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Citizen Pawn
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Mar 10 2008, 03:22 AM
James Randi has done quite a bit to expose frauds such as peter popoff and uri geller, and a lot of less-than-notable people. Quite a few fraudulent psychics and people who allege to have supernatural powers have been shamed, even on national TV, by his million dollar challenge. I find that admirable, and his challenge is based on scientific principles that are agreed upon by the applicants.

I understand why the JREF forum members who obsess about 9/11's official story are disliked here, because i dislike most of them as much as you do. But it's no reason to pretend some biased article attacking his work is somehow relevant to 9/11. He's an extremely intelligent person who has done a lot of good.
JREF is filled with many informed people who are true "critical thinkers" and rationalists. When I say this, I'm excluding the "conspiracy theory" sub-forum. That part seems to attract people that, well, are personally and intellectually fallacious. Some more than others.

I do enjoy the work of exposing psychic frauds and the debate on creation vs. evolution, no harm there, and beneficial to many. Overall though, many JREF skeptics seemed to be misinformed on MANY subjects, even outside the scope of 9/11. Many posts there deal with material that has long been either discovered or discussed.

I've heard lectures also by young "skeptics" that visit colleges and give their "hey guys, everything is very simple here" on issues of immense complexity and scale, and where MASSIVE amounts of data are omitted.

I believe that being too "broad minded" can hurt in the end, but myopic views tend to hurt just as much. Couple that with childish attitudes and cult behavior? Not my kind of people, but hey....to each his own.
Edited by Citizen Pawn, Mar 10 2008, 04:26 AM.
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