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I think there's also a gont of the gaps effect here, where, you know, we don't have a good explanation save for consciousness. And that kind of opens the door for anybody and everybody with their new age beliefs, all the way up to quantum physics. In a quantum physics is spooky and weird, consciousness is spooky and Weird. Somehow they must be connectedadbut we wouldn't do that for some other physics phenomenon, like catching bullets or making the statue of liberty disappear,. because that's too basic. We know enough physics at can't be but if there's some quantum effect, you know, something like that. Want i one i show that, because how

The most fundamental lesson that all magicians learn is that seeing is not believing. In episode 195, Michael speaks with internationally acclaimed sleight-of-hand artist and 35-year activist for scientific skepticism, Jamy Ian Swiss, about his lively, personal book, The Conjuror’s Conundrum, that takes readers on a magical mystery tour of the longstanding connection between magic and skepticism. Shermer and Swiss discuss: Swiss’s first encounter with fraud, the paranormal and supernatural, magic and mentalism, hot/cold/universal readings, pychics, talking to the dead, James van Praagh, belief, the afterlife, “the amazing” Kreskin, the Alpha Project, and more…