Saturday, May 23, 2009

More from James Randi

I usually don't comment on skeptics generally, but I did find this interesting;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0hgP3ioAeA&feature=channel_page

The Carlos hoax, in which a teen aged actor was set up by the skeptic and magician James Randi to act as a channeler receiving messages from an "ascended master" by the name of Carlos was meant to show how easily the media could be drawn into the channeling sensation. It is true that there is an amazing amount of silliness for lack of better words in the media, pseudoscience and the paranormal seem to be much more popular then true science in some cases.

Hopefully the next generation will be less credulous.