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James randi s most popular book is flimflam psychics, esp, unicorns, and other delusions. Randi explores and exposes what he believes to be the outrageous deception that has been promoted widely in the media. Psychics, esp, unicorns, and other delusions kindle edition published april 17th 2011 by james randi educational foundation. The film brings to life randi s intricate investigations that publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and conartists with quasireligious fervor. Esp, psychokinesis, psychic detectives, levitation, psychic surgery, ufos, dowsing, astrology, and many. James randi investigating pseudoscientific and paranormal claims. Psychics, esp, unicorns, and other delusions buffalo, ny. In this book, randi explores and exposes what he believes to be the outrageous deception that has been promoted widely in the media. The foreword is by science fiction author isaac asimov. Each chapter focuses on a different case, describing in detail the flimflammers case, then picking it. Flim flam is a riveting account of randis efforts to shed light and bring a bit of reality to the world of the paranormal. Unafraid to call researchers to account for their failures and impostures, randi tells us that we have been badly served by scientists who have failed to follow the procedures required by their training and traditions. One day i found someone had shelved flimflam, by james randi, among the paranormal literature.

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