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The Skeptics Guide #850 - Oct 23 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is Magic Like Science?

In the same way as with science, you do many failed experiments before you can reliably demonstrate the particular phenomenon. In magic, if you doin smething new, you're inventing the camera every time. So it feels there's ae lots of paralels there. Is there anything like thatth you've thought of that you just can't quite do yet? J m, sre, you probably saw this question coming. I mean, magicians have to do these experiments, and then the outcome has to be that the audience are amazed. And that has to be the outcome every single night.

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