What scam artists can teach us about the human brain

[sdmikev]

@MadLibrarian

One of the past grand masters of exposing scams was James Randi, aka The Amazing Randi. He’s a stage magician who put up a $1 million prize for scientifically testable proof of extrasensory abilities. Despite a lot of attempts (and howling from those who got exposed as fakes), no one has collected.

When I was a kid, he was one of my favorites when he was a guest on Mike Douglas or Carson. I think the check was less than a million then…