The Sceptical Inquiry

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i'd known who randy was since i was a young boy. I watched him at a famous children's show in new york, in the northeast called wonderama when i was a kid,. A doing magic, just doing magic tricks. So i knew about really, my whole life. And then i was living in washington, d c in the mid eighties, imoved to become a full time performer at a large magic night club there. By then, i knew about sceptical inquire. I was reading sceptical inquiry. and partly it was was that i didn't become a professional magician until i was 29. It was a third career a, and the one that stuck

The most fundamental lesson that all magicians learn is that seeing is not believing. In episode 195, Michael speaks with internationally acclaimed sleight-of-hand artist and 35-year activist for scientific skepticism, Jamy Ian Swiss, about his lively, personal book, The Conjuror’s Conundrum, that takes readers on a magical mystery tour of the longstanding connection between magic and skepticism. Shermer and Swiss discuss: Swiss’s first encounter with fraud, the paranormal and supernatural, magic and mentalism, hot/cold/universal readings, pychics, talking to the dead, James van Praagh, belief, the afterlife, “the amazing” Kreskin, the Alpha Project, and more…