James "The Amazing" Randi Lecture at Princeton: The Search for the Chimera
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- James "The Amazing" Randi in his visit to Princeton University in 2001, gives us his classic style of scientific scepticism mixed with his ability to expose the most irritating flaws in our society, and the fakers who push their tricks and gimmicks like a cheap drug.
"The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.
In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.
For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.
Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.
James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.
Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears. Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive reward.
Regardless, psychic frauds come and go in droves but there will only ever be one James "The Amazing" Randi.
Enjoy this lecture and help share his noble message of skepticism and critical thinking of irrational claims. - Věda a technologie
James would cry at what happens today: post-fact times... We MUST continue his work!
I don't think he'd be surprised at all
Wonder what his take on trans sports would be.
“. We MUST continue his work!”You are absolutely right.
Is there a percentage of donated money that these TV preachers must give back to charity?
@@moonlandingagain3228what?
Sadly, science is not respected today as it was in yesteryear. People are not as objective today. All the more reason why it is important to be rational and not given in to adolescent ignorance and superstition.
RIP The Amazing James Randi for a lifetime of wonderful performances in conjuring, prestidigitation, hard-hitting skepticism and education. Your audience around the world was exposed to the wonders of your art and you left us with the tools we desperately need to debunk the frauds that prey on ignorance. May you always be remembered smiling!
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The fact that James Randi trolls the public with that $50 bill trick is one of the many reasons why he's my favorite person.
I miss Randy dearly. Already. Although I've never met him, I felt a great loss when he passed. This man influenced my life more than any one single person I thought imaginable. I wish I had better words to describe my admiration for him. All I can say is that this world could always use (need) a lot more of James "The Amazing" Randi .
The Great James Randi sadly died on the 20th of October 2020, his excellent video lectures will live on forever! RIP James...
He was truly amazing... our loss :(
I actually attended this lecture and was glad it was recorded and posted on CZcams! Randi is amazing!
I was also there! I had not heard of Randi before this (I had also not heard of homoeopathy) - it was a very eye-opening lecture, and the points he makes about critical thinking, being fooled by your assumptions etc, will always remain valid. And it was (and is) highly entertaining.
Psychic Energy We all know why you are saying that !
Laughed my head while watching this today 15th june 2020, Randi going on about all the medium scammers and what pops up on an advert? An online medium training course. LOL.....
Am I the only one who notices that as James Randi becomes older, the more he seems to resemble an ancient Greek philosopher?
I think it may be a wanted correlational look, and I agree ...
You seem to be the only one who remember how they looked like... So, yes!
If you think that Charles Darwin was Greek philosopher, yes.
old................ ✔
white.............✔
don't shave...✔
Like Aristotle, totally debunked now.
This is the best of his talks of the many that I have heard. I love it. He is cracking jokes all the time. My favourite is the part where he talks about Phd's who are totally incapable of uttering these two sentences: "I was wrong", and "I don't know".
Real comedian
This idiot only impresses the intellectually impaired.
They should not have been playing his tapes on the short school's and in all your classes in the school for the mentally retarded
It was to the detriment of the world that they supervised you in using power tools that you still have fingers to type the fawning piece of garbage
The people who should be saying I don't know are the scientists or ex-magicians -just ask them what there was before time started or what is outside of the universe.
Stephen Hawking does not know and his computer voice apparently has no clue either
So I agree with you that PhDs are incapable of saying they don't know anything but dumbasses like Randi say it in a way that draws morons like you to watch and listen to everything they say so you can have something to talk about at your party _and I have to quote The Rock- at the next convention of you and your gang of candy-asses
Dr George Jawahir What is the point of this tirade other than concluding that actually he's right? Awful lot of text wasted on throwing insults around only to turn around and agree in the end.
I was going to watch this bit by bit, (very long lecture) but I couldn't. I HAD to watch to the end without a break, (apart from a pee mid-way) totally hooked and didn't want it to end!
Randy should give this talk at every church, synagogue and mosque in the world.
That could prove to be bad for his health
schel sullivan - No.
Absolutely not they don’t deserve him
there's a reason he's called amazing. and we have seen and heard it with our own eyes and ears. now we need to open our minds and pay close attention to this mans true wisdom.
What is amazing is that they managed to get one gaylord to introduce another one.I hope that you will spend $100 dollars to go see this huckster and another $50 to buy a tee shirt that say I have been amazingly screwed for $150 because I thought I was an intellectual.
Now where are you going to get the money for crack
This is a waste of time. No point. It can happen but with this kind of consistency? Pills. It’s not going to be anything but bad in the end
Oh. I guess my phone doesn’t put the name I’m replying to. I’m concerned about the most recommended doctor in Guelph. Really.
LOVE this guy--if the world had 50% more of guys like him, we'd actually start making progress instead of staying in the Neo-Dark Ages. keep kicking ass, James!!
It greatly saddens me that James Randi is at the latter part of his life. I've been privileged to live through part of his life and to see the logic in his presentations yet people still believe in faith healers, 'magic' and the like. Although Randi no longer makes public appearances such as this, he has given his blessing on those who promote the same belief in logistical thinking he has tried to teach for so long now. CZcams's *CaptainDisillution* is one such individual who carries his torch forward. I thank JR for all his work :)
I watched an episode of CaptainDisillusion and admired his intent, just not his presentation and appearance. I did not subscibe. I really enjoyed this entertaining lecture from James. Happy to see all the material available, and thank those who provide it.
Back in my late teens I had a court date coming up and had a plea deal worked out so I knew I was about to be takin a little vacation as a guest of the state and decided to sell my car.
Got a buyer pretty quick and they offered more than I was even gonna ask and we met at his bank, he took out the money and I signed it over to em.
Ran home and stashed most of the money (not an area ya wanna hold cash like that) and then went to the store.
1st store I hit refused to take my $50 bill, fresh from the bank, sayin it was fake cause of the pen swipe results. So I asked for it back to take it back to the bank. They agreed and I paid with a different $50 bill. I went to the bank and looked it over and it all looked A1. Made it back over to the bank and explained the situation to the teller and they looked over the bill, then had a manager look it over, then informed me the bill was 100% authentic but swapped it out for me anyway 😂 Never trust those pens!
I feel honored that he'd take me (Crooklyn, not Harlem) over the PHD. I most definitely agree. What's really dope is when ya get both together. I spent most of my life surviving in the streets. But I was taught when ya gotta sit down in a cell or at home ya should learn something. I was always into science, history, politics and religion so I've spent all my down time learning as much as I can as a drop out. I rarely meet folks around where I live now that can I can talk to about anything other than hood shit and sports. They're all smart. But they are so poorly educated it's sad. I'm nowhere near the smartest or best educated but I try and that's more than most people can say unfortunately.
The pens work pretty well as a starting point if you're trying to be quick. If it turns black then check for official markings. But never just take the pen's reading as gospel.
Politicians & the 1% (mega rich) people find it easier to manipulate and control an uneducated and un critical electorate. If one is busy with gosties, goblins, magical tricks and other downright foolish nonsense than it’s easy to pull the wool over peoples eyes. In this silly atmosphere, politicians, governments and public bodies are not held to be accountable to the citizens.
🌲🌝☘️
Randalf the grey
John Edwards: "you have no power here, Randalf Stormcrow...."
Randi: * throws off cloak *
This is one great story teller. Wonderful orator. Brilliant scientist.
18 years later, those pens are still used
Bull shi
Randi: a wonderful and very valuable and caring man.
who also got the spoon trick wrong multiple times on camera an dosent allow people to comment on his videos posted on his channel. seems like a real stand up guy. (e.x he commonly refers to the tricks technical aspects as pure force. but in reality it's just a gallium spoon). in fact if the guy used force it would probably break. which dosent happen to the one guy who "made his whole career off it" so not only dose he not understand how the trick works but he cant even perform it correctly as in the end of his demonstration it always breaks. also he legit stated that people shouldn't be allowed to have the information they crave because it would "send us to the dark ages" shows how much he knows seeing that his generation was objectively more stupid you know with purposely destroying the planet ironically due to lack of information an over all ignorance.
only thing that stands a chance of sending us that far back would be a solar flare. which he obviously has no clue what so ever what being sent to the dark ages even means.
to be fair the fact all of you believe he is telling you the truth is laughable. the guy obviously just bullshitted his way into stardom.
@@Ave_Satana666 You sound like one of those pseudoscience pushers who believes 5G is dangerous and that vaccines are bad.
You should learn more about the man before criticizing him. Instead, you came here acting like you know it all and cherry picked what you wanted to say about him or his channel.
At the end of the day, fact is, no one was able to win the 1 million dollar psychic challenge. It's all b.s. and he proves it.
@@Mr.Fox.92 no I just dont take stuff at face value when he opens his every speech with "I am a professional liar"
The saddest part is when MD's or GP's refer people to Homeopathy just to get them off their books, a relative of mine was referred for a neurological condition, it was the third time, so we went to a fourth doctor who actually made the effort to find out the problem, turned out to be an aneurism and was getting dangerous, proper treatment and problem solved.
DARTHMOBIUS Next time get a referral for a specialist. If your gp can't identify the problem...go to another doc.
Wow. Those doctors should be reported.
He's showing us we need to open our eyes and does this because he's like many others stunned on the lack of insight the world has. Deception is all around and it's the bases of the econemie and society we live in. The biggest mistake we can make is to stop asking..
How smoothly he does those tricks with the rope is quite amazing!
dear muonray. i would truly like to thank you very much indeed. for uploading this james randi lecture. i have been seeking out his lectures and i'm always delighted when i find one that i have not seen before. you have given me that. thank you.
RIP MR. Randi. You were one of the greatest, not just as a magician but also as a human being.
Thanks very much for uploading. I love this man!
This guy is still pinning comments
What a legend
That WTC reference took me aback at first and had me checking the "about section" to when this took place
rsr789 Eh, the world will always have nutbags. We'll get better at preventing this stuff eventually.
I checked as well.
James Randi stated he didn't see anyone of them testing their chairs before sitting down, could it be because of the lack of glasses?
poor randi apologising for his world trade centre reference. You didnt mean to Randi! It's okay! What a wonderful human being.
Well, he's Canadian, that's why he's so polite! ;)
What an amazing speaker and a wonderful man.
Love the feminist awareness too
One guy I would love to spend a day with listening and conversing with. 😯an amazing guy. (Thank you James Randi for being who you are).
Iv viewed many of James randi's content and I'd just like to say what a wonderful clever man inspirational 👍
Incredible man and an awesome brain
Thank you
The slow motion was incredible!
Awesome stuff, nice upload :)
He was one of the last people really trying to instill a sense that how you think is as important or more important than what you (may) know. First principles, break down the complicated into the simple. Examine the foundations before trying to understand the whole. Stuff that very few schools can and/or do teach. Reminds me of my father “you control the assumptions, you control the argument.”
That was a damn fine rope trick! Wow!
to understand the probabilities suppose that there are 5 different cards: A, B, C, D, E.
1. What is the probability of guessing one card (we select A)
P(x) = # of desired outcomes / # all possible outcomes = 1/5
2. What is the probability of guessing two cards (the order doesn´t matter, so we are going to choose A and B):
# of desired outcomes: 2
(A,B) or (B,A)
# all possible outcomes (permutations):
1. (A,B) 2. (A,C) 3. (A,D) 4. (A,E) 5. (B,A) 6. (C,A) 7. (D,A) 8. (E,A) 9. (C,D) 10. (B,C) 11. (C,B) 12. (B,D) 13. (D,B) 14. (A,E) 15. (E,A) 16. (B,E) 17. (E,B) 18. (E,D) 19. (D,E) 20. (D,C)
or using the formula of permutations:
nPr=n!/(n-r)! = 5! / (5-2)! = 5!/3! = 20
P(y) = 2/20 = 1/10
3. What is the probability of guessing two cards in a specific order (for example (E,D)):
# of desired outcomes: 1
(E,D)
# all possible outcomes (permutations):
20
P(z) = 1 / 20
only if you wonder how it is done ;)
There were two cards in the envelope, each with one of 5 possibly symbols on it. From the way he phrased the question: "What are the mathematical chances of my guessing what one of these cards is?" Either card could have been a correct guess. That's 2/5.
Miss you 😔😞😢🤒
James Randi was old like 30 years ago! He really might be a Wizard! Dumbledore.
May he be forever remembered
Google showed me an advert under this video about angel reading or some shit like that. Kinda ironic, but likely not a coincidence.
That username/avatar combo is amazing.
Magnets.
FenNick it's all good. we are not the customers and it's 99,9% wasted advertisment money.
Same thing here
FenNick I’ve got an advert for Free Tarot Card readings, by hot girls in my area. No sign up necessary!! 😂🤣
Awesome oratory and articulation. Almost George Carlin like!
Carlin has a better choice of words.
Carlin's theme was "how I hate humans", Randi's theme is "wake up, humans".
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a small chapel, especially for private worship.
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The fuck you talking about, thegiftedmidea?
@Lankey actually oratory also means 'effective or skillful public speaking', so the op is correct. ie: 'the man is a gifted orator'.
Rand and Carlin both share similar flow and delivery of speech. That is how they compare.
I wish I had known about this talk at the time. I would have attended.
Goodbye Mr. Randi, 2020 is just that bit worse without you.
just to point out Randi's point of where is John Edwards?
"In October 2007, claimed psychic John Edward appeared on Headline Prime, hosted by Glenn Beck; when asked if he would take Randi's challenge, Edward responded, "It's funny. I was on Larry King Live once, and they asked me the same question. And I made a joke [then], and I'll say the same thing here: Why would I allow myself to be tested by somebody who's got an adjective as a first name?"[90] Beck simply laughed and changed the subject."
literally a pathetic excuse. Randi's name has nothing to do with it, Edward is too cunning to go becasue he has seen what Randi has done to guys before and knows if he goes on he will lose everything.
Sylvia Brown actually accepted Randi's one million dollar challenge but then never followed up on it. When asked about it Sylvia claimed she didn't want to take money from a godless person as James Randi. To that JR replied, *Isn't that the very kind of person you would WANT to take money from?* There were other equally pathetic excuses Sylvia used as well but ultimately she knew she was a FRAUD and that's why she never took his challenge.
If your text snipped is actually true and accurate.. well lets just say after a "joke" weaker than spongebob, "cunning" wouldnt be the right word to describe him with. If people start to bash on aspects a person has literally no controll over it generally means they are scared of said person and/or intimidated by them.
I thought his stage name was THE amazing Randi? That means he has an article for a first name.
Wait, what? James is an adjective? Or "The"?
+Mike Hawk Exactly (what JR's reply was).
Frack...I fell for that 'glasses' trick twice... in two days...
didn't know James was so short.
Wow that last trick, pretty solid work there :D
Not really it is SO simple,it's PATHETIC; 2:06:00 hands in the back: he just grabs hold of a portion of the rope in his closed bottom hand; upon opening that hand,A LOT of slack is created;
hands over the knees: if you TRY it you'll laugh!!!! all you have to do is to twist the hands to the side,and again A LOT of slack is created, LOL
Hello 240p, my old friend. You've come to show for me again.
I think it's great that a high school dropout can lecture at Princeton.
The original truther. Amazing Randi indeed 🍀
very clever man
Psychic chat ad just popped up before this video.
🤣
Rip You'll always be remembered
52:48 wet my pants , totally didn't see _that_ coming ... Brilliant !
What a guy. His humility would have no doubt made him protest the suggestion, but James Randi goes into the rarefied category of ‘great human beings’.👏
Penn and Teller! Awesome mullet Penn! Adorable as ever, Teller!
This dude is a great speaker..
I think it's very poignant that one of the main points of this lecture..."anybody came be deceived" ...sadly, became very real in latter years for this amazing dude. He really was a master of illusion , Magic, Psychology...and most importantly,...Entertaining people. I have been fascinated, and watched Randi for a few years now...a more engaging, informing amd Entertaining lecture would be hard to come by. ...Respect, Peacce
Assumptions getting you... All of us
I like seeing him when he is younger old.. As he is older now 2019... Kinda sad to see him old, doesnt appear as he used to be. Well thats old age for us :(
James Randi was born in 1928, which means he is 92, now.
Impressive, but upsetting in its implications. ☹ now, more than ever, we need all the James Randi's we can get...
The only thing that could make this better would be 720p
RIP James Randi
Is there a better version of this video out on the web anywhere ?
can someone name me the music near the start 2m50s ?? thanks & love in advance.
I wish I would have known he was at Princeton because I would like to have gone! : ) I wonder if he'll go back there and how much it cost to get in.
How is he doing the book guessing trick?
For every page, there's a single word that corresponds to it. Change that word to be the same in every page and no matter what the assistant picks you will always be right.
You can spot the trick relatively easily, check the first 27 words for grammatical or other inconsistencies, it's almost impossible to choose a word that would blend well everywhere.
I'm getting a "J" and an "A" and an "M" and an "E" and an "S" and an "R" and another "A" and an "N" and a "D" and an "I".
MY DEAD GRANDMOTHER NAMED LUCY KNEW SOMEONE WHOSE NAME HAD AN 'E' IN IT!!!!
Also yes, I know you spelled out James Randi.
My Grandma name has an A in it 😯 you have such a beautiful gift 😂
I'll be straight to the point!
Remind me what the song is at the start, Please :)
TY. xx
this man is great!!! he worked with cooper bk in the day.
James Randi has become a Canadian icon.
did he say "lol" at around 15:14?
I wonder how much counterfeit money was used to buy the phoney counterfeit pens.
Love that he immediately noted that “women” were not included in the opening statement.
How did he do the ESP card trick? It always bothers me, when people say "oh, it's soo easy and I can't figure it out"
"A shoe." ------- "Gesundheit!" lol
Hey, I think that ‘s my score in personality test , Similar to that was written there, I think it is correct.
Where can I get that into video alone?
"It's not what you haven't got that gets you into trouble. It's what you think is true but turns out to be false that gets you into trouble." Mark Twain
Hi MuonRay, I still do not know what his experience with the FBI was.
I'm amused by his reference to 'PhDs'. In the US I noticed that someone with a PhD is referred to as 'a PhD', as if that were his or her very identity. They are revered far more than in the UK. I am 'a PhD' in the UK, and here it's just a degree, nothing more than that.
+Holy Moly Don't you get to be called "Dr. Holy Moly"?
That's discretionary.
Holy Moly I see. You know, I'm not an American, but I do share the sentiment. People like you have all the reasons to be proud of themselves, with all those years and effort put into _studying stuff_. What is your doctorate in, by the way?
Thank you - that's very kind. My research was into Philosophy of Mind.
Holy Moly I assume that is a very fascinating topic to study.
Have a great year, Doctor!.. Yes, you gotta own it. ;-)
Which potato model was used to film this?
He is referring to the chance of guessing one card of the five correctly. For example, he if he were to guess what shape is shown on the "first card pulled out of the envelope". The way he presented his question implied that the statistic was for ANY of the two cards so it's his fault for not delivering the question unambiguously... he tried clear it though up by "assuring" that it's 1/5.
So no, he didn't mess up, he just should have asked the question better.
Where did the chimera get mentioned?
I got the reference, they do look similar!
Our senses trick us. During the night, we hear a normal sound real louder and our senses trigger our hyper reactions . Some times we get flummoxed and a ghost story is born.
Actually guessing one card in the envelope is not 1/5, since there's two cards in there you have a 2/5 chance of getting one right. The formula for getting both right is a bit more complex.
@plaguelock No, you're guessing at two cards. Guessing randomly, there's two ways to get it right, three to get it wrong.
@plaguelock It's been months, and I don't remember the exact scenario, and can't easily find it again in a two-hour video. But let's say there are cards labeled 1 through 5, and the envelope contains numbers 1 and 2.
If you guess 3, 4, or 5, you lose.
If you guess 1 or 2, you win.
Clearly, that's a 2 in 5 chance.
@@Nixitur The one hour mark should be good enough, he starts asking the audience what the probability is at 1hour 2 minutes.
@plaguelock lol, lets say there weren't two cards, but all 5. What would be he chances that the right card is in the envelope? This isn't hard.
I think ramsey might have meant if he were to pick one card at random from the envelope, then the probability would in fact be 1/5. But the trick involved looking at both cards (and comparing that to what he drew outside the envelope) so that's why people might be confused about what his meaning was.
8:30 - is that John Stossel?
Isn't he wrong at 1:03:00 about the combinatorics question? He has 2 cards in the envelope, and he's asking what are the chances of guessing one card. Surely that's 2/5? Any card has a 2/5 chance of being in that envelope.
@UCXi-mTKoNhPXeUY0qJDM87A sorry, I put the wrong timestamp. 1:02:00 he has two cards in an envelope and three elsewhere. He asks what's the chance of guessing one of these 2 cards, and claims it's 1/5 and proceeds to argue about it with an audience member. I'm the other guy here, surely it's 2/5?
Randi asked, "what are the chances of me guessing what one of these cards is?" There are two interpretations of this question (like the part about order later on giving two answers), the first being guessing a card on one side of the envelope, in which case the probablitiy would be 1/5. However, the other interpretation would be just guessing the presence of a card in the envelope, not a particular one, which has a probability of 2/5, since there are two cards and either position could be a candidate for the card he guesses. It's the same difference that he points out later, where the chances of guessing both the cards and their positions is 1/20, while guessing irrespective of position is 2/20 or 1/10.
Taking the second interpretation to the extreme, if there were one card in the envelope, Randi's probability of guessing the card would be 1/5 (this is identical to the idea of the first interpretation), for 2 it would be 2/5, for three: 3/5, four: 4/5, and 5: 5/5 or 100%, since all 5 cards are in the envelope and if he guesses any of the cards it is going to be in there somewhere.
How do we do that card trick ?
Alien singing: "Here he is, the biggest douche in the Universe."
John Edward: "I'm not a douche!"
movie : Leap of Faith ; with Steve Martin and Debra Winger
How did he do that book trick??
The placebo effect is an accepted scientific phenomena.
Not quite so. Placebo does not cure disease. It relies on self-deceit. And as such its not scientific.
Why does an advert apesr here for Angel tarot reading appear with this video?
1:50:46 brought back a lot of memories.
whats up with the 240p quality ?
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