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r68y TIL Famed Skeptic James Randi will often swallow entire bottles of “Homeopathic Sleeping Pills” in front of live audiences to prove that they are nothing more than fake pills.
wdwM TIL skeptic James Randi has annual Pigasus Awards that seek to expose parapsychological, paranormal or psychic frauds. Noted recipients include Scientology, Jenny McCarthy, Dr. Oz, The Learning Channel and John Edward.
BR1W TIL that in 1921, a man in Detroit went so far as to actually kill himself, apparently in order to then communicate with a chosen spiritualist medium, thus proving that the afterlife was real. It didn’t work.