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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 Conspiracy Theory

The more elements that have to come together just the right time and place, less likely the theory is to be true. It's like we want to cheat the emission standards so we can make more money like Volkswagen did. That's pretty simple. One actor, one girl. Why aren't they doing it? They want to make more money. Flat earth fascinates me as a conspiracy, mostly because it has to kind of by its very nature be the Voltron of a bunch of other conspiracy theories. If you believe in a flat earth, you also have to believe that the government or an extra governmental organization is in charge of the media. And if you want to get into arguments all day

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