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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

DetlefK

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4. Ain't it weird that no illusionist claims to be a magician?

Reply to mr blur (Original post)

Wed Jan 15, 2014, 08:29 AM

Jan 2014

They pull the weirdest, mind-bending tricks and yet none of those "super-beings" claims to have super-natural powers. (Well, Uri Geller claimed that and it ended in utter humiliation.)

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