195. Jamy Ian Swiss — The Conjuror’s Conundrum
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is It Easier to Fool Scientists or Scientists?
Skeptics think, well, if i can't figure it out, then it has to be genuine magic. Theyre kind of an ego thing. Why? I don't know if it makes it easier to fool them, but it does make them subject to locking themselves from being tebunked. And part of the spiritualist stories, the scientists being taken in by spiritualism because they don't go to magicians. It looks like a real mind reading at the very least - it could be folded up in somebody's shoe or something like that. But when he pitched this as top of the heap and said ‘I’m a sceptic of hypnotism'
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