Oh, I love seeing Randi at his peak! The Geller/Popoff ones are classics. I've not seen that astrologer one before, though.
As for how they get away with it, well I think the Barnum principle just about covers it. As long as there are people who actively want to be conned, there will be someone only too happy to relieve them of their cash.
As for how they get away with it, well I think the Barnum principle just about covers it. As long as there are people who actively want to be conned, there will be someone only too happy to relieve them of their cash.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
