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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 Power of Curiosity

"I believe most of this stuff. But why would you believe that, right? So a lot of these people, they send me these theories of everything," he says. "And also when I was in graduate school the first time in experimental psychology and my mentor was super materialist and reductionist." Do you think there's a bias for people in sports of all varieties to want to believe in pseudoscientific things? Well, that's notoriously superstitious because whatever works for them.

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