JAMES “THE AMAZING” RANDI Lecture and Book Signing
James Randi is embarking on a whirlwind cross-Canada lecture tour hosted by the Centre for Inquiry Canada, starting in Vancouver. Randi will be signing books, and speaking on human psychology and how easily it can be manipulated to make people believe in psychics, UFOs, ghosts, and other paranormal and pseudo-scientific claims.
This unique and provocative lecture is not only educational but also highly entertaining. It attracts persons of all educational and social backgrounds and provides a rational perspective on the seemingly paranormal and otherwise unexplained happenings in our day-to-day life. Randi illustrates how a "politically-correct" attitude has blinded most scientists — who should know better — to the fact that they are not proficient at detecting fraud, often managing to fool themselves, when the prize is sufficiently attractive. And he puts up a million-dollar award as bait!
About James Randi
James Randi has an international reputation as a magician and escape artist, but today he is best known as the world's most tireless investigator and demystifier of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
Randi
has pursued "psychic" spoonbenders, exposed the dirty tricks of faith
healers, investigated homeopathic water "with a memory", and generally
been a thorn in the sides of those who try to pull the wool over the
public's eyes in the name of the supernatural.
He is the author
of numerous books, including The Truth About Uri Geller, The Faith
Healers, Flim-Flam!, and An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes
of the Occult and Supernatural. His lectures and television appearances
have delighted - and vexed - audiences around the world.