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Most likely. The man is a natural-born predator. I find it rather... depressing that I have continually referenced that there is a way for skeptics to make a difference and help more people... and yet no one has asked me to elaborate. It's easier to be offended than to do something about it.

Don't be. Offending people is how you make them think.

Creationism is not science, so please do not presume to lecture me. The scientific method does not change to accommodate the psychoses of religious fundamentalists who got elected to a school board. Those people are not scientists, and neither are you. Kennedy was an Irish Catholic. That...

Again, I'm baffled with the assertion that there is no middleground. Don't. I'd like an explanation for why all releases are thematically titled to inside jokes. And if you're going to make the argument that there is an artistic merit to the titling, it would help to give the rest of us...

Which makes me wonder why you felt the need to bring it up in the first place. Word of advice: stop sleeping through science class. Your woeful ignorance of Kennedy's election and 1960's politics aside (not that either surprises me), you're really tempting fate with remarks like that. The...

Which is why I pointed out there is something that skeptics can do. It's just few of them are willing to do it. The names I can think of that would include Penn and Teller and Michael Shermer.

MySpace doesn't have the air of professionalism that an actual domain name does. Still, it's a legit avenue of promotion. I'm actually launching my own later this week.

Part of the problem is as you pointed earlier: TV is giving them more attention. These are tough times, and lots of people are offering solutions. And TV producers are all over that like androgyny on emo kids. TruTV actually has a show all about psychic detectives and how great they...

Also skeptics are a bit of a hard sell. We burn security blankets and slaughter the sacred cows. And we offer nothing to fill the void. Not even direction. There is a solution, but not many people are willing to take it.

You did not just say that. So if I were to be dying of some withering disease and in lieu of actual medical treatment that could save my life I instead went to a faith healer like Popoff, that would be okay? In fact, Popoff wouldn't be taking advantage of me, he would be heroically giving me...

I'll try and boil it down to a sentence. The cult of personality on this site is such that Dan and Dave could release a home movie of themselves throwing cards into a baseball cap while stoned out of their friggin' minds and it would sell like Harry Potter.

Marc Klaas wouldn't call it gullibility. He'd call it desperation and vulnerability. Ever had cancer before? How about HIV? Ever had a child of yours abducted? I haven't. But I know or have seen people who have. And let me tell you something... you don't know emotional suffering until...

That was actually the most honest advertising in a movie title since The Karate Kid. It has only been surpassed by Disaster Movie, albeit that was more of an ironic title.

Which means there is at least one other person on this site who reads.

It's that philosophy that led to a number of movies in the 80's being titled things like Obsession and The Edge of Passion etc. Amazing that the company continues to give nonsense titles to everything they make and are still able to move so many units of product. Then I can't wait to see...

Fundamentals by Bob Cassidy is the beginners book on mentalism. No one ever listens to me when I say that, but I'm sticking to my guns on this one. You can get at Lybrary dot com.

I use Eugene Burger's handling. They can shuffle that deck from here until doomsday and it won't make a difference to me.

I'm going to join the vocal minority and support the thread starter. I guess I'm just contrary that way. Part of my reasoning for taking this side is because I'm really starting to hate card tricks. There's nothing wrong with playing cards in magic. But it's all anyone ever wants to talk...

Oh, they're around. They just don't talk about it much because they're too busy, you know... working.

How are those theories?