195. Jamy Ian Swiss — The Conjuror’s Conundrum
The Michael Shermer Show
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I Think the Book Is a Work of Skepticism, Because of Its Focus on the Evidence
Covid is a 400 page book, 22 pages explaining magic tricks. It's the first real manual of magic that we have in english. And it was so good that it was plagiarized for the next two centuries by the magic community. There were disputes about how religious he was. Whether there were some who see in inscott a man who really was bordering on an almost kind of modern atheism. But i give scott credit, and i give his book credit as being a work of scepticism.
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