I know that this video is old, but I was cruising through YouTube this morning and I came across it again. It’s James Randi’s TED presentation from 2010, and it’s wonderful. It’s a basic primer on Randi’s brand of skepticism and is a lot of fun….it even has one of my favorite bits: Randi ingests an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills demonstrates their inefficacy. Anyway, if you’ve never seen it, enjoy! It’s fun stuff.
This past weekend, one of my personal heroes celebrated his 83rd birthday. If you’ve read any of my older blog posts, you’ll know that Randi is and was a very important figure early in my adult life. Through his work and his books, he taught me a lot and thereby built a reasonable critical thinking base into a skeptical and scientific worldview.
I’ll spare you any more gory details and just encourage you to peruse the old “How I Became A Skeptic” blog posts from late Summer/early Fall 2010—grammatical errors and all.
The first book I ever read by Randi was The Faith Healers. So in honor of The Amazing Randi’s birthday, and that book, I thought I would share one of my favorite Randi moments:
Happy birthday Amazing one!
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