Carson's show apparently made him more famous and a household name. What a world we live in...
My husband died recently from cancer, and I'm afraid that my mom's dabbling interest in psychics is getting worse because of it. I keep trying to point out all of this stuff to her, but the desire for there to be something more is so intense that even I feel it. I'd want nothing more than to see or hear him again, just one more time. But I won't give a shred of credibility or a penny to these vultures. They ruin lives, and hurt those who are left behind.
I am sorry for your loss. If your mother can take comfort in more established religion, maybe steer her toward that? I have no tolerance for it, but they'll not do her as much deliberate harm as psychics.
As someone who was forced as a child into an interaction with a "faith healer" I can say that it's simply unfair how little choice I had in saying that, yes, of course I was healed. How could I not be? Do I doubt God????? But now years have passed and the injury is still as there as it ever was, to the point where walking ranges from discomfort to sharp pain on a daily basis. I am 19. I will likely never fully restore the damaged tendon that could have received proper care at a hospital back when I was 12. All because a child has no power to say "No, I'm still in pain" under pressure from a "prophet" and a "man of God" and his parents eagerly waiting for the "healing" to work. Fuck these psychics. I am glad I was not as affected as some. But now the simple sight of them makes me angry, from the pain I have to live every single day because I was denied medicine in favor of "God's undying love and grace".....
Also, these dipshits give religion a bad name. During Covid, a lot of people weren't wearing masks because Allah would protect them. A religious speaker (known as imam) called them out and said that the protection is masks. Protection is medicine. Denying medicine is denying Allah's protection. The Earth has the tools necessary for humans to create medicine. Also, he said not to believe in people who claim supernatural things that cannot be backed up by science as no human alive can ever bend the laws of nature. Whether you hate religion or not, I think it's a beautiful way sensible religious people look at it.
The way I see it, God created the means for doctors to heal people. The Bible talks about physicians in a fairly positive light and Jesus uses them as an analogy for prophets. So denying medicine is actually not as Biblically supported as they would want to believe.
@@OtakuUnitedStudioYou think you’re being helpful with this, but you’re not. Doctors’ knowledge and skills comes from years of studying and practice. Medicine as we know it was built off of centuries of curiosity, but also the deaths of billions of humans, most of whom died without knowing why. In the past century many of these people were unwilling test subjects. This is not to discount medicine, but to point out that it took a long, brutal history for doctors to be as capable as they are today. If a god exists, it certainly doesn’t care about our welfare.
One of the utterly disgusting parts of Sylvia Browne telling that mother that her daughter was dead and her dying without ever finding out she was alive, was that her daughter ACTUALLY WATCHED BROWNE TELLING HER MOTHER SHE WAS DEAD ON TV while she was in captivity. Sylvia Browne was, without a hint of hyperbole, a fucking monster.
What makes it worse is that the grief this lie created almost certainly played a role in her mother's death. "The ordeal had taken a toll as her health steadily deteriorated in recent months, family and friends said. She was 44. She died of heart failure at a Lakewood rehabilitation center, said her sister, Theresa. She had been hospitalized since December for pancreatitis and other ailments." That hateful creature literally broke her heart for no reason but money.
People being disrespectful and nasty to Randi makes me so angry. He's one of my main personal heroes and he did a lot of good, important work. I think outing frauds is better for everyone. I cried when he died, and that is rare for me with famous people. The only other famous person's death I cried over was Steve Irwin, my childhood hero.
Bet Randi is feeling real vindicated beyond the grave. "Oh, so now you want my help with exposing frauds. Where was this when I did the same with Uri Geller and all the others?" If I were a betting man, I would say that he is saying this from beyond the grave. But I don't believe in the supernatural without definitive proof. If it does exist, then I accept my lack of knowledge. For a personal analogy that may well happen to me in the future without making a prediction based on my personality, if someone were to walk up to me and proclaim that my mind was cursed and could be cleansed through the power of azure or something like that, I would kindly tell them in the politest and cleanest tone possible to 'f**k right off'. If you think that my Autism is something brought on by the devil, then you can get right the hell out of my personal space. It was something I was born with, I couldn't change it even if I wanted to. There are people I know who are willing to help me with my situation, and you are not one of them. Sorry about all that. I just needed to do some venting.
@@egomegayolo4127 Don't worry about venting - I'm Autistic too! We have every right to be annoyed by people saying our Autism is something other than Who We Are. I completely get where you are coming from. :)
@MA Thanks to the Politicians. And corrupt Corporate. Also, these "school" need to look with their eye, not with the money to make 'Gender Studies' aka Frauds.
Psychics are the real-world equivalent of that scene in Lego Movie where Batman throws tons of batarangs at a button and says "first try!" on the 30th throw where he actually hit it
I once had a psychic reading. She said my fortunes would change and I'd up embarking on a long journey. Turns out she nicked my wallet, and I had to walk home.
Reminds me of when my Mom's friend was told by a psychic that she was going to die in a car crash at 35. This resulted in years of this woman being terrified of getting into cars. She's almost 50 now so obviously the psychic was full of crap. But what an awful thing to do to someone.
@DIORDOL VON GIOHEIM To counter that, can you assume that knowledge alone is enough to change the future? If psychics were real then, what about stuff like determinism and fate? There are a number of things that are yet to be (or fundamentally cannot be) truly proven or disproven. If one of these things were to be true, what about the others? Once you start assuming that one such thing is true, it opens the doors to others. The more you consider, the more contradictions and flaws come up and the less likely each is to be true. There's no basis by which we can assume that psychics are real but determinism is not and so no way to obtain the desired situation (psychic stopped a woman from dying in a car crash at 35) beyond picking things that support your narrative and leaving behind those that don't. One of the easiest examples of this is religion. I'm not going to say that any are or aren't real, or that people should or shouldn't have religious beliefs, however: There are and have been countless religions. They shift, form and fade continually. Are all of these 'real'? Is a specific one or few true where the rest aren't? I got a bit carried away and ay have completely lost the original point, but whatever. I've lost my train of thought so I'll leave it here for now.
I had the displeasure of having a flatmate who took the "agnostic" approach to psychics ("i can't prove they're right but I can't prove they're always wrong"), citing as his evidence an anecdote from his grandma in which a psychic randomly pulled her off the street and accurately predicted the age at which she would marry, the number and gender of her children, and a bunch of other crap, off a single palm lines reading. Had to resist the urge to tell him "Yeah, you can totally trust the recall of an 80 year old woman who never made it past middle school to disprove hundreds of years of academic science", because when you do that in real life you inevitably come accross as a cynical asshole.
I am a "Ryan M" and I instantly thought, 'I guess he datamined all our google account logins and recorded 600+ versions of this section of the video.' Upon reflection, this is equally as scary.
Honestly I think "he checked my twitter" is probably less scary than the datamining thing, but either way it must have shit you up a bit when you first watched...
The... One thing I absolutely HATE about these people is that when they get called out on being fake (ESPECIALLY Tyler Henry), there are always people who say "Well, they're helping bereaved families fine peace, so it's okay :)" No. No, it's not okay. It is not okay to put words into the mouths of someone's dead loved ones. It is so unbelievably not okay, and the fact that people are willing to excuse it because it gives someone a little comfort is absolutely grotesque to me.
Yeah, that is so disgusting. What I always say is that let our beloved ones rest in peace and do not speak for them, because they will certainly not be talking through any mediums mouth.
@@chinekThis. If dead people really could talk to us or, at the very least, send some sort of sign for us to recognise and wanted to speak to someone in specific, they'd be trying to speak to that person directly in one way or another. They wouldn't suddenly appear through some psychic's power, not at least without some previous major signs beforehand. A lot of people don't realise how unrealistic and absurd it still sounds even when we ARE assuming dead people can actually communicate with the living.
The section discussing children who had lost their lives to faith healing really got me. I've been type one diabetic since I was four years old. I know that, if my circumstances had been different as a kid, I could've been on a list just like that one. The first time I realised this was reading about a boy named Alexandru Radita. He was diagnosed with type one diabetes at age 5. He passed away at age 15 after his parents tried to treat him spiritually for years. Only giving him just enough insulin to survive. They were thoroughly convinced that the insulin just made him sicker, and that prayer healing would help him. When they got home and found him not breathing, they called their pastor, not an ambulance. Paramedics said he weighed less than 20 kilos - as a 15 year old. His parents were charged with first degree murder. I try to tell his story when I can. He deserves to be remembered.
Also of note, being that underweight as a diabetic is a sign of severe lack of medicine for years. People used to live for only a year or two after the diagnosis, as you need insulin to absorb nutrients and keep fat levels normal. A fifteen year old wouldn’t have lived 10 years if he had never gotten insulin, and wouldn’t have lived long enough to be that evacuated. His parents essentially prolonged his suffering for their delusions. My blood is boiling.
Fanatics like those are the worst, allowing others to suffer and die for their 'faith' and 'beliefs'. I've nothing against religion or anything, but I've got everything against fanatics like those parents who do what they do, regardless of whether or not they know what they're doing is awful.
20kg? Omg. As awful as it sounds he seems better off now he’s passed. Those parents deserve life in prison. That poor, poor kid. I can only imagine how horrific his life was. Genuinely breaks my heart.
The only way you can find out if a psychic is real or not is by violently battering them. If they were legit, they would have seen the ass whipping coming. Try it, it really works.
The Amazing Randy has been one of my big heroes for decades now. He was a champion for many people who never even understood how hard he fought them. And he showed everyone how much more powerful reason, logic, and science are. He was brilliant using those three tools to completely discredit and emasculate physic powers and woo in general. Magic and psychi powers don't have the slightest chance against The Amazing Randy's logic and science. He was a major loss to the world. We miss him and appreciate all that he taught us, and the incredible example that was the life he lived until the very end.
@@channingdeadnight someone should create a crew of magicians to continue his legacy. maybe "Randy's army" or something along the lines of that since randy's army sounds like my friend group's name in elementery school. it is a reference to harry potter, which might sound stupid, but it has the easiest argument: "you dont believe harry potter is real do you?" (also a good video/show intro). the reason im saying a crew and not another magician is a group will find it easier to debunk, and a group will find it easier to spread the word.
the girl's mother that didn't learn her daughter was alive, the daughter was actually watching the show at the time in captivity and watched as her mother was delivered the news. absolutely heartbreaking my god
The mother in the after life still frantically looking for her daughter. I honestly think that psychics are good for cold cases, not to channel or say somebody died, but to give the fresh way of looking at it that is needed to jump through to a lead. Artistic eyes function differently from those of a scientist or analytical person and sometimes out of the box thinking is what solves a cold case.
@@lushpapaya9932 Yes. But I agree to an extent. I think it’s fine to give psychics a chance in a cold case because like that person said, they have a different perspective. But, psychics should NEVER be able to say their answer is certain and it’s the only one or made public for exactly the situation stated originally in this comment thread.
So many of the people who follow this shit will tell you “well maybe it hasn’t been proven, but it makes me FEEL good so I’ll carry on doing it. It’s still doing me good.” Until, of course, the day when it doesn’t. It’s like they know it’s just a placebo at best but carry on with it anyway.
I highly doubt that Kim Kardashian would promote physics if they where fake, she is on the very tip of social progress and has helped millions live a better life.
@@BoleDaPole Honey, Kim Kardashian promotes whatever will make her money. Plain and simple. I don’t believe she’s evil for it but most certainly not the most moral person either. I just believe she’s a person like most of us and like most of us, it’s perfectly valid to call out BS when we see it from another person.
"I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown into Uri Geller's eyes." That is literally the most savage quote I've ever heard, and it came from an old guy in the 70s. Way ahead of it's time.
Seeing how many "psychics" crawled out like cockroaches after the disappearance of Gabby Petito (Before her body was found) and claimed they could help the Petito family find their missing daughter is heartbreaking, infuriating, and is indicative that the plague of psychics is still raging strong. Honestly, I have more respect for cockroaches than I have for psychics.
As a somewhat of a psychic (don't really see myself that way), they are disgusting and it's not how that works. I rather call being a psychic a curse than it being a gift at this piont. These people are fakes. I can only see my own future and had to go through therapy to help me cope. These people are acting like they can just control there's so easily, which isn't even real. These people need to be stopped.
@@fallen0star996 you're not psychic. you're doing exactly what the video describes, being delusional. there's absolutely no evidence for psychic powers. i believe you are experiencing confirmation bias which you know its very common. i hope you seek help because being delusional is a real mental disorder
I have a "person of the week" board outside my classroom. Every Friday, we talk about the person on the board. Every year, I have a 3 week series that starts with Nostradamus, then goes to Uri, and ends on Randi. We just explain how the tricks worked and the kids are always leaving as big fans of Randi. It's great.
it’s really cool that you teach your students about this and honestly a smart way to get them engaged in a plethora of subjects by learning a single persons contribution to it. it’s encouraging to see a teacher who spotlights a wide variety of interests and topics to their students. as a neurodivergent student my teachers always did anything they could to steer me towards more traditional subjects of interest and it felt very stifling. it’s nice to see that someone is fostering a classroom of diversely educated students. keep on nurturing the weirdos and keep up the good work!!
Great work, I think Randi’s charisma is outstanding. He was such an honest man, it’s so heartbreaking to me he dedicated most of his life massacring frauds but was a target for hate since then. I’m really inspired by what he did but I probably could not do the same. Even with the few people I know (I cannot immagine how stressful it is to be a famous popularizer) it’s so hard to be called dogmatic all the time when I don’t give in to majorities beliefs such as god exists and the data collected by any official source is corrupted. (Yes I guess my acquaintance are generally terrible at understand how sciences work) People get mad and don’t listen when you explain straight up facts. That’s just unfair
My mother believed(s) in psychics, so much so that she'd ignore real world advice and real world conflict and instead turn to palm readings, psychic readers etc to try and find reason and guidance. It's not harmless... There are victims... I've watched her shovel money she didn't have into these people's hands, be given false hope only to have that hope crushed, and have heard the brutally bad advice she's received.
I was laughing in the beginning, then when it looped back to religion I got mad, when i once told my religious mother that I was struggling and depressed her reply was "this is the devil's fault hes trying to get revenge on me". Like Yeah mom I forgot my problems were actually about you
Damn that’s crazy. Sorry bout that :(. I’m not mega religious or anything but grew up in a heavy catholic background. Its crazy how we all kind of remember that one point we started questioning shit lol🤔.
James Randi was one of my heroes. This weekend we passed a psychics add on the street. I told my seven-year-old daughter that she should never trust psychics. I explained to her that they were like magicians doing tricks, but that unlike magicians who were honest, pretended their tricks were real magic. I told her magicians and illusionists were much better people because they are open from the beginning about the fact that they are entertainers. I hope she grows up to admire people like James Randi.
Raise your daughter to be a realist, and you won’t go far wrong. My dad raised me to accept reality, and not to seek outlandish solutions that aren’t scientific. It’s done me well so far.
Just teach critical thinking skills and to question motives. That will help a child in all aspects of life. Questioning only psychics the kid could get scammed buying a car or talked into unnecessary elective surgeries by a dishonest dentist or doctor.
36:03 - The worst part of those children dying from preventable diseases like appendicitis and bladder infections, imo, is how the children must've been acting. Those kids must've been screaming and crying non-stop because of the pain. Despite that, their parents _still_ didn't take them to the hospital. What their parents said afterwards just makes my blood boil. "Well, it's my religious freedom to give my child one of the most horrific and painful of deaths. That's what this country was founded on." Throw those cunts in jail and throw away the key.
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@@SeaCowsBeatLobsters Because if these people are in jail then they cannot do this to anyone else. It would also act as a deterrent to others who think that they can heal their children with faith. There's only so much reeducation you can do to someone so heavily invested in an idea that they'll let their children die painful deaths for it.
The problem with this thinking is that big pharma has incentive to lie to you too. It's a lot more profitable to sell a short-treatment that keeps you sick than a cure. By thinking this way, you automatically become vulnerable to their manipulation just like the people who fall for these spiritual healers. There is some truth in big pharma as well as alternative medicine, but the only way is to pinpoint what info is true or not is to weigh the pros/cons, studies and amount of anecdotal evidence and come to a conclusion.
@@s1nistr433 yes- I know. I didn’t say to ignore modern medicine that’s literally the point of my comment. I’m not trying to argue, as all internet arguments are futile and frankly stupid but also you really don’t know how I think and your content is quite presumptuous.
But why would I take my bipolar medication when the granola lady at the supplement store said I could cure it with gingko biloba and St. Johns Wort? Surely she has my best interests in mind and is not simply trying to peddle her various herbs and minerals for her own gain. /s
I've always hated psychics and how they prey on vulnerable and grieving families, but add in interfering with police investigations and convincing people to not seek medical treatment is next level terrible.
@@convergeman7825 I think it's pretty rare, but it has happened from time to time. I think it's mostly on cold cases or if the "psychics" call in tips to hotlines.
@@lisaallen6358 yeah south park did an episode of it where there is a murderer cartman hits his head and people think he's psychic so Kyle decides to injure himself the same way cartman did because he knows who the real killer is so he pretends he has powers and they find the real guy
@@armyshope I know right they are just there to con vulnerable people into giving them money to do cheap party tricks and acting like they are the second comming of god or something
Well that and Kadabra’s original name is literally ユングラー or Yungerer which is one kana away from Yuri Geller ユリゲラー Though I agree that he was being stuck up about the whole thing.
Bit late on this but the reason 37 is very common is that people tend to avoid what they would think as obvious digits. These would be start/end and centre. Thus, 1 and 9 are "bad" because they are start/end and 5 because it is in the middle. This would leave 3 and 7 as the most likely. I actually chose 73. Easy to test. Ask your friends to choose a number between 1 and 5. The vast majority will choose 2 or 4.
If you ask for someone to guess a number between 1 and 10, 7 and 3 are the most and second most chosen respectively. So 37 being "not obvious" is kind of amusing to me.
@theblitz9 Hm, but I chose 3? Out of the between 1 and 5 challenge you presented. And I also happened to choose 51 for Wolf's psychic guessing game. What does that mean? I mean, thanks to learning about the Barnum test, I can't be the only one who did, but am I possibly rare in some way? I gave it extra thought instead of answering on impulse. Idk my question is basically how likely are my answers?
James Randi was my hero. The skeptic we all needed and still need today. The courage he showed in the face of such hatred inspires me to stand up to these parasites taking advantage of vulnerable people. Disgusted by "psychics".
Randy was honestly a god damn hero, He did a lot of amazing work, I’m so glad I found his work while he was still alive. He had an amazing heart and fought for the truth and true skepticism his entire life. Watch the documentaries about his life, he was truly an amazing man.
@@Gatorade69 And nowadays we have Matt Dillahunty, who is also a magician, promoting skepticism here online. When you know the tricks and how they can fool the human mind, I wager it is likely to make you VERY upset when you see others using that outright scam innocent people.
@@JackgarPrime Dillahunty doesnt know the truth. He promotes what he thinks is the truth. He's also a pseudo-intellectual. Its fine for him to believe what he wants but I don't like his aggressive, antagonistic style.
I fully agree with everything James Randi did. Holding onto false hopes like a guy with crazy powers who can magically make everything right for everyone does nothing but pushes back your fears instead of allowing you to confront them and properly handle them. Even if psychics caused literally zero physical harm to anyone to this day, I still think that they don't deserve to be looked at and praised for fabricating their abilities and manipulating their audiences to make them think it's real. It it weren't for Randi, psychics could've gotten away with far worse things.
It also stops people from confiding in friends and family, people who actually care about them. Or psychologists, people who actually know what they are doing.
Interestingly, not long after I watched this video I posted some art inspired by a dream I had had (because it was cute; I had dreamed about baby rats wearing adorable little tophats) and this woman came along saying she's a dream interpreter and could tell me what the dream "meant" if I was interested. Just for the hell of it I said sure go ahead, and what I got was an absolutely textbook example of a cold read. For example I mentioned I was an author so she intuited that I had an unfinished novel on my hands which I had abandoned halfway through. You know, LIKE EVERY AUTHOR ON THE ENTIRE PLANET. She also said the tophats meant I was "due to go up in the world", which could also mean damn near anything. At least my friends got a good laugh out of it when I showed them.
i love when people try to do “dream interpretations” on the most random things, like “hmmm yes this dream about rats in top hats means you will get rich off your book and become a greedy capitalist”
Who remembers that famous scene from The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy tried telling to that psychic and he tried convencing her to go home. Your post reminded me of that.
RIP James Randi💔 Feel so bad for him been hated for exposing facts. I mean yeah, he's really straight forward but he's not insulting anybody's religion or beliefs. He only gets the shitty scammers.
Especially considering the fact that he wasn’t just outting “harmless tricks” but also scammers that would rip off those who didn’t know better and empty their pockets out. I respect him a lot and it’s so strange that he got the hate instead of those that fooled the public.
@Something Mildly Homophobic lolololol. I was about to say there isn't a more shitty scam than religion. (Although I do acknowledge that this is a very negative dogmatic view of it. I'm currently having difficulty squaring the negative sides of it with the positive.)
@@vivvy_0 it ain't just America. Look up videos about people in South Africa arguing that meteorology is false and that their Shaman is what calls the rain.
The whole thing reminds me of an episode of America's Got Talent, where a contestant came on to audition and sing. Simon asked what she does for a living. She said she was a psychic. So, Simon asked if she predicted she'd get through, and she thought for a second and said "Yes, I will". She bombed like crazy with her atrocious singing, after which Simon said "Well, you're not a very good psychic." Cracks me up.
I will never forget how a friend tried to talk me into contacting a 'psychic', when my cat went missing. If I had even the slightest inclination to believe such things, I would have contacted them. I can only imagine even people who don't believe in it will do it, if it's their child. Just on the slightest chance... Horrible and absolutely predatory. (Our ancient beloved cat was returned to us via the true magic: the internet, which allowed us to communicate with most of our village. He died peacefully shortly after.)
The worst of the worst are definitely those that insert themselves into missing person or murder cases. I will never understand why investigations go to psychics for cases when they just waste time and money.
This video reminds me of the St. Louis Jane Doe and it's horrible how one of the most crucial evidence is lost because the police tried to send it to a psychic. It just pisses me off thinking that her name could have been found and the culprit could have been caught if those investigators aren't so desperate to the point of relying on psuedoscience. (FYI anyone interested in the case please beware of disturbing details of child abuse)
I will never understand how people can actually exist that are so detached from reality that they don't know/accept that most every major power in the world has spent and is spending millions on remote viewing or similar endeavors. Whether or not it actually works, no idea. It either does and is well funded or doesn't and is a front for funds to go somewhere more sinister. I would assume you're ok with it since you most probably vote and pay taxes to fund such things. Pretty much have to move to a third world country not to.
Like wtf i don't get that the police would, in THIS YEAR STILL, search help through a psychic. Like WHAT. How is that even possible. How is this allowed?
@@tragossoboy6700 in my city the police actually got help from a “psychic” for a case on a missing girl. The psychic they worked with gave the name of a lake and said the girl is in there. They searched inside the lake and finally found chuck’s of her body. She was cut up and disposed off in the lake. Because of a drug debt. I dont believe in that psychic/supernatural stuff but when I heard that from my friend who worked on the case. Definitely makes me wonder WTF
@@alterperversersackkk what's that got anything to do with their comment? Also 30 isn't old and you're an "old perverted sod" according to your user name, so...
The fact that Sylvia said "I don't care" when that poor, grieving mother said there was no evidence that her daughter had been shot just shows what kind of person she was: evil, manipulative, and only interested in herself and money.
@@rdizzy1 With all these psychics (Read: charalatans) running around... how do we fix this? How do we keep these frauds and snake oil salesman away, never to earn a single cent more?
I remember in one case a girl was abducted and when her mother went to a psychic, it was broadcasted on TV. The girl actually watched the show live and saw the exact moment her mother was told that she had died while she was very much alive. I cannot believe how hopeless she must've felt, seeing her mother give up on her.
Yes, a very famous case. I had mixed feelings because she managed to escape and the mother was not alive when she returned. Heartbreaking, for the mother mourned & yearned for her daughter!
Her name was Amanda Berry. One of three girls held captive for 10 years in the infamous Cleveland kidnapping case. I can't recall how her mother died. I don't believe it was suicide like the other commenter said. Im pretty sure it was health reasons due to her age. The misery from losing her daughter probably didn't help. I wouldn't be surprised if she just let herself go and succumbed to the health conditions so she could see her daughter again, never knowing she was actually leaving her daughter behind...
This reminds me of a joke in a comic I once read. Basically a doctor gets concerned when he learns his colleague surgeon consults a psychic before each surgery he performs and claims the only bad surgeries happened when he didn't. So the doctor visits the psychic to ask how she can decide on the potential lives of people to which she responds; "When he comes for consultation, he sits across me as you do now and I can feel his breath upon me. So I can immediately tell whether he has been drinking or not."
@@puthypicasso640 It's a local comic series called "Vrouwen in wit" meaning Women in white. Basically gags about he life of nurses and dokters, not always medically accurate.
James Randi sounds like such a fucking legend, people who will become the "villain" in society to undermine the true villains are just the people I respect more than anybody else, it's one of the most true definitions of being selfless there is.
as the child of a self-proclaimed evangelical prophet, who grew up being told that my panic attacks were caused by demons, I have such an intense rage this stuff. I have seen it harm so, so many people, including myself, though I'm more familiar with the evangelical/"spiritual warfare" side of things. Unsurprisingly "prophets" are masters of hot and cold reading. Anyway, thanks for this video, I appreciate it
This video is *extremely* important, these frauds are horrible. I’ve always found it absolutely disgusting when I see mediums using the vulnerability of grieving people in order to make money, “your child says hello.” Yeah, no, that’s repulsive.
Same here. people who say that they can talk to the dead and have "messages" from dead loved ones and just proclaim it over a LARGE audience......it just fills me with disgust and loathing
People want to believe, that is why i stopped reading carts. The insane stuff i was asked and told. Some of them seem to think you're Jesus whenn you use tarot. I told them before that i m not a psychic, which was ignored by several of them, UNSETTELING!
@@gazepskotzs4 It's really sad the amount of people that take everything at face value and don't think "Oh, this person's lying" or "it's a scam" Not until it's too late
@@Rylosalex yeah, you're correct on that, but it happens because people want answers about the unknown. That is what religion is about. And it is indeed sad that even today, people do not get that no one can provide answers to the unknown and that we just have to accept this fact.
Small sidenote: I met James Randi back in 2016 at a convention. Randi was incredibly kind, funny, and humble. I hate seeing people being so rude to him, it makes me sad 😥
every time I watch this video I can't help but laugh when I get to the hot reading part, because Wisconsin is a landlocked state in the middle of the country with the closest thing to a "sea" anywhere near it being Lake Michegan
I watched a video on James Randi and he honestly came off as a really nice guy which is why he was so determined to uncover these fakes taking advantage of desperate people. I honestly don’t understand how he was so hated and not the outright scam artists praying on vulnerable people
People like having an answer, even if it's a wrong one. Being able to have somebody with assumed authority be able to look you in the eye and say, "I know all the answers, all you have to do is follow me" gives vulnerable people hope and by that point if someone tells them it's wrong, it doesn't matter. That belief is their worldview and rarely does pointing out the errors cause those people to doubt because they literally can't. In their minds this has to be true because they've invested so much into it, it's given them peace of mind for so long that to let that all go can be devastating. Which is why when you do find someone who has that happen they have a huge mental breakdown which can spiral really fast.
Because he was a scam artist himself. He might have come across as really nice to the people he was taking advantage off but at times he could be quite a petty nasty vindictive dishonest little man. Not all bad, but he had a very dark side to him. Think it might have been because he had a difficult upbringing and hard life . He was a good magician and escapologist though. Good entertainer
@@jimohara he seems a bit condescending too. Another thing I don't like that he does, which CAN hurt people, is when he takes those bottles of pills all at once. Or makes it look like he is. There are a lot of stupid people out there and not all of them are going to know which pills are just sugar pills and which aren't. One day someones going to do that as a joke with their friends (ever hear of fake "suicide parties") and end up dead or dying and it will be because of him and his influence. His hatred for not just the psychic world by the herbology world is disgusting. He's a hateful, spiteful little man who doesn't always know what he's talking about or doing. True most psychics are fake and true most herbalists are fakes, but there are those out there who are real. Those who do know what they're doing. Especially in the Herbology world. Native Americans, Asians, and Middle Easterners survived on that type of medical knowledge for millennia and he makes light of it like it's a joke. Then he goes and uses examples, which is HIGHLY dangerous. You don't know what all is put into those things. It's being found that simple diet pills sold at Wal-Mart, in the pharmacy department and said to be safe by the pharmacist when asked, are shutting down organs and killing people. Even certain ingredients in vitamins and things like Melatonin can do this if used in large doses all at once or over a long period of time. He really needs to be taken off the air and discredited as he's just as bad as if not worse than the fakes for making it all into a joke and mockery.
Skeptic was a dirty word back then because most media was aimed at housewives. Still is today surrounding the right thing. DNA and race isn't real, except when it is. The decline of blondes with blue eyes and a scheduled extinction within a century or two isn't real, except when it is. When it's stated as a scientific fact it's hate speech, but when Buzzfeed later declare it it's great, here's ten reasons why it's a good thing, number eight will shock you. The media decides what is and what isn't allowable, always has. It on the whole hates critical thinkers because then they'll have to do their job. Like the hydroxychloroquine lady who murdered her husband. One google search or glance at her Facebook would have told them that, but it took 4 months and a comedian to uncover the fact she was a murderer because the story the media ran with was satisfying for their narrative. In fact even when confronted with the proof she murdered her husband and it wasn't an accident the journalist who launched that global viral story rejected reality and substituted her own.
My father went to a psychic a few years ago (while my parents were still married) and she told him that they are going to divorce and that he'll marry again and the woman has a son. My father is so sceptical about psychics, but after he told her in what church he is, she said that she's in the same church. That completely convinced him. She even said that my mom will die in 5. I was 10 at the time and it was before they divorced. Every time my mom got a bit sick I immediately started thinking that she's going to die, because of the prediction. According to that prophecy she would die in 2019. She's still alive and well. You want to guess how much she charged? Converted to dollar... it was ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!! I really hope that people won't be convinced that the predictions are real. They usually start to subconsciously work to have that prophecy be true.
The thing is, every time a psychic is right (ie:, by chance/coincidence), you'll hear about it to the moon and back. People don't pay attention to the billions of times they're wrong lol.
I get it!!! My deceased husband saw James Van Praggh🙄🤦♀️ He wanted to talk to his mother who had taken her life, on Mother’s Day, a few years prior😢 We, against my instincts, spent a lot of money. And I mean hundreds!!! After numerous meetings, Van Praggh, gave him some shady cassette tape that was supposed to be his mother speaking??? It was garbled and saying “I love you, just let me go, it’s not your fault…you’re father cheated on me. I’m in peace…go away now….” That was it. It caused a bigger rig between he and my father-in-law. He went back on heroine and eventually killed himself😢 No respect for, so called, psychics 🤬
Haha i mean the Greeks knew that 2000 years ago.. prophecies always just made people ensure they happened, it's self fulfilling And that's in mythology where its actually real, not in real life where it's just con artist nonsense
The whole Cleveland kidnapping thing was so sad just on its own, but knowing the victim knew about Sylvia Browne lying to her mother on tv afterwards is awful.
I saw that when John Oliver did an episode on self-professed psychics and I just cried. That poor girl saw her mother being lied to on national TV, unable to do anything about it, and will never truly have closure since her mother passed away believing the lie.
My uncle had a serious heart condition and sought out a well known faith healer. He was “healed” and left a happy man. That is until he had a massive heart attack 3 weeks later. I would look forward to a few minutes alone with this individual, after which he could practice his healing abilities upon himself
I can easily see this as a Battle Shonen in the same vein as Yu-Gi-Oh or some fights in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (namely the Darby Brothers' matches) with a hint of Doctor Stone.
God bless Randi, man. What a brave soul. I hated the part where he was being humiliated on camera. So heartbreaking. RIP Randi. The internet has your back!
I really don't like watching people being humiliated either way. Even when it was phony psychics being revealed by Randi on camera, I felt bad for them. But at least, Randi's goal are noble. Watching this fucking guy not letting him say a word, insulting him and acting violently in front of him was actually infuriating.
this is an old comment but i just hate how they didnt even let him speak. :( the host spoke over him, the crowd yelled over him, then they forced a commercial break before he could say anything!
The funny thing about when Geller got exposed as a fraud on TV is that his followers took it AS PROOF that his powers were real. Because if it was all just a trick, he could've done it on command without fail. So the fact that he failed to bend metal was taken as proof that he could in fact do it and he just wasn't "feeling it" that night. Fucking unbelievable.
I... How? Man, I wish I could have gotten straight A's in school by failing every test and making my professors think "Yeah, I could do it if I wanted to, so give me the A anyhow"
You mean to tell me there was a vid of a Russian woman with what I can only assume is a magnet under a table And the military immediately said “oh shit the Russians have wizards we gotta get on that”
I mean... the American government also did a bunch of testing on the potential of LSD in the 50s(I believe) so it's... sadly not that farfetched though disappointing.
i'm christian, and chronically ill. The amount of times people in my own church have told me to go to a faith healer or who have told me to pray harder and god will essentially magic it away is. . . its gross and disgusting tbh. religion is fine to me, though obviously i'm biased. but blaming everything on a spiritual dissonance is (obviously) disastrous. the amount of times people have told me that my depression is a literal demon possessing me is sad, especially because i know for a fact that my depression is due to a long time serotonin deficiency that's been around almost since birth. smh at the people who prey on the vulnerable.
I hope you get better, if you still aren't getting therapy, try to find a good one, someone which isn't biased to one side, maybe it will help your condition, i pray for you to get better!
I'm sure those people mean well, but that's a really shitty thing to tell someone. Glad you can see through it. I had a family member driven crazy by that shit because she constantly blamed herself for her condition worsening.
Sorry to hear that. There are therapies and drugs(as in medicine) that can greatly improve your quality of life. Speaking from experience. It won't vanish istantly, but you will be able to lead a nice life. Never give up. I hope it didn't sound too patronising. Have a wonderful day😊
as a fellow christian who has also seen this kind of stuff, it reflect poorly on our communities. Belief and love in god should not be tied with the negligence of science and observable reality. You can trust in god without hating scientists. PS hoping you get the help you need, be well friend
This video is a bit old I don't think anyone will see this comment November 14th 2023 i lost my little brother. 3 months of suffering. Yesterday My mother came to me to tell me that she saw a psychic and the psychic had all sorts of knowledge about my brother and had answers for his afterlife. My mother has lived a hard life, so have I but i never thought she'd go to a psychic. I Thought about telling her that it's fake but I still don't know if it's the right thing to do or not. It was a free reading after all and shes not one to spend money keft and right. I came to this video for comfort, because everything said here is true. They prey on vulnerable, grieving, suffering people and theyre rewarded for this. Psychics are scum. Thank you for this video when I watched it nearly three years ago I just thought it was interesting, but now it's actually truly helped me.
I’m sorry for your loss, and I’m sorry that loss has been made harder by manipulators. I understand your hesitancy to tell her the truth, I’m named after my uncle, who was shot and killed when he was 15, and my grandmother told me stories of how he spoke to her after he died, saying that he was okay and with God now. People find comfort in faith, and sometimes it is more harmful for them to expose them to reality than to allow them to live with a fantasy like that. What’s most tragic about these manipulative practices talked about in this video is that people are being convinced to hurt themselves (by giving their money, time, relationships, health, and sometimes their lives) in order to find that relief. I don’t know what the right thing to do is, but I know the feeling. Hopefully one day humanity will learn to cope with and accept the harsh realities of life instead of trying to escape from them.
About a year ago, I found out my mother gives money to religious healers so they could pray for me and other members of my family. I still haven't told her that I know, because I don't want to admit I went through her messages, but I tried hinting at it. I totally get why you'd be hesitant to tell your mom about this. People will do anything for comfort and stability, and this includes spending ridiculous amounts of money on things that don't work and they don't truly need. I'd say you're lucky that your mom didn't spend any money on it yet
Later in his life he became very uncomfortably enamored with eugenics and social darwinism. He's also been accused of letting the JREF fall to shambles by ignoring a plethora of complaints of racism, sexism and harassment by JREF staff and speakers over the years while he was still active in his organization. It doesn't diminish the importance of his work, but it does paint a more grounded picture of him as a flawed and at times problematic figure.
@@lbcyber I loved his exposing Uri Gheller content, that was some of his best "work", yet I have left a comment under the video that easily exposes his most basic flaw, and all the stuff you listed is also quite pertinent, he was after all a scammer himself to start, it's where he learned that all these "tricks" are studied, cold reading, theatrics, statistics, etc...
Whenever you mess with a large industry's money - they will come after you in very large numbers. He obviously wasn't considered a bad guy by anyone with a stable mind, but, psychics, etc. are part of the entertainment industry, so, they stick together. That is why he was made to look bad on so many talk shows, etc. Hell, Montel Williams promoted the hell out of Sylvia Browne and he knew she was a fake. All of those screw ups they edited out were on his show - so, he saw them.
More than any public figure I've taken an interest in, Randi was a walking contradiction. He spent his life exposing shams while living a lie himself, he was a critical thinker who could be incredibly closed minded, and he was so passionate about his work that he neglected a lot of it. Having a complicated legacy doesn't make him bad guy or tarnish his work. He was a badass exposing liars and scammers. He was also a lot of other things. We all are.
People with low IQ want to believe in religion and psychic powers. People of all IQ levels become upset when their beliefs are challenged. We people on the internet live in a bubble and often fail to realize how many religious and supernaturalist people there are and how bizarre and dysfunctional they are. James Randi believing in eugenics (as an above commenter claims he was) was likely him coming to realize the extreme dysfunction afflicting the average human animal - a dysfunction that begins and ends in the genes.
The idea that as a 'psychic' you see the desperation of the parents of a missing child as an 'opportunity' says all you need to know about these disgusting vultures. In the UK, the police call psychics, 'the second wave of predators.'
As an Indian, these types of “psychic” things are so angering because of how many people in our community who are struggling fall prey to them. So many people claim to be the reincarnations of Indian gods and guess what? People believe them. I really really REALLY hate one in particular because of how much he’s ruined my mom. “Guru Ji” is a person of a higher caste who claims to be the reincarnation of Lord Shiva. He even has a whole damn temple dedicated to him called the “Badah Mandir “. When my mom discovered him through her FaceBook around 2018, she has never stopped believing in him since. And I feel bad for her because she’s going through a lot so she relies on these people for support. Every day, she prays to him but that motherfucker is dead. What is he going to do about my struggling mom? Only we can help her, but she doesn’t take support from us because of her belief in HIM. The community is always sharing videos about how he helped them with advice, but I honestly think they were payed to tell their fake stories. I remember a few months ago when it was his birthday (which is a major event in this community) people were spending THOUSANDS of money to celebrate his birthday. There was a video of this guy’s picture being flown in from within a helicopter. And now, my other point of why I hate him. In his spiritual sessions that his followers host, they will always put on preachings from the Sikh Gurbani that preach about simplicity and understanding of the the human ego. But yet, all these spiritual meetings are held in extravagantly decorated rooms or even Event halls. It’s honestly mockery at this point.
that's ridiculous. People are using godly/spiritual figures to exploit hopeful people's bank accounts :/ I hope the truth becomes clear that so many people's investment goes towards greedy "reincarnations" like Guru Ji.
@shinigami2 Sadly I have to admit that the victims are accountable, up to a point, because I have seen Indian people bowing to their "Guruji" for years, until they finally discover it was a scam.....(Sai Baba from the 1980s is one example).....but then finding a new "Guruji" to start bowing and praying to, soon afterwards.
the Bollywood movie pk was what made me aware 9f this issue for the first time and since then I've tried looking more into it, and well it's sad that it happens to real sad, hope your mother gets better
This video is undoubtedly challenging to watch, yet its significance cannot be overstated. Content like this should be shown in schools, where its impact can resonate deeply. Kudos to you for creating such a powerful piece-thank you for fighting the good fight.
James Randi is a fucking hero. It's amazing how often victims will ride to the rescue of their victimizers, and it's terribly sad. And sadly often incredibly harmful.
I am part of the Indian community and have seen repeatedly, Indians being ripped off and abused by faith healers. Frustrating thing is, that they eventually realize that their faith healer is a f.....g liar, but then they fall victim to the next bullshit artist who predictably proceeds to fleece them....😡
It's sad that some people didn't appreciate James Randi for exposing fraudsters! Randi isn't the only stage magician to expose the tricks that Charlatans like Gellar use, as he was following in the footsteps of Harry Houdini, who, like Randi was able to see through the mediums & spiritualists of his day! Mind you, Houdini would do shows where he demonstrated the tricks they would use & would also attend seances & use simple methods to expose them (one case they spiritualists used a horn which the spirits supposedly talked through, which Houdini put soot on, & when seance ended one of the spiritualists had soot all over his face from using the horn, exposing him as a fraud)! Houdini even tried to get for prophet mediums & psychic banned in the US, but unfortunately, he found that politicians of his day often consulted psychics & spiritualists ultimately won out! Additionally, while a skeptic, he befriended spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed Houdini himself had abilities despite Houdini trying to convince him he had no supernatural abilities (to the general public Houdini did perpetuate the myth that he had a physiological quirk that allowed him to escape bindings & handcuffs as skills can be replicated through practice, but he never claimed it was the result of anything supernatural and it was more of a way to keep some of his secrets as a magician & escape artist, yet he did his shows purely for entertainment & to educate the public about the tactics spiritualists & mediums use to trick people! Ultimately, however, Houdini's friendship with Doyle ultimately ended when Doyle convinced him to attend a seance with his wife as the medium to contact Houdini's deceased mother (Houdini himself had originally tried to contact her through a medium after he death, but realized the spiritualists were frauds & became dedicated to exposing them)! Unfortunately for Doyle, his wife wrote a note to Houdini, which she claimed was from his mother (with her being used as the medium to write it), however, Houdini knew it was bogus as she had drawn the a cross on the paper, which Houdini's mother would never do as she was Jewish! This pretty much ended their friendship, as Houdini wasn't happy that once again, he was able to expose a fraud! However, much like Randi, some people didn't appreciate his attempts to inform the public, though Houdini held to his guns & had his wife hold seances after his death as one final test for the mediums & psychics claims, as he made it clear if spirits could communicate! However, despite countless attempts, no psychic was able to reveal the secret phrase he told his wife to confirm it was him! This led to a tradition of seances to contact Houdini, none of which have been successful, with a portrait of Houdini's mother in the room where they are performed! Another example of magicians acting as scientific skeptics is Penn & Teller, who also have also used their skills as magicians to expose pseudoscience, psychics/mediums, & Paranormal claims! In fact, James Randi was often a frequent guest on their show "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!"! Personally, I think it is neat that there are magicians today who carry on this tradition of magicians being skeptics who try to expose the frauds & make people aware of the tactics they employ to fool people! While I personally am a skeptic, I do believe in God (though there are some parts of the Bible I either question or understand aren't meant to be taken literally as some people do) & an afterlife yet I'm not all that religious (I also personally believe killing in the name of GOD is a sin in and of itself as why would an all powerful GOD ask someone to commit the sin of murder in their name when the Bible makes it perfectly clear GOD can strike people down), I retain an open mind about the possibility of paranormal or unexplained phenomenon, though this is due to how I view science as man's understanding of the universe, thus there are things that might simply be beyond our ability to explain & science occasionally gets things wrong as new discoveries are made & outdated ideas are disproven using the scientific method! The thing about science is that while it isn't always perfect due to bias and other factors, it isn't meant to be!
I like how the reaction to the "psychic blast" was that animals started to act strange. As if animals couldn't sense the anticipation in their owners' body language and get excited or nervous themselves! Some people think animals are more in tune with the supernatural, but actually they are more in tune with their owners moods. Their life (and treats) depend on it.
Yeah, animals are like unironically empaths as I understand, as they have evolved to sense any slight change in the emotional state of their subject to make their decisions (IE cat will stop moving if it senses fear, or dog will automatically get sad when they see owner mad).
Yes, because animals communicate almost entirely through body language. We humans have complex speech, so we don’t notice body language as much. But for a non-verbal animal, their actions are their main method of communication
"you can't find him because he's in water." "well it was september 11th, he was a firefighter." had to step away from the computer for that one and just facepalm
I cringe so much every time I see that clip, I feel so bad for the woman in the video. I really hope she tried to find peace or closure some other way than this
Sylvia Brown single handedly ruined my relationship with my best friend in highschool. He got soo caught up in her bs books to where he wouldn't stop with the angels & no touch healing for everything to where i couldn't take being around him anymore. This started shortly after his mothers untimely death & he was obviously simply searching for a greater meaning. I absndoned him because i was too young to understand it at the time... & have had to deal with that regret for over a decade. These charlatans should all be sued in class action lawsuits! They're pure evil.
As a young teen, I was devastated by the loss of my father who committed suicide. Nothing could bring me closure until I was recruited by a new agey church that promoted the use of tarot cards, psycics and crystal healing sessions. One reader had asked us all to draw numbers from a basket. Mine was 69 or was it upside down and was 96 instead? Must have been because I got chills when she called 96 and began saying certain things that definitely sounded as if she was talking to me. I looked around the room and noticed others looking intently at her as if she were talking to them too. After the session she told us all to light our papers and let our collective sadness go... That was the final straw... At 18 years old, I came to the harsh realisation that nope, these quacks have never been real and they never will be. I realised that healing yourself does not mean searching for answers but accepting that sometimes questions will be left unanswered and only you can be the driving force that heals yourself. No matter what your religious beliefs, nothing, especially not faith healers or people claiming to know your dead loved ones will ever be your saviour. I am saddened by how these people claiming to do all this for the love of people are nithing more then money hungry, bottom feeders with nothing but a superiority complex bucket loads of charisma
"Mine was 69 or was it upside down and was 96 instead?" *facepalm* Oh dear oh dear oh dear... Please write the number 69 on a piece of paper and then turn it upside down. It's basically the same thing as "Yeah, it looked like a ying-yang symbol. Except it was upside down."
You know what's kind of funny, Harry Houdini himself did similar work to Randy. He worked to expose those psychics and mediums who claimed all kinds of things. And, as far as I can remember, even he got lots of hate from those people.
Penn and Teller have done the same :) Professional magicians train for years learning how people's brain work and how they can be manipulated. So I bet that when someone comes along claiming to have actual magical abilities it must be extra cringey and frustrating for them.
Houdini and Doyle (the guy who wrote Sherlock Holmes) wound up breaking their friendship because Doyle was super, super into mediums and spiritualists.
I was once asked the question: Who would you like to meet in the afterlife? I replied, "James Randi... Because then I could go up to him and say - I guess we were both wrong about this afterlife business eh?" R.I.P James Randi. I'm lucky that my time on Earth overlapped with yours briefly.
One person who spent a lot of time trying to debunk psychics and such was Houdini. He was really good friends with Arthur Conan Doyle (the writer of Sherlock Holmes) for a pretty long time, but Doyle was ready to believe in anything, including Houdini's tricks, even after Houdini explained how he did them, and insisted they had to be real magic. Eventually, their friendship ended because Doyle was just a huge believer in the spiritualist movement that was super large at the time, while Houdini was going around and debunking psychics. Doyle's wife even did some seances at one point, and she claimed to have contacted Houdini's dead mother and did some automatic writing. Houdini got pissed that his friends would try to do something like that to him. The writing was in English, a language Houdini's mother barely knew, which was basically the last straw.
Doyle was a believer of the supernatural? Huh that's weird considering how analytical the Sherlock Holmes books are. Like the character is based on reading people with the information presented yet the author doesn't believe these so called psychics aren't doing the same thing when he is told that? Interesting🤔
I imagine the Soviets having a very good laugh at the fact that the US blew 20.000.000 $ on counteracting ... psychic Soviet babushkas. I'm born after the Iron Curtain fell, so I didn't experience it, but the more I hear about it, the more mind-numbingly stupid it gets ... oh, and horrifying. Also, James Randi had one hell of a spine and guts to stand up to all the backlash he got. I wish he could have gotten his dying wish, that would have been damn epic. I hate the whole realm of "alternative medicine/faith healing" with a passion.
The research into psychic stuff during the cold war was good though in that it was thorough and thoroughly debunked psychic powers in a controlled setting
The research into psychics needs one piece of context: when Ian Fleming had a character refer to American intelligence with the quote "you cannot sow a million seeds without reaping one potato", he seems surprisingly accurate. They seem to have tried everything in an attempt to beat the Commies, and it is not too surprising that psychic BS is part of that everything.
@MA They can't afford doctor, 'cause nobody want to help each other. Like taxes, from everybody for everybody. But after *that psychic super soldier making* the government lost their people. People know government are nothing but a bunch of idiot trying to sit in a higher place. Just like the rest of people in america (and "bUt Not aLL oF Us LiKE DaT" they said. Hah, sick joke). And the tree is sick because the seed is corrupt. The root of this problem rest in front of their eyes, but they're only look into the mirror of lies not the window of truth.
@@democard1199 But... not all people are like that? I know you made fun of that just now but it seems kinda ridiculous to paint one entire people as fat, racist, dumb pigs and idiots. I mean, you wouldn't like it if someone had this negative connotation of people from YOUR country right? Free healthcare doesn't equate to GOOD healthcare.
That TV show host that yelled at James Randi was so angry at having his personal fantasies broken that he lashed out against the person telling the truth. Had James Randi presented himself as a psychic and used that TV show to promote some quackery, the host would have been delighted, as it is more comfortable to be lied than to be told you were lied.
@@MrMarinus18 definitely, a religious upbringing and all it involves (community, servitude, hierarchies, rigid structures, support networks, strong father figures, etc.) may make it really difficult for people to embrace the world as it is, where easy solutions are scarce, random chance may seem overwhelming and carving our own path becomes a necesity difficult to overcome.
@@manamaster6 There is a reason Christianity was able to dominate the minds of hundreds of millions of people for over 2000 years. The idea of an all knowing and all powerful god watching over you is a comforting one.
It’s really upsetting when people claim to “communicate with the dead” because when people are grieving, no matter what their logic tells them, they want to believe. I’ve experienced this first hand and it makes me so angry how someone could be so disrespectful as to pretend that
Mr. Randi recently passing away is such a huge loss to this world. I dreaded the day we'd lose him. He did so much good in his lifetime! He exposed the disgustingness of Peter Popoff and I'd recommend anyone to go watch some TH-cam videos about it.
I swear I didn't even know this guy existed until now, but from the clips and quotes from the video he sounded like a guy I would love and tbh I was really nervous when I saw how old he looked and really sad when he said he died and just last year. I kinda wish I knew about him before he died.
**cough*Peterson*cough** Yes, that's a different kind of fakery, but I know one of the scientists who did ACTUAL research on lobsters (lobster and indeed any crustacean research is a small world). She was one of my professors, and she would NEVER use those studies to justify hierarchy in any way shape or form (and she never even mentioned that lobster aggression study in class, it was so irrelevant, I had to Google her to find her connection to one of those lobster aggression studies). And she has nowhere near the amount of fame and accolades that the guy famous for using lobsters to justify hierarchical behavior does.
I remember arguing with someone once who tried to claim James Randi had a sordid past equal to Geller's. It was at that time I realized that the person I was explaining it to was not worth trying to show the error of their ways. Its insane the mental gymnastics some people are willing to put themselves through just to feel more comfortable in their world. It wouldn't be so bad if they wanted to live that way, but for some godforsaken reason, they *insist* on constantly sharing those erroneous opinions and making other vulnerable people believe it. In its own way, that level of ignorance is just as destructive as the conartists that do their snake oil practices like Geller.
At the beginning of the year a coworker and good friend of mine went missing. And literally the following day, psychics were contacting his family and friends claiming they knew his whereabouts and each one gave a different answer. To this day he hasn't been found and it sickens me that people would give those people false hope just for attention.
I do have to say, you can not just assume that these ppl calling in, were not trying to HELP. Because only they know what their true intention was. If someone believes to be a psychic or whatever else, & they were not calling, asking for money in exchange for the whereabouts of the missing individual, then I see no ill intent there. Not saying they're truly psychic bc obviously they aren't. But at least their intentions were in the proper place. Just saying.
Imagine being a psychic and having the arrogance to go on stage with a guy who is a professional in exposing frauds, thinking it’s gonna workout okay for you.
The thing is, it did work out. For all of them. Sure, for maybe 30 minutes they were exposed as fake, but after that life just continued as usual for them
It was a good bet for them to go on, they can spin not being able to use their powers on a whole load of bullshit, but to not turn up would mean they weren't confident in their own ability.
To base your entire career/life on a lie that you have to convince everyone is true everyday, somewhat guarantees that every "psychic" is arrogant. It's sort of a litmus test. You can especially tell, because when exposed or when they get something wrong they double down hard or some outside force is disrupting them.
@Kamen Rider Kuuga more like these people are building delusions and lies so they can't handle it when the image they built were crumbling down before their eyes. Lol btw what I meant by 'what he wants' is as James Randi had said, "I wanted to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown into Uriel Geller's eyes". Just think about this legend's family made it come true then cremated him then wear a ski mask and infiltrate Uri Geller's house and blow his ashes to that dude's eyes then make a run for it before Uri Geller call in the cops. Man, that would be fcking legendary
I freakin love you man! My mom is a believer of all kinds of shit and I personally experienced how dangerous this can get. I really don`t think we should just laugh it off if we encounter this kinds of information but actively fighting against it. Because for everyone who laughs it off, there will be one who takes it seriously. That`s why I think we should all take it seriously... as a fckin problem
It would be awesome twist if the logical guy defeats fake psychic by some intense and sudden psychic power the fake guy can't explain....And then fake psychic keeps on pondering about what's true and what's false his entire life....
@@itsDeej. Oh yeah, there was that whole Reigen arc when he was exposed as a fraud on live tv. And then Mob helped him regain his reputation. Which kinda frames Mob and Reigen in a bad light doesn't it?
My 23 year old daughter lost her beloved fur baby & as soon as she posted it on her Instagram and Facebook, she had psychics claiming to talk to dead animals and can get her in touch with her dead dog. That is heartless and cruel.
That is cruel. I'd love to watch her humiliate herself with faked details. "Can I talk to me doggo?" "~barking and dumb chidish RP*~" "Sorry, Doggo was the name of my goldfish." Also I give out fake names online, so if I said "Can you tell me about my dead cats?" I KNOW they'll only be giving out the fake names and will be lying with their 'research'. * Nothing against RP, I'm a creative writer RPer myself XD
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"I want to be cremated and I want my ashes thrown in Geller's eyes" is the best quote directed at a nemesis I've ever heard.
It's probably not impossible. I'm not saying someone should do it, as that would be illegal maybe, but it would probably b
@Brian Weiletz But then every time someone brings it up they'll say "he had a lot of guts!". I can hear the groans already. I can't live in that world.
@@peterjohnjoseph your gonna make me cry for that
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What's even sadder about that prediction about the missing girl being dead, only to be found alive and kidnapped for several years - that girl SAW this happen on TV from where she was kidnapped. If I remember correctly, she has even said that she knew who this psychic was and believed she was real, and she got excited when she saw her parents were on TV to ask the psychic about her because the psychic lady can tell her parents where she is. And what did she have to watch? Some phony on TV tell her parents that she was DEAD?! What an abhorrent woman.
Reminds me of that one time a fake psychic was brought on a shiw and was shown the picture of a young girl and said she was raped, tortured and killed only to find out that the girl was the woman who was showing her the picture when she was younger to call out the fake psychic
The kidnappers were concerned if they'd be charged with murder and the kidnap victim cried because people were giving up on saving her.
Yikes, heart wrenching.
@@birdwhoknowswhatsgood1483 wow when did that happen?
The mother dying before her daughter was freed from her abductor, heart breaking stuff. She died thinking her daughter had already died.
@@doperagu8471 I think you can find that story on one of Holy Kool-aid's videos about fake psychics.
Seeing Randi hated on stage was so heartbreaking, I absolutely love the idea of what he'd set out to do.
He passed away just last year, when the internet was already thriving and there were more people aware of this kind of malarchy. He may have been criticised in earlier years, but I hope he was showered with support from fans in later years, knowing what a hero he was to many. RIP Randi.
True. Even when you show them valid counters to their beliefs, the brainwashed will still cling on to it like mad. I hope their kind dies off in the future.
@@akiraigarashi2874 realistically, I don't think it'll ever truly die off. Wherever there's emotional vulnerability, you can bet there will be people to take advantage of it. We can only hope that in the future there's enough awareness of these kinds of mediums in the future that they can be arrested before too much harm is done.
@@InedibleMuffin Yeah that was just a hopeless desire I had.
For some people, taking responsibility for their own choices and actions is impossible, so much easier just to rely on planets and make believe star constellations, or whatever, to do this for them. For many, who have devoted much of their lives to make believe mythology, their entire identity is immersed in this. Having to recognize this lifelong devotion has been severely misguided is simply too difficult, a sort of mystic midlife crisis.
He was alot like Houdini
My wife systematically removes all business cards for 'psychics' at the supermarket, they now leave signs saying please don't take these, she still does.
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I was 5 years old when I almost died from appendicitis. A few months later, our neighbors upstairs came and asked my father (who was a religious leader in our church) to come help them pray for their daughter who had been complaining about stomach pain and vomiting. My father went up to their apt and saw the little girl (same age as me, she and I were friends) vomiting bile. She was sweating and shivering. She had a high fever. He recognized what she had as the same symptoms I had, but far worse. He wrapped her in her blanket and told the parents she needed to go to the hospital immediately. They all got in the car and the father of the girl was arguing with my dad the entire time stating he did not believe in medicine or the ER, that God would heal her if they just prayed enough. This little girl had appendicitis and her appendix had actually burst. If I remember correctly, she had sepsis. She recovered eventually, but had my dad not taken her to the ER, she would have died due her parents believing in prayer over medicine. I'm glad my dad had a mix of belief and medicine. He often told ppl in the church that God created medicine and that people needed to have faith in their doctors along with God.
That last part. That's the exact point
Tell him the story of the man dying of thirst in the desert, the man refuses water, the man refuses help, the man refuses all forms of aid
When he faces god, he asks "Why didn't you save me?" and god replies "I sent you the water, I sent you the camel" I forget the rest, but that's the jist of it
Maybe god guided the doctor to his / her career to save the chilren.
@@xDigDoug so in the end, every good thing that comes your way, including modern medicine, doctors and people offering help, were sent to you by god (or total coincidence)
Or, perhaps, maybe people should stop believing in fantasies like a god altogether
That would certainly make them less susceptible to denying reality
Just food for thought
@@D_Dupa while religion in itself is an issue, the biggest problem that puts believers at risk is when their beliefs leave no room for science. I myself am a non-believer, but having grown up pentecostal, I can understand the thought behind it.
"The reason they can't find him is because he's in water."
"No, he died during September 11, he was a fireman."
This poor woman is desperate to make a connection, only to be so disappointed. I hope she found peace eventually.
I literally had to pause the video for a good few seconds when I heard that because of how blatantly horrible it was.
@@Lutyrannus Especially when she tried to justify her answer by saying it was the water from putting out fires. A true garbage human.
I hope so, too. What a sick thing it is to exploit peoples' grief the way Browne did, and all those other "psychics", too.
@@PeanutButterZombie00 The worst part about it is it happens a lot. Not just with these scammers, but in a lot of aspects of life. Conspiracy theorists, people attempting to justify wars, political arguments... And when they do, I tell them about my friend who died in the 9/11 attacks. They shut the fuck up real fast. What's interesting is it even happens to people who think they're right. Its like realizing that, for the first time, they're actually talking to someone who was directly affected by it slaps them back into reality, at least for a little while. Long enough for them to slink off. Of course by that point my day is already ruined.
Stupid emotional people either forget easily or suffer for eternity, she sounds like the later.
"I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown into Uri Geller's eyes." is such a goddamn power move. What a king.
He's honestly the most respectable guy I know. He knew the reasons behind the lies & deceit of psychics, he used scientific methods & explanations behind these illusions & yet he didn't back down no matter how much people yelled at him for breaking their reality. That guy is a true chad.
what a lad
What a badass. Too bad he probably didn't get his wish. I bet Uri wouldn't have seen it coming.
Ultra chad.
"I'm going to put some ash in you eye."
Hearing Sylvia Brown actually say "i don't care" when the person is telling her that she's wrong should've been the moment her entire scam went crashing down, did no one back then notice she said that?
Nobody else cared she said it because they are so F'd in the head that they more easily accept the idea that she can be wrong on occasion. The idiotic general public actually prefer to believe in people who can be wrong at times, it's a crazy mind F for sure. I don't understand how anyone can believe in religions which make it possible to also believe in all kinds of other fairy tale BS like visiting aliens, bigfoot, ghosts, on and on.
Alot of these people are very desperate. One little slip isn't going to work.
Her "fans" were mostly people struggling with grieving the death of a loved one, which made them vulnerable for falling for her charade. They wanted comfort and they wanted to believe in her, even if it's not logical.
the sad thing is victims will often lash out violently at the people trying to expose the frauds, as you can see in that ridiculous moment on Don Lane's crappy show where he told Randi to piss off
Yeah, that was kinda unbelievable. Could never get away with that nowadays, that's for sure.
Tearing people's idiot superstitions away makes them terrified and violent, its why atheists have gotten so much hate over time. Not lying about the nature of the universe is a dangerous thing I guess
@@jasonhunter2819 No atheists have gotten hate because so many of them on the internet never fucking shut up about how much smarter they are than everyone else. It's like Vegans, are they probably right? Yeah. But do people hate and disagree with them because some of them bring it up all the fucking time? Yeah.
@@charliecoke7396 why is wrong for an atheist to bring up their beliefs all the time but not wrong from religious people to do the same? I've had tons of religious family members and strangers say they are "praying for me to see the truth" or something along those lines, implying that I essentially know nothing and they understand how the world works better than I do, but in a nicer way. Isn't that essentially the same thing?
@@VoltaVoid Both are wrong. One pretending to be better than the other just for clout is boring and annoying. Discussing about why you believe in God or not in a respectful and inteligent way is a lot better.
Amazing video, but you can probably expect a DMCA notice from that quack Geller. He's done this to a few youtubers already
Interestingly, that failure on Carson's show apparently made him more famous and a household name. What a world we live in...
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You know what they say, all press is good press. What a damn shame.
Just goes to show you how much we are willing to be lied to.
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My husband died recently from cancer, and I'm afraid that my mom's dabbling interest in psychics is getting worse because of it. I keep trying to point out all of this stuff to her, but the desire for there to be something more is so intense that even I feel it. I'd want nothing more than to see or hear him again, just one more time. But I won't give a shred of credibility or a penny to these vultures. They ruin lives, and hurt those who are left behind.
I wish the best for you and your family. Stay strong and safe, much love
@wh0rebaskiit Gon is best boi
I am sorry for your loss. If your mother can take comfort in more established religion, maybe steer her toward that? I have no tolerance for it, but they'll not do her as much deliberate harm as psychics.
I'm so sorry for your loss. 🌷🧡🌷
@My names Jeff
This is propagates the fuckers tho
As someone who was forced as a child into an interaction with a "faith healer" I can say that it's simply unfair how little choice I had in saying that, yes, of course I was healed. How could I not be? Do I doubt God????? But now years have passed and the injury is still as there as it ever was, to the point where walking ranges from discomfort to sharp pain on a daily basis. I am 19. I will likely never fully restore the damaged tendon that could have received proper care at a hospital back when I was 12. All because a child has no power to say "No, I'm still in pain" under pressure from a "prophet" and a "man of God" and his parents eagerly waiting for the "healing" to work. Fuck these psychics. I am glad I was not as affected as some. But now the simple sight of them makes me angry, from the pain I have to live every single day because I was denied medicine in favor of "God's undying love and grace".....
Also, these dipshits give religion a bad name. During Covid, a lot of people weren't wearing masks because Allah would protect them. A religious speaker (known as imam) called them out and said that the protection is masks. Protection is medicine. Denying medicine is denying Allah's protection. The Earth has the tools necessary for humans to create medicine. Also, he said not to believe in people who claim supernatural things that cannot be backed up by science as no human alive can ever bend the laws of nature.
Whether you hate religion or not, I think it's a beautiful way sensible religious people look at it.
The way I see it, God created the means for doctors to heal people. The Bible talks about physicians in a fairly positive light and Jesus uses them as an analogy for prophets. So denying medicine is actually not as Biblically supported as they would want to believe.
I’m so fucking sorry. That sucks. I wish you all the low-pain days.
@caseyjones-esque8153 thank you, it means a lot
@@OtakuUnitedStudioYou think you’re being helpful with this, but you’re not. Doctors’ knowledge and skills comes from years of studying and practice. Medicine as we know it was built off of centuries of curiosity, but also the deaths of billions of humans, most of whom died without knowing why. In the past century many of these people were unwilling test subjects. This is not to discount medicine, but to point out that it took a long, brutal history for doctors to be as capable as they are today. If a god exists, it certainly doesn’t care about our welfare.
One of the utterly disgusting parts of Sylvia Browne telling that mother that her daughter was dead and her dying without ever finding out she was alive, was that her daughter ACTUALLY WATCHED BROWNE TELLING HER MOTHER SHE WAS DEAD ON TV while she was in captivity.
Sylvia Browne was, without a hint of hyperbole, a fucking monster.
What makes it worse is that the grief this lie created almost certainly played a role in her mother's death. "The ordeal had taken a toll as her health steadily deteriorated in recent months, family and friends said. She was 44. She died of heart failure at a Lakewood rehabilitation center, said her sister, Theresa. She had been hospitalized since December for pancreatitis and other ailments."
That hateful creature literally broke her heart for no reason but money.
man... that's terrible :(
@@CHmLgN She didn't do it for money, at least not directly. She did it because she's a callous waste of oxygen.
She'd've done it for free.
Dude, for real. She was caustic.
@@DAndyLord Sad thing is I know you're absolutely right.
People being disrespectful and nasty to Randi makes me so angry. He's one of my main personal heroes and he did a lot of good, important work. I think outing frauds is better for everyone. I cried when he died, and that is rare for me with famous people. The only other famous person's death I cried over was Steve Irwin, my childhood hero.
damn, and they still put his cartoons in channel 23 (steve irwin)
Bet Randi is feeling real vindicated beyond the grave. "Oh, so now you want my help with exposing frauds. Where was this when I did the same with Uri Geller and all the others?" If I were a betting man, I would say that he is saying this from beyond the grave. But I don't believe in the supernatural without definitive proof. If it does exist, then I accept my lack of knowledge.
For a personal analogy that may well happen to me in the future without making a prediction based on my personality, if someone were to walk up to me and proclaim that my mind was cursed and could be cleansed through the power of azure or something like that, I would kindly tell them in the politest and cleanest tone possible to 'f**k right off'. If you think that my Autism is something brought on by the devil, then you can get right the hell out of my personal space. It was something I was born with, I couldn't change it even if I wanted to. There are people I know who are willing to help me with my situation, and you are not one of them.
Sorry about all that. I just needed to do some venting.
@@egomegayolo4127 Don't worry about venting - I'm Autistic too! We have every right to be annoyed by people saying our Autism is something other than Who We Are. I completely get where you are coming from. :)
@MA
Thanks to the Politicians. And corrupt Corporate. Also, these "school" need to look with their eye, not with the money to make 'Gender Studies' aka Frauds.
@@lovecatxx Also autistic - love to yooz
Psychics are the real-world equivalent of that scene in Lego Movie where Batman throws tons of batarangs at a button and says "first try!" on the 30th throw where he actually hit it
except they never hit it
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@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Good point. And thanks
Ouch hahaha
Cute hat
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory ...Yes, they do hit it... That's why people fall for them.
Did you even watch the video?
I once had a psychic reading. She said my fortunes would change and I'd up embarking on a long journey.
Turns out she nicked my wallet, and I had to walk home.
ba dum tush
She was so real for that honestly
😂😂😂😂 Brilliant!
Most accurate psychic.
Well at least she was telling the truth, imagine if you’d been worrying about that long journey for years. She sped up the process.
I’m Ryan M and I must say I’m convinced. Thank you. This video changed my life!
Did you freak out when he described you? Lmao
Haha do you have a cat and know someone named Alissa? 😂
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Did you choose 37?
Reminds me of when my Mom's friend was told by a psychic that she was going to die in a car crash at 35. This resulted in years of this woman being terrified of getting into cars. She's almost 50 now so obviously the psychic was full of crap. But what an awful thing to do to someone.
Well at least it kept her in shape. Having to just walk around all those years lol
@DIORDOL VON GIOHEIM To counter that, can you assume that knowledge alone is enough to change the future? If psychics were real then, what about stuff like determinism and fate? There are a number of things that are yet to be (or fundamentally cannot be) truly proven or disproven. If one of these things were to be true, what about the others? Once you start assuming that one such thing is true, it opens the doors to others. The more you consider, the more contradictions and flaws come up and the less likely each is to be true. There's no basis by which we can assume that psychics are real but determinism is not and so no way to obtain the desired situation (psychic stopped a woman from dying in a car crash at 35) beyond picking things that support your narrative and leaving behind those that don't.
One of the easiest examples of this is religion. I'm not going to say that any are or aren't real, or that people should or shouldn't have religious beliefs, however: There are and have been countless religions. They shift, form and fade continually. Are all of these 'real'? Is a specific one or few true where the rest aren't?
I got a bit carried away and ay have completely lost the original point, but whatever. I've lost my train of thought so I'll leave it here for now.
I had the displeasure of having a flatmate who took the "agnostic" approach to psychics ("i can't prove they're right but I can't prove they're always wrong"), citing as his evidence an anecdote from his grandma in which a psychic randomly pulled her off the street and accurately predicted the age at which she would marry, the number and gender of her children, and a bunch of other crap, off a single palm lines reading.
Had to resist the urge to tell him "Yeah, you can totally trust the recall of an 80 year old woman who never made it past middle school to disprove hundreds of years of academic science", because when you do that in real life you inevitably come accross as a cynical asshole.
Guys we all lived in the boonies. Her options were use a car or become a shut-in. She braved the cars and just had regular panic attacks about it.
@@jessip8654 jeez... that makes it worse
I am a "Ryan M" and I instantly thought, 'I guess he datamined all our google account logins and recorded 600+ versions of this section of the video.' Upon reflection, this is equally as scary.
At least you didn’t think “AH, HE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH HIGHER BEINGS, PRAISE THE LORD AND THIS BLESSED MAN AHHHHHHH!!!”
What's up Ryan, I was looking for your comment
Blessed comment
Honestly I think "he checked my twitter" is probably less scary than the datamining thing, but either way it must have shit you up a bit when you first watched...
So how's the cat?
The... One thing I absolutely HATE about these people is that when they get called out on being fake (ESPECIALLY Tyler Henry), there are always people who say "Well, they're helping bereaved families fine peace, so it's okay :)"
No. No, it's not okay. It is not okay to put words into the mouths of someone's dead loved ones. It is so unbelievably not okay, and the fact that people are willing to excuse it because it gives someone a little comfort is absolutely grotesque to me.
Ya gotta admit, no other “psychic” rocks Blush&Bashful light-pink p***s pumper lip-stain like Tyler Henry
Not to mention that little comfort comes at the cost of sometimes hundreds of dollars
Yeah, that is so disgusting. What I always say is that let our beloved ones rest in peace and do not speak for them, because they will certainly not be talking through any mediums mouth.
@@chinekThis. If dead people really could talk to us or, at the very least, send some sort of sign for us to recognise and wanted to speak to someone in specific, they'd be trying to speak to that person directly in one way or another. They wouldn't suddenly appear through some psychic's power, not at least without some previous major signs beforehand. A lot of people don't realise how unrealistic and absurd it still sounds even when we ARE assuming dead people can actually communicate with the living.
Youre typing this on a device built by child slaves
Psychics scamming gullible people is nothing
The section discussing children who had lost their lives to faith healing really got me. I've been type one diabetic since I was four years old. I know that, if my circumstances had been different as a kid, I could've been on a list just like that one.
The first time I realised this was reading about a boy named Alexandru Radita. He was diagnosed with type one diabetes at age 5. He passed away at age 15 after his parents tried to treat him spiritually for years. Only giving him just enough insulin to survive. They were thoroughly convinced that the insulin just made him sicker, and that prayer healing would help him.
When they got home and found him not breathing, they called their pastor, not an ambulance. Paramedics said he weighed less than 20 kilos - as a 15 year old. His parents were charged with first degree murder.
I try to tell his story when I can. He deserves to be remembered.
Oh no
Also of note, being that underweight as a diabetic is a sign of severe lack of medicine for years. People used to live for only a year or two after the diagnosis, as you need insulin to absorb nutrients and keep fat levels normal.
A fifteen year old wouldn’t have lived 10 years if he had never gotten insulin, and wouldn’t have lived long enough to be that evacuated. His parents essentially prolonged his suffering for their delusions. My blood is boiling.
Thank you for telling the story
Fanatics like those are the worst, allowing others to suffer and die for their 'faith' and 'beliefs'. I've nothing against religion or anything, but I've got everything against fanatics like those parents who do what they do, regardless of whether or not they know what they're doing is awful.
20kg? Omg. As awful as it sounds he seems better off now he’s passed. Those parents deserve life in prison. That poor, poor kid. I can only imagine how horrific his life was. Genuinely breaks my heart.
There's an old saying goes:
"Never trust a psychic who hasn't won the lottery once."
How true is this statement? ☺
The only way you can find out if a psychic is real or not is by violently battering them. If they were legit, they would have seen the ass whipping coming. Try it, it really works.
@@pink_sock I can get behind this
We have on that says “Psychics lie even when they tell the truth”
@@pink_sock power move
Virgin Geller: "You're trying to destroy my career!!!"
Chad Randi: "Yes."
lamo
"Galler accused Randi of trying to destroy his career"
I just imagine Randi be like "Yup"
@@PsychicTheory laugh ass my off?
@@ThatGuy-zw4le how ever you want to interpret it
GigaChad Randi*
It's great that people like Randi exist. Any 'real' psychics would love people like Randi because they help identify hypothetical fakes for them.
Ryan M, after having picked 37: "okay that was a good one, but show me a real trick now"
Ryan flew too close to the sun
The Amazing Randy has been one of my big heroes for decades now. He was a champion for many people who never even understood how hard he fought them. And he showed everyone how much more powerful reason, logic, and science are. He was brilliant using those three tools to completely discredit and emasculate physic powers and woo in general. Magic and psychi powers don't have the slightest chance against The Amazing Randy's logic and science. He was a major loss to the world. We miss him and appreciate all that he taught us, and the incredible example that was the life he lived until the very end.
@@channingdeadnight someone should create a crew of magicians to continue his legacy. maybe "Randy's army" or something along the lines of that since randy's army sounds like my friend group's name in elementery school. it is a reference to harry potter, which might sound stupid, but it has the easiest argument: "you dont believe harry potter is real do you?" (also a good video/show intro). the reason im saying a crew and not another magician is a group will find it easier to debunk, and a group will find it easier to spread the word.
I hope the guy didn't hit pause and run screaming right after being singled out
I picked 73 and I was so freaked out
the girl's mother that didn't learn her daughter was alive, the daughter was actually watching the show at the time in captivity and watched as her mother was delivered the news. absolutely heartbreaking my god
She never saw her daughter again though because she died before her daughter was found. As did the psychic.
That's creepy
The mother in the after life still frantically looking for her daughter.
I honestly think that psychics are good for cold cases, not to channel or say somebody died, but to give the fresh way of looking at it that is needed to jump through to a lead. Artistic eyes function differently from those of a scientist or analytical person and sometimes out of the box thinking is what solves a cold case.
@@Skitdora2010 Didnt you learn anything from this? psychics are frauds!!
@@lushpapaya9932 Yes.
But I agree to an extent.
I think it’s fine to give psychics a chance in a cold case because like that person said, they have a different perspective.
But, psychics should NEVER be able to say their answer is certain and it’s the only one or made public for exactly the situation stated originally in this comment thread.
I think the most depressing thing is that no amount of debunking has ever really stopped these people.
So many of the people who follow this shit will tell you “well maybe it hasn’t been proven, but it makes me FEEL good so I’ll carry on doing it. It’s still doing me good.” Until, of course, the day when it doesn’t. It’s like they know it’s just a placebo at best but carry on with it anyway.
i forgot who said it, but most people really do want to believe and will convince themselves it's real.
@@alexanderredhorse1297 it's easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled- mark twain
I highly doubt that Kim Kardashian would promote physics if they where fake, she is on the very tip of social progress and has helped millions live a better life.
@@BoleDaPole Honey, Kim Kardashian promotes whatever will make her money. Plain and simple. I don’t believe she’s evil for it but most certainly not the most moral person either. I just believe she’s a person like most of us and like most of us, it’s perfectly valid to call out BS when we see it from another person.
"I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown into Uri Geller's eyes."
That is literally the most savage quote I've ever heard, and it came from an old guy in the 70s. Way ahead of it's time.
Seeing how many "psychics" crawled out like cockroaches after the disappearance of Gabby Petito (Before her body was found) and claimed they could help the Petito family find their missing daughter is heartbreaking, infuriating, and is indicative that the plague of psychics is still raging strong.
Honestly, I have more respect for cockroaches than I have for psychics.
As a somewhat of a psychic (don't really see myself that way), they are disgusting and it's not how that works. I rather call being a psychic a curse than it being a gift at this piont. These people are fakes. I can only see my own future and had to go through therapy to help me cope. These people are acting like they can just control there's so easily, which isn't even real. These people need to be stopped.
@@fallen0star996 what's your opinion on this video Mrs cursed future
@@fallen0star996 you're not psychic. you're doing exactly what the video describes, being delusional. there's absolutely no evidence for psychic powers. i believe you are experiencing confirmation bias which you know its very common. i hope you seek help because being delusional is a real mental disorder
@@fallen0star996 take your meds please
@@kumakumab I'm not delusional, I just had a different life than you. You don't even take the effort to educate yourself on the subject.
I have a "person of the week" board outside my classroom. Every Friday, we talk about the person on the board. Every year, I have a 3 week series that starts with Nostradamus, then goes to Uri, and ends on Randi. We just explain how the tricks worked and the kids are always leaving as big fans of Randi. It's great.
Wow. That's impressive. Long live James Randi.
You are doing incredibly important work. Massive respect to you.
it’s really cool that you teach your students about this and honestly a smart way to get them engaged in a plethora of subjects by learning a single persons contribution to it. it’s encouraging to see a teacher who spotlights a wide variety of interests and topics to their students. as a neurodivergent student my teachers always did anything they could to steer me towards more traditional subjects of interest and it felt very stifling. it’s nice to see that someone is fostering a classroom of diversely educated students. keep on nurturing the weirdos and keep up the good work!!
Great work, I think Randi’s charisma is outstanding.
He was such an honest man, it’s so heartbreaking to me he dedicated most of his life massacring frauds but was a target for hate since then.
I’m really inspired by what he did but I probably could not do the same.
Even with the few people I know (I cannot immagine how stressful it is to be a famous popularizer) it’s so hard to be called dogmatic all the time when I don’t give in to majorities beliefs such as god exists and the data collected by any official source is corrupted.
(Yes I guess my acquaintance are generally terrible at understand how sciences work)
People get mad and don’t listen when you explain straight up facts. That’s just unfair
That's fantastic!
“I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown into Uri Geller’s eyes.”
Poetry
I aspire to that level of petty 😂
real king shit
No man should have all that power
What a goddamn hero
Absolute mad man
My mother believed(s) in psychics, so much so that she'd ignore real world advice and real world conflict and instead turn to palm readings, psychic readers etc to try and find reason and guidance.
It's not harmless... There are victims... I've watched her shovel money she didn't have into these people's hands, be given false hope only to have that hope crushed, and have heard the brutally bad advice she's received.
I was laughing in the beginning, then when it looped back to religion I got mad, when i once told my religious mother that I was struggling and depressed her reply was "this is the devil's fault hes trying to get revenge on me". Like Yeah mom I forgot my problems were actually about you
thats rough :/
same here &
I hope times get better
Damn that’s crazy. Sorry bout that :(. I’m not mega religious or anything but grew up in a heavy catholic background. Its crazy how we all kind of remember that one point we started questioning shit lol🤔.
Your mother is egotistical that the devil is targeting her
I feel you. Instead of them providing actual help, they give you that dumb bullshit like "You're not praying enough. Thats why"
@Conrad Kujur well said, and I agree 100%. I’m still catholic, but definitely still have my doubts and suspicions lol.
just wanna pop in and say i've loved your channel since before i started youtube and i continue to love it ❤️
Why tf Jarvis doesn't have more likes? You've been cursed or something? I'll make the curse disappear for just 50 000$, thanks
I didnt know Jarvis was a weeb.
Cool story breh
he's trying his best
Yoooo it's the guy who lives on breast milk!!
James Randi was one of my heroes.
This weekend we passed a psychics add on the street. I told my seven-year-old daughter that she should never trust psychics. I explained to her that they were like magicians doing tricks, but that unlike magicians who were honest, pretended their tricks were real magic. I told her magicians and illusionists were much better people because they are open from the beginning about the fact that they are entertainers. I hope she grows up to admire people like James Randi.
kudos to you, i'd like to teach my kids the same one day
Raise your daughter to be a realist, and you won’t go far wrong. My dad raised me to accept reality, and not to seek outlandish solutions that aren’t scientific. It’s done me well so far.
Covid proved that people are extremely stupid so ... Yeah psycics will always exist
Just teach critical thinking skills and to question motives. That will help a child in all aspects of life. Questioning only psychics the kid could get scammed buying a car or talked into unnecessary elective surgeries by a dishonest dentist or doctor.
Best of luck. I see the future and she will do good. Lol.
36:03 - The worst part of those children dying from preventable diseases like appendicitis and bladder infections, imo, is how the children must've been acting. Those kids must've been screaming and crying non-stop because of the pain. Despite that, their parents _still_ didn't take them to the hospital.
What their parents said afterwards just makes my blood boil. "Well, it's my religious freedom to give my child one of the most horrific and painful of deaths. That's what this country was founded on."
Throw those cunts in jail and throw away the key.
Did the good Samaritan just pray for the guy he saved? No. There is a reason why there are doctors, even in the bible
@@EurichusFilms I can read peoples excrement 💩 I run my hand through the poo and then I can read their past present and future. It’s like reading tea leaves except I read shit from Uranus. 💩 It’s a crappy way to earn a living ‘butt’ 💩 it pays the bills.
I can read peoples excrement 💩 I run my hand through the poo and then I can read their past present and future. It’s like reading tea leaves except I read shit from Uranus. 💩 It’s a crappy way to earn a living ‘butt’ 💩 it pays the bills.
If you would like a poo reading, please leave me a comment with a link to your messenger.
You ship your poo to me and I will tell you your future.
$685 per reading
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How would jail help? We need re-education and prevention
@@SeaCowsBeatLobsters Because if these people are in jail then they cannot do this to anyone else. It would also act as a deterrent to others who think that they can heal their children with faith.
There's only so much reeducation you can do to someone so heavily invested in an idea that they'll let their children die painful deaths for it.
As a rule: never trust an alternative healer who discourages or outright refutes modern day medicine.
True.
The problem with this thinking is that big pharma has incentive to lie to you too. It's a lot more profitable to sell a short-treatment that keeps you sick than a cure. By thinking this way, you automatically become vulnerable to their manipulation just like the people who fall for these spiritual healers. There is some truth in big pharma as well as alternative medicine, but the only way is to pinpoint what info is true or not is to weigh the pros/cons, studies and amount of anecdotal evidence and come to a conclusion.
@@s1nistr433 yes- I know. I didn’t say to ignore modern medicine that’s literally the point of my comment. I’m not trying to argue, as all internet arguments are futile and frankly stupid but also you really don’t know how I think and your content is quite presumptuous.
But why would I take my bipolar medication when the granola lady at the supplement store said I could cure it with gingko biloba and St. Johns Wort? Surely she has my best interests in mind and is not simply trying to peddle her various herbs and minerals for her own gain. /s
@@bkr1895 lol. Exactly. Real medicine is for suckers.
I've always hated psychics and how they prey on vulnerable and grieving families, but add in interfering with police investigations and convincing people to not seek medical treatment is next level terrible.
Wait there are police investigators that really use psychics?
I thought that was just something that the Phoenix Wright games made up...
@@convergeman7825 I think it's pretty rare, but it has happened from time to time. I think it's mostly on cold cases or if the "psychics" call in tips to hotlines.
@@lisaallen6358 yeah south park did an episode of it where there is a murderer cartman hits his head and people think he's psychic so Kyle decides to injure himself the same way cartman did because he knows who the real killer is so he pretends he has powers and they find the real guy
People are supposed to seek medical treatment.
Those fake psychics are so bad
@@armyshope I know right they are just there to con vulnerable people into giving them money to do cheap party tricks and acting like they are the second comming of god or something
Uri geller is not only a hack, but he's petty, he's the reason we haven't had a kadabra pokemon card in the tgc for years
I've always wondered why I have never seen a Kadabra card in years
THAT'S the psychic responsible for that? Holy shit
Shit, I knew I'd seen that name recently...
Well that and Kadabra’s original name is literally ユングラー or Yungerer which is one kana away from Yuri Geller ユリゲラー Though I agree that he was being stuck up about the whole thing.
Apparently he said recently that he is cool with it now
Bit late on this but the reason 37 is very common is that people tend to avoid what they would think as obvious digits.
These would be start/end and centre.
Thus, 1 and 9 are "bad" because they are start/end and 5 because it is in the middle.
This would leave 3 and 7 as the most likely.
I actually chose 73.
Easy to test.
Ask your friends to choose a number between 1 and 5.
The vast majority will choose 2 or 4.
oh i chose 69 because the internet
If you ask for someone to guess a number between 1 and 10, 7 and 3 are the most and second most chosen respectively. So 37 being "not obvious" is kind of amusing to me.
@theblitz9 Hm, but I chose 3? Out of the between 1 and 5 challenge you presented. And I also happened to choose 51 for Wolf's psychic guessing game. What does that mean? I mean, thanks to learning about the Barnum test, I can't be the only one who did, but am I possibly rare in some way? I gave it extra thought instead of answering on impulse. Idk my question is basically how likely are my answers?
I said 76... Mostly because I'm bad at math...
0 _ 0 I chose 67
James Randi was my hero. The skeptic we all needed and still need today. The courage he showed in the face of such hatred inspires me to stand up to these parasites taking advantage of vulnerable people. Disgusted by "psychics".
Mine too. Wish I could have met him
Randy was honestly a god damn hero, He did a lot of amazing work, I’m so glad I found his work while he was still alive. He had an amazing heart and fought for the truth and true skepticism his entire life. Watch the documentaries about his life, he was truly an amazing man.
Houdini actually did the same thing too. Randi was a total badass.
@@Gatorade69 And nowadays we have Matt Dillahunty, who is also a magician, promoting skepticism here online. When you know the tricks and how they can fool the human mind, I wager it is likely to make you VERY upset when you see others using that outright scam innocent people.
@@JackgarPrime Dillahunty doesnt know the truth. He promotes what he thinks is the truth. He's also a pseudo-intellectual. Its fine for him to believe what he wants but I don't like his aggressive, antagonistic style.
I fully agree with everything James Randi did. Holding onto false hopes like a guy with crazy powers who can magically make everything right for everyone does nothing but pushes back your fears instead of allowing you to confront them and properly handle them. Even if psychics caused literally zero physical harm to anyone to this day, I still think that they don't deserve to be looked at and praised for fabricating their abilities and manipulating their audiences to make them think it's real. It it weren't for Randi, psychics could've gotten away with far worse things.
All of this!!
How about religions? All of them do this.
It also stops people from confiding in friends and family, people who actually care about them. Or psychologists, people who actually know what they are doing.
Interestingly, not long after I watched this video I posted some art inspired by a dream I had had (because it was cute; I had dreamed about baby rats wearing adorable little tophats) and this woman came along saying she's a dream interpreter and could tell me what the dream "meant" if I was interested. Just for the hell of it I said sure go ahead, and what I got was an absolutely textbook example of a cold read. For example I mentioned I was an author so she intuited that I had an unfinished novel on my hands which I had abandoned halfway through. You know, LIKE EVERY AUTHOR ON THE ENTIRE PLANET. She also said the tophats meant I was "due to go up in the world", which could also mean damn near anything. At least my friends got a good laugh out of it when I showed them.
i love when people try to do “dream interpretations” on the most random things, like “hmmm yes this dream about rats in top hats means you will get rich off your book and become a greedy capitalist”
Fancier rats
Glad to know you and your friends saw through the BS and found the humor in it!
Who remembers that famous scene from The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy tried telling to that psychic and he tried convencing her to go home. Your post reminded me of that.
aw that's a very sweet and cute little dream. what an adorable person you are. 🙂💜
RIP James Randi💔
Feel so bad for him been hated for exposing facts. I mean yeah, he's really straight forward but he's not insulting anybody's religion or beliefs. He only gets the shitty scammers.
Well you know what they say. People will believe comfortable lies rather than the harsh truth.
James Randi is awesome! Why did he die last year at such an old age baffles me.
"Being fake will make you mills, but the truth will get you killed"
Especially considering the fact that he wasn’t just outting “harmless tricks” but also scammers that would rip off those who didn’t know better and empty their pockets out. I respect him a lot and it’s so strange that he got the hate instead of those that fooled the public.
@Something Mildly Homophobic lolololol. I was about to say there isn't a more shitty scam than religion. (Although I do acknowledge that this is a very negative dogmatic view of it. I'm currently having difficulty squaring the negative sides of it with the positive.)
I feel so bad for the guy, he's just trying to show people they're getting scammed and they're applauding someone yelling at him :(
Boomer americans
america
@@vivvy_0 it ain't just America. Look up videos about people in South Africa arguing that meteorology is false and that their Shaman is what calls the rain.
@@johnbuscher At least they have the excuse to be third world countries that don't have as easily access to information than us.
@@NIHIL_EGO I think you described America
The whole thing reminds me of an episode of America's Got Talent, where a contestant came on to audition and sing. Simon asked what she does for a living. She said she was a psychic. So, Simon asked if she predicted she'd get through, and she thought for a second and said "Yes, I will". She bombed like crazy with her atrocious singing, after which Simon said "Well, you're not a very good psychic."
Cracks me up.
This sounds fucking hilarious holy shit. Do you have a link?
@First name Last name I can sense you aren't fun to talk to at parties.
@First name Last name bruh
@First name Last name I can sense that you are an annoying person
@First name Last name you definitely have a lot of friends and a loving family, the security and confidence oozes from your words.
I will never forget how a friend tried to talk me into contacting a 'psychic', when my cat went missing. If I had even the slightest inclination to believe such things, I would have contacted them. I can only imagine even people who don't believe in it will do it, if it's their child. Just on the slightest chance... Horrible and absolutely predatory.
(Our ancient beloved cat was returned to us via the true magic: the internet, which allowed us to communicate with most of our village. He died peacefully shortly after.)
Maybe the real psychic was the friends we made along the way 😊
The worst of the worst are definitely those that insert themselves into missing person or murder cases. I will never understand why investigations go to psychics for cases when they just waste time and money.
This video reminds me of the St. Louis Jane Doe and it's horrible how one of the most crucial evidence is lost because the police tried to send it to a psychic. It just pisses me off thinking that her name could have been found and the culprit could have been caught if those investigators aren't so desperate to the point of relying on psuedoscience. (FYI anyone interested in the case please beware of disturbing details of child abuse)
Wasn't happening you know decades ago?
I will never understand how people can actually exist that are so detached from reality that they don't know/accept that most every major power in the world has spent and is spending millions on remote viewing or similar endeavors. Whether or not it actually works, no idea. It either does and is well funded or doesn't and is a front for funds to go somewhere more sinister. I would assume you're ok with it since you most probably vote and pay taxes to fund such things. Pretty much have to move to a third world country not to.
Like wtf i don't get that the police would, in THIS YEAR STILL, search help through a psychic. Like WHAT. How is that even possible. How is this allowed?
@@tragossoboy6700 in my city the police actually got help from a “psychic” for a case on a missing girl. The psychic they worked with gave the name of a lake and said the girl is in there. They searched inside the lake and finally found chuck’s of her body.
She was cut up and disposed off in the lake. Because of a drug debt. I dont believe in that psychic/supernatural stuff but when I heard that from my friend who worked on the case. Definitely makes me wonder WTF
The “NOSTRA-DUMB-ASS” moment might be one of the most enjoyable 5 second moments of my 30 years thus far.
youre 30? thats old I dont like old ppl
you must have had a really boring 30 years before this
@@alterperversersackkk what's that got anything to do with their comment? Also 30 isn't old and you're an "old perverted sod" according to your user name, so...
Jay Leno did that joke over a decade ago, unfortunately.
@Joswin Joseph YOUR PSYCHIC POWER LEVEL IS OFF THE CHARTS!
The fact that Sylvia said "I don't care" when that poor, grieving mother said there was no evidence that her daughter had been shot just shows what kind of person she was: evil, manipulative, and only interested in herself and money.
People still believe in Sylvia Brown even now.
@@rdizzy1 Funny thing is, she even mispredicted her own death.
@@ethanhinton4549 They all will, considering psychics don't actually exist.
@@rdizzy1 That is incredibly sad
@@rdizzy1 With all these psychics (Read: charalatans) running around... how do we fix this? How do we keep these frauds and snake oil salesman away, never to earn a single cent more?
I've always loved Randi. Dudes a hero in my book. How anyone could be mad at him for exposing frauds is beyond me.
Don't mind me, just looking for Ryan's comment.
Don’t mind me, just pointing out the third rate youtuber trying to leech views.
Same lol
@@Jayfive276 are youtubers not allowed to comment now? Wtf?
@@Jayfive276 Are people just not allowed to comment of their verified?
@@nukelewman fr
I remember in one case a girl was abducted and when her mother went to a psychic, it was broadcasted on TV. The girl actually watched the show live and saw the exact moment her mother was told that she had died while she was very much alive. I cannot believe how hopeless she must've felt, seeing her mother give up on her.
@@PetitPoneyDuVercors26 I'm unsure. But just goes to show how common this thing is!!
Yes, a very famous case. I had mixed feelings because she managed to escape and the mother was not alive when she returned. Heartbreaking, for the mother mourned & yearned for her daughter!
Her name was Amanda Berry. One of three girls held captive for 10 years in the infamous Cleveland kidnapping case. I can't recall how her mother died. I don't believe it was suicide like the other commenter said. Im pretty sure it was health reasons due to her age. The misery from losing her daughter probably didn't help. I wouldn't be surprised if she just let herself go and succumbed to the health conditions so she could see her daughter again, never knowing she was actually leaving her daughter behind...
Amanda Berry
@@CarolineAnandSiddiquiliterally in this video he discusses this. FYI
This reminds me of a joke in a comic I once read.
Basically a doctor gets concerned when he learns his colleague surgeon consults a psychic before each surgery he performs and claims the only bad surgeries happened when he didn't.
So the doctor visits the psychic to ask how she can decide on the potential lives of people to which she responds;
"When he comes for consultation, he sits across me as you do now and I can feel his breath upon me. So I can immediately tell whether he has been drinking or not."
Yo what was the comic? Cuz that's hilarious
Good one😂
@@puthypicasso640 It's a local comic series called "Vrouwen in wit" meaning Women in white. Basically gags about he life of nurses and dokters, not always medically accurate.
LOL thanks for that! :D
This is way too good
James Randi sounds like such a fucking legend, people who will become the "villain" in society to undermine the true villains are just the people I respect more than anybody else, it's one of the most true definitions of being selfless there is.
He was cool. I met him once, and he gifted me a tiny plastic dinosaur.
as the child of a self-proclaimed evangelical prophet, who grew up being told that my panic attacks were caused by demons, I have such an intense rage this stuff. I have seen it harm so, so many people, including myself, though I'm more familiar with the evangelical/"spiritual warfare" side of things. Unsurprisingly "prophets" are masters of hot and cold reading. Anyway, thanks for this video, I appreciate it
This is very relatable. Growing up I was told that what I now know were representative PTSD flashbacks were prophesies from god about the end times.
@@tahlialysse While very sorry about the trauma you both suffered, I think you could work together to create a really interesting podcast.
@@clairepettie that’s such a weird response but also one i totally agree with
@@yourdad3275 Thanks Dad!
@@clairepettie you’re welcome, champ
This video is *extremely* important, these frauds are horrible. I’ve always found it absolutely disgusting when I see mediums using the vulnerability of grieving people in order to make money, “your child says hello.” Yeah, no, that’s repulsive.
Same here.
people who say that they can talk to the dead and have "messages" from dead loved ones and just proclaim it over a LARGE audience......it just fills me with disgust and loathing
People want to believe, that is why i stopped reading carts. The insane stuff i was asked and told. Some of them seem to think you're Jesus whenn you use tarot. I told them before that i m not a psychic, which was ignored by several of them, UNSETTELING!
@@gazepskotzs4
It's really sad the amount of people that take everything at face value and don't think
"Oh, this person's lying" or "it's a scam"
Not until it's too late
Completely agree- we need to drive awareness. I recommend other channels like TheraminTrees or Holy Koolaid.
@@Rylosalex yeah, you're correct on that, but it happens because people want answers about the unknown. That is what religion is about. And it is indeed sad that even today, people do not get that no one can provide answers to the unknown and that we just have to accept this fact.
Small sidenote: I met James Randi back in 2016 at a convention. Randi was incredibly kind, funny, and humble. I hate seeing people being so rude to him, it makes me sad 😥
Mad respect bro
I’m glad for you, really wanted to see him in person, I hope you enjoyed your time.
Randi is one of my heroes! Such an incredible man
every time I watch this video I can't help but laugh when I get to the hot reading part, because Wisconsin is a landlocked state in the middle of the country with the closest thing to a "sea" anywhere near it being Lake Michegan
Lake Michigan is, for most intents and purposes, a freshwater sea
I watched a video on James Randi and he honestly came off as a really nice guy which is why he was so determined to uncover these fakes taking advantage of desperate people. I honestly don’t understand how he was so hated and not the outright scam artists praying on vulnerable people
People like having an answer, even if it's a wrong one. Being able to have somebody with assumed authority be able to look you in the eye and say, "I know all the answers, all you have to do is follow me" gives vulnerable people hope and by that point if someone tells them it's wrong, it doesn't matter. That belief is their worldview and rarely does pointing out the errors cause those people to doubt because they literally can't. In their minds this has to be true because they've invested so much into it, it's given them peace of mind for so long that to let that all go can be devastating. Which is why when you do find someone who has that happen they have a huge mental breakdown which can spiral really fast.
Because he was a scam artist himself. He might have come across as really nice to the people he was taking advantage off but at times he could be quite a petty nasty vindictive dishonest little man. Not all bad, but he had a very dark side to him. Think it might have been because he had a difficult upbringing and hard life . He was a good magician and escapologist though. Good entertainer
@@jimohara he seems a bit condescending too. Another thing I don't like that he does, which CAN hurt people, is when he takes those bottles of pills all at once. Or makes it look like he is. There are a lot of stupid people out there and not all of them are going to know which pills are just sugar pills and which aren't. One day someones going to do that as a joke with their friends (ever hear of fake "suicide parties") and end up dead or dying and it will be because of him and his influence. His hatred for not just the psychic world by the herbology world is disgusting. He's a hateful, spiteful little man who doesn't always know what he's talking about or doing. True most psychics are fake and true most herbalists are fakes, but there are those out there who are real. Those who do know what they're doing. Especially in the Herbology world. Native Americans, Asians, and Middle Easterners survived on that type of medical knowledge for millennia and he makes light of it like it's a joke. Then he goes and uses examples, which is HIGHLY dangerous. You don't know what all is put into those things. It's being found that simple diet pills sold at Wal-Mart, in the pharmacy department and said to be safe by the pharmacist when asked, are shutting down organs and killing people. Even certain ingredients in vitamins and things like Melatonin can do this if used in large doses all at once or over a long period of time. He really needs to be taken off the air and discredited as he's just as bad as if not worse than the fakes for making it all into a joke and mockery.
Skeptic was a dirty word back then because most media was aimed at housewives. Still is today surrounding the right thing. DNA and race isn't real, except when it is. The decline of blondes with blue eyes and a scheduled extinction within a century or two isn't real, except when it is. When it's stated as a scientific fact it's hate speech, but when Buzzfeed later declare it it's great, here's ten reasons why it's a good thing, number eight will shock you. The media decides what is and what isn't allowable, always has. It on the whole hates critical thinkers because then they'll have to do their job. Like the hydroxychloroquine lady who murdered her husband. One google search or glance at her Facebook would have told them that, but it took 4 months and a comedian to uncover the fact she was a murderer because the story the media ran with was satisfying for their narrative. In fact even when confronted with the proof she murdered her husband and it wasn't an accident the journalist who launched that global viral story rejected reality and substituted her own.
@@dr.lexwinter8604 well said.
My father went to a psychic a few years ago (while my parents were still married) and she told him that they are going to divorce and that he'll marry again and the woman has a son. My father is so sceptical about psychics, but after he told her in what church he is, she said that she's in the same church. That completely convinced him. She even said that my mom will die in 5. I was 10 at the time and it was before they divorced. Every time my mom got a bit sick I immediately started thinking that she's going to die, because of the prediction. According to that prophecy she would die in 2019. She's still alive and well.
You want to guess how much she charged? Converted to dollar... it was ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!
I really hope that people won't be convinced that the predictions are real. They usually start to subconsciously work to have that prophecy be true.
The thing is, every time a psychic is right (ie:, by chance/coincidence), you'll hear about it to the moon and back. People don't pay attention to the billions of times they're wrong lol.
I get it!!! My deceased husband saw James Van Praggh🙄🤦♀️ He wanted to talk to his mother who had taken her life, on Mother’s Day, a few years prior😢
We, against my instincts, spent a lot of money. And I mean hundreds!!! After numerous meetings, Van Praggh, gave him some shady cassette tape that was supposed to be his mother speaking??? It was garbled and saying “I love you, just let me go, it’s not your fault…you’re father cheated on me. I’m in peace…go away now….”
That was it. It caused a bigger rig between he and my father-in-law. He went back on heroine and eventually killed himself😢
No respect for, so called, psychics 🤬
Psychics love self-fulfilling prophecies
Boy would you're heart skip a beat if you knew how much more they pay now.
Haha i mean the Greeks knew that 2000 years ago.. prophecies always just made people ensure they happened, it's self fulfilling
And that's in mythology where its actually real, not in real life where it's just con artist nonsense
The whole Cleveland kidnapping thing was so sad just on its own, but knowing the victim knew about Sylvia Browne lying to her mother on tv afterwards is awful.
I saw that when John Oliver did an episode on self-professed psychics and I just cried. That poor girl saw her mother being lied to on national TV, unable to do anything about it, and will never truly have closure since her mother passed away believing the lie.
My uncle had a serious heart condition and sought out a well known faith healer. He was “healed” and left a happy man. That is until he had a massive heart attack 3 weeks later. I would look forward to a few minutes alone with this individual, after which he could practice his healing abilities upon himself
An anime about psychic debunkers would make for a great "non-battle" battle anime.
Reigen Arataka 😎
Sounds like a cross between Mob Psycho 100 and Ace Attorney.
I want it!
Omg I thought about the same anime as you too 🤣
Mob psycho 100 is definitely in my top3 anime of all times
I can easily see this as a Battle Shonen in the same vein as Yu-Gi-Oh or some fights in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (namely the Darby Brothers' matches) with a hint of Doctor Stone.
I would watch the absolute hell out of that.
God bless Randi, man. What a brave soul. I hated the part where he was being humiliated on camera. So heartbreaking. RIP Randi. The internet has your back!
I really don't like watching people being humiliated either way. Even when it was phony psychics being revealed by Randi on camera, I felt bad for them. But at least, Randi's goal are noble. Watching this fucking guy not letting him say a word, insulting him and acting violently in front of him was actually infuriating.
@MA Ironically enough, I say PREACH IT!!!! Cause everything you said in that reply is so god damn true.
" God bless"? Randi is an Atheist hahaha
@Levi Athan we support him and love him.. he is still our Hero!!!
this is an old comment but i just hate how they didnt even let him speak. :( the host spoke over him, the crowd yelled over him, then they forced a commercial break before he could say anything!
The funny thing about when Geller got exposed as a fraud on TV is that his followers took it AS PROOF that his powers were real. Because if it was all just a trick, he could've done it on command without fail. So the fact that he failed to bend metal was taken as proof that he could in fact do it and he just wasn't "feeling it" that night. Fucking unbelievable.
Clearly it wasn’t unbelievable, heh.
@@DELTARYZ lmao nice
I... How? Man, I wish I could have gotten straight A's in school by failing every test and making my professors think "Yeah, I could do it if I wanted to, so give me the A anyhow"
@@johnbuscher Cognitive dissonance, son.
The mistake only using logic, they needed to use some emotion like "this person would cause your child to die if he profits from it"
You mean to tell me there was a vid of a Russian woman with what I can only assume is a magnet under a table
And the military immediately said “oh shit the Russians have wizards we gotta get on that”
(2 million dollars later)
"Huh. ah well"
I mean... the American government also did a bunch of testing on the potential of LSD in the 50s(I believe) so it's... sadly not that farfetched though disappointing.
You do remember these are the same people who first came up with the concept of putting a fucking star in a bottle and throwing it at people, yeah?
"I want to be cremated and I want my ashes to be blown into Uri Geller's eyes" is a level of haterade drinking I can only aspire to
Absolutely iconic. What a king.
i'm christian, and chronically ill. The amount of times people in my own church have told me to go to a faith healer or who have told me to pray harder and god will essentially magic it away is. . . its gross and disgusting tbh. religion is fine to me, though obviously i'm biased. but blaming everything on a spiritual dissonance is (obviously) disastrous. the amount of times people have told me that my depression is a literal demon possessing me is sad, especially because i know for a fact that my depression is due to a long time serotonin deficiency that's been around almost since birth. smh at the people who prey on the vulnerable.
I hope you get better, if you still aren't getting therapy, try to find a good one, someone which isn't biased to one side, maybe it will help your condition, i pray for you to get better!
I'm sure those people mean well, but that's a really shitty thing to tell someone. Glad you can see through it. I had a family member driven crazy by that shit because she constantly blamed herself for her condition worsening.
Sorry to hear that. There are therapies and drugs(as in medicine) that can greatly improve your quality of life. Speaking from experience. It won't vanish istantly, but you will be able to lead a nice life. Never give up. I hope it didn't sound too patronising. Have a wonderful day😊
What type of church/denomination do you attend?
as a fellow christian who has also seen this kind of stuff, it reflect poorly on our communities. Belief and love in god should not be tied with the negligence of science and observable reality. You can trust in god without hating scientists.
PS hoping you get the help you need, be well friend
Has anybody checked in with Ryan M, who probably just had the weirdest moment of his life?
I found this comment while scrolling through to find Ryan... oh how I yearn for the pay off from this bit...
Ryan sir we need to know
Living by the sea... In Wisconsin...hmmmm
Think he commented about it on twitter and Eyepatch Wolf RTed it
Not the exact Ryan but I am a Ryan M and it freaked me out
This video is a bit old I don't think anyone will see this comment
November 14th 2023 i lost my little brother. 3 months of suffering. Yesterday My mother came to me to tell me that she saw a psychic and the psychic had all sorts of knowledge about my brother and had answers for his afterlife.
My mother has lived a hard life, so have I but i never thought she'd go to a psychic. I Thought about telling her that it's fake but I still don't know if it's the right thing to do or not. It was a free reading after all and shes not one to spend money keft and right.
I came to this video for comfort, because everything said here is true. They prey on vulnerable, grieving, suffering people and theyre rewarded for this. Psychics are scum.
Thank you for this video when I watched it nearly three years ago I just thought it was interesting, but now it's actually truly helped me.
I’m sorry for your loss, and I’m sorry that loss has been made harder by manipulators.
I understand your hesitancy to tell her the truth, I’m named after my uncle, who was shot and killed when he was 15, and my grandmother told me stories of how he spoke to her after he died, saying that he was okay and with God now.
People find comfort in faith, and sometimes it is more harmful for them to expose them to reality than to allow them to live with a fantasy like that. What’s most tragic about these manipulative practices talked about in this video is that people are being convinced to hurt themselves (by giving their money, time, relationships, health, and sometimes their lives) in order to find that relief.
I don’t know what the right thing to do is, but I know the feeling. Hopefully one day humanity will learn to cope with and accept the harsh realities of life instead of trying to escape from them.
About a year ago, I found out my mother gives money to religious healers so they could pray for me and other members of my family. I still haven't told her that I know, because I don't want to admit I went through her messages, but I tried hinting at it.
I totally get why you'd be hesitant to tell your mom about this. People will do anything for comfort and stability, and this includes spending ridiculous amounts of money on things that don't work and they don't truly need. I'd say you're lucky that your mom didn't spend any money on it yet
I never knew James Randi was considered such a bad guy, I've always thought of him as a badass exposing liars and scammers like Houdini did.
Later in his life he became very uncomfortably enamored with eugenics and social darwinism. He's also been accused of letting the JREF fall to shambles by ignoring a plethora of complaints of racism, sexism and harassment by JREF staff and speakers over the years while he was still active in his organization.
It doesn't diminish the importance of his work, but it does paint a more grounded picture of him as a flawed and at times problematic figure.
@@lbcyber I loved his exposing Uri Gheller content, that was some of his best "work", yet I have left a comment under the video that easily exposes his most basic flaw, and all the stuff you listed is also quite pertinent, he was after all a scammer himself to start, it's where he learned that all these "tricks" are studied, cold reading, theatrics, statistics, etc...
Whenever you mess with a large industry's money - they will come after you in very large numbers. He obviously wasn't considered a bad guy by anyone with a stable mind, but, psychics, etc. are part of the entertainment industry, so, they stick together. That is why he was made to look bad on so many talk shows, etc. Hell, Montel Williams promoted the hell out of Sylvia Browne and he knew she was a fake. All of those screw ups they edited out were on his show - so, he saw them.
More than any public figure I've taken an interest in, Randi was a walking contradiction. He spent his life exposing shams while living a lie himself, he was a critical thinker who could be incredibly closed minded, and he was so passionate about his work that he neglected a lot of it. Having a complicated legacy doesn't make him bad guy or tarnish his work. He was a badass exposing liars and scammers. He was also a lot of other things. We all are.
People with low IQ want to believe in religion and psychic powers. People of all IQ levels become upset when their beliefs are challenged. We people on the internet live in a bubble and often fail to realize how many religious and supernaturalist people there are and how bizarre and dysfunctional they are. James Randi believing in eugenics (as an above commenter claims he was) was likely him coming to realize the extreme dysfunction afflicting the average human animal - a dysfunction that begins and ends in the genes.
The idea that as a 'psychic' you see the desperation of the parents of a missing child as an 'opportunity' says all you need to know about these disgusting vultures. In the UK, the police call psychics, 'the second wave of predators.'
Ur right
I think the word for people who see opportunity in a devastated parent's grief is "psychopath." That's exactly what they are.
@@groofay Psychicpaths
It upsets me that my Mom falls hook line and sinker for these jackasses, and there’s nothing I can do to convince her otherwise.
As an Indian, these types of “psychic” things are so angering because of how many people in our community who are struggling fall prey to them. So many people claim to be the reincarnations of Indian gods and guess what? People believe them. I really really REALLY hate one in particular because of how much he’s ruined my mom. “Guru Ji” is a person of a higher caste who claims to be the reincarnation of Lord Shiva. He even has a whole damn temple dedicated to him called the “Badah Mandir “. When my mom discovered him through her FaceBook around 2018, she has never stopped believing in him since. And I feel bad for her because she’s going through a lot so she relies on these people for support. Every day, she prays to him but that motherfucker is dead. What is he going to do about my struggling mom? Only we can help her, but she doesn’t take support from us because of her belief in HIM. The community is always sharing videos about how he helped them with advice, but I honestly think they were payed to tell their fake stories. I remember a few months ago when it was his birthday (which is a major event in this community) people were spending THOUSANDS of money to celebrate his birthday. There was a video of this guy’s picture being flown in from within a helicopter.
And now, my other point of why I hate him. In his spiritual sessions that his followers host, they will always put on preachings from the Sikh Gurbani that preach about simplicity and understanding of the the human ego. But yet, all these spiritual meetings are held in extravagantly decorated rooms or even Event halls.
It’s honestly mockery at this point.
that's ridiculous. People are using godly/spiritual figures to exploit hopeful people's bank accounts :/ I hope the truth becomes clear that so many people's investment goes towards greedy "reincarnations" like Guru Ji.
@shinigami2 Sadly I have to admit that the victims are accountable, up to a point, because I have seen Indian people bowing to their "Guruji" for years, until they finally discover it was a scam.....(Sai Baba from the 1980s is one example).....but then finding a new "Guruji" to start bowing and praying to, soon afterwards.
the Bollywood movie pk was what made me aware 9f this issue for the first time and since then I've tried looking more into it, and well it's sad that it happens to real sad, hope your mother gets better
@@daveanaru3038 So very true, before she discovered "Guruji", she and my Nani were all over the Ram Rahim guy until he got exposed for his crimes.
Remembers me of those African medics Dat will drug u to hell and call it a "possession"
This video is undoubtedly challenging to watch, yet its significance cannot be overstated. Content like this should be shown in schools, where its impact can resonate deeply. Kudos to you for creating such a powerful piece-thank you for fighting the good fight.
Wait why is it challenging to watch? It's interesting and well-paced
@@MaxonerousX oh yeah, the pacing is perfect. I just meant it's hard to see all these people be tricked.
@@wildworld6264 Oh yeah definitely lol
James Randi is a fucking hero. It's amazing how often victims will ride to the rescue of their victimizers, and it's terribly sad. And sadly often incredibly harmful.
I think he's a hero too. It's honestly hard to describe how much I appreciate his amazing work...
His books are worth reading. Rip. James.
I am part of the Indian community and have seen repeatedly, Indians being ripped off and abused by faith healers.
Frustrating thing is, that they eventually realize that their faith healer is a f.....g liar, but then they fall victim to the next bullshit artist who predictably proceeds to fleece them....😡
It's sad that some people didn't appreciate James Randi for exposing fraudsters! Randi isn't the only stage magician to expose the tricks that Charlatans like Gellar use, as he was following in the footsteps of Harry Houdini, who, like Randi was able to see through the mediums & spiritualists of his day! Mind you, Houdini would do shows where he demonstrated the tricks they would use & would also attend seances & use simple methods to expose them (one case they spiritualists used a horn which the spirits supposedly talked through, which Houdini put soot on, & when seance ended one of the spiritualists had soot all over his face from using the horn, exposing him as a fraud)! Houdini even tried to get for prophet mediums & psychic banned in the US, but unfortunately, he found that politicians of his day often consulted psychics & spiritualists ultimately won out! Additionally, while a skeptic, he befriended spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed Houdini himself had abilities despite Houdini trying to convince him he had no supernatural abilities (to the general public Houdini did perpetuate the myth that he had a physiological quirk that allowed him to escape bindings & handcuffs as skills can be replicated through practice, but he never claimed it was the result of anything supernatural and it was more of a way to keep some of his secrets as a magician & escape artist, yet he did his shows purely for entertainment & to educate the public about the tactics spiritualists & mediums use to trick people! Ultimately, however, Houdini's friendship with Doyle ultimately ended when Doyle convinced him to attend a seance with his wife as the medium to contact Houdini's deceased mother (Houdini himself had originally tried to contact her through a medium after he death, but realized the spiritualists were frauds & became dedicated to exposing them)! Unfortunately for Doyle, his wife wrote a note to Houdini, which she claimed was from his mother (with her being used as the medium to write it), however, Houdini knew it was bogus as she had drawn the a cross on the paper, which Houdini's mother would never do as she was Jewish! This pretty much ended their friendship, as Houdini wasn't happy that once again, he was able to expose a fraud! However, much like Randi, some people didn't appreciate his attempts to inform the public, though Houdini held to his guns & had his wife hold seances after his death as one final test for the mediums & psychics claims, as he made it clear if spirits could communicate! However, despite countless attempts, no psychic was able to reveal the secret phrase he told his wife to confirm it was him! This led to a tradition of seances to contact Houdini, none of which have been successful, with a portrait of Houdini's mother in the room where they are performed! Another example of magicians acting as scientific skeptics is Penn & Teller, who also have also used their skills as magicians to expose pseudoscience, psychics/mediums, & Paranormal claims! In fact, James Randi was often a frequent guest on their show "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!"! Personally, I think it is neat that there are magicians today who carry on this tradition of magicians being skeptics who try to expose the frauds & make people aware of the tactics they employ to fool people! While I personally am a skeptic, I do believe in God (though there are some parts of the Bible I either question or understand aren't meant to be taken literally as some people do) & an afterlife yet I'm not all that religious (I also personally believe killing in the name of GOD is a sin in and of itself as why would an all powerful GOD ask someone to commit the sin of murder in their name when the Bible makes it perfectly clear GOD can strike people down), I retain an open mind about the possibility of paranormal or unexplained phenomenon, though this is due to how I view science as man's understanding of the universe, thus there are things that might simply be beyond our ability to explain & science occasionally gets things wrong as new discoveries are made & outdated ideas are disproven using the scientific method! The thing about science is that while it isn't always perfect due to bias and other factors, it isn't meant to be!
He's a hero and he's absolutely fucking hilarious! The passive agressive way he just goes to talk shows after "psychics" go on them and exposing them
I like how the reaction to the "psychic blast" was that animals started to act strange. As if animals couldn't sense the anticipation in their owners' body language and get excited or nervous themselves! Some people think animals are more in tune with the supernatural, but actually they are more in tune with their owners moods. Their life (and treats) depend on it.
Yeah, animals are like unironically empaths as I understand, as they have evolved to sense any slight change in the emotional state of their subject to make their decisions (IE cat will stop moving if it senses fear, or dog will automatically get sad when they see owner mad).
@@radiofloyd2359 can confirm
i work with horses, they can read microexpressions insanely well to the point that its almost telepathy
Yes, because animals communicate almost entirely through body language. We humans have complex speech, so we don’t notice body language as much. But for a non-verbal animal, their actions are their main method of communication
Also animals have better hearing, sense of smell, and they literally expierance time differently.
What's the anime from your profile picture?
"you can't find him because he's in water."
"well it was september 11th, he was a firefighter."
had to step away from the computer for that one and just facepalm
I hope your forehead bruise has faded by now - I assume that must have been quite a hard facepalm 😁
I cringe so much every time I see that clip, I feel so bad for the woman in the video. I really hope she tried to find peace or closure some other way than this
Same lmao. I paused the video, closed TH-cam, and took a walk around my room after that.
Sylvia Brown single handedly ruined my relationship with my best friend in highschool. He got soo caught up in her bs books to where he wouldn't stop with the angels & no touch healing for everything to where i couldn't take being around him anymore. This started shortly after his mothers untimely death & he was obviously simply searching for a greater meaning. I absndoned him because i was too young to understand it at the time... & have had to deal with that regret for over a decade. These charlatans should all be sued in class action lawsuits! They're pure evil.
As a young teen, I was devastated by the loss of my father who committed suicide. Nothing could bring me closure until I was recruited by a new agey church that promoted the use of tarot cards, psycics and crystal healing sessions. One reader had asked us all to draw numbers from a basket. Mine was 69 or was it upside down and was 96 instead? Must have been because I got chills when she called 96 and began saying certain things that definitely sounded as if she was talking to me. I looked around the room and noticed others looking intently at her as if she were talking to them too. After the session she told us all to light our papers and let our collective sadness go... That was the final straw... At 18 years old, I came to the harsh realisation that nope, these quacks have never been real and they never will be. I realised that healing yourself does not mean searching for answers but accepting that sometimes questions will be left unanswered and only you can be the driving force that heals yourself. No matter what your religious beliefs, nothing, especially not faith healers or people claiming to know your dead loved ones will ever be your saviour. I am saddened by how these people claiming to do all this for the love of people are nithing more then money hungry, bottom feeders with nothing but a superiority complex bucket loads of charisma
"Mine was 69 or was it upside down and was 96 instead?" *facepalm* Oh dear oh dear oh dear... Please write the number 69 on a piece of paper and then turn it upside down.
It's basically the same thing as "Yeah, it looked like a ying-yang symbol. Except it was upside down."
@@kraanz And yet, Jutta still has a valid story.
No one is doing it? Fine.
"Nice."
Sorry for your loss. You are right about accepting some thing as just unanswered. That's how we should move on
@@GloomGaiGar Bro...
You know what's kind of funny, Harry Houdini himself did similar work to Randy. He worked to expose those psychics and mediums who claimed all kinds of things. And, as far as I can remember, even he got lots of hate from those people.
Penn and Teller have done the same :) Professional magicians train for years learning how people's brain work and how they can be manipulated. So I bet that when someone comes along claiming to have actual magical abilities it must be extra cringey and frustrating for them.
Houdini and Doyle (the guy who wrote Sherlock Holmes) wound up breaking their friendship because Doyle was super, super into mediums and spiritualists.
My science teacher made a whole lesson dedicated to telling us how much he hated astrology
Seems like something my teacher would do
I can understand it
That's good.
Nice
i think in most cases it's fun if you don't take it seriously but the fact that people do take it seriously is scary
I was once asked the question: Who would you like to meet in the afterlife?
I replied, "James Randi... Because then I could go up to him and say - I guess we were both wrong about this afterlife business eh?"
R.I.P James Randi. I'm lucky that my time on Earth overlapped with yours briefly.
One person who spent a lot of time trying to debunk psychics and such was Houdini. He was really good friends with Arthur Conan Doyle (the writer of Sherlock Holmes) for a pretty long time, but Doyle was ready to believe in anything, including Houdini's tricks, even after Houdini explained how he did them, and insisted they had to be real magic. Eventually, their friendship ended because Doyle was just a huge believer in the spiritualist movement that was super large at the time, while Houdini was going around and debunking psychics. Doyle's wife even did some seances at one point, and she claimed to have contacted Houdini's dead mother and did some automatic writing. Houdini got pissed that his friends would try to do something like that to him. The writing was in English, a language Houdini's mother barely knew, which was basically the last straw.
Oh my, Houdini was amazing. Shame about his jackass friend.
Also, the "Seance" began with Doyle's wife writing a cross on the corner of the letter. Houdini's mom was Jewish.
He was enraged by the seance because his "mother" called him Harry which was just his stage name not his actual one
Doyle was a believer of the supernatural? Huh that's weird considering how analytical the Sherlock Holmes books are. Like the character is based on reading people with the information presented yet the author doesn't believe these so called psychics aren't doing the same thing when he is told that? Interesting🤔
Oh, and now they do houdini séances at the magic castle. Good job, folks. Way to remember him
I imagine the Soviets having a very good laugh at the fact that the US blew 20.000.000 $ on counteracting ... psychic Soviet babushkas. I'm born after the Iron Curtain fell, so I didn't experience it, but the more I hear about it, the more mind-numbingly stupid it gets ... oh, and horrifying.
Also, James Randi had one hell of a spine and guts to stand up to all the backlash he got. I wish he could have gotten his dying wish, that would have been damn epic. I hate the whole realm of "alternative medicine/faith healing" with a passion.
The research into psychic stuff during the cold war was good though in that it was thorough and thoroughly debunked psychic powers in a controlled setting
The research into psychics needs one piece of context: when Ian Fleming had a character refer to American intelligence with the quote "you cannot sow a million seeds without reaping one potato", he seems surprisingly accurate. They seem to have tried everything in an attempt to beat the Commies, and it is not too surprising that psychic BS is part of that everything.
Joke programs are used to cover up fsr deadlier programs.
@MA
They can't afford doctor, 'cause nobody want to help each other. Like taxes, from everybody for everybody. But after *that psychic super soldier making* the government lost their people.
People know government are nothing but a bunch of idiot trying to sit in a higher place. Just like the rest of people in america (and "bUt Not aLL oF Us LiKE DaT" they said. Hah, sick joke).
And the tree is sick because the seed is corrupt. The root of this problem rest in front of their eyes, but they're only look into the mirror of lies not the window of truth.
@@democard1199 But... not all people are like that? I know you made fun of that just now but it seems kinda ridiculous to paint one entire people as fat, racist, dumb pigs and idiots. I mean, you wouldn't like it if someone had this negative connotation of people from YOUR country right? Free healthcare doesn't equate to GOOD healthcare.
That TV show host that yelled at James Randi was so angry at having his personal fantasies broken that he lashed out against the person telling the truth. Had James Randi presented himself as a psychic and used that TV show to promote some quackery, the host would have been delighted, as it is more comfortable to be lied than to be told you were lied.
I can’t stand television so that’s why am on TH-cam right now lol.
That last sentence needs the word "to" after both instances of lied. It makes no sense as is.
I think it's partially because of the decline of the church. People still have their spiritual needs after all.
@@MrMarinus18 definitely, a religious upbringing and all it involves (community, servitude, hierarchies, rigid structures, support networks, strong father figures, etc.) may make it really difficult for people to embrace the world as it is, where easy solutions are scarce, random chance may seem overwhelming and carving our own path becomes a necesity difficult to overcome.
@@manamaster6 There is a reason Christianity was able to dominate the minds of hundreds of millions of people for over 2000 years. The idea of an all knowing and all powerful god watching over you is a comforting one.
It’s really upsetting when people claim to “communicate with the dead” because when people are grieving, no matter what their logic tells them, they want to believe. I’ve experienced this first hand and it makes me so angry how someone could be so disrespectful as to pretend that
James Randi was literally the embodiment of the 'Why you booing me I'm right!!' guy
The " 'Why you booing me I'm right' guy?" *dude.* That's Hannibal Burress.
@@TheGoldenBoo who killed Hannibal?
@@Gommes BDG, apparently. lmao
Well, unlike Hannibal Burress, James Randi isn’t a landlord, so I’m inclined to believe you.
"Your boos mean nothing! I've seen what makes you cheer!"
Mr. Randi recently passing away is such a huge loss to this world. I dreaded the day we'd lose him. He did so much good in his lifetime! He exposed the disgustingness of Peter Popoff and I'd recommend anyone to go watch some TH-cam videos about it.
I swear I didn't even know this guy existed until now, but from the clips and quotes from the video he sounded like a guy I would love and tbh I was really nervous when I saw how old he looked and really sad when he said he died and just last year. I kinda wish I knew about him before he died.
@@nicolelouise9779 same :(
@@nicolelouise9779 me too but at least we know of him now
"It's kinda' fucked up how people hate you for bein' real and reward you for bein' fake."
- Tupac Shakur
People are usually scared of reality because it breaks the fantasies we Make of life and shows how truly weak we are
-Sacqlain Brown
**cough*Peterson*cough**
Yes, that's a different kind of fakery, but I know one of the scientists who did ACTUAL research on lobsters (lobster and indeed any crustacean research is a small world). She was one of my professors, and she would NEVER use those studies to justify hierarchy in any way shape or form (and she never even mentioned that lobster aggression study in class, it was so irrelevant, I had to Google her to find her connection to one of those lobster aggression studies). And she has nowhere near the amount of fame and accolades that the guy famous for using lobsters to justify hierarchical behavior does.
@@lsmmoore1 i mean at least shes honest.The other guys the king of nothing.
I remember arguing with someone once who tried to claim James Randi had a sordid past equal to Geller's. It was at that time I realized that the person I was explaining it to was not worth trying to show the error of their ways. Its insane the mental gymnastics some people are willing to put themselves through just to feel more comfortable in their world. It wouldn't be so bad if they wanted to live that way, but for some godforsaken reason, they *insist* on constantly sharing those erroneous opinions and making other vulnerable people believe it. In its own way, that level of ignorance is just as destructive as the conartists that do their snake oil practices like Geller.
At the beginning of the year a coworker and good friend of mine went missing. And literally the following day, psychics were contacting his family and friends claiming they knew his whereabouts and each one gave a different answer. To this day he hasn't been found and it sickens me that people would give those people false hope just for attention.
did he go hiking or something
@@chemoboy-dannypheleps9234 No. He went out parting on New Years and just disappeared.
@@K33N-0 I hope he is alive somewhere.
I do have to say, you can not just assume that these ppl calling in, were not trying to HELP. Because only they know what their true intention was. If someone believes to be a psychic or whatever else, & they were not calling, asking for money in exchange for the whereabouts of the missing individual, then I see no ill intent there. Not saying they're truly psychic bc obviously they aren't. But at least their intentions were in the proper place. Just saying.
@@kaitlinwhite1816
Would saying someone is dead, when they really weren't except not taking money for it, really be any better?
Imagine being a psychic and having the arrogance to go on stage with a guy who is a professional in exposing frauds, thinking it’s gonna workout okay for you.
The thing is, it did work out. For all of them. Sure, for maybe 30 minutes they were exposed as fake, but after that life just continued as usual for them
If you think your the best then why wouldn't you true its like the guy is basically challenging your talent
It was a good bet for them to go on, they can spin not being able to use their powers on a whole load of bullshit, but to not turn up would mean they weren't confident in their own ability.
To base your entire career/life on a lie that you have to convince everyone is true everyday, somewhat guarantees that every "psychic" is arrogant. It's sort of a litmus test. You can especially tell, because when exposed or when they get something wrong they double down hard or some outside force is disrupting them.
I wonder how many had even fooled themselves into believing they were psychic
James Randi, a legend who fought for truth. Really sad that he is no longer with us. We could use more people like him.
hah
He’s called “amazing” for a reason.
man, my heart shattered when i saw that he passed. he was an absolute legend.
Rip to the legend and hope what he wants would come true
@Kamen Rider Kuuga more like these people are building delusions and lies so they can't handle it when the image they built were crumbling down before their eyes.
Lol btw what I meant by 'what he wants' is as James Randi had said, "I wanted to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown into Uriel Geller's eyes".
Just think about this legend's family made it come true then cremated him then wear a ski mask and infiltrate Uri Geller's house and blow his ashes to that dude's eyes then make a run for it before Uri Geller call in the cops.
Man, that would be fcking legendary
I freakin love you man! My mom is a believer of all kinds of shit and I personally experienced how dangerous this can get. I really don`t think we should just laugh it off if we encounter this kinds of information but actively fighting against it. Because for everyone who laughs it off, there will be one who takes it seriously. That`s why I think we should all take it seriously... as a fckin problem
A fake psychic vs someone tirelessly trying to prove him as a fraud.
That would be a good battle manga.
mob psycho has that general feel sometimes lol
It would be awesome twist if the logical guy defeats fake psychic by some intense and sudden psychic power the fake guy can't explain....And then fake psychic keeps on pondering about what's true and what's false his entire life....
No need to label them as fake it's already implied in the word "psychic"
@@itsDeej. Oh yeah, there was that whole Reigen arc when he was exposed as a fraud on live tv. And then Mob helped him regain his reputation. Which kinda frames Mob and Reigen in a bad light doesn't it?
Death note fraud edition
Sylvia mad disrespectful, “my daughters autopsy didn’t say she was shot”, “I don’t care about that”
Sylvia got embarrassed bc she’s a phone y! How do people keep allowing her on shows. She’s embarrassing
@@omshomestead well hopefully they won’t allow that anymore, if only because she’s been dead for 8 years.
@@namingisdifficult408 Honestly, good riddance.
@@namingisdifficult408 I'm kinda psychic myself in fact and got contacted by her recently she told me that all psychics are hack frauds full of shit.
@@ShiroNero94 damn kinda quirky and crazy 😳🥺😩
My 23 year old daughter lost her beloved fur baby & as soon as she posted it on her Instagram and Facebook, she had psychics claiming to talk to dead animals and can get her in touch with her dead dog. That is heartless and cruel.
it would be funny if someone offered for that type of thing
the person agreed and then they just barked at you for half an hour
How the hell can you talk with a dead dog? You cant even talk to an ALIVE dog
@@funnycatenjoyer2758 Turns out the "Psychic" was just a creep into puppyplay all along
That is cruel.
I'd love to watch her humiliate herself with faked details.
"Can I talk to me doggo?"
"~barking and dumb chidish RP*~"
"Sorry, Doggo was the name of my goldfish."
Also I give out fake names online, so if I said "Can you tell me about my dead cats?" I KNOW they'll only be giving out the fake names and will be lying with their 'research'.
* Nothing against RP, I'm a creative writer RPer myself XD
Wtf would even a dead dog say...