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Uri Gellar appeared on the Mike Douglas show and demonstrated his amazing spoon-bending technique. After giving instructions on spoon-bending to the show's host, how did Gellar react when the host actually tried it? |
He instructed to swipe the part because he just wanted to bend. Wanting things could make themselves. |
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What was Peter Popoff's the "real world" connection that helped make him so convincing? |
His wife gathered information before the show starts and sent it to him with wireless earpiece. |
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What is the probable trick with the technique of doing surgery without knives? |
A little animal blood and a few chicken parts are used so that it looks as if they are doing actual surgery. |
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Horoscopes. Randi identified three tricks to make them believable. List them. |
- The personally description were generally true for everyone. |
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Randi's palm-reading friend told his clients the opposite of what he was supposed to. What was the result, and what does it mean? |
The client said he was accurate. That means that it doesn’t make difference whatever you tell clients because they want you to succeed. (3-6:00) |
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At the Moscow Institute of the Brain, Why did Randi insist that the psychics and the scientists be separated and out of communication during the experiment? |
Because the previous claim is not blinded, which means its evidence based on psychics was not objective.(4-8:00) |
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At the Traditional Medical Clinic in Moscow, what was the ultimate unique property of the "charged water" that kept Randi from performing his tests? |
Four of the glasses of water are becoming charged because he started thinking. Charging is driven by the mental energy, the energy of thought.(5-7:00) |
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Why did Randi refuse to ask questions of the two photo psychics? |
Because asking question would mean that he gives information. (6-1:00) |
