Originally published at: The Amazing Randi debunked sweaty "magnetic" people | Boing Boing
…
5 Likes
Randi was the best. Matter-of-fact, no drama, just “yep, this is why you’re a fraud.”
25 Likes
There is the next X Men movie plot.
23 Likes
Wow. I didn’t realize the government has been forcing talcum powder companies to include antimagnetic particles in their talc for that long. How deep does this conspiracy go?
25 Likes
Hillary did it. Talc… assassin’s.
2 Likes
Would this be the same James Randi that was the subject of the article below, published on Boing Boing within days of his death?
12 Likes
I was hoping we would have moved past that blisteringly hot take, but alas.
11 Likes
Different authors, different opinions.
10 Likes
No dude, just no.
6 Likes
Never forget!!!
I was unaware of Randi (or Horowitz) before that article and had no context for the vitriol. There’s a natural push/pull amongst BB readership and authors that I feel is very healthy, but that one really unleashed a lot of passions. It sure was informative!
8 Likes
Skin deep?
9 Likes
30 posts were split to a new topic: James Randi and the queer community
Axe deodorant, now in pine tree sap format.
4 Likes
Mostly ditto. I was only passingly aware of Randi. And since I tend to give the benefit of the doubt to contributors to whom Boing Boing gives a platform, I started reading Horowitz’s article with an open mind thinking maybe Randi was a fraud. Less than halfway through I realized Horowitz’s problem with Randi is that he didn’t suffer charlatans and was therefore in his eyes somehow responsible for less academic and government funding for men to stare at goats. 
13 Likes
It’s a shame BoingBoing is still featuring that hack job of an obituary.
6 Likes
There’s something poetic about a hardcore skeptic like Randi still being able to educate people on this stuff from beyond the grave.
5 Likes
‘These new vaccine mutants are extremely disappointing,’ by Magneto
Opinion by Alexandra Petri
7 Likes
Randi is great of course but in my opinion the vaccines-make-magnetic argument falls flat immediately on a very simple fact: Measuring magnetic field is EASY!
A piece if paper and some ironfilnigs will do it, a pendulum with a magnetic weight of metal is fine (spot the irony 
), using any cheap compass is obvious. If two people disagree on a substantial magnetic field being present it should not take more than 15m minutes to settle it.
Now I am a lab-tech by training and maybe my braining is wired differently but still… this is high school science fair stuff, right? And nobody in the anti-vaccine crowd managed to step up to that level. Go figure.
2 Likes
