The Further Dumbing Down of America

chi powers qi powers Oct 21, 2007

On Wednesday, Oct. 24, a new show will debut on NBC involving Uri Geller, who claims to be able to bend things (like spoons) with his mind. He's teaming up with magician Criss Angel for a new show called Phenomenon.

Geller became famous in the Sixties and Seventies with his famous bending trick, and everyone assumed he could actually bend spoons with his mind, because Americans can be easily fooled (ummm, like when they believe in chi masters and chi "healing"). Johnny Carson was a magician and with the help of James Randi, he exposed Geller to be a fraud on national TV.

Geller has survived because there are a lot of people who believe this type of garbage no matter what the facts show (ummm, see the above comment about chi masters), and in this new show, he and Angel will be searching for people who possess miraculous and supernatural powers.

This will be very interesting.

James Randi is still around. He exposes frauds all the time (like chi masters who claim to knock people down without touching them but fail in actual double-blind testing conditions). He has a one million dollar reward in escrow waiting for anyone to claim if they can prove their super powers in double blind clinical trials. No one has been able to do this because people don't possess psychic or supernatural powers, including the power of chi.

But there are plenty of folks who are ready to believe. It will be interesting to see the ratings, which I expect to be tremendous, and it will be very interesting to see how the producers set up the "tests." Will they use double blind clinical trial conditions? Somehow, I doubt it, but I anticipate that they'll try to fool us, just as Geller has been trying for decades.

--by Ken Gullette

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