Comments on: Randi on Larry King TONIGHT! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:22:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Larry King, menace to thinking | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-103674 Larry King, menace to thinking | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:02:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/#comment-103674 [...] sorts of fraudulent "psychics " on his show, and UFO people, and and and. To his credit, he had Randi on once, but he still promotes all manners of irrational [...] [...] sorts of fraudulent "psychics " on his show, and UFO people, and and and. To his credit, he had Randi on once, but he still promotes all manners of irrational [...]

]]> By: Marko http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-28426 Marko Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:25:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/#comment-28426 "She doesn't know how to use a telephone book?" I always laugh when Randi responds to Browne's stale, old statement, that she didn't know how to reach Randi. Thanks for the youtube links, folks. I guess you know that Phil Plait goes by "TheBadAstronomer" over there with some interesting clips about eggs and comets. ;-) “She doesn’t know how to use a telephone book?” I always laugh when Randi responds to Browne’s stale, old statement, that she didn’t know how to reach Randi.

Thanks for the youtube links, folks. I guess you know that Phil Plait goes by “TheBadAstronomer” over there with some interesting clips about eggs and comets. ;-)

]]> By: Mark Trodden http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-28425 Mark Trodden Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:49:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/#comment-28425 Hi Phil. I <em>never</em> watch Larry King, but on your advice I did watch the Randi clip. He was magnificent. You can see how much he has to work to control himself on TV in the face of such absolute nonsense and it does me good to see such passion about this cause. Thanks for the heads up. Hi Phil.

I never watch Larry King, but on your advice I did watch the Randi clip. He was magnificent. You can see how much he has to work to control himself on TV in the face of such absolute nonsense and it does me good to see such passion about this cause. Thanks for the heads up.

]]> By: Troy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-28424 Troy Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:27:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/#comment-28424 I always wanted Larry King to have the big one (heart attack) and get his abrasive pseudoscientific butt off of t.v., but then I saw he has a nice (and surprisingly young) family so I don't really want to see that anymore. I read the transcript I thought Sylvia was going to be on it, but I guess she has decided to lay low for a while. Probably 3-6 months. Psychics do know one thing that our national attention span is about that long and it'll die down soon enough. Uri Gellar and Peter Popoff are a bit like immortal hydra heads that come back in pairs after you cut one off. I love that picture of the amazing Randi. I'd love to see him in a movie! Another thing Randi is a much more competent as a trickster than Sylvia Browne, that's why he can tell you he is playing a trick. You're still fooled: If Sylvia Browne told everyone that her career would be over! I always wanted Larry King to have the big one (heart attack) and get his abrasive pseudoscientific butt off of t.v., but then I saw he has a nice (and surprisingly young) family so I don’t really want to see that anymore. I read the transcript I thought Sylvia was going to be on it, but I guess she has decided to lay low for a while. Probably 3-6 months. Psychics do know one thing that our national attention span is about that long and it’ll die down soon enough. Uri Gellar and Peter Popoff are a bit like immortal hydra heads that come back in pairs after you cut one off.
I love that picture of the amazing Randi. I’d love to see him in a movie!
Another thing Randi is a much more competent as a trickster than Sylvia Browne, that’s why he can tell you he is playing a trick. You’re still fooled: If Sylvia Browne told everyone that her career would be over!

]]> By: OneLess http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-28423 OneLess Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:13:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/#comment-28423 I laughed out loud at that Altea woman, especially the way she was introduced at the beginning of the program. Something like "This psychic says that most psychics are actually frauds, but she's the real thing". I laughed out loud at that Altea woman, especially the way she was introduced at the beginning of the program. Something like “This psychic says that most psychics are actually frauds, but she’s the real thing”.

]]> By: Quiet Desperation http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-28422 Quiet Desperation Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:49:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/#comment-28422 My predictions: the show will change no minds. 1. That's humanity, folks. Sorry. 2. If everyone on this thread watched the show, that effectively doubled Larry King's ratings for the night. :) Randi should do O'Reilly. Yeah, I know the guy is demonized in many people's minds, and he's a devout Catholic, but I believe he's fairly skepical about other paranormal things. And he reaches a few more people than King. Oprah? My predictions: the show will change no minds.

1. That’s humanity, folks. Sorry.
2. If everyone on this thread watched the show, that effectively doubled Larry King’s ratings for the night. :)

Randi should do O’Reilly. Yeah, I know the guy is demonized in many people’s minds, and he’s a devout Catholic, but I believe he’s fairly skepical about other paranormal things. And he reaches a few more people than King.

Oprah?

]]> By: Mike http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-28421 Mike Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:23:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/26/randi-on-larry-king-tonight/#comment-28421 I haven't found a video yet, but the transcript is on line: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/26/lkl.01.html I haven’t found a video yet, but the transcript is on line:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/26/lkl.01.html

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