James Randi habla ardientemente acerca de los fraudes psíquicos. TED 2007 Español Sub

good morning how can you see so many fine folks out here in so many smiling faces I i have a very peculiar background attitude and approach to the real world because i am a conjurer now i prefer that term / magician because if i were a magician that would mean that i use spells and incantations and weird gestures in order to accomplish real magic no I don't do that i'm a conjurer who is someone who pretends to be a real magician now how do we go about that sort of thing we we depend on the fact that audiences such as yourselves will make assumptions for example when I walked up here and I took the microphone from the stand and switched it on you assume this is a microphone which it is not as a matter of fact this is something that about half of you more than happy you will not be familiar with the chest a beard trimmer you see and makes a very bad microphone I've tried it many times the other assumption that you made and this little lesson is to show you that you will make assumptions not only that you can but did you will when they are properly suggested to you you believe I'm looking at you wrong I'm not looking at you I can't see you I know you're out there they told me backstage with a full house and such I know you're there because I can hear you but I can't see you because I normally wear glasses these are not glasses these are empty frames quite empty frames now why would a grown man appeared before you wearing empty frames on his face to fool new ladies and gentlemen to deceive you to show that you two can make assumptions don't you ever forget that now I have to do something first of all switched your real glasses so I can actually see you which would probably be a convenience i don't know i haven't had a good look well it's not that great a convenience I have to do something now which seems a little bit strange for a magician but I'm going to take some medication this is a full bottle of calms Forte I'll explain that in just a moment ignore the instructions that's what the government has put in there to confuse you i'm sure i will take enough of these hmm Z the whole concern you 32 Cap'n's pub coms at forte now that I've done that I'll explain in the moment of us tell you that I am an actor I'm an actor who plays a specific part I play the part of a magician a wizard if you will a real wizard if someone were to appear on this stage in front of him and actually claimed to be an ancient Prince of Denmark named Hamlet you would be insulted and rightly so why would a man assume that you would believe something bizarre like this but there exists out there a very large population of people who will tell you that they have psychic magical powers of the computer future that they can make contact with with the deceased oh they also say they will sell you astrology or other fortune-telling methods oh they gladly sell you that yes and they also say that they can give you perpetual motion machines and free energy systems they claim to be psychics or sensitives whatever they come but the one thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead now to my innocent mind dead implies incapable of communicating you might agree with me on that but these people they tend to tell you that not only can they communicate with the dead hi there but they can hear the dead as well and they could relay this information back to the living I wonder if that's true I don't think so because this subculture of people use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do exactly the same the same physical methods the same psychological methods and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth to their detriment if they deceive these people cost them a lot of money cost them a lot of emotional anguish billions of dollars are spent every year all over the globe on these charlatans now I have two questions I would like to ask these people if I had the opportunity to do so first question why won't you ask them to call up because they do hear them through the year they they listen to the spirits like this I'm gonna ask you to call up the ghost of my grandmother because when she died she had the family will and she secreted it someplace we don't know where it is so we ask granny where is the will granny what does granny say she says I'm in heaven it's wonderful i'm here with all my old friends my deceased friends and my family and all the puppy dogs and the the kittens that I used to have when I was a little girl and I love you and I'll always be with you could buy and she didn't answer the damn question where is the will now she could easily have said it's in the library on the second shelf behind the encyclopedia but she doesn't say that no she doesn't she doesn't bring any useful information to us we paid a lot of money for that information but we didn't get it the second question that i'd like to ask rather simple suppose i asked them to contact the spirit of my deceased father in law as an example why do they insist on sake remember they speak into his ear why do they say my name starts with j or emma is this a hunting game hunting and fishing what is it is it 20 questions no it's more like 120 questions but it is a cruel just absolutely consciousness consciousness sniffing I'll be all right keep your seats game that these people play and they take advantage of the innocent the naive the grieving the needy people out there now this is a process that is called cold reading there's one follow-up their van praag is his name James Van Praagh he's one of the big practitioners of this sort of thing John Edward Sylvia Browne and rosemary algea they are other operators there are hundreds of them all over the earth but in this country James Van Praagh is very big and what does he do he likes to tell you how the deceased got deceased the people he's talking to through his ear yes he so what he says it's very often it's like this he says he tells me he told me before he passed that he had trouble breathing folks that's what dying is all about you stop breathing and then your day younger it's that simple and that's the kind of information they're gonna bring back to you I don't think so now these people will make guesses they'll say things like why am I getting electricity he's saying to me electricity is he was he an electrician no did you ever have an electric razor no it was a game of hunting the questions like this this is what they go through now folks often ask us at the James Randi Educational Foundation they called me they say why are you so concerned about this mr. Randy isn't that just a lot of fun no it is not fun it is a cruel first now it may bring a certain amount of comfort but that comfort lasts only about 20 minutes or so and then the people look in the mirror and they say I just paid a lot of money for that reading and what did she say to me I love you they always say that they don't get any information they don't get any value for what they spend now Sylvia Browne is the big operator we call her the talons Sylvia Browne thank you Sylvia Browne is the big operator in this field at this very moment now sobia brown just to show you she actually gets than hundred dollars for a 20 minute reading over the telephone she doesn't even go there in person and you have to wait up to two years because she's booked ahead that amount of time you pay by credit card or whatever and then she will call you sometime in the next two years you can tell it's here I'll all this is Sophia brown that's her you can tell right away now Montel Williams is an intelligent man we all know who is on television he's well-educated he's smart he knows what Sylvia Browne is doing but he doesn't give a damn he just doesn't care because the bottom line is the sponsors loving and he will expose her to television publicity all the time know what to Sylvia Browne give you for that seven hundred dollars she gives you the names here a guardian angels that's first no without that how could we possibly function she gives you the names of previous lives who you were in previous life da and it turns out that the women that she gives readings for were all Babylonian princesses or something like that at the men were all Grecian warriors fighting with Agamemnon nothing has ever said about a fourteen-year-old bootblack in the streets of London who died of consumption he isn't worth bringing back obviously and the strange things folks you may have noticed this too you see these folks on television they never call anybody back from hell everyone comes back from heaven but never from hell if they call back any of my friends they're not gonna well do you see the story now Sylvia Browne is an exception an exception in one way because the James Randi Educational Foundation my foundation offers a 1 million dollar price negotiable bonds very simply won by all you have to do is prove any paranormal alcohol your supernatural event or power of any kind of the proper observing condition it's very easy win the million dollars Sylvia Browne is an exception in the cheese the only professional psychic in the whole world that has accepted our challenge she did this on the Larry King Live show on CNN six and a half years ago and we haven't heard from her since strange she said it first of all that she didn't how to contact me da a professional psychic who speaks to dead people she can't reach me I'm alive you may have noticed well pretty well anyway she couldn't reach me now she says she doesn't want to reach me because I'm a godless person all the more reason to take the million dollars wouldn't you think Sylvia now these people need to be stopped seriously though they need to be stopped because this is a cruel for us we get people coming to the foundation all the time they're ruined financially and emotionally because they've given their money and their faith to these people now I popped some pills earlier I have to explain that to you homeopathy let's find out what that's all about hmm you've heard of it it's an alternative form of healing right homeopathy actually consists and that's what this is this is calms Forte 32 caplets of sleeping pills I forgot to tell you that I just ingested six and a half days worth of sleeping pills six and a half days that certainly as a fatal dosage says right on the back here in case of overdose contact your poison control center immediately and it gives an 800 number keep your seats it's going to be okay I don't really need it because I've been doing this stunt for audiences all over the world for the last eight or ten years taking fatal doses of homeopathic sleeping pills why don't they affect me the answer may surprise you what is homeopathy it's taking a medicine that really works and diluting it down well be gone Avogadro's love it diluting it down to the point where there's none of it left now folks this is not just a metaphor i'm going to give you now it's true it's exactly equivalent to taking 1 325 milligram aspirin tablet throwing it into the middle of Lake Tahoe and then stirring it up obviously with a very big stick and waiting two years or so until the solution is homogeneous then when you get a headache you take a sip of water and voila it is gone now that is true that is what homeopathy is all about had another claim that they make you'll love this one the more dilute the medicine is they say the more powerful it is now wait a minute we heard about a guy in Florida the poor man he was on homeopathic medicine he died of an overdose he forgot to take his pill work on it work on it it's a ridiculous thing it is absolutely ridiculous I don't know what we're doing believing in all this nonsense over all these years now let me tell you the James Randi Educational Foundation is waiving this very big current but I must say the fact that nobody has taken us up on this offer doesn't mean that the powers don't exist they might someplace out there maybe these people are just independently wealthy well we're Sylvia Browne I would think so you know seven hundred dollars for a 20 minute reading over the telephone that's more than lawyers make I mean that's if I give us a lot of money these people don't need the million dollars perhaps but wouldn't you think they'd like to take it just to make me look silly just to get rid of this godless person out there that Sylvia Browne talks about all the time I think that something needs to be done about this we really would love to have suggestions from you folks on how to contact federal stay at local authorities to get them to do something if you find out now I understand we've seen people even today speaking to us about AIDS epidemic sand and starving kids around the world and impure water supplies that people have to suffer with those are very important critically important to us and we must do something about those problems but at the same time as arthur c clerk said you know the the rotting of the human mind the business of believing in the paranormal in the occult and the supernatural all of this total nonsense this this medieval thinking i think something should be done about that and it all lies in education largely it's the media who are to blame for this sort of thing they shamelessly promote all kinds of nonsense of this sort because it pleases the sponsors it's the bottom line the dollar line that's what they're looking at we really must do something about this i will you take your suggestions and I'm what do you have you tune in to our web page it's WWE Randy o RG go in there and look at the archives that you will begin to understand much more of what I've been talking about today you will see the records that we have there's nothing like sitting in that library and having a family appear there and say that mom gave away all the family fortune she cashed in the cds she gave away the stocks of the certificates that's really sad to hear and it hasn't helped them one bit hasn't solved any of their problems yes there could be a rocking of the American my dad of lines all the way around the earth if we don't start to think sensibly about these things now we've offered this carrot as I say we dangled the carrot we're waiting for the psyche to come forth and snap at it well we get lots of them hundreds of them every year come by these are dowsers and people who think that they can talk to the dead as well but they're amateurs they don't know how to evaluate their own so-called powers the professionals never come nearest except in that case of Sylvia Browne that I told you about a moment ago she did accept and backed away ladies and gentlemen I'm James Randi and I'm waiting thank you

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Length: 17min 20sec (1040 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 08 2012