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Project Alpha was a famous hoax orchestrated by famous magician and skeptic James Randi. It involved the "planting" of two fake psychics, Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards, into a paranormal research project who became convinced the pair's psychic powers were real. The hoax was later revealed publically, leading to a backlash against the entire paranormal field. This is an interview with the men involved.

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See... I don't want ... ( 1 month ago by gswanson)

See... I don't want to see a flying saucer from a UFO book. I want to see an actual alien space craft with actual aliens. When you look at the strangeness and diversity of life on Earth, in present day, and going back through the fossil record, and then you compare it to descriptions of gray aliens, or reptilians, the alien descriptions come up short. You're telling me that aliens that evolved on an entirely different planet than us look like the product of a poor imagination?

I guess I'll never ... ( 1 month ago by gswanson)

I guess I'll never see them then. I got interested in that sort of thing when I was a kid, and I really wanted to see a dinosaur. I read about Nessie, and Champ, and Mkele Mbembe and all that, and then I started reading about UFOs, and while, to my 8 year old brain it sounded cool, I kept reading about it and nothing ever added up. I guess unlike other people I grew up. I've continued to keep an interest in these subjects, but only as a skeptic, and for a source of entertainment.

well whatever..i ... ( 1 month ago by shuriken86)

well whatever..i just hpope that he is sorely wrong! im not gonna give up like some ppl have on looking for paranormal/spiritual phenomenom.

I THINK YOU WILL ... ( 1 month ago by Z1Z12)

I THINK YOU WILL AGREE THAT randi AND ALL SCEPTICS HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED A PARANORMAL OCCURANCE AND, IF THEY DID, THEY WOULD THINK IT WAS ONLY A CO-INCIDENCE. THERE ARE STRANGE FORCES AT WORK AND FOR EXAMPLE PEOPLE SAY "IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS" OR THEY SAY "HE'S ON A GAMBLERS LUCKY STREAK"OR "EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES TURNS TO GOLD" THEY IMPLY THERE IS A POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE FORCE AFFECTING THE SITUATION. THERS IS, IT'S ASTROLOGICAL.

THE SUN COMES UP ... ( 1 month ago by Z1Z12)

THE SUN COMES UP AND THE FLOWER PETALS OPEN, THE MOON PULLS THE TIDES,THE FULL MOON CAUSES ANIMALS TO SWIM OR FLY 1000'S OF MILES TO MATE AT A CERTAIN PLACE OTHER ANIMALS GO THERE TO EAT THEM (HOW DO THEY KNOW WHEN TO GO) THE SUNS HEAT EVAPORITES OCEAN WATER AND SUNSPOTS CAUSE RADIO INTERFERENCE. SO NOTHING OUT THERE IN SPACE AFFECTS LIFE ON EARTH. EXCEPT randi, HE'S LEO, THEY ARE USUALLY FIXED IN OPINION,ARROGANT, PROUD, KING OF JUNGLE, DONT ARGUE WITH THEM, OBEY,THEY'RE IN CHARGE. ENOUGH SAID.

im sorry but ... ( 1 month ago by 19cohen)

im sorry but everything has an explanation.the problem is whether we already know the explanation or not.i want to believe but i need a proof,but there are many people who want to believe and believe no matter the evidence.refusing sometimes that makes you happy,wonder and believe in perfect world.

i personally want ... ( 1 month ago by 19cohen)

i personally want to believe that Santa Clause really exists but it does.if u tell that to your kid u might break his heart,he will probably cry because its something magical that u are trying to take out from his life.same thing here.eventhough we all want to be a child in certain moment of our lives these kind of things shouldnt fool you.

The animals have ... ( 1 month ago by EldestSauce)

The animals have evolved over millions of years. Also why can you only turn off caps when saying "randi"?

Randi looks for it ... ( 1 month ago by EldestSauce)

Randi looks for it more than anyone.

EldestSauce. ... ( 1 month ago by Z1Z12)

EldestSauce. DRIVING HOME ONE NIGHT I KNEW THERE WAS A DEAD BLACK CAT IN THE ROAD AHEAD. I DO NOT HAVE WHAT randi CALLS PSYCHIC 'POWERS' BUT I FREQUENTLY EXPERIENCE E.S.P. THE CAT WAS 400 YARDS AHEAD AND OUT OF SIGHT. IF randi HAD BEEN WITH ME, HE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS A SET UP, OR SAID TO ME "DID YOU RUN IT OVER EARLIER TODAY?" I USE SMALL PRINT FOR HIS NAME TO SHOW MY DISRESPECT IN RETURN. HE HAS NEVER EXPERIENCED THE PARANORMAL HIMSELF AND IS THEREFORE NARROW MINDED AND TOO SUSPICIOUS.

Okay, first of all ... ( 1 month ago by fucktheflaggers)

Okay, first of all turn off the caps lock. it's aggravating and makes people think lesser of you and gives what little argument you made even less credence. Flower's that open their petals do so either in response to light, temperature, or they are on a biological clock and open at the same time. They have evolved to do so, and this has nothing to do with predicting when the sun will rise(which isn't much of a prediction). The moon pulls tides because of it's gravitational pull.

The moon is also ... ( 1 month ago by fucktheflaggers)

The moon is also not the only indicator for migration(actually I've never heard that explanation, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt), in fact most species of bird seem to migrate based on how short the day is in proportion to the night, and that it's starting to get colder. Some birds go based on a biological clock, which seems to be what you're referring to. That is not psychic phenomena, that is caused by hormone secretions in the brain that produce the strong inclination to migrate.

You wouldn't call ... ( 1 month ago by fucktheflaggers)

You wouldn't call the brain secreting serotonin to produce a strong urge to sleep at a certain time of day psychic, now would you? Other animals that seem to know that a large amount of potential prey has migrated somewhere learn either through their elders or from past experience(such as humans following the migration patterns of wild game), or they also have evolved a biological clock that has overtime come to sync with the prey's.

I don't know how ... ( 1 month ago by fucktheflaggers)

I don't know how the comments about evaporating water and sunspots have to do with psychic phenomena, and giving you a list of reasons why astrology is a pseudoscience would take me too long. In fact they seem to contradict each other, since you said 'so nothing out there in space affects life on earth.' But then pointed to astrology, which by definition is 'something out there in space effecting the earth', when you wanted to find a character flaw in James Randi.

On one more note, I ... ( 1 month ago by fucktheflaggers)

On one more note, I agree with you that yes, Randi and all skeptics have never experienced a paranormal occurrence, on the grounds that you nor anybody else has either because there are no such things as paranormal occurrences. I did experience what I, at the time thought were paranormal occurrences(Seeing ghosts, diving, predicting things, ect.). But i only excepted them as such because i never had a better explanation. As i grew older I dismissed them, the same way I dismiss Santa Claus.

When i was younger ... ( 1 month ago by fucktheflaggers)

When i was younger Santa existed because I wanted him to, and it was in my little mind a good explanation for why presents spontaneously appeared every Christmas morning. Then I grew up and figured out that my parents putting the presents there was far more reasonable, and there was evidence to support that. In conclusion Z1Z12, I highly suggest that if you're going to argue, be prepared to make a halfway decent case for yourself, lest you come off as an imbecile.

YOU DID NOT ... ( 1 month ago by Z1Z12)

YOU DID NOT UNDERSTAND MY COMMENTS BECAUSE LIKE randi, YOU'RE SO FIXED IN OPINION. THE CURRENT FULL MOON HAS AFFECTED YOUR METABOLISM CAUSING YOU TO MAKE SIX, REPEAT SIX, REPLIES. IF YOU HAD A LIBRIAN LINK IN YOUR HOROSCOPE YOU WOULD NOT HAVE USED A SWEARWORD IN YOUR REFERENCE FOR CHILDREN TO SEE, PLUS YOU WOULD HAVE POLITELY SAID "I HAVEN'T STUDIED THE SUBJECT, BUT I'M SORRY, I FIND IT HARD TO ACCEPT" AS YOU ARE INSENSATIVE YOU'LL NEVER EXPERIENCE THE PARANORMAL OR UNDERSTAND DIPLOMACY...NEVER.

I'm going to ... ( 1 month ago by puppetdesign)

I'm going to politely ask you to shut up. Uppercase? Moron

James Randi hater ... ( 6 days ago by Jarrad19)

James Randi hater lol.

James randi doesn't ... ( 1 day ago by cjunk351)

James randi doesn't get any older? Or maybe its MAGIC

James Randi i ... ( 21 hours ago by russellunearthly)

James Randi i totally agree, Psychics does not exist in this world, Psychics are fake, the people who claims they have Psychics power they are as worst as Satan because they are con man.....
There is something feeble
a little comtemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

James Randi i ... ( 21 hours ago by russellunearthly)

russellounearthly ... ( 5 hours ago by Z1Z12)

russellounearthly I've studied the paranornmal for 30 years and because I am psychic and scientifically minded I am puzzled by my frequent unexplanable premonitions over which I have no control, NO POWER at all, they just happen, and I wish I could monitor and harness them. This has been happening to me since 13 years before you were born so you are not qualified to debunk psychic ability, just politely say you find it difficult to accept, because you havent experienced it.

Laughing shows your ... ( 3 hours ago by Z1Z12)

Laughing shows your ignorance. Mr.Randi would have thrown away the Penicillin container thinking it had gone "bad". If you don't know what I'm refering to, go and take your break while I laugh.

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