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492: Michael Shermer | Why We Believe Weird Things
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The History of the Israeli Spoonbender
Uri Geller is still alive, but at the time he was a pretty famous Israeli spoonbender. He claimed that he could bend spoons and had psychic telekinetic power. His claims carried a lot of weight with people that believed in the paranormal because he could provide actual empirical evidence. And galler's still around; he hasn't come out fully and said, I was scamming people. We all know what I was doing, sort of routine with magicians now.
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