Project Alpha

[Sakari]

Just curious how many have heard about this......?

Was a new find for me.....And I hope this is the right section for this...

Project Alpha was a hoax designed by James Randi, Steve Shaw (a.k.a. Banachek), and Mike Edwards from 1979-1983. Randi trained two young mentalists/magicians—Banachek was 18 and Edwards 17 when the project began—to fake psychic powers while being investigated in a serious scientific setting. They were able to fool the scientists for four years through more than 160 hours of experiments on their paranormal powers.

http://www.skepdic.com/projectalpha.html

[Shiloh17]

That's why you got to love the internet. Tons of info at your fingertips, unlike 1979 when he started that project. No, never knew about it. Nice find though.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

It jusat reinforces my belief that the Amazing Randi is the biggest pot stirrer in the world.

[Karlis]

It jusat reinforces my belief that the Amazing Randi is the biggest pot stirrer in the world.

Depends what you mean by "pot stirrer". As I see it, Randi set out to achieve a specific, valid purpose; and was successful in doing so: an excerpt from the OP article;

It was a social experiment that was necessary to demonstrate a charge that skeptics had been making for over 150 years. Parapsychologists, no matter how intelligent or well-trained they are in science, are susceptible to deception and self-deception.