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

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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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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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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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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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'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

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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.
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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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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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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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