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  • James Randi obituary

    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 22 03:25:59 2020
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    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.html

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  • From George@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Fri Oct 23 08:06:41 2020
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    On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 03:25:59 -0230
    David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> wrote:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.html


    Will be missed by many
    Except the kooks


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  • From Dennis Marcus@21:1/5 to george on Tue Oct 27 23:30:29 2020
    On Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 3:06:48 p.m. UTC-4, george wrote:
    On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 03:25:59 -0230
    David Dalton <dal...@nfld.com> wrote:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.html


    Will be missed by many
    Except the kooks


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    His final obituary. He took away faith from other men.

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  • From George@21:1/5 to Dennis Marcus on Thu Oct 29 08:16:18 2020
    On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:30:29 -0700 (PDT)
    Dennis Marcus <markuze72@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 3:06:48 p.m. UTC-4, george wrote:
    On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 03:25:59 -0230
    David Dalton <dal...@nfld.com> wrote:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.html


    Will be missed by many
    Except the kooks


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    His final obituary. He took away faith from other men.

    No.
    He showed the believers just how they were being defrauded...


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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 28 12:33:30 2020
    On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:16:18 +1300, the following appeared
    in sci.skeptic, posted by George <gblack@hnpl.net>:

    On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:30:29 -0700 (PDT)
    Dennis Marcus <markuze72@gmail.com> wrote:

    [Re; James Randi]:

    His final obituary. He took away faith from other men.

    No.
    He showed the believers just how they were being defrauded...

    Actually, both are true, if "faith" is defined as "belief
    unsupported by objective evidence".

    While faith is entirely appropriate for religious belief,
    Randi's debunking of the "psychic" charlatans didn't address
    religion, but issues which could have been, but weren't,
    supported by evidence.

    And yes, he'll be missed.
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    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From Dennis Marcus@21:1/5 to Bob Casanova on Thu Oct 29 23:47:22 2020
    On Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 3:33:45 p.m. UTC-4, Bob Casanova wrote:
    On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:16:18 +1300, the following appeared
    in sci.skeptic, posted by George <gbl...@hnpl.net>:
    On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:30:29 -0700 (PDT)
    Dennis Marcus <mark...@gmail.com> wrote:
    [Re; James Randi]:
    His final obituary. He took away faith from other men.

    No.
    He showed the believers just how they were being defrauded...
    Actually, both are true, if "faith" is defined as "belief
    unsupported by objective evidence".

    While faith is entirely appropriate for religious belief,
    Randi's debunking of the "psychic" charlatans didn't address
    religion, but issues which could have been, but weren't,
    supported by evidence.

    And yes, he'll be missed.
    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov


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  • From Bruce S@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Fri Jan 1 15:02:42 2021
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    On 10/21/20 11:55 PM, David Dalton wrote:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.html


    Wow, I missed this news until now. I know he was sick, and old, but
    this is still a sad shock. Randi was one of the greats, as well as a
    decent person.

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  • From B1ackwater@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 4 00:42:43 2021
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    Ummm ... Randi is DEAD. It happens. 'Nuf said.

    Should have had himself frozen, even a 0.001% chance
    is way better than 0.0% after all.

    His logical and evidentiary refutations of mysticism
    and pseudo-science will quickly be forgotten - that
    is the way of todays amnesiac culture. Same mistakes
    over and over and over again ... year after decade after
    century after millenia. There are just some things the
    Collective We *never* learn - and certain interests
    ALWAYS know how to exploit that. It's a "people thing" ....

    Now make sure to offer up some goats and cash
    money ("sacrifice" has wider meaning these days)
    to Baal and everything will be OK ... don't think
    about it, don't worry about it, you KNOW this is
    how the universe works - you can feel it in
    your bones like umpteen million others .............

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