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Uri Geller hijacks the New York Times, An Interview with Michael Shermer

World's Greatest Con

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The Material Damage of Yuri Geller's Experiments

Yuri Geller claimed he had successfully demonstrated psychic abilities at the Stanford Research Institute. He performed magic tricks and with a straight face claimed, in my opinion, that they were actual miracles bestowed upon him from an extraterrestrial force. And to see somebody whitewashed this reputation so casually to in the same article appear to admit that he's fraudulent but roll his eyes and say it's like you're shouting there's no Santa Claus to a bunch of preschoolers like art which is his word for word characterization of the modern critical take on Yuri Geller.

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