The Noble Lie

Ex-stage magician James Randi has made a living out of debunking psychics and “healing” evangalists. This is one of his best busts — Peter Popoff, whose wife would read off peoples’ afflictions based on prayer cards that were filled in by the people themselves. The sad thing is, you’d think after this that people wouldn’t believe this guy anymore and would stop giving him his money. Nope. He’s still at it.

I need to find more details about this because it was actually disgusting how callous and uncaring he and his wife were about these people’s actual conditions. She would say things like, “Oh, here’s a hot one, this one has cancer, hee hee hee.”

Hats off to James Randi.

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Tags: Debunk

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