The book “Flim-Flam!”
by James Randi is written to expose misinformation and explain certain “paranormal
events.” James Randi is a magician that decided to dedicate his later life to
the pursuit of uncovering the paranormal. After years of searching, he has
found no evidence for any paranormal claims. James Randi investigates many
things from pictures of faeries, biorhythms, “psychic surgeons” who do surgeries
using only hands, televangelist end of the world claims, telepaths, and N-Ray
radiation. He was even able to recreate a “psychic surgery” in front of a live
audience using chicken blood and meat. In the book, James Randi uses many
tactics such as photograph analysis, recreation by normal means, and appeals to
statistics to investigate paranormal claims. I thoroughly enjoyed the faerie
photographs plus the medical humbugs, but the “psychic surgeries” section in
chapter 9 was my favorite part.
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