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In James Randi's Own Words

World's Greatest Con

CHAPTER

The Trade Expression Double Exposure

"We were just trying to show that they could be fooled," Randy says of parapsychologists. "The Parapsychological Association, when they published their report on this, came up with a end statement saying very, very cunningly." Project Alpha was revealed as a hoax days before the whole thing blew up and everybody's face. 'I am told that people like Phillips and some of the rest of them there are still saying, Oh, no, there were times when the kids were the real thing,' he adds.

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