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"Do You Feel Lucky?"
A live science show about scepticism and clear thinking
 

Mirror Men - large mirrors smashed to prove a point
 		  
Reflect On This - is it luck, or merely statistics?

 
 
Heads You Win - a large silver £5 coin for you to keep

Check out Richard Dawkin's version of this demo

 		   Transmitting Now - a powerful psychic feat
(deliberately not explained)
 
 
Friday 13th - smashing a mirror on the dreaded day
(move mouse over image to start video)		   It's great fun! - being free of irrational thinking 
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Jon Davies  wrote:
And Birmingham...
  
-----Original Message-----
From: James Randi [mailto:randi@randi.org]
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 7:15 PM
To: Jon Davies
Subject: FW: Aluminium headwear aids mindreading
 
Gentlemen: I think that Glasgow is fortunate to have you there making a fuss.  Hang in there!
 
James Randi.
 
James Randi Educational Foundation
201 S.E. 12th Street
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA   33316-1815
      phone:  954-467-1112
  fax phone:  954-467-1660
  web page:  www.randi.org
       e-mail:  randi@randi.org
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Davies [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 1:41 PM
To: randi@randi.org
Cc: Steve Owens; Mario Di Maggio
Subject: Aluminium headwear aids mindreading
 
Hi James,
WOW! These MIT students ( http://www.randi.org/jr/200511/111805setback.html#i3 ) certainly know what they are talking about, but are they aware of another tremendous quality of aluminium headwear? - ' concentration of thought and the opening up of the mind ' ;  When sending thoughts to a mindreader, specialised aluminium headwear concentrates and amplifies ones brainwaves which make it easier to transmit ideas or in my case randomly chosen images.
Here at Glasgow Science Centre in Scotland my colleague Steve Owens and I demonstrated powerfull mindreading and transmission of thought to hundreds of witnesses during performances of our show ' Do You Feel Lucky? ' . A hundred people at a time were temporarily convinced of our 'powers'  ( of deception ! ) and my carefully constructed headgear was very helpfull during the performance.
A few images from the show: <<Transmitting now.jpg>> <<Receiving now.jpg>> <<My head hurts.jpg>>
 
 
Thanks for your weekly commentary and for the million dollar challenge - I often suggest it when in discussion with some of the more irrational and credulous people I meet in everyday life. More recently I have been challenging pharmacists on the sale of homeopathic and magnetic goods. My local chemist recently started to stock magnetic bracelets as well as homeopathic remedies which prompted me to challenge them, as scientists, on their opinions regarding these 'remedies'. Their response was " if it helps people and it is harmless, why not?".  They didn't seem to appreciate the damage this is causing to critical thinking skills and society in general. The fact that promoting magnetic healing bracelets is only helping the Human Race to slide back into the abyss of superstition didn't seem to bother them. I left with them some literature from skepdic.com and JREF.
 So far, only one pharmacist has admitted to me that homeopathy is medically ineffective - this lady works for ' Boots The Chemist ' - I suggested she persuades Boots to take a stand against such nonsense, who knows, I may have started her thinking...
Jon Davies
Duty Manager
Glasgow Science Centre
Glasgow
Scotland
UK