James Randi: debunking the king of the debunkers

[CrawlingChaos]

281. Yes I've read it. It's just a bunch of obfuscation directly from Randi's organization

It's just damage control; a smokescreen. It's actually an attempt at misdirection as it does not even address the specific lies in which Randi was caught. Randi told a magazine interviewer that he had replicated Sheldrake's research and it had failed. When Sheldrake insisted that Randi produce the data for these alleged experiments which had supposedly been conducted, Randi's story began to fall apart. Instead of coming clean at that point, Randi concocted more elaborate and ridiculous lies to cover himself (i.e. my data was destroyed in a hurricane) and it wasn't long before Randi had dug himself an inescapable hole and had to admit having made it all up. Since Randi has admitted it I don't see the point in searching out sources to support it. It's all out in the open now (just see the article in the OP).

And it's not the only example of Randi lying to suit his purposes, so it's not unreasonable to draw certain conclusions about the man. He really is quite a slimy little person, and as I said in another post, it's extremely troubling that his JREF organization is such a hub for authoritarian types.

Look, I'm not opposed to what Randi claims to do in principle. When true charlatans are using trickery to bilk their victims, exposing that fraud is, of course, a good thing. But that wasn't Sheldrake. He was doing psi research which, whether it has any merit or not, could have been evaluated in a fair and honest way, but that's not the way Randi operates.