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In James Randi's Own Words

World's Greatest Con

CHAPTER

The Decline of the Pericycologist

Banachik: I have a hard time routing my head around exactly how seriously some of these studies were taken, you know, maybe 30 35 years ago. Nobody wants advice. They think they're too smart to be fooled. And there are the exacted the people who will get fooled. Do you think something like this could happen again on the scale? You guys did it with practice. It's ready to happen anytime you call it. The world's greatest con is written by Justin Robert Young and me, Brian Brushwood, your humble host.

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