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muriel_volestrangler

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6. NYT's sub-head "Skeptics couldn't beat him. Now they've joined him" seems like bullshit

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sat Jul 8, 2023, 12:31 PM

Jul 2023

(a) Skeptics showed it was just magic tricks. By that measure, they beat him in the 70s. If the NYT means "but the media continued giving him publicity as if it is more than a trick", then, yes, Geller led the media by the nose for decades.
(b) In what what have skeptics "joined him"? Are skeptics now also claimed paranormal powers? No.